Speeches

Skip to main content Skip to top level navigation Skip to footer

2024

Dr Amokura Kawharu (President) "The Emperor’s Servant: the unruly statute book and what the Law Commission is or could be doing about it" (Auckland University Law Review Symposium, Auckland, 15 August 2024)

2022

Amokura Kawharu (President) "Te Tiriti o Waitangi and law reform" (speech to Chapman Tripp National Litigation Group, Clevedon, 2 September 2022) (374KB, PDF)

2021

Amokura Kawharu (President) "The changing roles of Law Commissioners" (New Zealand Centre for Public Law - Public Officeholder Series, online, 6 October 2021) (129KB PDF)
Amokura Kawharu (President) "Weavers of people: rangatira and… arbitrators?" (AMINZ Annual Conference, Rotorua, 7 August 2021) (197KB PDF)
Amokura Kawharu (President) "Te Aka Matua o te Ture: the Parent Vine of the law" (Hui-ā-tau o te Hunga Rōia Māori o Aotearoa, Christchurch, 2 July 2021) (203KB PDF)
Amokura Kawharu (President) "Te Tiriti into the future" (speech to members of the judiciary, Oromāhoe marae, 4 February 2021) (216KB PDF)

2020

Amokura Kawharu (President) "Kia whanake ngā ture o Aotearoa mā te arotake motuhake" (keynote speech to the Legal Research Foundation AGM, Auckland, 6 August 2020) (178KB PDF)

1996

Speech given by Sir Kenneth Keith at a seminar to mark the 10^th anniversary of the Law Commission on the opening day of the New Zealand Law Conference in Dunedin in February 1996 (79KB PDF)