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Certification and Regulation of Trade in Biofuels

Thomson, Vivien (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

The recent increase in biofuel production and trade has raised concerns about environmental and other impacts, and has prompted some governments to initiate measures to ensure biofuels are produced sustainably. Certification ...
CISG Through the Willem C Vis Moot casebook: Seventeen Years of the CISG Evolution Explored Through Annual Global Discussion

Baide, Ana Barbara (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)

This paper explores the evolution of the United Nations Convention on the International Sale of Goods (referred to throughout the text as the "CISG" or the "Convention") jurisprudence through the Willem C Vis Moot ("Vis ...
The Citizen and the Automated State: Exploring the Implications of Algorithmic Decision-making in the New Zealand Public Sector

Smith, David (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Algorithms increasingly influence how the state treats its citizens. This thesis examines how the New Zealand public sector’s use of algorithms in decision-making brings benefits, but also invites risks of discrimination, ...
Civil Liability of the Police Service under the Tort of Negligence: A Comparison between England, New Zealand and Switzerland

Hulmann, Daniel (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

This paper analyses the liability of the police service under the tort of negligence in England and New Zealand as well as the public law liability of police officers in Switzerland, specifically in the canton of Zurich. ...
Claims Made Insurance Policies in New Zealand and Australia: Should New Zealand Enact a Statutory Deeming Regime?

Bourne, Stephen Grant (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

A claims made policy protects an insured person or business in relation to claims made against that person or business during the policy period, regardless of when the cause of loss occurred, and regardless of when the ...
Colonisation and Aboriginal Land Tenure: Taiwan during the Qing Period (1684-1895) and the Japanese Period (1895-1945)

Ye, Ruiping (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

This thesis is concerned with the land rights of the aboriginal peoples of Taiwan. It explores how under the Qing (1684-1895) and Japanese (1895-1945) regimes, laws and policies regarding aboriginal land in Taiwan resulted ...
The co-management of the Te Arawa Lakes

Harper-Hinton, Julia Kahu (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

The restoration of indigenous rights to and interests in their traditional natural resources needs to be accompanied by practical ways in which indigenous values in relation to a resource can be met. Co-management or ...
A Constitution for Aotearoa in the context of Parliamentary Sovereignty

Zerbst, Jannik (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

This dissertation argues that human rights and constitutional amendment provisions should be entrenched eternally in the course of adopting a formal constitution in New Zealand. This would prevent abuses of powers within ...
Construction Safety Law

Cornish, James William (Victoria University of Wellington, 1979)

The development of industrial safety law in Britain and New Zealand and the origins of construction, safety law are outlined in Part I. The administration and interpretation of the Construction Act 1959 are described in ...
Copyright law and the freedom of panorama: The right to commercialise photographs of protected works

Sudharto, Alifia Qonita (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

Making an unauthorised copy of a copyright-protected work is a copyright infringement, as is making an adaptation or a derivative work without gaining prior consent from the author or authors of the copyright-protected ...
Crown Liability in Tort in New Zealand

Neazor, Daniel Paul (Victoria University of Wellington, 1967)

Direct review by the Courts (e. g . by prerogative writs) of Executive acts and decisions generally provides the individual citizen with a means of overcoming for the future the adverse effects of such decisions and actions, ...
Ctrl + Alt + Delete? Challenges to New Zealand censorship law in the internet age

Kirkconnell-Kawana, Lexie (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

This thesis examines the adequacy of the Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993 as it applies to expression on the Internet. Weaknesses and inadequacies of the statute are identified and contextualised as ...
Cultural Relativity, Human Rights and the International Regulation of Broadcasting

Jack, Andrew Robert (Victoria University of Wellington, 1992)

When a broadcaster broadcasts directly to people living in another state disputes can arise. The audience may find the programmes offensive. The programmes may foment disorder and rebellion and corrupt the values and ...
Differential safety liability of road and rail

King, Murray Alexander (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

Rail safety is closely controlled, but there is less supervision of the actual road, its construction and condition. Safety is the responsibility of the road user, not the provider. This is a feature of the common law, ...
Dispute settlement under the United Nations Convention On the Law of the Sea and Its Role in Oceans Governance

Chakraborty, Anshuman (Victoria University of Wellington, 2006)

This thesis is about the dispute settlement provisions of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (LOSC or Convention), and the potential and actual role that they play in oceans governance. The study ...
Documentary reality television's privacy problem

Newman, Kent (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Documentary reality television is hugely successful. The genre, which includes shows like Police Ten 7, Coastwatch and Border Patrol, consistently outperforms other television formats and fills free-to-air television ...
Domain Name Disputes: Is Private Dispute Resolution Working?

Liddicoat, Joy Jennifer (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

InternetNZ has responsibility for management of the .nz domain name space. This dissertation examines InternetNZ's development and implementation of the Dispute Resolution Service Policy (the DRS). The DRS, which is being ...
The door behind the bamboo curtain - Chinese law and policy on refugee status

Song, Lili (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

This thesis systematically considers the law and policy on refugee status in the People’s Republic of China. It considers relevant Chinese legal provisions, applicable bilateral and multinational treaties, as well as China’s ...
Electricity Market reforms in New Zealand and Germany: A Comparative Study of the History, Development and Future of These Both Countries' Markets with a Special Focus on the Approach to Renewable energy

Holder, Florian (Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)

This dissertation will show why Germany is overall on a better way to deliver secure and sustainable electricity to its population at the moment. Though, New Zealand had the better starting point, it missed important steps ...
The Environmental Regulation of Marine Carbon Capture and Storage in New Zealand: Principles, Barriers and Gaps

Severinsen, Gregory (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

This thesis concerns the regulation of a technology called carbon capture and storage (CCS). The technology is one way to mitigate anthropogenic climate change, by capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions at point sources ...