by Trevor Daya-Winterbottom | 10 Aug, 2017
The Resource Legislation Amendment Act 2017 (RLAA) received Royal assent on 18 April 2017. Billed as the largest statutory reform exercise since the Resource Management Amendment Act 1993, arguably the RLAA is the culmination of a series of incremental amendments to...
by Trevor Daya-Winterbottom | 17 Mar, 2017
The opinion pieces from Melissa Scanlan and Sean Hecht [published in RMB Volume 12 Issue 2] provide timely updates on the Juliana litigation in the USA regarding climate change and current and future generations, and the emerging environmental policy direction of the...
by Trevor Daya-Winterbottom | 10 Mar, 2017
The High Court decision in RJ Davidson Family Trust v Marlborough District Council (Cull J)[1] is important as the first decision from the superior courts to apply the King Salmon approach in a resource consent context.[2] The decision (while subject to further...
by Trevor Daya-Winterbottom | 17 Feb, 2017
For public lawyers the press has been dominated by the decision of the UK Supreme Court in R (Miller) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union [2017] UKSC 5. This decision has brought the issue of “judicial constitution-making” sharply into focus.[1] The...
by Trevor Daya-Winterbottom | 29 May, 2014
Sometimes its important to know your worth, and the findings of the most recent Ministry of Education survey of tertiary graduate earnings provides interesting reading: Study finds 62% rise in LLB graduate earnings over 7 years A Ministry of Education study on...
