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The Landfall Tauraka Review

The Landfall Tauraka Review: Aotearoa New Zealand books in review

The Chasm Between Tikanga and British Criminal Law

1 December 2024 Leave a Comment

Philip Temple on Fragile Foundations: The application of English criminal law to crimes committed in Aotearoa New Zealand between 1826 and 1907 by David Collins

Filed Under: history, law

Parade of Humanity

1 February 2023 Leave a Comment

Helen Watson White on To Be Fair: Confessions of a District Court Judge by Rosemary Riddell

Filed Under: law, memoir

The Slow Wheels of Justice 

1 October 2020 Leave a Comment

Gerry Te Kapa Coates on Justice & Race by Oliver Sutherland

Filed Under: history, law, maori and pacific, politics

Tuku Whenua

1 October 2012 Leave a Comment

Richard Reeve A Simple Nullity: The Wi Parata Case in New Zealand Law and History, by David V. Williams (Auckland University Press, 2011), 288 pp., $49.99.   Grossly misunderstood in both its legal context and factual matrix, Wi Parata v The Bishop of Wellington (1877) is the single most infamous case in New Zealand legal […]

Filed Under: history, law, maori and pacific

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