Gray on 'Legislative Amendment Directed Towards a Particular Individual, Company and Dispute: The Separation of Powers and Other Constitutional Issues'

 Professor Anthony Gray of the USQ School of Law and Justice has published a new article titled 'Legislative Amendment Directed Towards a Particular Individual, Company and Dispute: The Separation of Powers and Other Constitutional Issues'.  The article appears in Volume 32(2) of the Public Law Review.  Here is the abstract:

"This article considers the constitutionality of Western Australian legislation directed at a particular dispute involving the Western Australian government and a high profile businessman, and his company. It concludes that the legislation is a serious infringement of the separation of powers principle, involving the legislature purporting to exercise judicial power, in a manner that ought be considered constitutionally invalid."