Public Address

The 2023 General Election has a preliminary result. The preliminary result is mostly meaningless from a legal standpoint, but we don’t want to wait two weeks to hear some number, so we get a ro...

https://publicaddress.net/legalbeagle/election-23-the-special-votes/

I have a basically finished 800-word article on the entrenchment issue that is now unneeded. Dean Knight’s tweets, my tweets, and the open letter of the group of legal academics published by th...

https://publicaddress.net/legalbeagle/the-entrenchment-angle-we-all-missed/

I have prepared the following (draft) submission on the Electoral (Māori Electoral Option) Legislation Bill, which you all have until Saturday to submit on. Happy to consider comments, or to fix...

https://publicaddress.net/legalbeagle/draft-submission-on-the-maori-electoral-option/

Tomorrow, I will be 60 years old. It’s the impossibly distant age at which people used to retire with a pension and a mortgage-free house. It's okay. I've been thinking of myself as basically t...

https://publicaddress.net/hardnews/60-1/

You might recall that on April 19 and 20 this year, RNZ published and broadcast a series of reports – beginning with this one – that claimed the government had not followed Ministry of Health...

https://publicaddress.net/hardnews/closing-off-a-complaint/

This Disability Pride Month I am reflecting on the complicated identity of disability for those of us with physical disabilities. I am often “reminded” by those inside and outside the disabil...

https://publicaddress.net/access/me-and-my-disabled-body-1/

There are four types of bills that Parliament considers: most bills are government bills, but there are also members bills, private bills and local bills. Members bills are relatively well know (...

https://publicaddress.net/legalbeagle/the-local-bill-to-remove-equal-suffrage/

The New Zealand Drug Harm Index 2020 just made it into 2021: it was quietly posted on the Ministry of Health website before Christmas. And it contains some startling claims. Not the least of them...

https://publicaddress.net/hardnews/new-drug-harm-index-new-problems/

Just sent the following submission in on the law repealing the three strikes sentencing regime. You have until midnight tonight if you want your say. == The Justice Committee Three Strikes Legisl...

https://publicaddress.net/legalbeagle/a-submission-on-the-repeal-of-the-three-strikes/

The year we are about to depart has been a frustrating one for the New Zealand medicinal cannabis community. A cluster of companies established to produce and distrubute legal cannabis products r...

https://publicaddress.net/hardnews/medicinal-cannabis-2022-will-be-a-better/