Author: Gary Judd KC.

OPINION: Gary Judd, KC. A Constitutional Trojan Horse: advancing change through political stealth Trade Minister Hon Todd McClay has announced that the New Zealand-India free trade agreement has been signed and that the formal parliamentary treaty scrutiny process is now under way. The full text of the agreement is now public and has been referred to Parliament’s Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee for examination. Under Parliament’s standing orders, the committee must examine the treaty before the government brings in legislation to endorse it before the government ratifies it. This committee stage is supposed to be the chance to ask…