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Fabian Society: The Official Information Act 30 years on On the 30th anniversary of the Official Information Act, it’s worth pausing to ask: is it fit... |
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Liberty Watch - October 2012 CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE Adults who pose risk to kids face bans Adults who have never been... |
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NZCCL Annual General Meeting and Talk The NZ Council for Civil Liberties Annual General Meeting will be held at: Thursday 11... |
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NZCCL's Sub-committee on Constitutional Arrangements Meetings You will be aware that the Council is considering the nature and extent of its input into the... |
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Police brutalise Upper Hutt teens Stuff reports that Police in Upper Hutt mistreated two teens (aged 16 and 14) after falsely... |
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Democracy failing in Canterbury The Press has a powerful editorial explaining why the Government's decision to continue... |
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Book Review: Flying Blind by Roger Brooking FLYING BLIND by Roger Brooking Review by Batch Hales This authoritative book exposes an ongoing... |
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Liberty Watch - April/May 2012 Round up of civil liberty news for April/May 2012. BROADCASTING Wellington man fights for his... |
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Guest blog: what's wrong with pre-employment credit checks? In these days of higher unemployment and tougher competition for jobs, a disturbing trend is... |
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Record keeping and human rights “...the concentration of power and the subjection of individuals will increase...in the... |
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Liberty Watch - March 2012 Round up of civil liberty news for March 2012. AGE DISCRIMINATION 39-year-old banned... |
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Complaint made re Immigration NZ's flouting of the Public Records Act No Right Turn has been documenting the way that Immigration NZ has been deliberately refusing to... |
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Search and Surveillance Bill Passes The Search & Surveillance Bill has now been passed into law. NZCCL committee member... |
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Liberty Watch - February 2012 Round-up of civil liberty news for February 2012. CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE Barring... |
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Liberty Watch - January 2012 Round-up of civil liberty news for January 2012. CRIMINAL JUSTICE PM admits changes at... |
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Police defend censorship of website Back in August 2011 we wrote about the New Zealand Police censoring the Greencross site - a... |
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Liberty Watch - Nov/Dec 2011 Round-up of civil liberty news for November and December 2011. There is also our yearly review... |
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Liberty Watch Yearly Review 2011 The past year has seen continuing challenges to the values of privacy, not just from the state,... |
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Liberty Watch - October 2011 Round-up of civil liberty news for October 2011. CRIMINAL JUSTICE Police ‘Smart on... |
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NZCCL Public Lecture and AGM - 6pm, Nov 3rd The New Zealand Council for Civil Liberties will be holding its AGM followed by a public lecture... |
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National Security vs Personal Privacy Cynthia Laberge was the 2008-2009 InternetNZ Senior Research Fellow in Cyberlaw at Victoria... |
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Why are we encouraging the police to break the law? As the agency responsible for upholding the law it is obvious that the police have a duty to... |
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Liberty Watch - September 2011 Round-up of civil liberty news for September 2011. CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE Reporting... |
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Can you photograph or video the police in New Zealand? Tech Liberty confirms that it is legal in New Zealand to photograph or video the police at work... |
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Submission: Video Camera Surveillance Bill 1.0 Introduction The New Zealand Council for Civil Liberties (NZCCL) presents our submission... |
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Wellington protest opposing surveillance law patch-up The group opposing the Search & Surveillance Bill have called for a public protest against the... |
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To Train Up a Child Generally the NZCCL does not advocate censorship. Where possible, we believe, people... |
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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... |
