Madzimbamuto v Lardner-Burke

Madzimbamuto v Lardner-Burke
The Rhodesian Unilateral Declaration of Independence, in issue in the court case
Court	Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
Full case name	Stella Madzimbamuto v Desmond William Lardner-Burke and Frederick Phillip George
Decided	23 July 1968
Citation(s)	[1968] UKPC 18; [1968] 3 WLR 1229; [1968] 3 All ER 561; [1969] 1 AC 645
Case history
Appealed from	High Court of Southern Rhodesia
Court membership
Judges sitting	Lord Reid, Lord Morris of Borth-y-Gest, Lord Pearce, Lord Wilberforce, Lord Pearson
Case opinions
Decision by	Lord Reid
Dissent	Lord Pearce

Madzimbamuto v Lardner-Burke and another [1969] 1 AC 645 is a decision of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on United Kingdom constitutional law and the constitutional law of Rhodesia. The case was brought by Stella Madzimbamuto, to challenge the detention of her husband, Daniel Madzimbamuto, by the government of Rhodesia. The case raised the issue of the legality of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence made by Rhodesia in 1965.^[1] The case is often cited in relation to the legal status of constitutional conventions in United Kingdom constitutional law.