The New Zealand Bill of Rights Act: going beyond declarations

Authors

  • Tom Hickman

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/pq.v10i4.4508

Keywords:

UK Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA), New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 (NZBORA), Constitutional Advisory Panel, convention rights, protected rights, declaration of incompatibility

Abstract

The process of capturing and entrenching fundamental rights remains very much a live one in both New Zealand and the United Kingdom. In both countries there is pressure to move on from the current bill of rights legislation: the UK Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) and the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 (NZBORA). While the two jurisdictions are subject to quite different political and cultural pressures, there remains a great deal of scope for exchange of ideas and experiences. 

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Policy Quarterly volume 10 number 4 2014

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2014-11-01

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Vol. 10 No. 4 (2014): Policy Quarterly

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