Mangawaro Enterprises Ltd v Attorney-General - [1994] 2 NZLR 451

Constitutional law — New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 — Whether obligation imposed on Attorney-General by s 7 to bring to the attention of the House of Representatives any provision in a Bill apparently inconsistent with rights and freedoms contained in the Bill of Rights Act — Whether that obligation gave rights to citizens — Whether that obligation encompassed art 9 of the Bill of Rights 1688 — New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990, s 7 — Bill of Rights 1688, art 9(1).

Statutes — Interpretation — Whether s 8 of the Forests Amendment Act 1993 is inconsistent with the Property Law Act 1952 or the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1966 — Whether that section allows the Court to declare that compensation ought to be paid — Forests Amendment Act 1993, s 8.