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    Reference Re Resolution to amend the Constitution – also known as the Patriation Reference – is a historic Supreme Court of Canada reference case that...
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  • Patriation is the political process that led to full Canadian sovereignty, culminating with the Constitution Act, 1982. The process was necessary because...
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  • decision in the Patriation Reference, Trudeau decided to begin a new round of negotiations with the provinces, which resulted in the patriation of the Constitution...
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    Canada (Inter-delegation Reference), [1951] SCR 31, pp. 56–57. Re: Resolution to amend the Constitution (Patriation Reference), [1981] 1 SCR 753, at p...
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    Canadian constitutional law." Beetz also participated in the 1981 Patriation Reference, which considered Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's attempt to have...
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  • [1981] 1 S.C.R. 753 (The Patriation Reference). Ontario (Attorney General) v. Canada Temperance Federation Labrador Boundary Reference, [1927] UKPC 25 The...
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    Britain. In September 1981, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in the Patriation Reference that provincial consent was not legally necessary, but to do so without...
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  • Constitution of Canada. The issue arose during patriation debates, after the Supreme Court ruled in the Patriation Reference that there is a constitutional convention...
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  • notorious bank robbers, The Boyd Gang. He was lead counsel in the Patriation Reference before the Supreme Court of Canada. Robinette was also hired by opponents...
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    Colloquially, the switch to a domestic amendment procedure was known as patriation. The particular amending formula adopted in 1982 was opposed by the then-government...
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  • to the Supreme Court of Canada. In a decision later known as the Patriation Reference, the court ruled that such a convention existed but did not prevent...
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    around the world after World War II.: 271–2  In its decision in the Patriation Reference (1981), the Supreme Court ruled there was a constitutional convention...
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  • Lavell; Isaac v. Bédard, [1974] S.C.R. 1349 Reference Re: Resolution to amend the Constitution (Patriation Reference), [1981] 1 SCR 753. Noel Lyon, "Constitutional...
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  • and Freedoms.[citation needed] Dickson participated in the 1981 Patriation Reference, which considered Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's attempt to have...
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  • citation Supreme Court of Canada biography Reference Re: Resolution to amend the Constitution (Patriation Reference), [1981] 1 SCR 753. Noel Lyon, "Constitutional...
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  • Constitution Act, 1982 (category Articles needing additional references from April 2018)
    Canada Act 1982 by the British Parliament in March 1982 confirmed the Patriation of the Constitution and transferred to Canada the power of amending its...
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    series of constitutional conferences resulted in the Canada Act 1982, the patriation of Canada's constitution from the United Kingdom, concurrent with the...
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    law. The Supreme Court of Canada declared unanimously in the 1981 Patriation Reference that the Bill of Rights, 1689, is "undoubtedly in force as part of...
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  • beyond the boundaries of the province enacting the law. In the 1981 Patriation Reference, the Supreme Court found that "reservation and disallowance of provincial...
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    the Constitution. Although Lamer recognized case law such as the Patriation Reference which noted the preamble technically has no binding effect in itself...
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    the Patriation Reference before the Supreme Court of Canada. In November 1981, he played a major role in brokering the deal that achieved patriation of...
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  • Convention (political norm) (category Articles needing additional references from September 2008)
    reason for this, according to the Supreme Court of Canada in its 1981 Patriation Reference, is that, "They are generally in conflict with the legal rules which...
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  • 1933 Western Australian secession referendum (category Wikipedia references cleanup from January 2025)
    the secession petition was cited in the Supreme Court of Canada's Patriation Reference of 1981, which concerned the ability of the British parliament to...
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    opinions in the famous Patriation Reference. The Court's decision led to first ministers meetings that in turn paved the way for patriation of the Canadian constitution...
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  • 1981 Human rights, tort, discrimination Patriation Reference [1981] 1 SCR 753 September 28, 1981 patriation of the Constitution of Canada Canada (Minister...
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  • Association & Anr. v. Union of India (W.P. (C) 1303 of 1987) In re Special reference 1 of 1998 Justice K. S. Puttaswamy (Retd.) & Anr. v. Union of India &...
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    History of the Supreme Court of Canada (category Articles needing additional references from September 2009)
    offences in the criminal law. Reference re a Resolution to amend the Constitution [1981] 1 SCR 753 ("Patriation Reference") was one of the first times...
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  • Canada." The Supreme Court of Canada declared unanimously in the 1981 Patriation Reference that the Bill of Rights, 1689, a law requiring amendment to implement...
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    Steinhauer, held audience with the monarch there. In the prelude to the patriation of the Canadian constitution in 1982, some First Nations leaders campaigned...
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    exercised for a considerable period of time. More recently, in the Patriation Reference in 1981, a majority of the Supreme Court held that as a matter of...
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