Baker v The Queen & Fardon v Attorney General for the State of Queensland
Roos, Oscar 2005, Baker v The Queen & Fardon v Attorney General for the State of Queensland, Deakin law review, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 271-282, doi: 10.21153/dlr2005vol10no1art277.
In 2004, the High Court of Australia had cause to revisit its 1996 decision in Kable, as well as to consider the nature of judicial power as it relates to the deprivation of liberty, outside of the parameters of conventional criminal sentencing. The resulting decisions of Fardon and Baker demonstrate the lack of constitutional protections afforded to people who become the focus of governmental campaigns to be "tough on crime". The so-called "Kable principle", as construed by the High Court in 2004, may prove to be the "constitutional watch dog that barks but once".
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