Download This PaperGovernment Expression and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Advising, Nudging, Urging, Commanding
(2020) 31 Public Law Review 391
Victoria University of Wellington Legal Research Paper No. 45/2021
12 Pages Posted: 14 Jan 2021 Last revised: 29 Nov 2021
Date Written: October 31, 2020
Abstract
Comment on Borrowdale v Director-General of Health [2020] NZHC 2090, especially the ruling that the government’s messages during the early days of COVID-19 lockdown urging people to stay at home were not prescribed by law and unlawful.
Keywords: COVID-19; New Zealand; lockdown; rule of law; Bill of Rights 1688; New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990
JEL Classification: K1; K30
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Knight, Dean R., Government Expression and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Advising, Nudging, Urging, Commanding (October 31, 2020). (2020) 31 Public Law Review 391, Victoria University of Wellington Legal Research Paper No. 45/2021, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3763553 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3763553
Dean R. Knight (Contact Author)
Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka - Faculty of Law ( email )
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