Niyonzima v Mutaganzwa
[2009] 1 EA 64 (SCA)
- Jurisdiction
- Uganda
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- Whether a customary land interest that predates formal land titles remains valid and can be enforced against a registered proprietor under the Land Act.
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Epuru Sudhakar v Government of Andhra Pradesh
(2006) 6 SCC 560
- Jurisdiction
- India
- Relevance
- Whether the state's decision to grant mining rights on land traditionally used by tribal communities violated their rights under the Fifth Schedule and the Forest Rights Act.
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Sawhoyamaxa Indigenous Community v Paraguay
2006 Inter-Am Ct HR (Ser C) No 146
- Jurisdiction
- Inter-American System (Paraguay)
- Relevance
- Whether Paraguay violated the right to property (Article 21) of the American Convention on Human Rights by failing to recognize indigenous communal property and to return ancestral lands.
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Nguyen v Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration)
[2002] 3 FC 394 (CA)
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- Canada
- Relevance
- Whether the Indian Act provisions that discriminated on the basis of gender in determining status were unconstitutional under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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Hoffmann v South African Airways
(2001) 1 SA 1 (CC)
- Jurisdiction
- South Africa
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- Whether the airline's policy of excluding HIV-positive individuals from employment as cabin attendants constitutes unfair discrimination under the Constitution.
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R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Quaqua
[2000] UKHL 12
- Jurisdiction
- United Kingdom
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- Whether the British Nationality Act 1981 had properly terminated the right of abode for citizens of Hong Kong who were British Dependent Territories citizens before handover.
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Forsyth v Commissioner of Inland Revenue
[1997] 3 NZLR 481
- Jurisdiction
- New Zealand
- Relevance
- Whether the income from disposal of shares in a Maori incorporation was exempt from income tax under the Maori Land Act or the Income Tax Act.
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Mabo v Queensland (No 2)
(1992) 175 CLR 1
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- Australia
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- Whether the common law of Australia recognizes a form of native title to land, and whether that title could be extinguished by the Crown's grant of land to others.
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