Dr Dean Knight

And back teaching Fitzgerald v Muldoon again today… 🤓

Is this the end of government by Gantt chart?!? 📈

No but that was mentioned last night.

Police Minister Mark Mitchell discusses new move on orders The Police Association is questioning whether officers are the right people to help rough sleepers get the social support they need. Police Minister Mark Mitchell spoke to Corin Dann.

Minister's comments are a complete muddle:
- Police do this work already
- Police don't have powers they need to do this work
- existing crimes deal w anti-social behaviour
- but we don't want it to be a crim justice problem
- but we're adopting new crim justice tools.
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Delighted to launch Sir Geoffrey’s new book on parliamentary privilege tonight at Unity Books.🤓

It also goes without saying that I think officials’ vetting methodology in these situations is often flawed. A fascial vet is insufficient when there is a reasonable likelihood of different application in practice.

In other words, officials tend to conclude that we can rely on the discretion only being used in circumstances and in ways where it is justified, hence etc. Here, I strongly doubt that — and especially worry that the affected people almost certainly won’t be able to obtain necessary aid from
courts.

And Bill of Rights Act vet will be interesting. Mobility rights are clearly implicated, with weak justification esp given lack of efficacy. The broad discretion for officers on the beat will also be especially troubling. Yet, I worry vet will merely recognise this and say s 6 will save the regime.

My heart sinks at the mandating of this harsh and discretionary police power — and one that is ultimately pointless due to a track record of displacement and failure to deal with the underlying causes etc.

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I may have won the riddle competition the other week back… #slicedbread 🤓

My cartoon in @thetimes.com
#unprecedented

Breaching, no. Function — and thus authority — necessarily involves making modal decisions such as this.

Some MPs might wish to check the functions — and thus authority — of the Clerk of the House as set out in the Parliament Act 2025 etc…

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#cmonetc 💛🖤

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Unparliamentary - University of Toronto Press

To continue shameless self-promotion of my book by linking it to current events regardless of whether the connection is warranted...

Sure, Andrew was arrested. But have you heard about the Canadian MP served in Parliament for whipping someone in the face IN PARLIAMENT?

And a goodie — on the motion to set a truncated select committee report back date for the bill abolishing the Ministry for the Environment. 💀

PS Filibuster on the prior item of business! 🍿

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Just pass the damn thing with a super-majority in the House... 😜

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Postgraduate Law courses for Professional Development Trimester 2, 2026 LAWS 543 and LAWS 538 With from right Prof Dean Knight, Dr Marnie Lloydd, and Dr Andrew Butler KC

Upcoming law courses at Victoria University of Wellington that may be of interest, possibly even for nonlawyers!

LAWS 543 and LAWS 538
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And to close, Dr Andrew Butler on Bill of Rights Act developments.

Then Dr Fitzmaurice-Brown on te Tiriti / the Treaty. Great update and convo.

After lunch, we turn to comparative constitutional developments in the Pacific — with a rockstar panel chaired by Vic’s new AVC (Pasifika), Dr Emma Dunlop-Bennett.

Dr Eddie Clark — one our judicial review trainspotters — reviews key developments over the last year.

Our keynote address is from Prof Joanna Mossop on Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Treaty
– implications for Aotearoa New Zealand and the international legal
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