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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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Project status: Closed
Start date 28 May 1986
Last updated 11 May 2015
Project status: Closed
Start date 01 October 1986
Last updated 11 May 2015
This project examines the Limitation Act 1950 and makes recommendations on changes needed to it. The principal recommendation is that the 1950 Act is repealed and replaced with a new Limitation Defences Act of wide application and with three...
Project status: Closed
Start date 10 March 1987
Last updated 11 May 2015
This project examines and reviews that part of the Accident Compensation Act 1982 which recognises and is intended to promote the general principles of community responsibility, comprehensive entitlement, complete rehabilitation, real...
Project status: Closed
Start date 01 December 1987
Last updated 11 May 2015
This project reviews the structure of the judicial system of New Zealand, including the composition, jurisdiction and operation of the various courts, having regard among other matters to any changes in law and practice consequent upon the...
Project status: Closed
Start date 01 January 1988
Last updated 11 May 2015
This project recommends a new legislative framework for both domestic and international arbitration in New Zealand, a framework largely based on the Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration produced by the United Nations Commission on...
Project status: Closed
Start date 01 February 1988
Last updated 11 May 2015
This project reviews the law relating to personal property securities in New Zealand. It recommends that a new Personal Property Securities Act be enacted in place of Part IV of the Companies Act 1955, and the whole of the Chattels Transfer Act...
Project status: Closed
Start date 01 January 1989
Last updated 11 May 2015
The purpose of this project is to make the law of evidence as clear, simple and accessible as practicable, and to facilitate the fair, just and speedy judicial resolution of disputes. In April 1991 the Law Commission published the first of a...
Project status: Closed
Start date 01 October 1989
Last updated 11 May 2015
This project consists of seminars that focus on and provoke discussion of the underlying objectives and overall coherence of the reforms of various laws affecting intellectual property.
Project status: Closed
Start date 01 March 1990
Last updated 11 May 2015
As part of a series of projects reviewing criminal procedure, this project is concerned with two topics. One is the need for and methods of providing pre-trial disclosure of relevant information in criminal cases. The other is the committal...
Project status: Closed
Start date 01 March 1990
Last updated 11 May 2015
This project is part of the continuing reference to the Commission to review the law governing procedure in criminal cases. The report for this project is the tenth in a series of Law Commission publications on aspects of criminal procedure. This...