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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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Women and Access to Justice

Project status: Closed Start date 01 July 1996 Last updated 11 May 2015

The topic of this project has two related issues, each of fundamental importance to New Zealanders. One is whether New Zealand women are treated properly by the legal system. That raises in turn a second issue – whether the New Zealand citizen...

Courts

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...

Civil List Act 1979

Project status: Closed Start date 12 October 2007 Last updated 11 May 2015

This Act has not been reviewed for many years and is out of date in a number of respects.  The Act covers a range of interests, including remuneration of the Governor-General, Ministers and Members of Parliament, which make independent...

Privacy

Project status: Closed Start date 12 October 2006 Last updated 11 May 2015

This project involves four stages, with publications at each stage.

Stage 1: Policy Overview was a high-level analysis to assess privacy values, changes in technology, international trends, and their implications for New Zealand law.  It...

Covert Filming

Project status: Closed Start date 10 December 2003 Last updated 11 May 2015

Covert filming of people in intimate situations raises a number of specific privacy issues. As a modern form of voyeurism it also has a sexual dimension. The issue intersects with a number of areas of law, including privacy and censorship as well...

Costs in Criminal Cases

Project status: Closed Start date 01 August 1997 Last updated 11 May 2015

This project is part of the continuing reference to the Commission to review the law, structure and practices governing procedure in criminal cases. This project examines and reviews the Costs In Criminal Cases Act 1967. The main point to be...

Crown Liability

Project status: Closed Start date 01 July 1996 Last updated 11 May 2015

The purpose of this project is to give fuller effect to the principle that the State is under the law and to ensure that as far as practicable legal procedures relating to and remedies against the Crown (as representing the State) are the same as...

Evidence Law: The Evidence of Children and other Vulnerable Witnesses

Project status: Closed Start date 01 January 1991 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...

Evidence Law: Codification, Hearsay and Principles for Reform

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...

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...

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