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New Business Models for Legal Services
This working paper outlines possible innovations to legal services, drawing on examples of new models developing both here and abroad. -
Norms in Competition: The Influence of Parliamentary Sovereignty and the Rule of Law on Human Rights Protection in New Zealand
In 2018 the New Zealand Supreme Court issued judgments in three cases which indicated that the Court was reconsidering their role in respect of rights protection in New Zealand; Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei Trust v Attorney-General, ... -
The Māori Land Court: Exploring the Space between Law, Design, and Kaupapa Māori
Aotearoa/New Zealand is currently contemplating legislative reform of Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993, the statutory regime that governs Māori land. With the focus of both Māori and the Crown once again strongly on the Māori ... -
Unbundling Litigation Services in New Zealand: Where to next?
‘Unbundled legal services’ and ‘unbundling’ are terms that can be used to describe the practice of providing a limited set of legal services in a litigation matter, accompanied by the expectation that the client will proceed ... -
Children's participation in the context of private law disputes in the New Zealand family justice system
This thesis focuses on children’s participation rights in the context of private law disputes in the New Zealand family justice system. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) 1989 introduced a ... -
The process and outcomes of the 2010 constitutional reform in Tonga: A study of the devolution of executive authority from monarchy to representative government in a Polynesian society
Ko e foaki ʻo e Konisitutone ʻo Tongá ʻi he 1875, ne hoko ia ko e maka maile ki he hisitōlia ʻo e tukuʻau mai e laó mo e fakalakalaka ʻa Tongá ʻi he ngāue ʻaufuatō ʻa e Tuʻí ko Tupou I. Naʻe hanga ʻe he Konisitutoné ʻo ... -
New Zealand lawyers, Pro Bono, and Access to Justice
This report summarises the results of a study about the provision of pro bono legal services in New Zealand. The study was conducted in two phases from September 2018 to February 2019 as part of a wider project about free ... -
Fallen by the wayside: Young people with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) in New Zealand's youth justice system
Young people with FASD are overrepresented in justice systems worldwide. There is an estimated 30,000 children and young people with FASD in New Zealand, many of whom will not have a formal diagnosis. The unique cognitive ... -
Therapeutic Jurisprudence in Aotearoa New Zealand's Family Justice System
Aotearoa New Zealand’s Family Justice System (“FJS”) has a dual therapeutic and judicial mandate. The balancing of the two roles has created difficulty since the Family Court’s inception in 1981. The FJS has been reviewed ... -
Killing Mary to save Jodie : the sacrificial separation of conjoined twins : does the end justify the means?
Law and morality have long ensured that the killing of innocent people is prohibited. However, in 2000, the English Court of Appeal in Re A (children) (conjoined twins: surgical separation) [2001] Fam 147 sanctioned an ... -
Medical decision making on behalf of the incapacitated elderly
This thesis describes the law governing medical decision making on behalf of the incapacitated elderly in New Zealand, especially in relation to standard medical treatment and participation in medical experiments. It ... -
Accessing Legal Services: The Price of Litigation Services
The price of legal services is often charged by the hour (the billable hour), usually at a rate of hundreds of dollars per hour. An agreement to pay these hourly rates might also come with little clarity over how many hours ... -
The liability of local authorities for escapes
To some extent the style adopted in a legal exposition is determined by the object of the work and the nature of the subject matter. I have here attempted a critical restatement of the law relating to the liability of local ... -
Children's Competence to Consent to Medical, Surgical and Dental Treatment: Partner's in Healthcare?
Commonly it is believed that children need to be 16 years old before they have the right to give, or refuse, consent to medical, surgical or dental treatment. This is an understandable misconception in New Zealand, as the ... -
Government Use of Artificial Intelligence in New Zealand
Final Report on Phase 1 of the New Zealand Law Foundation’s Artificial Intelligence and Law in New Zealand Project -
Prescriptive and Holistic Contextualism: Emerging Variants of Modern Contract Interpretation
Debate over the proper approach to modern contract interpretation continues even in this era of modern contract interpretation where context is always considered. This paper identifies and contrasts two rival approaches ... -
Can Your Trust Be Trusted?
This paper is the transcript of the author’s Inaugural Professorial Lecture, delivered at the University of Otago on 23 October 2008. The author discusses and dispels myths and misconceptions about trusts and identifies ... -
The Legal Status of Life Before Birth
This paper discusses the changing legal status of various life forms before birth. The author begins by distinguishing between a living organism within a woman’s body (from conception to birth stored embryos and gametes) ... -
Trust Issues for Separating Elderly Spouses of Partners
This paper addresses how the Property (Relationships) Act 1976 (PRA) may affect elderly people, particularly where the parties have assets from a prior relationship. The author considers what happens to their property if ...