Reference re: British Columbia Provincial Elections Act, 1897 Researcher Monique F. Ulysses Researcher Lauren Chalaturnyk Metadata author Connell Parish Metadata author Gordon Lyall

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 Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Judicial Committee of the Privy Council Reports. 1902. Added navigation taxonomy value loiCollectionLegalCases using XSLT. Migrated file from RADish/LegalCaseReports/legal_case_1902_jcj_no_3.xml using XSLT.
This is an appeal from British Columbia v Homma (8 B.C.R. 76), about whether the province has the power to bar Japanese from voting or whether that conflicted with s 91 (25) of the British North America Act that gave federal jurisdiction over naturalization. The court rejected that barring naturalized Japanese from voting fell under the naturalization power, and declared the law to be intra vires. Plaintiffs Homma Defendants British Columbia Appellants British Columbia Respondents Homma Judges Lord Chancellor Lord Macnaghten Lord Davey Lord Robertson Lord Lindley