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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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Evidence Law: Privilege

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: Reliability of Witness Testimony

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: 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...

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.

 

International Law

Project status: Closed Start date 06 November 1995 Last updated 11 May 2015

This project addresses the Commission's concern about the relative lack of awareness of international law in New Zealand, and in particular of New Zealand’s international rights and obligations. It aims to contribute towards remedying this...

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...

Succession

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

This project reviews the law of succession. This is the law which governs how a person's property is to be dealt with when they die.

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...

Habeas Corpus

Project status: Closed Start date 04 June 1997 Last updated 11 May 2015

The purpose of this project is to make the law and practice governing the remedy for unlawful detention known as habeas corpus clearer and more accessible, and to reform its procedures so as to increase its effectiveness in protecting the liberty...

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