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Aid in Dying in New Zealand: Recent Legal Developments
This article considers Lecretia Seales and her New Zealand High Court case to receive aid in dying. The author discusses the main issue in this case, specifically whether directly administering a lethal dose of medication ... -
Children's Interests in Division of Property on Relationship Breakdown
The breakdown of a marriage, civil union, or de facto relationship inevitably affects children of the relationship. The question this paper addresses is whether the interests of children should be taken into account in the ... -
Family Finances on Death of a Spouse or Partner
On death there is an inevitable tension in succession law between property and family, between testamentary freedom and the deceased’s duty to provide for family members. This paper considers the relationship property ... -
Intestate Succession in Australia and New Zealand
The rules of intestate succession in Australia and New Zealand have their origins in English law as a result of colonization. This article considers the historical development of intestate succession in Australia and New ... -
Relationship Property Appeals in the New Zealand Court of Appeal 1958-2008: The Elusiveness of Equality
This paper addresses the lack of equality in relationship property appeals in the New Zealand Court of Appeal. The authors consider the historical development of legislative and common law relationship property appeals in ... -
The stylistic vocal techniques used in New Zealand’s prevalent contemporary commercial music (CCM) styles: Musical theatre, jazz and pop
Contemporary Commercial Music (CCM) is the umbrella term in vocal pedagogy for ‘nonclassical’ styles, the formulation of which has helped CCM styles to find legitimacy and respect in the academic world alongside classical ... -
Through their eyes: A Samoan perspective on child wellbeing
Child wellbeing is the subject of a considerable body of research and policy making globally, and in New Zealand today. Despite its extensive use, the concept of child wellbeing is used differently across disciplines and ... -
John Zizioulas' Ecclesiology of 'the one and the many'
This thesis examines John Zizioulas’ ecclesiology of ‘the one and the many’ in the context of eucharistic ecclesiology. By comparing Zizioulas’ ecclesiology with Nicholas Afanasiev’s, I show how Zizioulas articulates an ... -
Uneasy Co-existence: Pakistan’s National Security Approach and the Post-Cold War Security Environment
This PhD thesis explores the paradox whereby the Pakistani state has emphasised improving its national security but has done so in a way that has increasingly led to greater insecurity in the country in the post-Cold War ... -
He Mauri tō Te Urewera : Understanding Legal Entities: The Transition from Resource Management to Human Management within Te Urewera
Environmental management in Aotearoa New Zealand has had a very generic application since colonisation began in 1840. Prior to this, Māori (the Indigenous peoples of this land) had been practicing environmental management ... -
Exploring the adequacy of central city public space in New Zealand: Establishing a simple evaluative tool to measure public space success
Public space is a vital component of the public realm. Without it, cities lack the interaction and social sustainability that people desire. After various debates surrounding the apparent recent decline of public space, ... -
Literary Sophias: The Esoteric Female in Romanticism
This thesis explores the Romantic representation of femininity in relation to elements of the Western esoteric tradition. In particular, it discusses the presence of Gnostic themes and gender imagery and the ways in which ... -
Colour as a symbol in New Zealand prehistory
This thesis explores a new method for looking at the symbolic importance of prehistoric material culture by investigating a non functional attribute. The attribute selected is the colour red and· its relevance to the study ... -
The art of simplicity : design, sentiment, and value in non-developmental music : studies in works by Satie, Part and Poulenc
The hypothesis underlying this study, is that works of the western musical tradition using simple non-developmental procedures, are at their best capable of producing profound and enduring musical experiences. The study ... -
/Ju:z/ are in the paddock eating grass : a study of the acceptance of grammatical variants among adolescents from Southland and Otago
A field experiment was undertaken to determine the usage of various grammatical and morphological variants in the speech of adolescents in the provinces of Otago and Southland, New Zealand. Eleven schools throughout the ... -
Narratives of desperation : 'genre, gender, and Desperate Housewives
This thesis investigates the history of the term 'desperation' when applied to female film and television genres, before examining how the first series Desperate Housewives draws from and adds to this history. In addition ... -
Blind people: a social constructivist analysis of New Zealand education policy and practice
This thesis explored the educational experiences in New Zealand of ten blind people of various ages. It submits that the social constructivism position developed by Lev Vygotsky allows the researcher to explore personal ... -
Teaching physical education : studies on student and teacher behaviour
This research provided descriptive data on student and teacher behaviour over a series of related physical education lessons and also examined the effect of feedback to teachers on the quantity and quality of student ... -
Capacity to Cohabit: Hoping ‘Everything Turns Out Well in the End’ PC v City of York
The Court of Appeal decision in PC v City of York illustrates the complexity inconsistency and limits of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA 2005) when applied to decisions about intimate relationships. In commenting on the ... -
Reconociendo a Jesús como víctima de abuso sexual: respuestas de sobrevivientes del Sodalicio en el Perú
Este informe identifica una serie de publicaciones -- Tombs (1999), Heath (2011), Gafney (2013), Trainor (2014 ) -- que han reconocido de forma independiente y explícita a Jesús como víctima de abusos sexuales. También ...