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Law and New Zealand's 2014 Election Campaign
New Zealand’s 2014 election “did its job”, in the sense that it permitted a government to form and function in a way that those who are governed by it broadly consider legitimate. This article considers why elections are ...
All Is Changed, Changed Utterly? The Causes and Consequences of New Zealand's Adoption of MMP
New Zealand's political landscape experienced a seismic shift in 1993, when the country replaced the First-Past-The-Post (FPTP) voting system it had inherited from its British colonial past with a new Mixed Member Proportional ...
New Zealand's Parliamentary Privilege Bill: The Empire Finally Strikes Back
This article considers the concerns raised by the Parliamentary Privilege Bill 2013 (NZ), introduced into the New Zealand House of Representatives in December 2013. While the proposed legislation would accomplish a number ...
'Declarations of Inconsistency' Under the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990
This article considers the constitutional question of whether prisoners should be permitted to vote. The author discusses the case of Attorney General v Taylor and the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990, to conclude that ...
Foreword
This article is the foreword to Volume 39, Issue 1 of the UNSW Law Journal. The article begins by considering the role of elections in liberal representative democracies, particularly with regard to answering deeply contested ...
Litigating for the Right to Die
Modern medicine can extend life to an extent that a patient dying of a terminal illness may feel trapped. Unfortunately, public support for providing a clear legal path for patients wishing to access aid in dying have not ...
The Legal Status of Political Parties Under MMP
This article discusses a specific, and relatively narrow, issue: Whether the move to a mixed member proportional voting system caused a change in the legal status accorded to New Zealand's political parties. It is argued ...
Diplomatic Assurances as a Basis for Extradition to the People’s Republic of China.
China human rights experts have responded with scepticism to a “troubling precedent” handed down by the New Zealand Supreme Court in June (Donald Clarke “New Zealand’s Troubling Precedent for China Extradition”, Lawfare, ...
New Zealand votes on end of life choice and cannabis legalisation
Alongside New Zealand’s general parliamentary election on October 17, voters also were tasked with answering two referendum questions of significant medico-legal importance. The first asked whether the End of Life Choice ...