The Law Reports (Appeal Cases)
[1937] AC 368
[PRIVY COUNCIL.]
ATTORNEY-GENERAL FOR BRITISH COLUMBIA APPELLANT; AND ATTORNEY-GENERAL FOR CANADA AND OTHERS RESPONDENTS.
ON APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF CANADA.
1937 Jan. 28.
LORD ATKIN, LORD THANKERTON, LORD MACMILLAN, LORD WRIGHT M.R., and SIR SIDNEY ROWLATT.
Canada
— Criminal Code
— Additional section
— Specified trade practices made indictable offences
— Constitutional validity
— Criterion of “wrongness”
— Prohibition of act in public interest
— Criminal law not used as pretext to invade Provincial legislative field
— Not legislation in pith and substance only interfering with civil rights in the Province
— Section valid Dominion legislation
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British North America Act, 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 3), s. 91 (2) (27)
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An Act to Amend the Criminal Code, 1935, St. Can. (25 & 26 Geo. 5, c. 56), s. 9.