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by simonh 1990 days ago
My take is that this means the courts may not question any legal exercise of those powers sure, but if the exercise of the powers is found to be contrary to law then it is void and subject to judicial review. And that’s fine, there shouldn’t be any way to bypass judicial review.
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Perhaps but the mother of all ouster clauses still survives and is likely to be effective (and should be, in my view): the section of the 1689 Bill of Rights which reads "That the Freedome of Speech and Debates or Proceedings in Parlyament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any Court or Place out of Parlyament."