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In 2020 the Self Containment Standard and it use by Private organizations came under Investigation by Internal Affairs, Commerce Commission and others. The conclusion was that the Self Containment Standard was without legal substance and unable to be enforced in law [citation needed]. Much of the reasoning for the failure to be included in the ...
New Zealand contract law was initially derived from the English model. Since 1969, however, a series of Acts of Parliament altered this, and New Zealand contract law is now 'largely... distinct from other jurisdictions'. [24] The main distinction of New Zealand contract law is the wide discretionary power given to courts in granting relief.
The New Zealand Human Rights Commission expressed concerns that it would damage New Zealand's international image, [20] while former Prime Minister and architect of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 Geoffrey Palmer labelled it "oppressive". [21] The bill was reported back on 3 October 2011, [15] and substantially amended.
The Laws of New Zealand is an encyclopedia that is intended to provide a reliable statement of the whole law of New Zealand – statutory, regulatory, and judicial. Publication commenced in 1992. It is published by LexisNexis and is the only current encyclopaedia of New Zealand law. It is the New Zealand equivalent of Halsbury's Laws of England.
Restores New Zealand citizenship to people born in Western Samoa between 1924 and 1949. [11] Racing Industry (Unlawful Destruction of Specified Greyhounds) Amendment Act 2024 2024/109-1: 10 December 2024 Urgent legislation banning greyhound dogs from being killed while the Government takes action to phase out greyhound racing in New Zealand by ...
In August 2016 the then Prime Minister John Key announced that due to the threat of ISIS and global terrorism, the New Zealand Government would be introducing new legislation to provide further safeguards for New Zealanders. [33] New Zealand's first Intelligence and Security Review was undertaken by Sir Michael Cullen and Dame Patsy Reddy, and ...
(Reuters) -The crowd-sourced fact-checking feature of Elon Musk's X, Community Notes, is not countering false claims about the U.S. election, the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) said in ...
The Obscene Publications Act 1857 was one of the earliest censorious acts in New Zealand. Aimed at "works written with the single purpose of corrupting the morals of youth and of nature calculated to shock the common feeling of decency in any well regulated mind", it laid out a process by which obscene works could be destroyed, but did not explicitly define what could be considered an obscene ...