Attorney-General v Taylor - [2017] 3 NZLR 24

Constitutional law — New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 — Declaration of Inconsistency — Jurisdiction — Legislation disqualifying all prisoners from voting — Inconsistency with right to vote — Remedy — Hansen indication — Source of jurisdiction — Comity with Parliament — Supreme Court Act 1860.

Elections and polls — Parliamentary elections — Right to vote — Legislation disqualifying all prisoners from voting — Whether contrary to New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 — Declaration of Inconsistency — Standing — New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990, ss 5, 12(a).

Constitutional law — Parliamentary privilege — Whether court breached parliamentary privilege by using report written by Attorney-General for Parliament — Parliamentary Privilege Act 2014, ss 2(c), 2(d), 10, 11, 13, 15(1), 16(1), 16(2), 32, Part 2.