| Abstract | This article discusses the Bills of Rights. The movements towards formally-enacted human rights protections in Hong Kong and New Zealand had quite different origins. In the colony of Hong Kong the motive force by all accounts was the United Kingdom government, having an eye to 1997. In New Zealand the motive force was an academic lawyer who became Prime Minister, the Right Hon Sir Geoffrey Palmer, now dividing his time primarily between academic chairs in Wellington and Iowa. The Bill of Rights may have virility even if not entrenched. Much depends, as always, on the point from which the judges called upon to apply it are prepared to start. |
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