None
EN
Business of Government: Comity, calamity and contrition
['Ian Llewellyn']
BusinessDesk | NZ breaking news and commentary on business, NZX and politics
Three attorneys-general of very different types but with a similar view on the courts.
(Composite Image: Jacques Steenkamp/NZME)There is a time for many words There seems to come a point in the career of most Attorneys-General when they feel the need to remind the judiciary to stay in its lane.Michael Cullen did it, Judith Collins warned judges against usurping the functions of other branches of government, and now Chris Bishop has had his turn.The constitutional principle is comity – mutual restraint between the branches of government – although at times the political version has echoes of the Carry On line: “Infamy, infamy, they’ve all got...