File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postco_1995/postco_Aug.95, message 157


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.




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