The legal position of an ecclesial body is fraught with inherent tensions. The AnglicanChurch in New Zealand (officially the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand andPolynesia), may be taken to illustrate this. The ...

The New Zealand KiwiSaver scheme is a work-based retirement scheme, anindividualised savings account managed by the private investment providers.KiwiSaver will cost taxpayers an estimated $3 billion over four years beginning ...

This book examines the influence of constitutional legal paradigms upon the political stability and viability of states. It contributes to the literature in the field by focussing on how constitutional flexibility may have ...

This article examines the underlying policy considerations regarding the ownership of copyright in statutes, regulations, and also law reports. It compares and contrasts the positions in New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the ...

Discussant for Judge David Arnot, former Treaty Commissioner for Saskatchewan

In New Zealand the Algerian refugee, Ahmed Zaoui, wasincarcerated in a maximum security prison in solitary confinementon the strength of a report produced by the threat assessment unitof the Police. On 20 March 2003 a ...

The role of the courts, and the extent to which judges assume an activist approach to their role, are matters of occasional public debate. In a Family Law Journal editorial on the subject, Principal Family Court Judge Peter ...

In the United Kingdom and those countries that recognise Elizabeth II as their Queen, there are to be found certain fundamental constitutional principles. One of these is that much of the legal basis of executive power ...