by Reweti Kohere | Jul 7, 2023 | Criminal
Parliament will upset the “delicate balance” separating the legislature from the judiciary if it passes National’s proposal to cap at 40% the overall sentencing discount judges can give, says a legal academic. “Strictly speaking, of course, Parliament can do what it...
by Mike Doesburg & Patrick Senior | Jul 7, 2023 | Resource Management
On 23 June 2023, we gave a brief summary of the legislation set to reform the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) and the submissions provided by the ADLS Environment and Resource Management Law Committee on the Natural and Built Environment and Spatial Planning Bills....
by Reweti Kohere | Jul 7, 2023 | Criminal
Defendants who are convicted of sexual violation offences are more likely to have chosen trial by jury than a judge-alone hearing. But just over half of the charges laid in relation to these offences don’t even get to trial, according to Ministry of Justice data...
by Chris Trotter | Jul 7, 2023 | General
It is hardly surprising that Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann formulated the “spiral of silence”. She was German and 20 in 1936. That so many Germans remained passive in the face of Hitler’s tyranny has haunted that nation’s political scientists for close to 80 years....
by Jenni McManus | Jul 7, 2023 | Employment
The Court of Appeal has granted rideshare company Uber leave to appeal a controversial Employment Court decision which found four of its drivers were employees of the business, rather than independent contractors. Though the four had signed contracting agreements with...
