Re Gallagher

[2018] HCA 17
Judgment date
Case number
C32/2017
Before
Kiefel CJ, Bell, Gageler, Keane, Nettle, Gordon, Edelman JJ
Catchwords

Constitutional law (Cth) – Parliamentary elections – Senate – Questions referred to Court of Disputed Returns by Senate – Where senator was foreign citizen at date of nomination for election – Where renunciation of foreign citizenship registered after return as duly elected senator – Whether senator disqualified by reason of s 44(i) of Constitution because of foreign citizenship – Whether foreign law irremediably prevented participation in representative government.

Words and phrases – "a subject or a citizen … of a foreign power", "constitutional imperative", "incapable of being chosen", "irremediably prevent".

Constitution – s 44(i).

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