Challenges to legal education: The Waikato Law School experience

The experiences of the Waikato Law School especially from the viewpoint of challenges to legal education are discussed. The impact of the performance-based model of funding on the delivery of legal education at the Waikato Law School is highlighted

An account of the making of the Human Rights Amendment Act 2001

In this paper I want to address the relationship between policy and law through a discussion of the 2001 Amendment to the New Zealand Human Rights Act 1993. Discussions of justice often focus on analysis of court decisions or legislation. Legal policy is not often analysed or the process by which legal policy is formed and incorporated into the law. This paper is an attempt to try and fill that gap through a description of the process to enact the 2001 Human Rights Amendment Act. The narrative is based on my experience so it is acknowledged at the outset that others involved in the process may hold different views

Developments in New Zealand jurisprudence

The Supreme Court Act came into force 1 January 2004. It would be fair to describe the reactions to the birth of the Supreme Court are mixed. While many welcomed the fact New Zealand finally had its own final court of appeal and an opportunity to develop its own jurisprudence, there was criticism that the new Supreme Court would be ‘activist’ and challenge the sovereignty of Parliament to make the law. There was also concern that there would be insufficient work for the new court and that the quality of judicial decision-making would suffer without the reference to the Privy Council. While it is too early to assess the contribution of the Supreme Court to the development of New Zealand jurisprudence, it is useful to review whether some of the early criticisms and fears have been realised to date

Responding to the economic crisis: A question of law, policy or politics

Introduction: I have been asked to consider the role of the law in the fallout from the financial and economic crisis that by the end of 2007 had become the problem but turned into a crisis by the end of 2008. Governments were called on to rescue financial institutions and to try and to contain the flow on to the real economy. With government intervention the question arose whether regulation of the markets was a necessary or desirable course of action. The debate around the question seemed somewhat unreal in the face of the reality that much of the neo-liberal policy frameworks with their no or regulation ‘lite’ regimes were responsible at least in part for the crisis the world faced. In this address. I argue that the question is not whether to regulate or not to regulate, it is the type and nature of the regulation that is the issue

Constitutional implications of ‘The Hobbit’ legislation

In October 2010 an amendment to the Employment Relations Act 2000 was passed under urgency. This amendment redefined the employment status of workers in the film industry. This article addresses the constitutional implications of this process, contrasting the stated need for urgency in relation to the need to necessary to preserve jobs on the „Hobbit‟ film production, with the costs in terms of removing the opportunity for consultation with the workers affected, altering their employment status and their capacity to negotiate their remuneration and conditions of work

From privy council to supreme court: A rite of passage for New Zealand's legal system

Professor Margaret Wilson, Professor of Law and Public Policy, Te Piringa - Faculty of Law, University of Waikato delivered the 2010 Harkness Henry Lecture. She spoke about the rite of passage for New Zealand's legal system from Privy Council to Supreme Court

A significant landmark on the path to women's equality

At the 2015 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) hosted by Malta the first Commonwealth Women’s Forum was held along with other forums related to young people, business, NGOs and civil society. Many of the over 500 women attending wondered why it had taken so long for women to have their own forum at which to discuss issues relevant to them and countries from which they had come

Alien Registration- Wilson, Margaret (Portland, Cumberland County)

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Confused Ideas

Paper by Margaret D. Wilso