Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 21:07:50 +0930 From: pstewart-AT-arts.adelaide.edu.au (Peter Stewart) Subject: Re: Right to refuse to answer questions relating to relgious beliefs (fwd) if the common law provision: "One common law provision which may operate in Australia is the privilege against self-exposure to an ecclesiastical penalty although there is High Court dicta to the effect that this was not received as part of the common law as Australia had no established church" cited by Neil Shaw If this provision could be regarded interms of spirit rather than letter would that suggest that the letters patent of the Royal Commission could contravene such. --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- ------------------
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