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Cooking up a storm: Robust criticism no threat to Supreme Court

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By Roger Partridge
| The New Zealand Initiative
Warren Pyke is, by all accounts, a serious practitioner. Thirty-five years acting for the underprivileged, the vulnerable, the mentally ill, the villainous and a great many “ordinary folk” is real civil-liberties work. His reply in these pages, “Balance needed in criticisms of Lord Cooke and the Supreme Court,” takes issue with my June essay, “Lord Cooke's indictment.” Pyke is right that my column did not survey the whole output of the Supreme Court. It did not attempt to.
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Cooking up a storm: Robust criticism no threat to Supreme Court

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By Roger Partridge
| The New Zealand Initiative
Warren Pyke is, by all accounts, a serious practitioner. Thirty-five years acting for the underprivileged, the vulnerable, the mentally ill, the villainous and a great many “ordinary folk” is real civil-liberties work. His reply in these pages, “Balance needed in criticisms of Lord Cooke and the Supreme Court,” takes issue with my June essay, “Lord Cooke's indictment.” Pyke is right that my column did not survey the whole output of the Supreme Court. It did not attempt to.
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Supreme Court matters: Lord Cooke’s indictment

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By Roger Partridge
| The New Zealand Initiative
The debate about New Zealand’s Supreme Court has been framed as a question about the current court – its composition, its appointments, its judicial philosophy. This column frames it differently: as a question about what the current court inherited, and from whom. The methodology that produced Ellis has a father. His name is Robin Brunskill Cooke. Lord Cooke of Thorndon – Sir Robin Cooke, President of the New Zealand Court of Appeal from 1986 to 1996 – was New Zealand’s most celebrated jurist.
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