by Kris Gledhill | Aug 4, 2023 | Criminal
Lawyers are fussy about language because it is their job to argue about its implications. The current trial of Lauren Dickason is a case in point and the jury has a complex task in front of it. Dickason is charged with the murder of her three young children. She...
by Patrick Senior & Elliot Maassen | Aug 4, 2023 | Environmental Law
After three years in the policy slow-cooker, a national direction regulating greenhouse gas emissions has been published by the Minister for the Environment. This comes after changes were made to the Resource Management Act (RMA) in 2020 to remove the statutory bar to...
by Reweti Kohere | Aug 4, 2023 | Employment
The New Zealand Customs Service has been put on notice that its commitment to tikanga in its relationship with staff rings hollow, after the Employment Court found the border control agency failed to comply with the very Māori values it had incorporated into that...
by Reweti Kohere | Aug 4, 2023 | Misc
As a law student at the University of Sydney in the early 1960s, Michael Kirby would raise his hand and query and question. But at no point during his studies did the 84-year-old former judge of the High Court of Australia remember asking why indigenous Australians...
by Gary Judd KC | Aug 4, 2023 | Misc
Judicial independence is a critical ingredient of the rule of law. The late Tom Bingham, former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, had a lot to say about it in The Rule of Law: These statutory references make clear that judges must be independent of ministers...
