In 2003, New Zealand became the only country in the world to decriminalize all aspects of unforced sex work. The law reform heralded a radical shift. Rather than attempting to suppress the industry by criminalizing the ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to seek to contribute to the objective of the sustainable development process. A factor that may be hindering progress towards sustainable building in many developed states is the ...

What does the specialised nature of an environment court entitle it to do? The recent decision of the New Zealand Supreme Court in Environmental Defence Society Incorporated v Marlborough District Council (‘the King Salmon ...

This article is a book review for the book Fiduciary Duty and the Atmospheric Trust, edited by Ken Coghill, Charles Sampford and Tim Smith. The author concludes that this book is an excellent exploration of whether governments ...

This article is a book review of Stephen J Turner’s book A Substantive Environmental Right: An Examination of the Legal Obligations of Decision-Makers Towards the Environment. The author examines Turner’s draft accord to ...

Objective The New Zealand health system has a number of objectives including reducing disparities in health for Māori and improving total population health. Despite this there are stark inequalities in health status for ...

Specialist environment courts and tribunals (SECs) are, in the main, reflective of highly dynamic forms of adjudication, mixing judicial forms with powers more traditionally found in the executive. However, despite their ...

This article is a summary of the proceedings of the international symposium ‘Environmental Adjudication in the 21st Century,’ held in Auckland, New Zealand in April 2017. The symposium was organised by a research group ...

This case note critically examines an ACC appeal that decides a point of criminal law.

This short article is a response to another author’s piece in the same journal, and addresses the possible configurations of the law on the admissibility of extrinsic evidence for the purpose of interpreting registered ...