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Akiba v Commonwealth

Akiba on behalf of the Torres Strait Regional Seas Claim Group v Commonwealth [2013] HCA 33; (2013) 250 CLR 209
JurisdictionAustralia
CourtHigh Court of Australia
Year2013
StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

Legislation that prohibits or regulates a particular exercise of a native title right (here, fisheries laws requiring a licence to take fish commercially) regulates the exercise of the right without extinguishing the right itself; native title rights may be defined at a level of generality (a right to take resources) that survives the prohibition of one mode of their exercise.

Area of Law

High Court of Australia

Related Cases

Northern Territory v Mr Griffiths and Lorraine Jones [2019] HCA 7
R v Carroll (2002) 213 CLR 635
Polyukhovich v Commonwealth (1991) 172 CLR 501

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