Parliamentary Sovereignty: New Zealand - New Millennium

This famous passage, which seems to clearly state that the courts may overturn an Act of Parliament, has from 1610 to 2001 variously been followed, distinguished, exported, discussed, and ignored, but never expressly overruled.2 Its sentiments have also been revived in the late twentieth century, most notably in New Zealand by Lord Cooke of Thorndon, as a Court of Appeal judge and later President of the Court. The question of whether courts would ever use the power that Chief Justice Coke asserted in 1610, and Lord Cooke hinted at in 1984, remains of interest, involving the fundamental constitutional