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Regina v. Registrar General, Ex Parte Segerdal and Another (1970) 3 WLR 479
Robertson, Geoffrey. Crimes against Humanity -the Struggle for Global Justice. 2nd ed.
London: Penguin Books, 2000.
Sadurski, Wojciech. "On Legal Definitions of 'Religion'." ALJ 63 (1989): 834-43.
Sheppard, Hon Ian, Report of the Inquiry into the Definition of Charities and Related
Organisations (Canberra, The Treasury, Commonwealth of Australia: Available online
at http://www.cdi.gov.au/html, 2001)
Sorensen, H R, and A K Thompson. 'The Advancement of Religion Is Still a Valid Charitable
Object in 2001.' Paper presented at the Charity Law in the Pacific Rim Conference,
Brisbane, August 2002.
Thornton v Howe (1862) 31 Beav 14
United States v Seeger (1965) 380 US 163 13 L. ed. 2nd 733
Stephen Mutch, L.L.B., M.A., Grad. Dip. Arts (University of New South Wales) is a
solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Australia. He is a former member of the
New South Wales Legislative Council (State Senate) and of the Australian House of
Representatives, having served in parliament from 12988 to 1998. Before that he was in
practice as a solicitor and then parliamentary policy adviser. He has just completed writing
his doctoral candidature dissertation entitled, ―Cults, Religion and Public Policy,‖ which deals
with the fiscal privileging of ―religious‖ entities. The idea for the thesis arose from Mr.
Mutch‘s pursuit in parliament of representations concerning groups commonly characterized
as cults, sects, and/or new religious movements and his concern about the inadequate
knowledge of and political response to such concerns. His first refereed publication is ―Public
Policy Revolt: Saving the 2001 Australian Census‖ in Archives and Manuscripts, Vol. 30, No.
2, Nov. 2002. Mr. Mutch lives in Sydney with his wife and two children.
This article is an electronic version of an article originally published in Cultic Studies Review, 2004, Volume 3,
Numbers 2 &3, pages 135-151. Please keep in mind that the pagination of this electronic reprint differs from that
of the bound volume. This fact could affect how you enter bibliographic information in papers that you may write.
Regina v. Registrar General, Ex Parte Segerdal and Another (1970) 3 WLR 479
Robertson, Geoffrey. Crimes against Humanity -the Struggle for Global Justice. 2nd ed.
London: Penguin Books, 2000.
Sadurski, Wojciech. "On Legal Definitions of 'Religion'." ALJ 63 (1989): 834-43.
Sheppard, Hon Ian, Report of the Inquiry into the Definition of Charities and Related
Organisations (Canberra, The Treasury, Commonwealth of Australia: Available online
at http://www.cdi.gov.au/html, 2001)
Sorensen, H R, and A K Thompson. 'The Advancement of Religion Is Still a Valid Charitable
Object in 2001.' Paper presented at the Charity Law in the Pacific Rim Conference,
Brisbane, August 2002.
Thornton v Howe (1862) 31 Beav 14
United States v Seeger (1965) 380 US 163 13 L. ed. 2nd 733
Stephen Mutch, L.L.B., M.A., Grad. Dip. Arts (University of New South Wales) is a
solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Australia. He is a former member of the
New South Wales Legislative Council (State Senate) and of the Australian House of
Representatives, having served in parliament from 12988 to 1998. Before that he was in
practice as a solicitor and then parliamentary policy adviser. He has just completed writing
his doctoral candidature dissertation entitled, ―Cults, Religion and Public Policy,‖ which deals
with the fiscal privileging of ―religious‖ entities. The idea for the thesis arose from Mr.
Mutch‘s pursuit in parliament of representations concerning groups commonly characterized
as cults, sects, and/or new religious movements and his concern about the inadequate
knowledge of and political response to such concerns. His first refereed publication is ―Public
Policy Revolt: Saving the 2001 Australian Census‖ in Archives and Manuscripts, Vol. 30, No.
2, Nov. 2002. Mr. Mutch lives in Sydney with his wife and two children.
This article is an electronic version of an article originally published in Cultic Studies Review, 2004, Volume 3,
Numbers 2 &3, pages 135-151. Please keep in mind that the pagination of this electronic reprint differs from that
of the bound volume. This fact could affect how you enter bibliographic information in papers that you may write.
