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The speakers at this roundtable looked at key issues relating to the structure and nature of constitutional rights. In particular, speakers addressed:

• Issues relating to how courts define rights and how rights are balanced against other interests (state or community) where the two come into conflict with each other.
• The structure and design of tools the courts use to adjudicate limits on rights (including proportionality balancing and notions of ‘reasonableness’ of state action).
• The way in which we talk about rights and whether there are patterns that emerge in the conversations that take place about rights in different jurisdictions and systems.
• The structure and design of constitutional remedies used by courts to deal with rights infringements.