The New Zealand Initiative will be familiar to readers as an organisation that accidentally let its Law Reports subscription lapse in 1915 and has been attempting to style it out ever since. In an exclusive, we are proud to publish an extract from the New Zealand Initiative’s latest publication – a jokebook full of classic gags and side-splitters bound to delight KCs from ages 75 to 95.
With a foreword by Professor Richard Ekins KC.
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Why did the chicken cross the road?
Values, probably.
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How many people does it take to change a lightbulb?
None, changes are for Parliament.
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“Doctor, doctor! I keep seeing activist judges everywhere!”
“Don’t you think you’re overreacting?”
“Oh my God, you’re one of them!”
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Your mother is so fat that she makes the thick conception of the rule of law look thin.
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Knock knock.
Who’s there?
Parliament.
Parliament who?
Don’t start with this again, your Honour!
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What’s black and white and red all over?
The Bill of Rights Act with my tracked changes on it.
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That’s what she said. Glazebrook J. In this speech one time.
Strictly obiter 