In Nordally v Attorney General, reported at 1986 MR 204, the Supreme Court held that the Dangerous Drugs Act's statutory exclusion of bail was inconsistent with the Constitution. It protected the judiciary's role in deciding bail and other matters incidental to criminal proceedings against executive interference. This was a procedural safeguard within the drug-control system, not an exemption from cannabis offences or an automatic entitlement to release. The ruling is documented retrospectively in the Privy Council's 2006 Khoyratty judgment.[1]
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- Judicial Committee of the Privy Council — State v Khoyratty, 2006 UKPC 13, original judgment reproduced by vLexParagraph 2, expressly recounting the Supreme Court's 1986 Nordally decision; year-only historical datingarchived
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