How's your research and writing going?

Here are some pointers:
Ask for help at the Law Library desk ("office hours" only).
Use the Law Subject Guide as a portal for legal research.
Contact Kate or Carolyn for indepth assistance. We can help with search strategies, literature reviews, Endnote, database searching, primary sources, and more!
Good luck!

Valedictory Speech: Gilmore MP

If you're looking for an interesting and potentially amusing distraction this afternoon, One News will be live streaming Aaron Gilmore's valedictory speech from Parliament.

Have your say in the Constitution Conversation

Sumbissions can now be made by the public, regarding the Constiutional Review.
It's quite important. Have your say.
The Constitution Conversation Submission Process

 If you need some help getting a handle on the issues, there are LOADS of websites engaging in this debate, from both sides of the argument (take time to hear both sides, critically evaluate them).  And remember the podcasts on Radio NZ, which were very interesting.

Right, I'm off to make my submission. Cheers

Cartoons for In the Courts - Juries

From the hallowed pen of Queens Council, The Times

Faculty of Law Podcasts

The Faculty of Law have hosted some interesting visitors over recent years, and now you can listen to or watch  them in the comfort of your own flat / chair in the library / playing field / bus -  you name it.  Many of the seminars are recorded in video and/or audio, and include F.W. Guest Memorial Lectures, Inaugural Professorial Lectures, and Symposia. A recent visitor was Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, speaking on "The Impact of Human Rights on Domestic Courts".
For other great lectures, head to the Faculty of Law Podcasts.

Constitutional Review

Hey all you Public Law-ians!
Have you heard the latest opinions on the Constitional Review? 

Radio NZ National are running  "a five-part series examining aspects of the New Zealand Constitutional Review being carried out by the Government." with moderator, Stephen Price.
You can catch the podcasts of the first 2 here.
Episode 1 had  Professor Claudia Geiringer; Professor Bruce Harris, Dr Carwyn Jones, Dame Claudia Orange, and Dr Matthew Palmer explore the background issues
Episode 2 , Dr Carwyn Jones, Dr Maria Bargh, Colin James, Professor Elizabeth McLeay and Sir Geoffrey Palmer consider the reform of our democratic institutions.

The next two are
Maori Aspirations for Constitutional Change, featuring Tai Ahu, Dr Rawinia Higgins, Veronica Tawhai, and Valmaine Toki; and Human Rights in the Constitution, featuring Sir Jim Bolger, Professor Janet McLean and Michael Mabbit

Standing up to the Clerks

 Some humour for a grey Tuesday!

Standing up to the Clerks

"Who is in charge at a Barrister's Chambers? The barristers or the clerks? Certainly, when I was a pupil, and later a junior barrister – the answer was "the clerks". It certainly wasn't me. On one memorable occasion, presented with a complex brief in an area of law I knew nothing about, for a miserable brief fee – I stood my ground and said – "no more of this please". After two weeks of little or no work I had learned my lesson, and knuckled down to do what I was told without further complaint." By Alex Williams.