Covid-19 and Beyond: Scholarship, analysis and comments on New Zealand developments
Analysis by legal scholars
- Dean Knight, "COVID19 and states of emergency: lockdown bubbles through lawyers of law, discretion and nudges—New Zealand" (7 April 2020) Verfassungsblog
#Lockdown #EmergencyPowers - Andrew Geddis and Claudia Geiringer, "Is New Zealand’s COVID-19 lockdown lawful?" (27 April 2020) UK Const Law Blog
#Legality #Lockdown #NZBillofRights - John Hopkins, "Hansard Transcript Epidemic Response Committee" (2 April 2020) (pages 1-6)
#Lockdown #EmergencyPowers #DisasterManagement - Andrew Geddis, "How politics, police and power work in lockdown New Zealand" (25 March 2020) The Spinoff
#Lockdown #EmergencyPowers #LegalEnforcement - Dean Knight, "What is the Legal Basis for the lockdown" (1 April 2020) Radio New Zealand
#Lockdown #EmergencyPowers - Al Gillespie, "Law and policy during Covid outbreak" (20 March 2020) Radio New Zealand
#Regulation #Accountability - "Law in the time of COVID-19" (April 2020) The New Zealand Law Journal
#Courts #Lawyers - Al Gillespie, "Was Level 4 a disproportionate action?" (16 April 2020) Radio New Zealand
#NZBillofRights #Proportionality #Lockdown #Legality - Claire Charters, "The relevance of te Tiriti o Waitangi in the Covid-19 era" (19 April 2020) Newsroom
#TeTiritioWaitangi #TeaoMāori #EmergencyPowers - Andrew Geddis, "Lockdown has a new legal basis, but does it make the rules any clearer?" (April 5 2020) Spinoff
#RuleofLaw #Lockdown #Legality - Sir Peter Gluckman and Dr Anne Bardsley, "The Future is now Implication of COVID19 for New Zealand" (April 2020) Discussion paper produced by Koi tu - Informed Futures
#EmergencyPowers #Accountability - Cat MacLennon, "‘Flippant’ Bush doing himself no favours" (2 April 2020) Newsroom
#EmergencyPowers #RuleofLaw #Enforcement - Linda Clark, "Hard questions will need to be asked" (20 April 2020) Newsroom
#PublicInquiry #Accountability - Al Gillespie, "Three most important laws in New Zealand right now" (3 April 2020) Radio New Zealand
#Lockdown #LegalOffences #NZBillofRights - John Hopkins, "The rule of law matter even more during an emergency" (31 March 2020) Stuff
#EmergencyPowers #RuleofLaw #DisasterManagement - Graeme Edgeler, "Pandemic preparedness and the New Zealand general election" (15 March 2020) Legal Beagle
#Lockdown #Legality #Election - Alexander Gillespie, "Five ways New Zealanders' lives and liberties will be heavily controlled, even after lockdown eases" (17 April 2020) University of Waikato website
#Lockdown #EmergencyPowers #NZBillofRights - Andrew Geddis, "Come home we still need you" (30 April 2020) Pundit
#EmergencyPowers #NZBillofRights #Immigration - Alistair Scott (Chair) Regulations Review Committee, "Letter to Director-General of Health regarding Notices issued under section 70 of the Health Act 1956" (20 April 2020) Regulations Review Committee
#EmergencyPowers #Legislation #Legality #Lockdown - New Zealand Human Rights Commission, "Human Rights and Te Tiriti o Waitangi: COVID-19 and alert level 4 in Aotearoa New Zealand" (April 2020)
#EmergencyPowers #TeaoMāori #TeTiritioWaitangi #Lockdown - John Hopkins, "Law, luck and legitimacy" (8 May 2020) Stuff
#Lockdown # Legality #Legitimacy #DisasterLaw - Noel Cox, "New Zealand and Covid-19: a swift and firm response" (21 April 2020) The Round Table
#Constitution #Lockdown - Claudia Geiringer, "Was Covid-19 lockdown legal? Professor Claudia Geiringer explains" (6 May 2020) Radio New Zealand
#Lockdown #Legality #EpidemicResponseCommittee - Andrew Ladley, "New Zealand and COVID-19: Parliamentary accountability in times of emergencies" (7 April 2020) Constitution Net
#EmergencyPowers #Accountability - Alexander Gillespie, "As NZ goes into lockdown, authorities have new powers to make sure people obey the rules" (25 March 2020) Waikato University
#Lockdown #Legality #EmergencyPowers - Geoffrey Palmer, "Hallelujah! New Zealand Government works" (10 May 2020) Spinoff
#Democracy #Constitution #RuleofLaw - Max Harris and David V Williams, "Community checkpoints are an important and lawful part of NZ's Covid response" (10 May 2020) Spinoff
#Legality #TeTiritioWaitangi #Checkpoints - Andrew Geddis, "Yes, the courts should scrutinise the lockdown. But Bridges' committee should back off" (7 May 2020) Spinoff
#JudicialReview #Accountability #Lockdown #Legality - Al Gillespie, "Questions raised about the legality of the lockdown" (7 May 2020) Radio New Zealand
#Lockdown #Legality #JudicialReview - Andrew Geddis, "Covid-19: Could the election be postponed?" (17 March 2020) Radio New Zealand
#Election - Andrew Geddis, "The Government is giving new orders. What is the legal basis for them?" (22 March 2020) Spinoff
#Legality #Lockdown - Kerensa Johnston, "Whose land is it anyway?" (19 April 2020) E-Tangata
#Legality #Checkpoints #TeTiritioWaitangi - Alexander Gillespie, "Coronavirus: In an emergency, value counts for more than price" (20 April 2020) Stuff
#EmergencyPowers #Proportionality #Lockdown #Legality - Alexander Gillespie, "As NZ goes into lockdown, authorities have new powers to make sure people obey the rules" (7 April 2020) The Conversation
#Lockdown #Legality #EmergencyPowers - Dean Knight, "The legality of the lockdown" (29 April 2020) Radio New Zealand.
#Lockdown #Legality - Andrew Geddis and Claudia Geiringer, "The legal basis for the lockdown may not be as solid as we've been led to believe" (28 April 2020) Spinoff
#Lockdown # Legality - Andrew Geddis, "Lockdown policing can't work well while there's still confusion over rules" (30 March 2020) Spinoff
#RuleofLaw #Enforcement #Lockdown - Matt Bartlett, "Covid-19 mass surveillance terrifying for the future" (25 April 2020) Newsroom
#Privacy - Kris Gledhill, "A human rights approach to lifting lockdown" (21 April 2020) Newsroom
#Lockdown #HumanRights - Kingslesy Abbott, "Unprecedented lockdown should be carefully monitored" (April 6 2020) Newsroom
#Lockdown #HumanRights #Proportionality - Grant Morris, "Keeping our liberties alive in lockdown" (31 March 2020) Radio New Zealand
#HumanRights #Lockdown - Andrew Geddis, "A Place of Greater Safety?" (30 March 2020) Pundit
#RuleofLaw #Enforcement - Sir Peter Gluckman, "Coronavirus: Democratic innovation provides platform for public trust in midst of crisis" (23 April 2020) Stuff
#Democracy #Accountability - Dean Knight and Geoff McLay, "Is New Zealand's Covid-19 lockdown lawful? An alternative view" (11 May 2020) UK Constitutional Law Blog
#Lockdown #Legality - Nessa Lynch and Yvette Tinsley, "Court adjourned: How the pandemic is delaying justice in criminal cases" (12 May 2020) Spinoff
#Justice #CriminalJustice #Juries - Andrew Geddis, "Where we are no on the lockdown and the law" (11 May 2020) Spinoff
#Lockdown #Legality #JudicialReview
Media articles with comments from legal academics
- Thomas Coughlan (with comments from Andrew Geddis), "Legal challenge over coronavirus lockdown" (6 May 2020) Stuff
#Legality #JudicialReview - Barry Soper (with comments from Andrew Geddis), "Crown Law documents question legal force of level 4 rules" (7 May 2020) New Zealand Herald
#Lockdown #Legality #Enforcement - Jeneé Tibshraeny, "Law professor and economist flag concerns over cabinet excusing government departments from providing regulatory impact assessments on COVID-19 politics until August 31" (5 May 2020) Interest
#Accountability