Public and Administrative Law

• Butterworths Questions and Answers: Public Law, Second Edition
• Butterworths Student Companion: Public Law, Fourth Edition
• Casenotes of the Ombudsmen - 11th Compendium
• Electoral Law in New Zealand: Practice and Policy
• Judicial
  • Judicial Review & Supplement
  • Judicial Review: Supplement
• The New Zealand Bill of Rights Act: A Commentary
• Public Interest Litigation

Butterworths Questions and Answers: Public Law, Second Edition

Title: Butterworths Questions and Answers: Public Law, Second Edition Author/s: Nicholas Wood ISBN: 9780408718042 Price: $51.93 excl. GST and Freight & Handling

Brief Synopsis: Butterworths Questions and Answers: Public Law, Second Edition, enables students of public law to consolidate their understanding of public law by guiding students through a variety of problems, essays, and questions. The questions help students to build upon their existing knowledge and identify more complex issues. A suggested solution is provided for each question. Common pitfalls and key issues are also identified.
Publishing Date: 15/03/2006
Format: Soft cover
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Butterworths Student Companion: Public Law, Fourth Edition

Title: Butterworths Student Companion: Public Law, Fourth Edition Author/s: Simon Dorset ISBN: 9780408718332 Price: $42.32 excl. GST and Freight & Handling

Brief Synopsis: The fourth edition of Butterworths Student Companion: Public Law contains summaries of the leading New Zealand and international decisions which have shaped this area of law. This fourth edition adds a further 18 cases. This is an invaluable tool for students, designed to be used in conjunction with lecture notes and existing text materials.
Publishing Date: 24/03/2006
Format: Soft cover
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Casenotes of the Ombudsmen - 11th Compendium

Title: Casenotes of the Ombudsman - 11th Compendium Compiled by: The Office of the Ombudsman ISBN: 9780408715324 Price: $42.32 excl. GST and Freight & Handling

Brief Synopsis: Published commercially for the first time, this edition comprises case notes of investigation under the Ombudsmen Act 1975, Official Information Act 1982 and Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987. It covers the period from July 1992 to December 1997.
Publishing Date: 01/06/1998
Format: Hard Bound
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Electoral Law in New Zealand: Practice and Policy

Title: Electoral Law in New Zealand: Practice and Policy Author/s: Andrew Geddis ISBN: 9780408718363 Price: $116.16 excl. GST and Freight & Handling

Brief Synopsis:Electoral Law in New Zealand: Practice and Policy provides a close examination of the legal rules and regulations that govern New Zealand’s electoral process from the calling of a general parliamentary election through to the resolution of disputes over its outcome. As such, Andrew Geddis describes the current law regulating parliamentary elections with an exploration of the deeper policy issues behind New Zealand’s decision to adopt these legal rules. An exceptional resource for all political scientists and lawyers, as well as for all public law students.
Issues examined include:

• New Zealand’s system of Mixed-Member Proportional (MMP) voting and some of its consequences for the nation’s governing processes;
• The election timetable (when one must be held and the order of events in the election process);
• Differing participatory rights at election time;
• The qualifications needed to become a voter, a candidate, and a registered political party;
• How boundaries between electoral districts are drawn;
• The issue of the dedicated parliamentary seats for voters of Maori descent;
• Election campaigning and the legal rules that regulate how electoral participants may act during this campaign period;
• General legal controls on election-time behaviour and activities;
• The particular issue of the funding of electoral participants’ campaigns;
• Regulation of the use of the broadcast media for electioneering purposes;
• The process of casting and counting the ballots, including the regulation of the polling process, the process of counting votes, and the process of declaring electoral votes;
• The role and adequacy of New Zealand’s various electoral agencies;
• The position of the Courts as settlers of electoral disputes;

Finally, Parliament’s position as the final decision maker on issues of electoral law is explained.
Publishing Date: 08/02/2007
Format: Soft cover
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Judicial Review & Supplement

Title: Judicial Review & Supplement Author/s: Graham Taylor ISBN:  Price: $167.08 excl. GST and Freight & Handling

Brief Synopsis: This is a concise and practical text which serves as an overview of judicial review as one aspect of administrative law. It covers the supervision of public and certain private authorities by the High Court and Court of Appeal in New Zealand by way of the modern successors of the common law prerogative writs. The book includes case notes on every New Zealand Court of Appeal or High Court case of relevance decided in the last ten years, as well as reference to every relevant English and Australian judgment or judicial review since 1975.
This text provides concise information of practical use to anyone with an interest in this aspect of administrative law. Emphasis is on the decisions in each case and the principle applied.
Publishing Date: 01/09/2000

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Judicial Review: Supplement

Title: Judicial Review: Supplement Author/s: Graham Taylor ISBN: 9780408714013 Price: $47.41 excl. GST and Freight & Handling

Brief Synopsis: This is a concise and practical text which serves as an overview of judicial review as one aspect of administrative law. It covers the supervision of public and certain private authorities by the High Court and Court of Appeal in New Zealand by way of the modern successors of the common law prerogative writs. The book includes case notes on every New Zealand Court of Appeal or High Court case of relevance decided in the last ten years, as well as reference to every relevant English and Australian judgment or judicial review since 1975.
This text provides concise information of practical use to anyone with an interest in this aspect of administrative law. Emphasis is on the decisions in each case and the principle applied.
Publishing Date: 10/10/1997
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The New Zealand Bill of Rights Act: A Commentary

Title: The New Zealand Bill of Rights Act: A Commentary Author/s: Andrew Butler and Petra Butler ISBN: 9780408716390 Price: $189.66 excl. GST and Freight & Handling

Brief Synopsis: The New Zealand Bill of Rights Act: a Commentary is the authoritative text on the law relating to the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990. Written in a lively style, the commentary contains a detailed analysis of this short, but important piece of constitutional legislation. To make it as accessible to readers as possible each chapter of the book follows a pattern of outlining similar provisions in comparable human rights systems (domestic and international), discussing the purposes of each right or provision in issue, engaging in a detailed examination of the meaning of the text of each provision, examining the extent to which justified limits can be placed on guaranteed rights and freedoms, and concluding by considering issues related to remedies where relevant.
The book reflects the authors’ many years of combined experience in human rights law as both practitioners and academics. Comparative analysis is a strong feature of the commentary. Throughout, the authors evaluate and critique New Zealand and overseas decisions and offer their own views as to how Bill of Rights law should develop in the future. It’s accessible style, its strong description and analysis of New Zealand case law, and it’s suggestions as to future developments mean that the commentary will appeal to practitioners, Judges, academics, law students and policy advisors.
About the Authors:

• Andrew Butler
  BCL (NUI, Dub), LLM (Osgoode),
  PhD (EUI, Florence),
  Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand,
  Solicitor (England).
  Andrew Butler is a lawyer at Russell McVeagh, Wellington. Before joining Russell McVeagh he was Crown Counsel in the Human Rights Team at the Crown Law Office, where he appeared for the Crown in numerous high-profile human rights cases, including the Zaoui litigation, cases concerning the lawfulness of Special Education 2000, and the detention of refugee status claimants post 9/11. He has written widely in New Zealand and overseas on human rights and constitutional law issues. Between 1991 and 1999 Andrew Butler lectured at the Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington.
  
• Petra Butler
  LLM (VUW), PhD (Georg-August University),
  Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand,
  Solicitor (Germany).
  Petra Butler is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington. Before joining Victoria University of Wellington in 2000 she worked in the Bill of Rights, Human Rights team of the Ministry of Justice. Her research and teaching interests relate to international, domestic, and comparative human rights law. Formerly a Judge’s clerk at the South African Constitutional Court, a researcher at the Hochschule fuer Oeffentliche Verwaltung in Speyer, Germany and the Georg-August University in Goettingen, Petra Butler was a Holgate Fellow at Grey College, Durham in 2004. Petra Butler was part of the New Zealand delegation to the United Nations’ Human Rights Committee (2002) and International Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (2003) and is a member of the National Advisory Council to the Human Rights Commission on the National Plan of Action for Human Rights.
  

Publishing Date: 25/01/2006
Format: Soft cover
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Public Interest Litigation

Title: Public Interest Litigation Author/s: Professor Jack Greenberg; Professor Paul McHugh; Michael Bassett MP; Professor Robert Nagel; Professor Mike Taggart; Grant Illingworth QC; Professor Rhonda Evans Case; Professor Paul Rishworth; Professor Carol Harlow; Professor John Smillie; Professor Philip Joseph; and Claudia Geiringer. Editor: Professor Rick Bigwood ISBN: 9780408718165 Price: $148.17 excl. GST and Freight & Handling

Brief Synopsis: This title is the third in a series of recent titles produced by LexisNexis of conference proceedings held by the Legal Research Foundation, New Zealand’s foremost independent legal research body, examining the changing underpinnings of legal method.
What is the role of the Courts in influencing or changing social policy? These essays from a successful Legal Research Foundation conference held in August 2005 examine the way in which individuals and groups resort to litigation, whether in the Courts or in tribunals, for the recognition of legal rights and the enforcement of public legal obligations. Public Interest Litigation provides a resource for analysing current trends in New Zealand law and the continuing need for the recognition and application of international law standards in the light of the experience of other common law jurisdictions. Although argued and decided in the context of a constitutional apparatus, there is no reason to doubt that in New Zealand as elsewhere the Courts will increasingly be drawn into the determination of issues that in times past were regarded as “out of bounds”. For those wishing to expand the area of public interest litigation in New Zealand, this book provides fertile soil for their endeavours.
Publishing Date: 02/05/2006
Format: Soft cover

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