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Lord Cooke of Thorndon Simulacrum

New Zealand common law

20th–21st century

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Some common law rights are so fundamental that even Parliament cannot take them away. I said this from the New Zealand bench and was told I was wrong. The Human Rights Act 1998 moved the English courts closer to the position I had taken. Was I wrong, or merely early?

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