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Housekeeping: balance of argument about delegation ground, reply. and submissions on relief still to be completed.
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Casey: Returns to processes within MBIE for "advice" on whether businesses were essential etc. Ombler evidence that MBIE received 25,000 emails and calls about whether businesses were essential.
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Casey:
- Health order was "chatty".
- Not drafted by PCO.
- Should be read in that light.
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- Health order was "chatty".
- Not drafted by PCO.
- Should be read in that light.
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The argument first today is about meaning and scope of s70, incl critically whether DG's power to require people to "isolate" could be used over the entire country or was restricted to case-by-case individualised application.
legislation.govt.nz/act/public/195…
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legislation.govt.nz/act/public/195…
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Folk will recall us constitutional trainspotters have debated this interpretative question for months now - and there are many views!
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Casey: Distinguishes between: (a) power to make a statement (ie legality) and (b) legal requirement to do something that exposes person to criminal prosecution if not followed. Section 5 and prescribed by law only requires, she says, the former.
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Thomas J: "Isn't is it important what was *inferred* from the statements?"
Casey: Doesn't matter.
Casey: Doesn't matter.
Will add a NZ suffix to the hashtag — seems the have similar issues elsewhere...
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