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Fitzgerald v Muldoon and Others
CourtWellington Supreme Court
Decided11 June 1976
Citation(s)[1976] 2 NZLR 615
Court membership
Judge(s) sittingChief Justice Richard Wild
Keywords
Bill of Rights 1688, separation of powers, Parliamentary supremacy, Constitutional law

Fitzgerald v Muldoon and Others is a 1976 New Zealand Supreme Court[a] case concerning whether press statements by Robert Muldoon had breached section 1 of the Bill of Rights 1688. In its decision, the court ruled "That the pretended power of suspending of laws, or the execution of laws, by regal authority, without consent of Parliament, is illegal".[1] The case has since become one of New Zealand's most important constitutional law decisions.


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