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de Freitas v Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Lands and Housing

[1998] UKPC 30; [1999] 1 AC 69

JurisdictionUnited Kingdom

CourtJudicial Committee of the Privy Council (on appeal from Antigua and Barbuda)

Year1998

StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

A limitation on a constitutional right is proportionate only if (i) the legislative objective is sufficiently important to justify limiting the right, (ii) the measures are rationally connected to it, and (iii) the means used impair the right no more than is necessary to accomplish the objective.

Area of Law

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