LAW 211 Public Law 2012

Volume Two
Table of Contents

V. The New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990

a) Interpreting and Applying the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990
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The New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 ................................................................................................................................................ 1

Hansen v R [2007] NZSC 7, [2007] 3 NZLR 1 ......................................................................................................................................... 3
Flickinger v Crown Colony of Hong Kong [1991] 1 NZLR 439 (CA) ........................................................................................................... 32
Drew v Attorney-General [2002] 1 NZLR 58 (CA) .................................................................................................................................. 33

b) The Right to Political Protest

i) Pre New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990
1) Melser v Police [1967] NZLR 437 (CA) ................................................................................................................................................. 44
2) Wainwright v Police [1968] NZLR 101 (HC) .......................................................................................................................................... 47

ii) Post New Zealand Bill of Rights Act

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Police v Beggs [1999] 3 NZLR 615 (HC) ............................................................................................................................................... 48

Hopkinson v Police [2004] 3 NZLR 704 (HC) ......................................................................................................................................... 56
Brooker v Police [2007] NZSC 30, [2007] 3 NZLR 91 (SC) ..................................................................................................................... 63
Morse v Police [2011] NZSC 45, (2011) 25 CRNZ 174............................................................................................................................ 73

c) Freedom from Discrimination

1) Human Rights Act 1993, ss 20I-L, 21(1)-(2), 92J, 92K........................................................................................................................... 91
2) Northern Regional Health Authority v Human Rights Commission [1998] 2 NZLR 218 (HC) ......................................................................... 95
3) Law v Canada (Minister of Employment and Immigration) [1999] 1 SCR 457 ...........................................................................................106

4) Quilter v Attorney-General [1998] 1 NZLR 523 (CA) .............................................................................................................................121

VI. Administrative Law ...........................................................................................................................................................................127

a) Judicial Review
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Daganayasi v Minister of Immigration [1980] 2 NZLR 130 (CA) ..............................................................................................................128

Fiordland Venison Ltd v Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries [1978] 2 NZLR 341 (CA) ...............................................................................137
Wahrlich v Bate [1990] 3 NZLR 97 (HC)..............................................................................................................................................143
Minister for Aboriginal Affairs v Peko-Wallsend Ltd (1986) 66 ALR 299 ....................................................................................................145
Tavita v Minister of Immigration [1994] 2 NZLR 257 (CA) .....................................................................................................................147
Puliuvea v Removal Review Authority (1996) 14 FRNZ 322 (CA) ............................................................................................................151
Ye v Minister of Immigration [2009] NZSC 76, [2010] 1 NZLR 104 .........................................................................................................157
Immigration Act 2009, ss 177 and 207 ...............................................................................................................................................161
Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd v Wednesbury Corporation [1948] 1 KB 223 (CA) ........................................................................162

VII. Te Tiriti o Waitangi/Treaty of Waitangi and Indigenous Rights in Common Law........................................................................167

a) The Treaty of Waitangi
1) The Declaration of Independence 1835 (Maori text) ..............................................................................................................................168
2) The Declaration of Independence 1835 (English text) ...........................................................................................................................168
3) Lord Normanby Instructions from the Secretary of State for War and Colonies to Captain Hobson, 14 August 1839 in David W McIntyre (ed)
Speeches and Documents on New Zealand History (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1971) at 10-17 ........................................................................169
4) The Treaty of Waitangi (English Text)..................................................................................................................................................173
5) Te Tiriti o Waitangi (Maori Text) .........................................................................................................................................................173
6) I H Kawharu Literal Translation of Maori text and A Reconstruction of Maori text in Michael Belgrave, Merata Kawharu and David Williams (eds)
Waitangi Revisited: Perspectives on the Treaty of Waitangi (Oxford University Press, Auckland, 2005) 390 at 390-393......................................174
7) R v Symonds (1847) NZPCC 387 (SC) ................................................................................................................................................175
8) Wi Parata v Bishop of Wellington (1877) 3 NZ Jur (NS) SC 72 at 72, 73 and 76-80 ...................................................................................181
9) Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975, ss 1-8 ....................................................................................................................................................184
10) Waitangi Tribunal Manukau Report (Wai 8, 1986) ...............................................................................................................................189
11) Waitangi Tribunal Muriwhenua Report (Wai 45, 1997) .........................................................................................................................194
12) Waitangi Tribunal Te Ika Whenua Rivers Report (Wai 212, 1998) ..........................................................................................................197
13) State Owned Enterprises Act 1986, ss 9 and 23 .................................................................................................................................201
14) New Zealand Maori Council v Attorney-General [1987] 1 NZLR 641 (CA) [Lands case].............................................................................204
15) New Zealand Maori Council v Attorney-General [1994] 1 NZLR 513 (PC) [Broadcasting Assets case] .........................................................221

16) Resource Management Act 1991, Part II, ss 5-8 .................................................................................................................................226

17) Ngai Tahu Maori Trust Board v Director-General of Conservation [1995] 3 NZLR 553 (CA) .......................................................................227

b) Customary or Aboriginal Rights

1) Te Runanga o Wharekauri Rekohu Inc v Attorney-General [1993] 2 NZLR 301 (CA) ..................................................................................231
2) Views of the Human Rights Committee under Article 5, Paragraph 4, of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights, Communication No 547/1993 ..........................................................................................................................................242
3) Ngati Apa v Attorney-General [2003] 3 NZLR 643 (CA) .........................................................................................................................248
4) Foreshore and Seabed Act 2004 (extracts) ..........................................................................................................................................258
5) Waitangi Tribunal Report on the Crowns Foreshore and Seabed Policy (Wai 1071, 2004) <www.waitangitribunal.govt.nz> ............................263
6) Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination Decision on Foreshore and Seabed Act 2004 (11 March 2005) <http://www.converge.org.nz/
pma/fs110305.htm> ............................................................................................................................................................................265
7) Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Act 2011, Preamble, ss 4-6 and s 11 ........................................................................................266
8) United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples GA Res 61/295, 62 sess (2007).................................................................268

Public Law Opinion and Tutorial Programme (continued)....................................................................................................................274

(The Public Law Opinion will also be the problem for discussion at Tutorial 7)
Public Law Opinion 2012 .......................................................................................................................................................................274
Tutorial 5 ............................................................................................................................................................................................278
Tutorial 6 ............................................................................................................................................................................................280
Tutorial 7 ............................................................................................................................................................................................281
Tutorial 8 ............................................................................................................................................................................................282

Appendix: Previous Exams ....................................................................................................................................................................283

1) Public Law 2010 examination ............................................................................................................................................................284

2) Public Law 2011 examination ............................................................................................................................................................288