We're going to have a constitutional review, with these results. But here's some other thoughts on the matter ...
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Ain't the new sound just like the old sound?
The Electoral Finance Act is dead. Long live the Electoral Finance Act.
Read MoreWhat the constitutional review will recommend - you heard it here first!
The Government has announced its review of New Zealand's Constitution. I'm announcing what it will recommend - except about thething that really, really matters.
Read MoreWas I wrong about the CERRA?
The Regulations Review Committee thinks the Government is using the Canterbury Earthquake Response and Recovery Act appropriately. This is good news.
Read MoreThe torturer's horse scratches its innocent behind on a tree
Even though more important things are happening on the Mainland, Parliament is displaying its worst and best qualities this week.
Read MoreYou let your gown to the ground, but I'm not waiting around until the kiss-off
Told you so
That old adage about lovers of sausages and the law? It's true.
Read MoreThe foreshore and seabed - a case study in law and politics, rules and symbols
The new law on the foreshore and seabed is not just about legal rules. Its a symbol, and that's what everyone is fighting about.
Read MoreIt's not discrimination if it happens to them
Te Papa took a beating for suggesting Maori cultural values are a reason to treat genders differently. So what happens when Parliament legislates that Maori must be treated differently?
Read MoreDodging bullets (or is that ballots?)
New Zealand's great voting fraud story looks to have died - for now, anyway.
Read MoreAn open letter to New Zealand's people and their Parliament
Twenty-seven academic experts in constitutional law have a warning about the legislative response to Canterbury's earthquake.
Read MoreCERRA vs. NZBORA - or, when acronyms attack ...
Apparently the Canterbury earthquake emergency legislation is completely consistent with our fundamental rights and freedoms. Or ... is it?
Read MoreHere's my case ... what's yours?
In which the author tries to show why he is right ... so nyah, nyah, nyah.
Read MoreJ'accuse
The National and Act Party members of the Law and Order select committee not only have no regard for basic individual rights, but they want to give William Bell, Graeme Burton and Clayton Weatherston the vote. They are not only moral pygmies, but they are really, really dumb.
Read MoreCanterbury's earthquake is worse than an infestation of zombies ...
In order to rebuild Canterbury after the earthquake, Parliament has given the government legal powers far wider than it would have if ravening undead hoards were to spread through our land.
Read MoreThe law of necessity
To fix up the aftermath of Canterbury's earthquake, Parliament is going to give the Government almost complete control over our laws. That's maybe not such a good idea.
Read MoreLetter from an Auckland courthouse
Either Cameron Slater deserves our pity, or he deserves our contempt as the Peter Bethune of the right.
Read MoreI don't know this law.... It probably exists only in your heads
Don't be fooled - the "court challenge" to NIWA's temperature records is very little to do with the law and a lot to do with getting your attention.
Read MoreYou get mistaken for strangers by your own friends
The latest episode in the unfolding story of Justice Bill Wilson sees our intrepid hero, Sir Edmund (Ted) Thomas, radically reduce the number of Christmas cards he will have to answer this year.
Read MoreThe same law for MPs Bill
A new Bill proposes that incumbents shouldn't be able to use public funding to pay for their election ads. Surely that's cause for celebration?
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