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Home Dictionary Name: discriminatory mannerDiscriminatory manner
Discriminatory manner, means affording different to different persons attributable wholly or mainly to their respective descriptions by race, place of origin, political opinions or affiliations, colour, creed, or sex whereby persons of one such description are subjected to disabilities or restrictions to which persons of another such description are not made subject or are accorded privileges or advantages that are not accorded to person of another such description....., Attorney-General of Antigua and Barbuda v. Lake (P.C.), (1999) 1 WLR 68....
void-for-vagueness doctrine
void-for-vagueness doctrine : a doctrine requiring that a penal statute define a criminal offense with sufficient definiteness that ordinary people can understand what conduct is prohibited and in a manner that does not encourage arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement NOTE: Under the void-for-vagueness doctrine, a vague law is a violation of due process because the law does not provide fair warning of a prohibition and fails to set standards for enforcement that would govern the exercise of the police power. ...
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