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Supreme Court of New Zealand - recent judgments: March 2023

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A summary of decisions delivered in March 2023 by the Supreme Court, available on Westlaw New Zealand.

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Convictions overturned posthumously — new commentary in Adams

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In a unanimous decision in 2022, the Supreme Court posthumously overturned Peter Ellis’ 1993 convictions on 16 counts of sexual offending against seven children attending Christchurch Civic Childcare Centre where he was a teacher. Earlier the Court found there was jurisdiction to...

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New authors for Human Rights Law product

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The Human Rights Law product has two new authors, Lauren Qiu and Shi Sheng (Shoosh) Cai, who will co-write for the immigration section.

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The Adoption chapter in Child Law is getting a facelift

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For some time, we have known that the very large “Principles of Adoption” chapter that is lodged within the Family Law – Child Law product, with so much gold in it, would benefit from a large review and ideally worked in as annotated commentary under the sections of the Act, but will...

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