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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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Class Actions and Litigation Funding

Project status: Calling for submissions Start date Last updated 08 December 2020

A class action is a court proceeding in which a group with similar interests collectively sues one or more defendants. The court proceeding is brought by a representative plaintiff on behalf of the class. We do not currently have class actions in...

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...

Company Law

Project status: Closed Start date 05 September 1986 Last updated 11 May 2015

This project examines and reviews the law relating to bodies incorporated under the Companies Act 1955, and reports on the form and content of a new Companies Act.

Accident Compensation

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...

Electronic Commerce 1

Project status: Closed Start date 03 December 1987 Last updated 11 May 2015

In October 1997 the Law Commission started a new project on the subject of international trade. This is the first of four reports which will deal with international trade issues. It addresses, in a preliminary way, the subject of electronic...

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...

Contract Statutes

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

This project reviews six contract statutes with the assistance of leading experts. The preparation and wider dissemination of these valuable accounts of the jurisprudence which has developed around the statutes is the major purpose of the review...

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...

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