The Regulatory Responsibility Taskforce: a view from inside the room

Abstract

Together with another of my Chapman Tripp colleagues, Colin Fife, I provided support to the Regulatory Responsibility Taskforce and assisted in the preparation of the taskforce’s report. Graham Scott, the chair of the taskforce, proposed that I participate in this symposium. In this capacity, I obviously do not speak for the taskforce, which has itself disbanded.1 The report of the taskforce must speak for itself, without elaboration. Rather, I offer my perspective, as a person who was ‘in the room’ with the taskforce during its deliberations, on what I take as the major legal themes emerging from the taskforce’s report and the proposed bill.