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Hutchinson Allan , Evolution and the Common Law (2005), 253.

Douzinas Costas , ‘Human Rights and Postmodern Utopia’, (2000) 11 Law and Critique 219, 220.

Bolt Andrew , ‘Judicial Puppeteer’, Herald-Sun (Melbourne), 14 June 2006 <http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,19462043-25717,00.html> at 16 August 2007.

Bagaric Mirko , ‘Right Fight’, Geelong Advertiser (Geelong), 6 June 2006 <http://acthra.anu.edu.au/media/Rights%20Fight%206-6-06.pdf> at 16 August 2007.

Sheehan Paul , A dead fish in a sea of red tape', Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney), 16 April 2007 <http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/a-dead-fish-in-a-sea-of-red-tape/2007/04/15/1176575681205.html> at 16 August 2007. See also Janet Albrechtsen, ‘Beware, charted waters can have murky depths’, The Australian (Sydney), 18 April 2007, http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/janetalbrechtsen/index.php/theaustralian/comments/beware_charted_waters_can_have_murky_depths/ at 16 August 2007.

See Merritt Chris , ‘Exposure to Kill Judicial Activism’, The Australian (Sydney), 16 July 2007 <http://theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22080481-17044,00.html> at 16 August 2007. See also Janet Albrechtsen, ‘Put Meddling Judges in their Place’, The Australian (Sydney), 18 July 2007 <http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22092407-21147,00.html> at 16 August 2007.

Howard John , Australia Day Address to the National Press Club, 25 January 2006. Available at <http://www.australianpolitics.com/news/2006/01/06-01-25_howard.shtml> at 16 August 2007.

See Evans Simon Evans Carolyn , ‘Legal Redress Under the Victorian Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities'’, (2006) 17 PLR 264.

Loughlin Martin , ‘Rights Democracy and Law’ in Campbell Tom (eds), Sceptical Essays on Human Rights (2001), 54.

Ibid 56.

Ibid 58.

See Allan Trevor , ‘Human Rights and Judicial Review: A Critique of Due Deference’, (2006) 65(3) CLJ 671.

See Justice Michael Kirby, ‘Judicial Activism: Power without Responsibility? No, Appropriate Activism Conforming to Duty’, (2006) 30(2) MULR 576.

Justice Heydon Dyson , ‘Limits to the Powers of Ultimate Appellate Courts’, (2006) 122 LQR 399, 399.

Dixon Owen Sir , ‘Concerning Judicial Method’ (1956) 29 ALJ 468.

Ibid 472.

Ibid 476.

Reid Lord James , ‘The Judge as Law Maker’, (1972) 12 JSPTL 22, 22.

Bingham Lord Tom , ‘The Judge as Law Maker’, The Business of Judging (2000), 28.

Hayne Justice Kenneth , ‘Concerning Judicial Method – Fifty Years On’, Speech at Monash University, 17 October 2006 <www.hcourt.gov.au/speeches/haynej/haynej_17oct06.pdf> at 16 August 2007.

[1932] AC 532.

Ibid 580.

[1992] 1 AC 599.

Ibid 616.

[1989] SLT 469.

Ibid 473.

For an examination of the development of Australian common law in a similar context, see Coper Michael , ‘Concern about Judicial Method’ (2006) 30(2) MULR 554.

Curran Vivian , ‘Romantic Common Law, Enlightened Civil Law: Legal Uniformity and the Homogenization of the European Union’ (2001) 7 Columbia Journal of European Law 63, 74.

Goldsworthy Jeffrey , ‘Legislative Sovereignty and the Rule of Law’, in Campbell Tom (eds), Sceptical Essays on Human Rights (2001), 76.

Kirby , above n 13.

Albrechtsen Janet , ‘The Judicial Counter-Revolution’, The Australian (Sydney), 1 July 2007 <http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/janetalbrechtsen/index.php/theaustralian/comments/the_judicial_counter_revolution/P50/> at 16 August 2007.

Hayne , above n 20.

[2002] 1 AC 45.

Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 (UK) s 41 (3)(b).

Ibid s 41(3)(c).

Above n 33 at 67–68.

Ibid 68.

Ibid 87.

Klug Francesca , ‘Judicial Deference under the Human Rights Act 1998’, (2003) 2 EHRLR 125, 128.

European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms 1950

Campbell Tom , ‘Incorporation through Interpretation’, in Campbell Tom (eds), Sceptical Essays on Human Rights (2001), 97–98.

Gearty Conor , Principles of Human Rights Adjudication (2004), 52–53.

[2004] UKHL 30, [2004] 2 AC 557.

Ibid, per Nicholls Lord at 572. Contrast Jan van Zyl Smit, ‘The New Purposive Interpretation of Statutes: HRA Section 3 after Ghaidan v Godin-Mendoza’ (2007) 70(2) MLR 294, with Young Alison , ‘Ghaidan v Godin-Mendoza: Avoiding the Deference Trap’ [2005] PL 23.

Section 32(1).

A & Ors v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2004] UKHL 56, [2005] 2 AC 68.

Poole Thomas , ‘Harnessing the Power of the Past? Lord Hoffman and the Belmarsh Detainees Case’ (2005) 32(4) JLS 534, 557.

Ibid 537.

Ibid.

Ewing Keith , ‘The Human Rights Act and Parliamentary Democracy’ (1999) 62 MLR 79, 92.

Ibid 98.

Koskenniemi Martti , The Effects of Rights on Political Culture’, in Alston Philip (eds), The EU and Human Rights (1999), 115.

Ibid 110.

Campbell , above n 41, 81.

Sheehan , above n 5.

Phillips Melanie , ‘Liberty fades as rights talk grows’, The Age (Melbourne), 21 March 2007 <http://www.melaniephillips.com/articles-new/?p=495> at 16 August 2007. Curiously, Phillips rails against the emergence of both ‘cultural Marxism’ and ‘hyper-individualism’ under the UK HRA.

The Human Rights Act: The DCA and Home Office Reviews, Government Response to the Joint Committee on Human Rights'’ Thirty-second Report of Session 2005–6 (2007), 3 <http://www.official-documents.gov.uk/document/cm70/7011/7011.asp> at 16 August 2007.

McKinnon Gabrielle , ‘The ACT Human Rights Act - The Second Year’, (Paper presented at the Australian Bills of Rights Conference, Canberra, 21 June 2006) <http://acthra.anu.edu.au/articles/Gabrielle%20McKinnon%20ACTHRA%20second%20year.pdf> at 16 August 2007.

Department for Constitutional Affairs, Review of the Implementation of the Human Rights Act (2006), 35 <http://www.dca.gov.uk/peoples-rights/human-rights/publications.htm> at 16 August 2007.

Ibid 37.

Mason Anthony Sir , ‘Legislative and Judicial Law Making’, (2003) 23 Adel LR 16, 21.

Miller Henry , The Air-Conditioned Nightmare (1945), 16–17.