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Video Camera Surveillance (Temporary Measures) Bill Video Camera Surveillance (Temporary Measures) Bill It seems strange that in this society that... |
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Liberty Watch - August 2011 Round-up of civil liberty news for August 2011. CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE Government... |
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Police censor political website As discussed on the telephone a short time ago, this is a request from the New Zealand Police to... |
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Liberty Watch - July 2011 Round-up of civil liberty news for July 2011. ADOPTION 56-year-old adoption laws queried... |
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Defining a charity When the government in its efficiency drive gets around to reorganising the Charities Commission,... |
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Liberty Watch - June 2011 Round-up of civil liberty news for June 2011. AGE DISCRIMINATION Jury exemption at 65... |
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Submission on Credit Reporting Privacy Code Amendment No 5 This submission, from the New Zealand Council for Civil Liberties (NZCCL), concerns the addition... |
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Liberty Watch - May 2011 Round-up of civil liberty news for May 2011. AGE DISCRIMINATION Unlawful student loan... |
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Submission: Sentencing (Aggravating Factors) Bill Oral submission to the Law and Order Select Committee in respect of the Sentencing (Aggravating... |
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Obituary: George Barton George Barton recently died in Wellington. He was a long time member and supporter of the Council... |
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Why flag burning counts as freedom of speech Lawyer Steven Price writes strongly in defence of freedom of speech in the Dominion Post (also on... |
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Liberty Watch - April 2011 Round-up of civil liberty news for April 2011. Petrobras Oil Survey East Coast Maori... |
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Prisoners and the Right to Vote Prior to 16 December 2010 prisoners who had been sentenced to preventative detention or imprisoned... |
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Liberty Watch - March 2011 Round-up of civil liberty news for March 2011 (final version updated on 3/4/2011). Law... |
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MyFone MyFone.mobi is a device that enables people to view both the traffic and the content of texts from... |
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Council Requirements for Mown Lawns One of the more intriguing inquiries received by NZCCL has been about council requirements for... |
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Submissions on the Criminal Procedure Reform Bill Tony Ellis has made a submission on the Criminal Procedure (Reform and Modernisation) Bill,... |
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Council Requirements for Mown Lawns One of the more intriguing inquiries received by NZCCL has been about council requirements for... |
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Gang Patches in Whanganui The NZ Council for Civil Liberties is gratified that the High Court has ruled that the law banning... |
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Riff-Raff are people too The New Zealand Council for Civil Liberties is alarmed and dismayed that a bunch of business... |
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Submission: Review of Official Information Act The Council's submission to the Law Commission's review of the Official Information Act... |
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SIS Amendment Bill extends powers? The SIS Amendment Bill has been introduced along with its Regulatory Impact Statement. ... |
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Round-up: Search & Surveillance Bill A round-up of what people are saying about the latest version of the Search & Surveillance... |
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Chairperson's Report for 2009-2010 Chairperson's Report To Members At The Annual General Meeting Of The New Zealand Council For... |
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Personal account of NZCCL AGM and BOR Talk This is my personal account of the NZCCL AGM and the talk by Andrew Butler that followed. It is... |
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Guest post: The Police Arms Race Guest post by Michael Bott Greg O’Connor wants all Police to be armed. The Prime Minster... |
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Encouraging conversations about justified limitations on rights Some thoughts on the NZ Bill of Rights Act 1990 at its 20th Anniversary The New Zealand Bill... |
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NZCCL Annual General Meeting - Nov 10th The Annual General Meeting of the New Zealand Council for Civil Liberties will be at 12:30pm on... |
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Changes to name suppression laws The government has announced plans to implement the recommendations of the Law Commission to... |
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Summary of the Issues Paper re the Official Information Act The Law Commission is working on a review of the Official Information Act. They have just released... |
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Constitutional lawyers reject the special powers Earthquake Act A group of constitutional lawyers and law professors have expressed their concerns about the... |
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Select Committee make a mistake, recommends giving all current prisoners the vote Andrew Geddis at Pundit has pointed out a serious flaw in the amendments proposed by the Law and... |
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Disappointment as select committee recommends taking vote from prisoners The Law and Order Select Committee has recommended (PDF) that the bill to strip the vote from... |
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Blogger convicted for online breach of suppression order Blogger Cameron Slater has been convicted in the District Court for 9 breaches of name suppression... |
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Concerns over quake emergency powers law Parliament has passed the wide-ranging Canterbury Earthquake Response and Recovery Act. This... |
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Customs Gathering Intelligence at the Border Why did Customs copy the address book from a mobile phone owned by the wife of Michael Quinlan,... |
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NZCCL Submission - revised Search & Surveillance Bill Submission on the revised Search and Surveillance Bill The New Zealand Council for Civil... |
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Moana Jackson - A further primer on the foreshore and seabed Moana Jackson has written A Further Primer on the Foreshore and Seabed. It's an... |
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Tech Liberty submission on Search & Surveillance Bill Tech Liberty has posted their submission about the Search and Surveillance Bill. Click the... |
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Strengthening the Bill of Rights Act Blogger No Right Turn has two useful articles about strengthening the Bill of Rights Act. The... |
