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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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Legislation and its Interpretation

Project status: Closed Start date 28 May 1986 Last updated 11 May 2015

This project examines and reviews: the language and structures of legislation; arrangements for the systematic monitoring and review of legislation; the law relating to the interpretation of legislation; and the provisions of the Acts...

Personal Property

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...

Intellectual Property

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.

 

Criminal Procedure: Disclosure and Committal

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...

Criminal Prosecution

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...

International Sales of Goods

Project status: Closed Start date 01 March 1992 Last updated 11 May 2015

In consultation with officials of the Ministry of Justice and others, the Commission considers, in this project, whether New Zealand should accept the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods and give effect to...

Property Statutes

Project status: Closed Start date 01 March 1992 Last updated 11 May 2015

This project reviews the Property Law Act 1952. At the same time the Department of Justice is reviewing aspects of the Land Transfer Act 1952 because new techology is proposed for the system of registration. This project is concerned with certain...

Property Law Act

Project status: Closed Start date 01 March 1994 Last updated 11 May 2015

This project proposes a draft Property Law Act to replace the Property Law Act 1952. One of the most important objectives of the new Act is to set forth rules of property law accessibly and in a manner which, allowing for the subject matter, can...

Dangerous Offenders

Project status: Closed Start date 01 May 1994 Last updated 11 May 2015

The purpose of this project is to protect members of the public from substantial risk of harm from individuals whose release into the community would pose that risk. The project considers: relevant provisions in the Mental Health (Compulsory...

Police Questioning

Project status: Closed Start date 01 July 1994 Last updated 11 May 2015

The report for this project is a response to the Commission’s reference on criminal procedure as well to the reference on the law of evidence. This particular project considers police questioning.

 

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