Cooper v Attorney-General - [1996] 3 NZLR 480

Fishing and fisheries — Quota management scheme — Whether amending legislation deprived parties of access to the Courts — Whether purpose of amending legislation to keep out further entrants into scheme — Whether purpose to remove property rights — Fisheries Act 1983, ss 28E, 28H, 28I(4) and 28ZGA.

Statutes — Interpretation — Whether legislation retrospective — Whether retrospective operation could be avoided — Whether statute intended to remove property rights.

Constitutional law — Parliament — Conventions — Legislation — Observations as to whether Parliament can legislate retrospectively — Observations as to whether Parliament can legislate so as to remove property rights — Magna Carta 1297 (25 Edw I, c 29).