The World Commission on Environment and Development in its 1987 report provided a new analysis of the world’s resource and environmental problems that linked two key ideas: economic growth and sustainability. The report did not predict increasing decay, poverty, and environmental degradation....

New Zealand and Australia’s natural and mutual trust sets their efforts for a closer relationship apart from many other countries. The idea of a common Europe was seen as a solution to bitter conflict which has divided people and nations over several centuries. In North America, the Canadian...

Some statutes are known for the boldness and novelty of their policy. Others for the use of intricate and novel legislative techniques. Some lawyers may admire particular legislative techniques that have no great impact except to implement faithfully the policy of the Act. On the other hand,...

The consumer movement aims to prevent monopoly and encourage competition. The movement encourages the development of standards to eliminate physical hazards from products which endanger safety. The most perplexing problem is to decide when the market left to itself provides the appropriate means...

In October 1972 the New Zealand Parliament passed the Accident Compensation Act 1972 which establishes the most comprehensive accident compensation scheme ever enacted in the common law world and deals a mortal blow to the traditional tort system of compensating the victims of accidental injury....

The article describes the world-wide efforts or the lack thereof to combat climate change in the last 25 years. The article asks whether the world has to wait until the adversity actually sets in before effective action is taken; whether the failure to act is caused because people have not yet...

This paper explains the state of New Zealand's overseas trading arrangements as at the end of the 1960s. It discusses key exports, multilateral and bilateral trade agreements, and the relationship with the GATT regime. It also covers arrangements for marketing, customs and tariffs law, and New...

An address to the Department of Conservation seminar “Whale Tales – From Whaling to Whale Watching”, delivered in Nelson on 11 March 2005. The address traces New Zealand’s relationship with whaling and the International Whaling Commission. It discusses the implications of a resumption of...

This article discusses the debates in New Zealand concerning extensive amendments to the Resource Management Act 1991 and other inquiries into natural resources and environmental law in New Zealand. It criticises the Government's proposed reforms but suggests directions that change could take....

An address to New Zealand Police’s “Alcohol related harm” breakfast, delivered on 24 April 2009. The address introduces the Law Commission’s review of the law relating to the sale and supply of liquor in New Zealand. It outlines the Commission's two central concerns: first, the...