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The Principles of Legality in Aotearoa New Zealand
2023-05-05
Abstract excerpt
The principle of legality (POL) may have had a slow start in New Zealand. But a trilogy of Supreme Court decisions in 2021 – D v Police, Fitzgerald v R and Trans-Tasman Resources v Taranaki-Whanganui Conservation Board – as well as a significant case law generated by the Covid-19 pandemic, have ensured the principle’s meteoric rise. Interpretive presumptions protective of basic norms are emerging as a central and...
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- 005f5c44-73ee-598c-8682-e88ea9080f5e
- DOI
- 10.2139/ssrn.4438699