 Watchirs and McKinnon describe the moderate influence of the "Human Rights Act" within the judicial system.The duo comment, that a ‘’great many cases’’ have been adjudicated without careful analysis and scrutiny of raised provisions pertaining to the "Human Rights Act".Conversely, Micheal Walton a senior lecture of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy school stated, that this piece of legislation provides an honest accounting of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.