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Capital Letter: How emergency laws ought to operate – and how they really do

When the February 2011 Canterbury earthquake struck, the legislative response was slower and more considered

Wed, 07 Dec 2016

“Over and over again history demonstrates that unconstrained power is subject to misuse and that even well-intentioned measures can result in unintended consequences if there are not clear, formal measures of oversight applied to them.”

That comment came from an open letter to New Zealand’s

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