Parliamentary Recklessness: Why we need to legislate more carefully

28 July 2008

On Monday 28 July, Professor Jeremy Waldron delivered Maxim Institute's inaugural Annual John Graham Lecture, in Auckland, on the topic "Parliamentary Recklessness: Why we need to legislate more carefully." In his lecture Professor Waldron suggests that "New Zealand has stripped safeguard after safeguard away from its legislative process—leaving it with virtually none of the safeguards that most working democracies take for granted."