Hidesight: Sir Geoffrey is wrong about his new right
An environmental right is meaningless without anyone having a duty to deliver it.
Fri, 12 May 2017
The latest policy product on offer from Sir Geoffrey Palmer is “environmental rights” with the kicker that judges could strike out any law breaching the rights. Parliament could reinstitute the struck-out law but only with a 75% majority. It’s hard to see an opposition helping a government in such
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