# New Zealand Law/System
## Background

based on the Prescription of 31 May 2010
Joseph "Constitutional and Administrative Law in New Zealand" (3rd ed 2007) Palmer "Bridled Power" (4th Ed 2004)

## Fundamental Principles of the Constitution
### Rule of Law

* Transport Ministry v Payn (1977)
* Joseph Ch 6

### Seperation of Powers

Joseph Ch 7

### Parliamentary Sovereignty
#### Cases

* Fitzgerald v Muldoon (1976)
* Shaw v CIR (1999)

#### Statutes

* Bill of Rights 1688
* Regulations (Disallowance) Act 1989

#### Readings

Joseph Ch 14

## Treaty of Waitangi
### Statutes

* Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975
* Treaty of Waitangi Amendment Act (1985)

### Cases

* Hoani Te Heu Heu Tukino v Aotea District Maori Land Board [1941] AC 308 (PC)
* Te Weehi v Regional Fisheries Officer (1986)
* Huakina Development Trust v Waikato Valley Authority (1987)
* NZ Maori Council v AG (1987)
* NZ Maori Council v AG (1989)
* Tainui Maori Trust Board v AG (1989)
* Te Runanga o Muriwhenua v AG (1990)
* AG v NZ Maori Council (1992)
* AG v NZ Maori Council (1994)
* Barton-Prescott v Director General of Social Welfare (1997)
* McRitchie v Taranaki Fish and Game Council (1999)
* Ngati Apa v AG (2003)

### Readings

Joseph Ch 3

## Institutions of State
### Parliament
#### Statutes

* Electoral Act 1993
* New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990, s3 and s7

#### Readings

Joseph Ch 10 and 12

#### Cases

* Prebble v TVNZ (1994)

### Courts
#### Statutes

* District Courts Act 1947
* District Courts Amendment Act 1979
* Judicature Act 1908
** section 1
** section 2
** section 3
** section 4
** section 6
** section 57
** section 59
** section 65
** section 69
* Judicature Amendment Acts 1972, 1977 & 2007
* Declaratory Judgments Act 1908 sections 2 to 4 & 7
* Imperial Laws Application Act 1988
* Supreme Court Act 2003

#### Cases

* Simpson v AG (1955)
* Ashby v Minister of Immigration (1981)
* Tavita v Minister of Immigration (1994)
* Simpson v AG [1994] 3 NZLR 667 [aka Baigent’s Case]
* Tangiora v Wellington District Legal Services Committee [2000] 1 NZLR 17 (PC)

#### Readings

* Joseph Ch 20

### Governor General
#### Readings

Joseph Ch 18 and 19.3 - 19.5

#### Statutes

* Constitution Act 1986 ss 2,3,4,5,16,17,18
* Letters patent constituting the office of the Governor General 1983/225

#### Cases

CIR v Medical Council of NZ (1997)

### The Executive
#### Statutes

* Constitution Act 1986 s6
* State Sector Act 1988
* State Owned Enterprises Act 1986
* Public Finance Act 1989

#### Readings

Joseph Ch 19
Palmer Ch 6 and 7

## Judicial Review
### Cases

* Council of Civil Service Unions v Minister for the Civil Servants (1985)
* AG v Ahmed Zaoui (2005)
* University of Auckland v Tertiary Education Commission (2004)
* Lab Tests Auckland v Auckland DHB (2009)

### Statutes

* High Court Rules, Part 30
* Judicature Amendment Act 1972, ss 2 - 16
* New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990, ss 22, 23, 27

### Readings

* Joseph ch 21-24
* "The Judge on your shoulder" Crown Law Office, 2005

## Domestic Incorporation of Int’l Law
#### Readings

* Joseph 21.11.3
* NZ Law Commission Report 34 (1996)
* Cabinet Office Manual 2008
   * 5.73 & 5.74
   * 7.60 & 7.61
   * 7.112 - 7.122

#### Cases

* Ashby v Minister of Immigration (1981)
* Tavita v Minister of Immigration (1994)
* Puli’uvea v Removal Review Authority (1996)
* NZ Airline Pilots’ Association v AG (1997)
* Sellers v Maritime Safety Inspector (1999)

## New Zealand Bill of Rights
#### Statutes

New Zealand Bill of Rights Act, esp s 6, 21, 27, 29

#### Readings

Joseph, Ch 27

#### Cases

* R v Jeffries (1994)
* Simpson v AG [1994] 3 NZLR 667 [aka Baigent’s Case]
* Moonen v Film & Literature Board of Review (2000)
* R v Pora (2001)
* R v Shaheed (2002)
* Hansen v R (2007)

## Officers of Parliament
#### Statutes

Ombudsmen Act 1975, s5, 20 and 28

#### Readings

Joseph Ch 11

## Official Information, Human Rights and Protected Disclosures
#### Statutes

* Official Information Act 1982
* Privacy Act 1993
* Human Rights Act 1993 (as amended 2001)
* Protected Disclosures Act 2000 (as amended 2009)

#### Readings

* Joseph Ch 9
* Palmer Ch 14

## Statutory Interpretation
#### Statutes

* Interpretation Act 1979
* Regulations (Disallowance) Act 1989

#### Readings

Burrows "Statute law in New Zealand" (Butterworths, Wellington 2003)