Table of Contents

Table of Cases xlix, Table of Statutes xci, Table of Abbreviations cxxxv, PART 1 HISTORY AND BACKGROUND--Chapter 1: An Overview of the Bill of Rights Act and its place in New Zealand?s Constitution, Chapter 2: Background to and History of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990, Chapter 3: The Legal Protection of Human Rights in New Zealand: A Short History and Overview of the Contemporary Scene. PART 2 GENERAL AND OPERATIONAL MATTERS--Chapter 4: Interpretation?Principles and Sources, Chapter 5: Burden and Benefit of BORA, Chapter 6: Limiting Rights, Chapter 7: Interaction with Other Enactments, Chapter 8: Attorney-General?s Duty to Report to Parliament. PART 3 SUBSTANTIVE RIGHTS--Chapter 9: Life, Chapter 10: Torture, Cruel, Degrading, or Disproportionately Severe Treatment or Punishment, Chapter 11: Right Against Medical and Scientific Experimentation and Right to Refuse Medical Treatment, Chapter 12: Electoral Rights, Chapter 13: Freedom of Expression, Chapter 14: Freedom of Religion, Chapter 15: Freedom of Assembly and Association, Chapter 16: Freedom of Movement, Chapter 17: Non-discrimination and Minority Rights, Chapter 18: Unreasonable Search and Seizure, Chapter 19: Arbitrary Arrest and Detention, Chapter 20: Rights of Persons Arrested or Detained, Chapter 21: Rights of Persons Charged with an Offence: Threshold Issues, Chapter 22: Rights of Persons Charged with an Offence, Chapter 23: Minimum Standards of Criminal Procedure, Chapter 24: Retroactive Criminal Liability and Double Jeopardy, Chapter 25: Natural Justice, Judicial Review and Crown Litigation. PART 4 REMEDIES--Chapter 26: Remedies?General Observations, Chapter 27: Compensation, Chapter 28: Declaration of Inconsistency, Chapter 29: Exclusion of Evidence, Chapter 30: Stay, Discharge, Appeal and Sentence Reduction, Chapter 31: Extraordinary Remedies, Specific Performance, Judicial Review,Declarations, Habeas Corpus and Torts, Chapter 32: Supervisory Remedies, Chapter 33: Costs, Chapter 34: Litigation Issues. PART 5 CONCLUSIONS--Chapter 35: Reflections. Appendix. Index.