The legality of the lockdown
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English - April 28, 2020 23:48 - 11 minutes - 10.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Law correspondent Dr Dean Knight joins Kathryn to discuss the decision by the Director General of Health to issue an additional section 70 notice under the Health Act 1956 and how it addressed many of the rule-of-law issues about the lockdown, as well as the recent legal testing of its validity. Dr Dean Knight, Associate Professor Faculty of Law and NZ Centre for Public Law Victoria University of Wellington