Te Aka Matua o te Ture | Law Commission is considering whether reform is needed to the laws that keep the community safe from people at high risk of serious sexual and violent offending. The Commission has today published an Issues Paper for...
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Published 31 May 2023
Media release
Published 8 May 2023
Te Aka Matua o te Ture | Law Commission has today published an Issues Paper inviting public submissions on how the Evidence Act 2006 is operating in practice.
The Commission is undertaking its third and final statutory review...
Media release
Published 28 November 2022
Te Aka Matua o te Ture | Law Commission has today published a Preliminary issues Paper, as part of its review into how the law should respond when an adult’s decision-making is affected.
Kaikōmihana | Commissioner, Geof Shirtcliffe,...
Media release
Published 19 November 2022
On Friday 18 November, the Minister responsible for Te Aka Matua o te Ture | Law Commission, Hon Kiritapu Allan, referred to the Commission the following issues:
- Legal responses to hate-motivated offending;
- Legal responses...
Media release
Published 11 November 2022
This may be the best time to review Aotearoa New Zealand’s legal framework for emergencies, concludes a Study Paper written for Te Aka Matua o te Ture | Law Commission by Auckland University public law professor Janet McLean KC and published on...
Media release
Published 27 June 2022
A new Class Actions Act should be developed to improve access to justice and efficiency in litigation, concludes Te Aka Matua o te Ture | Law Commission in its report,...
Our news
Published 2 May 2022
Published 2 May 2022
New Kaikōmihana | Commissioner, Claudia Geiringer, has been welcomed to Te Aka Matua o te Ture | Law Commission at a whakatau today led by the Commission’s Māori Liaison Committee chair, the Hon Justice Williams KNZM.
Geiringer is taking...
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Published 6 April 2022
Published 6 Apr 2022
On behalf of Te Aka Matua o te Ture, I am delighted to congratulate Amokura Kawharu, our Tumu Whakarae | President, as one of Ngā Ahurei hou a Te Apārangi new Fellows to have been elected to the Academy of the Royal Society Te Apārangi.
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Published 15 December 2021
Succession law, the law about who inherits a person’s property when they die, needs reform, concludes Te Aka Matua o te Ture | Law Commission in its report He arotake I te āheinga ki ngā rawa a te tangata ka mate ana | Review of...