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4 years

Hardcases make bad law.

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On a teleconference. Judge: Your submissions are outstanding. Me: Aww thank you. Judge: No, I mean they were due three days ago and you still haven't filed them.

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British dissenting judgments: I regret I am unable to agree with the reasons presented so compellingly by the other members of the Court. American dissenting judgments: You’re not gonna believe the bullshit these fuckers wrote at paragraph 45.

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Googling that Hera Lindsay Bird tweet just to get it ready.

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“I’m the Solicitor-General, not the Solicitor-Specific.” - what I will say as Solicitor-General when asked a difficult question by the bench

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Amazing!

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How much did Auckland Transport pay for its new slogan?

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I've been to Palmerston North. It's not a location of interest.

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People say Solicitor-General is the best legal job in the country but those people have never had to argue with Warehouse Stationery for a refund on 150,000 letterheads misprinted as "Clown Law Office".

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5 years

A line in the sand.

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More than $3 million of cocaine has been found washed up on Bethells Beach in West Auckland.

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Public law: sometimes sovereign citizens make these strange arguments Private law: hold my beer Epic Trust Ltd v Ruscoe [2024] NZHC 21

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It’s times like this I’m glad I wrote my instructional booklet for NZ school principals: So You’ve Decided To Spend A Tenth Of Your School’s Annual Operational Budget Defending A Judicial Review About Facial Hair.

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Simply amazing article but the best part is Khylee Quince absolutely annihilating all mooters.

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The glitz and jet-setting glamour of Corallee Collins-Annan's online life includes claims of a commissioned autobiography and a Netflix doco.

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Yes I have argued in front of the Supreme Court.* *Had a row with someone on Lambton Quay.

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From the judiciary media briefing transcript. @EdwardGay

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1. Law school 2. Law firm 3. The bar 4. Public service

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I have a great joke about injunctions but I'm not allowed to tell it.

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Now Stuart Nash will never find out how the Cabinet Manual ends.

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“Sorry, sir, this is the Court of Appeal. The High Court jury pool is just down the road.”

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Russell McVeagh to ban unvaccinated, those with less than $5m net worth, from offices.

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Tell me you learned nothing, constitutionally speaking, from three strikes without telling me you learned nothing, constitutionally speaking, from three strikes.

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It’s probably because it’s Friday and I’m exhausted but this is an oddly affecting reminder to be kind. Have a nice weekend.

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Best decision of 2024 and we’re only in March.

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VUW Law School is the largest wooden structure in the Southern Hemisphere and so is its building.

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Having a High Court bench made up from people of all backgrounds is important. They bring their own life experiences to the important business of judging. Like here, where Campbell J knows that it's possible to buy several ounces of cocaine in a few hours.

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The main reason we don’t acronymise the Supreme Court of New Zealand to SCONZ is that no one would be able to agree if it should be pronounced like scones or like scones.

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Stock photo of Russell McVeagh office just pleased to be used in a story that isn't bad news for once.

No jabs no entry at Russell McVeagh

Law firm will not permit clients or staff on to the premises if they are not double-vaccinated.

www.stuff.co.nz

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1 year

Ah yes, the two types of lawyers.

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2 years

Some people think the law in this country is what Parliament says it is. Others think the law is what the Supreme Court says Parliament says it is. But, really, the law is what the Court of Appeal says the Supreme Court says Parliament says it is.

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Make It 16: 16 is right. The Crown: 18 is not wrong. The Court: 18 is not right. Kós J: The year was 1956 and Jack Marshall was Attorney-General. The Rt Hon Walter Nash MP stood to address the House and, in the first of 20 excerpts of Hansard I will be quoting, said this:

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There is only one man with the experience necessary to step up.

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We have this. It’s called an appeal.

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Great typo in this review of Chris Finlayson's memoir. Presumably the Sympathy Orchestra has the country's smallest violins.

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3 years

Family trust.

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Natasha Bedingfield’s “Unwritten” is mostly about constitutional conventions.

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Actually it’s only called a Bill when Parliament considers it under urgency. Otherwise it’s called a William.

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Go to the bench, they said. You'll enjoy it, they said.

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Much more talented wife: Do you remember when our wedding anniversary is? Me, confidently: Sure, it’s 17 April. Much more talented wife: What’s today’s date? … I may have been snookered here.

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Fantastic diversity in Parliament this term - you’ve got corporate lawyers, litigation lawyers, criminal lawyers, employment lawyers, in-house lawyers.

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Is "legel counsel" a typo or a bit?

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Was told today, completely innocently, that it sounds like me and the person who runs Strictly Obiter would really get along.

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My tip for becoming a prominent or high profile lawyer is to get in trouble. No matter who you are, if you get in trouble, the Herald and Stuff will describe you as prominent or high profile.

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I spoke on a panel about litigation at Auckland Law School tonight, and didn’t get to use all of my talking points. So please feel free to read the first in an occasional series of “tweets that feel like they should be a LinkedIn post”.

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Me, a judge, concluding a lengthy judgment: Well that’s how I see this bitter dispute between two intractable parties consumed by years of caustic litigation at massive expense. I trust they will be able to agree costs.

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Every statement of claim written by counsel in the United States reads like it is written by a vexatious litigant from NZ.

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When entering appearances, counsel should also state which high school they went to.

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The Chief Justice has announced today that the Supreme Court will sit in Christchurch from 11 -12 March 2024. This will be the fourth time that New Zealand’s highest court has sat outside its Wellington home base.

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I know I go on and on about NZ Lawyer magazine being a weird astroturfed legal periodical that isn't really anything to do with NZ, but they used a photo of hurricane damage from Florida and misspelled Whangārei.

Auckland, Wharangei High Courts respond to Cyclone Gabrielle

Trials are temporarily adjourned and a local framework has been put in force

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My favourite feature of law firm websites is a blog that only has two posts from 2015.

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Congratulations to these lawyers and also I am very concerned about how their library is organised.

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If this mock trial for genocide/treason/aggravated Jacindaism seems difficult to follow you have to remember that actually a lot of the heavy lifting will have been done in written submissions.

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A good gag from Wild J on his retirement.

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Rare instance of the High Court interfering with a Cabinet decision.

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Quick reminder that we don’t have “the vibe” in New Zealand, we have “the whole shebang”.

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What do you mean you aren’t a fan of judicial review of the royal prerogative? I thought you said you like piña coladas and getting court in the reign?

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Vicki McCall

The great man theory might be on the run in history but it flourishes still in the law where judges and silks are heroes and villains (or villains and heroes). In a world of Power Lists and Lawyers…

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Much more talented fiancée is now much more talented wife and the reason we’re meant to be together is she just called 11.12am “two units past eleven”.

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Had a nice hearing today on a complicated but cool point of law and the other side was really smart and the judge was all across it and it was just really good and sometimes being a lawyer and getting to be a part of figuring out these difficult problems is really fulfilling.

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They advertised pizza but it turns out it’s Five Guys.

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I mean no criticism of the individuals on this panel, but as a profession we need to do better.

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I won’t stop until they will.

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Every day tests my resolution not to tweet.

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4 years

Been reviewing my fallback options for if I become unemployed as a result of the lockdown and so far all I’ve got is vexatious litigant in person.

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Pretty sure it’s in favour.

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Human rights lawyer for the UAE government has strong “Swiss maritime lawyer” vibes.

National announces Wellington Central candidate

Scott Sheeran has joined the race for hotly contested seat, which has new candidates from the big three parties this election.

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A Mr Withers files proceedings against a company called 2004 Holdings Ltd. The company changes its name.

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The new Supreme Court logo is a kauri cone. But there are two types of kauri cone: male and female. For its logo, the Court uses the female kauri cone. And I like that someone, somewhere made that choice.

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(1) Minister of Justice Kiri Allan’s speech to the Criminal Bar Association, 6 August 2022. (2) Today.

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We'll see if they publish this.

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Stuart Nash is right. We need some system so that if the Crown thinks a court got a decision wrong it can bring a challenge and have it overturned.

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Sacked minister Stuart Nash wants more accountability for judges as he exits politics

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“Yes, hello, Registry? Is there a duty judge available for an urgent injunction?”

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The New Zealand Law Society has determined that my tweets and posts count as negative continuing professional development. Any time you have spent reading things I have written must be deducted from your CPD total this year.

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Hey! Look at this new bilingual formatting in Harvey J's judgment.

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Hiding behind the Sentencing Act lol. The problem with judicial activists is that they apply legislation too much.

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fascinating listening with Luxon on ZB this morning - hints at further public service cuts - possible axe for police commissioner - no clarity on chinese infrastructure funding - agrees judges hiding behind sentencing act - likens his nats turnaround job to david cameron in UK

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Cookie J

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Good morning, I think you should read this decision for its writing.

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Privacy please.

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19th century jurisprudence was conducted by AV Dicey. 21st century jurisprudence is conducted by dicey AV.

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Meanwhile I’ve been leaking the draft of the Supreme Court’s decision in Frucor Suntory New Zealand Limited v Commissioner of Inland Revenue for the last three weeks and literally nobody is interested.

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Corporate legal personality was invented by corporate lawyers to better understand what a personality was and how they might acquire one.

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Welcome to the Courts of New Zealand website. Here you can find information about courts. But not the District Court. Or the Environment Court. The Employment Court. The Coroners Court. The Court Martial. Any Tribunal. We really just do courts where the judges wear the nice robes

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People often ask me can you go to court with a light grey suit and not do up your jacket button and I always say it depends on whether or not you’re the Attorney-General.

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Ministry of Justice unveils new $120 payment for duty lawyers if they plant evidence during first appearance.

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Bad news for the applicants in the 2022 silk round: none of you will be Queen’s Counsel.

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Trying to come up with a bit that’s funnier than “I uncontrollably doubt Chapman Tripp’s advice because they have pronouns in their email signature”.

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Interesting. I wonder if anyone has properly researched the (probably subconscious) credibility effect of seeing pronouns in a signature block or bio. I know I automatically suspect the writer is probably timid and unlikely to be reliably authoritative. I’ve even found it has

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Help, the courts and tribunals of New Zealand are sassing me back.

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Strictly Obiter Law Awards 2021

It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of foolishness, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the seas…

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“The cover’s great. It’s environment, it’s art. Just one thing, can you whack a koala on it too?”

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Crown Law, under a sustained hail of bullets, deploying fine constitutional distinctions to only just get the summons quashed: It’s not the Minister deciding to pursue repeal of s 7AA, it’s Cabinet, so leave the Minister alone. The ACT Party: Karen! Karen! Karen!

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BREAKING: Karen Chhour wins in the High Court against the Waitangi Tribunal. Karen, as Children’s Minister, is repealing section 7AA so Oranga Tamariki’s whole focus is on the wellbeing of children, not their race.

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Sad to report that Buzzfeed has rejected my We Know Which Sitting Judge You Are Based On What You Were Like At High School quiz.

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That's as many as three sets.

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Five large corporate law firms that all put forward white dude partners deeply disappointed to learn that proposed panel contained five white dude partners.