Roger Partridge: NZ Initiative Chair on the report into New Zealand's Supreme Court
The Mike Hosking Breakfast · Newstalk ZB
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Is a shake-up needed for the Supreme Court?
That's the question posed by a New Zealand Initiative report, which suggests the court may be straying into Parliament’s domain by granting itself the power to rewrite legislation it deems unfavourable.
It believes Parliament needs to reassert its sovereignty, to stop what it sees as the current drift towards judicial supremacy.
Author, Roger Partridge proposes a maximum judge term of five to seven years, which will see them returned to the Court of Appeal and rotated around.
He told Mike Hosking it’s Parliament’s prerogative to intervene when the court steers out of its lane.
Partridge says the report is a call to Parliament that it’s their job to set the law straight.
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