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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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Limitations

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 The principal recommendation is that the 1950 Act is repealed and replaced with a new Limitation Defences Act of wide application and with three...

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...

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...

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.

Aspects of Damages 2

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

This project considers the rules in Bain v Fothergill and Joyner v Weeks. The Commission concludes that the rules established in the two cases were unjustified and contrary to principle. It proposes that they be abolished by...

Aspects of Damages 3: Awards of Interest

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

The Report for this project is the third arising from the Law Commission’s review of aspects of damages. In 1991, the Commission reported on Employment Contracts and the Rule in Addis v Gramophone Co (R18, 1991), and on The Rules in ...

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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