 " Provisions such as s 1 may present doctrinal questions for the constitutional law of the United Kingdom , in particular for the dogma associated with Dicey 's views as to the sovereignty of the Parliament at Westminster . Professor Sir William Wade pointed out more than forty years ago that Dicey never explained how he reconciled his assertions that Westminster could destroy or transfer sovereignty and the proposition that it could not bind future Parliaments . The effect in the United Kingdom of any amendment or repeal by the United Kingdom Parliament of s 1 would be for those adjudicating upon the constitutional law of that country . But whatever effect the courts of the United Kingdom may give to an amendment or repeal of the 1986 UK Act , Australian courts would be obliged to give their obedience to s 1 of the statute passed by the Parliament of the Commonwealth . " 
