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A Limited Welcome: Methods and Motives for Communicating Outsider Status to Litigants in Person
Litigants are the central party in an adversarial system and yet litigants in person (LiPs) receive the message that they are outsiders in the court process. Drawing on doctoral research that involved interviews with LiPs, ... -
The Right to Be Forgotten
This paper outlines the concept of the ‘right to be forgotten’ and critically analyses its implications for New Zealand. The author discusses the origin of the concept in the Court of Justice of the European Union ruling ... -
Social Obligation and Environmental Management
This paper will explore the benefits of using the social obligation norm account of private property in the environmental law context. Using a selection of tradeable environmental allowance regimes from New Zealand and ... -
Of Irregular Votes and Robocalls: Resolving Disputed Elections in Canada and New Zealand
This paper begins with the broader question of how a constitutional order based upon a liberal-democratic commitment to letting the people choose their lawmakers ought to respond to allegations of flaws in its election ... -
Judicial Interpretation of Torrens Registered Documents
The appropriate approach to the interpretation of Torrens registered documents has been a heated issue in New Zealand. The problem arises because many interests in land (such as easements, covenants and leases) start life ... -
Parliament, the Courts and the NZBORA: The Cases of Aid in Dying and Prisoner Voting
The New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 (NZBORA) retains Parliament’s sovereign power to make law. However, beyond that important point, much of the debate around the NZBORA’s meaning for the legislature and judiciary’s ... -
Making health easier: Reducing inequalities in child health through addressing low health literacy
Background: Low health literacy is a major contributor to disparities in child health outcomes between different population groups and a powerful mediator of the social determinants of health. This review aimed to identify ... -
Where to From Kyoto?
This brief paper considers climate change law from an inter- and intra-national perspective. Three issues are touched upon. Firstly, given that New Zealand is likely to fall-short of it’s Kyoto emissions reduction target, ... -
Gait stability during shod and barefoot walking and running on a treadmill assessed by correlation entropy
This study tests correlation entropy, 𝐾2, as a measure of stability for gait analysis. An average of 13 strides from 10 participants in each combination of one footwear (barefoot vs shod) condition and one gait mode ... -
Legal and Jurisprudential Aspects of Mandatory 'Environmental Literacy' Programmes in Tertiary Education
There is a significant and growing body of literature that considers how Universities might act as a catalyst in fostering sustainability from the perspectives of management and administration, promoting research into ... -
Focus on Housing: The New Affordable Housing Legislation
This paper begins with a warning! The Government has recently signaled its intention to review the Affordable Housing: Enabling Territorial Authorities Act 2008. Given National’s opposition to the legislation when it was ... -
Impact of thumb base osteoarthritis: a qualitative study of patients' perspectives
Introduction: Despite the high prevalence of thumb base osteoarthritis (OA), little is known about the patient perspective. This study aimed to explore the impact of thumb base OA from the perspective of people with the ... -
Towards Energy-Aware Optimisation of Business Processes
Time dependent energy tariffs are a matter of concern to managers in organisations, who need to rethink how to allocate resources to business processes so that they take into account energy costs. However, due to the ... -
MUSIC for Medical Students: Validation of the MUSIC Model of Academic Motivation in New Zealand
Introduction/background: An important aspect of student learning is that of academic motivation. Academic motivation can be defined as “a process that is inferred from actions … and verbalizations …, whereby goal- directed ... -
What monitoring strategies are most successful for promoting weight loss? A randomised controlled trial
Objectives: While tracking progress is one of the strongest predictors of success in healthy eating and physical activity interventions, it is uncertain whether it matters which behavior (diet, activity or weight) is being ...