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Each project is an area of law or subject matter that the Law Commission has agreed to review. The Commission works on several projects at a time. Together, these projects make up the Commission's annual work programme.

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Protection of Classified and Security Sensitive Information

Project status: Awaiting Government Response Start date 01 December 2014 Last updated 14 December 2015

This project reviews the laws that determine how security sensitive information should be dealt with in court proceedings. The review looks at how to protect information that may prejudice New Zealand’s security. It also considers whether the...

Law Relating to Civil Penalties

Project status: Closed Start date 01 June 2010 Last updated 07 October 2015

In 2011, the Law Commission was asked to review the use of pecuniary penalties as a regulatory tool. These are financial penalties that policymakers are increasingly opting to use in place of criminal sanctions, to punish and deter misconduct in...

Cross-Border Insolvency

Project status: Closed Start date 06 May 1998 Last updated 21 August 2015

In October 1997 the Law Commission started a new project on the subject of international trade with the project’s first report, Electronic Commerce Part One: A Guide for the Legal and Business Community (NZLC R50) released a year later. This is...

Judicature Act 1908 and Consolidation of Courts Legislation

Project status: Closed Start date 01 July 2010 Last updated 29 May 2015

The Judicature Act 1908 is over one hundred years old and has been amended many times.   Many of the sections in the Act are outdated, and it contains “hidden” commercial law and judicial review provisions.  The focus of the Law Commission’s...

Law of Trusts

Project status: Closed Start date 14 March 2009 Last updated 27 May 2015

For this project, the Commission reviews the Trustee Act 1956 and trust law generally. In the first stage of this review, the Report, Review of the Law of Trusts: A Trusts Act for New Zealand (R130) is preceded by six Issues Papers. The...

Aspects of Damages 1

Project status: Closed Start date 01 December 1990 Last updated 11 May 2015

This project arises from ongoing work on damages and the introduction into Parliament of the Employment Contracts Bill.

Admissibility of previous convictions

Project status: Closed Start date 01 April 2007 Last updated 11 May 2015

For this project, the Commission reviews existing rules of evidence around admissibility of previous convictions, similar offending and bad character. In particular, the extent to which the court is made aware of prior convictions of an accused,...

Access to Court Records

Project status: Closed Start date 13 May 2004 Last updated 11 May 2015

This project reviews existing rules providing access to Court records and developing principles to govern access to Court records, the retention and archiving of records. It considers the appropriateness of a single code providing rules for all...

After Settlement Assets

Project status: Closed Start date 27 June 2000 Last updated 11 May 2015

The purpose of this project is to enquire into and report on the following issues:

  • Is there a need for changes, whether administrative or legislative, to address problems which have arisen in the period leading up to and in the course...

Adoption

Project status: Closed Start date 01 July 1999 Last updated 11 May 2015

The purpose of this project is to review the legal framework for adoption in New Zealand as set out in the Adoption Act 1955 and the Adult Adoption Information Act 1985, and to recommend whether and how the framework should be modified to better...

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