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    The Court of Disputed Returns in Australia is a special jurisdiction of the High Court of Australia. The High Court, sitting as the Court of Disputed Returns...
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  • Court of Disputed Returns is a court, tribunal, or some other body that determines disputes about elections in some common law countries. The court may...
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    The Queensland Court of Disputed Returns is a court that adjudicates disputes concerning Queensland Government and local government elections and state...
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    The Court of Disputed Returns in New South Wales is a court within the Australian court hierarchy established initially in 1928 pursuant to the Parliamentary...
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    High Court of Australia (sitting as the Court of Disputed Returns) or resigned pre-emptively. The situation arose from section 44(i) of the Australian Constitution...
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    Re Day (No 2) (category Australian court of disputed returns cases)
    (No 2) was a significant Australian court case, decided in the High Court of Australia sitting as the Court of Disputed Returns on 5 April 2017. The case...
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    Sue v Hill (category Australian court of disputed returns cases)
    Act 1918 in the High Court of Australia, sitting in its capacity as the Court of Disputed Returns. Sue argued that on the date of Hill's nomination to...
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  • 2020. List of Privy Council cases List of Court of Disputed Returns cases List of Federal Court of Australia cases List of Australian Supreme Court cases...
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  • generally arisen for consideration by the High Court sitting in its capacity as the Court of Disputed Returns. It has been reviewed several times, but has...
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    Re Culleton (No 2) (category Australian court of disputed returns cases)
    (No 2) was a significant Australian court case, decided in the High Court of Australia sitting as the Court of Disputed Returns on 3 February 2017. The...
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  • European Election Officials Association of African Election Authorities Court of Disputed Returns "Australian Electoral Commission". Retrieved December...
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    Re Canavan (category Australian court of disputed returns cases)
    set of cases, heard together by the High Court of Australia sitting as the Court of Disputed Returns, arising from doubts as to the eligibility of a number...
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    room Nash was declared to be ineligible by the Court of Disputed Returns because she was a dual citizen of the United Kingdom. A special recount resulted...
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    Chanter v Blackwood (category Australian court of disputed returns cases)
    related case of Maloney v McEacharn were a series of decisions of the High Court of Australia, sitting as the Court of Disputed Returns arising from the...
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    first of three decisions of the High Court of Australia concerning the 1906 election for senators for South Australia. Sitting as the Court of Disputed Returns...
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    ruled ineligible to be a member of parliament by the High Court of Australia sitting as the Court of Disputed Returns on 27 October 2017, as he held New...
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    February 2014, it was announced that the Court of Disputed Returns had found that the result of the Western Australia Senate election should be voided, meaning...
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    Sykes v Cleary (category Australian court of disputed returns cases)
    decision of the High Court of Australia sitting as the Court of Disputed Returns on 25 November 1992. The case was a leading decision on Section 44 of the...
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  • sitting as the Court of Disputed Returns, because 1,375 ballot papers were lost during an official recount in November 2013. The High Court ruled that because...
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    constitute the Industrial Appeal Court and sit as a Court of Disputed Returns. The current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is Peter Quinlan SC who was appointed...
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    Alley v Gillespie (category High Court of Australia cases)
    the High Court, not sitting as the Court of Disputed Returns, could order a penalty without a prior finding by the House in which the member of parliament...
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  • List of senators from Western Australia Ludlam resigned on 14 July 2017 because he was a dual citizen of New Zealand. The Court of Disputed Returns declared...
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  • 2017 after learning she was a British citizen by descent. The Court of Disputed Returns declared she had been ineligible to be elected on 13 February...
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  • overturned by the Court of Disputed Returns in the landmark case Sykes v Cleary on the grounds that Cleary, a school teacher, was in the employ of the government...
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  • Tim Storer (category Members of the Australian Senate for South Australia)
    Kakoschke-Moore during the parliamentary eligibility crisis, the Court of Disputed Returns declared Storer elected on a countback. He had been ranked below...
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    The Magistrates Court of Queensland is the lowest court in the court hierarchy of Queensland, Australia. All criminal proceedings in Queensland begin...
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    12 votes. The Court of Disputed Returns later increased this margin to 27 votes. Results of the 2007 Australian federal election (House of Representatives)...
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    got into a legal dispute with the construction company Muhibbah Engineering (M) Bhd. Billion Court could not be finished because of the Asian Financial...
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  • April 1904, the election of Free Trade MP Robert Blackwood (Riverina) was declared invalid by the Court of Disputed Returns. Protectionist candidate John...
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    Supreme Court of Queensland is the highest court in the Australian State of Queensland. It was formerly the Brisbane Supreme Court, in the colony of Queensland...
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