Download or read book A Simple Nullity written by David V. Williams and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the New Zealand Supreme Court ruled on Wi Parata v the Bishop of Wellington in 1877, the judges infamously dismissed the relevance of the Treaty of Waitangi. During the past 25 years, judges, lawyers, and commentators have castigated this &“simple nullity&” view of the treaty. The infamous case has been seen as symbolic of the neglect of Maori rights by settlers, the government, and New Zealand law. In this book, the Wi Parata case—the protagonists, the origins of the dispute, the years of legal back and forth—is given a fresh look, affording new insights into both Maori-Pakeha relations in the 19th century and the legal position of the treaty. As relevant today as they were at the time of the case ruling, arguments about the place of Indigenous Maori and Pakeha settlers in New Zealand are brought to light.
Download or read book A Simple Nullity written by David V. Williams and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David V. Williams takes a fresh look at the notorious Wi Parata case - the protagonists, the origins of the dispute, the years of legal back and forth - affording new insights into both Maori-Pakeha relations in the nineteenth century and the legal position of the Treaty of Waitangi. In 1877, the New Zealand Supreme Court decided a case, Wi Parata v Bishop of Wellington, that centred on the ownership and use of the Whitireia Block, near Porirua. Ngati Toa had given this land to the Anglican Church for a college that was never built. In the course of refusing to inquire into the ownership of the block, the judges dismissed the relevance of the Treaty of Waitangi: 'So far indeed as that instrument purported to cede the sovereignty - a matter with which we are not directly concerned - it must be regarded as a simple nullity.' Over the past twenty-five years, judges, lawyers and commentators have castigated this 'simple nullity' view of the Treaty. The 'infamous' case has been seen as symbolic of the neglect of Maori rights by settlers, government and the law in New Zealand. The factual background to the Wi Parata case, Williams argues, tells us much about nineteenth-century Maori acting as they thought best for their people and about debates in Pakeha jurisprudence over the recognition or rejection of customary Maori rights. Behind the apparent dismissal of the Treaty as a 'simple nullity' lay deep arguments about the place of Maori and Pakeha in Aotearoa New Zealand. Those arguments are as relevant now as they were then
Download or read book The Grand Experiment written by Hamar Foster and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume reflect the exciting new directions in which legal history in the settler colonies of the British Empire has developed. The contributors show how local life and culture in selected settlements influenced, and was influenced by, the ideology of the rule of law that accompanied the British colonial project. Exploring themes of legal translation, local understandings, judicial biography, and "law at the boundaries," they examine the legal cultures of dominions in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand to provide a contextual and comparative account of the "incomplete implementation of the British constitution" in these colonies.
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Download or read book Pennsylvania State Reports written by Pennsylvania. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Containing cases decided by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania." (varies)
Download or read book Cases Determined in the St Louis and the Kansas City Courts of Appeals of the State of Missouri written by Missouri. Courts of Appeals and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Constitution of New Zealand written by Matthew SR Palmer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-10 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines New Zealand's constitution, through the lens of constitutional realism. It looks at the practices, habits, conventions and norms of constitutional life. It focuses on the structures, processes and culture that govern the exercise of public power – a perspective that is necessary to explore and account for a lived, rather than textual, constitution. New Zealand's constitution is unique. One of three remaining unwritten democratic constitutions in the world, it is characterised by a charming set of anachronistic contrasts. “Unwritten”, but much found in various written sources. Built on a network of Westminster constitutional conventions but generously tailored to local conditions. Proudly independent, yet perhaps a purer Westminster model than its British parent. Flexible and vulnerable, while oddly enduring. It looks to the centralised authority that comes with a strong executive, strict parliamentary sovereignty, and a unitary state. However, its populace insists on egalitarian values and representative democracy, with elections fiercely conducted nowadays under a system of proportional representation. The interests of indigenous Maori are protected largely through democratic majority rule. A reputation for upholding the rule of law, yet few institutional safeguards to ensure compliance.
Download or read book Indigenous Peoples and the State written by Mark Hickford and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2018-07-04 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the globe, there are numerous examples of treaties, compacts, or other negotiated agreements that mediate relationships between Indigenous peoples and states or settler communities. Perhaps the best known of these, New Zealand’s Treaty of Waitangi is a living, and historically rich, illustration of this types of negotiated agreement, and both the symmetries and asymmetries of Indigenous-State relations. This collection refreshes the scholarly and public discourse relating to the Treaty of Waitangi and makes a significant contribution to the international discussion of Indigenous-State relations and reconciliation. The essays in this collection explore the diversity of meanings that have been ascribed to Indigenous-State compacts, such as the Treaty, by different interpretive communities. As such, they enable and illuminate a more dynamic conversation about their meanings and applications, as well as their critical role in processes of reconciliation and transitional justice today.
Download or read book Intercultural Dispute Resolution in Aboriginal Contexts written by Catherine Edith Bell and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a growing interest in alternative dispute resolution (ADR), as scholars and practitioners seek more effective, context-sensitive approaches to conflict. These essays provide a balanced view of ADR, with examples of efforts at dispute resolution involving Inuit and Arctic peoples.
Download or read book The Collected Mathematical Papers of James Joseph Sylvester written by James Joseph Sylvester and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 799 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Collected Mathematical Papers of James Joseph Sylvester Volume 4 1882 1897 written by James Joseph Sylvester and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 799 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1912 book forms the fourth in four volumes of James Joseph Sylvester's mathematical papers, covering 1882 to 1897.
Download or read book Report of Cases Determined by the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia written by West Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Report of cases determined by the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Missouri written by Missouri. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 2010 written by Andrea Bonomi and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-11-14 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current rich volume of the "Yearbook of Private International Law" includes a special section on actual issues on conflict of laws and jurisdictions in the United States. Another special section is devoted to the revision of the Brussels I Regulation, in particular after the recent proposal by the European Commission. National reports and court decisions complete the book. Recent highlights include: the new Chinese Statute on Private International Law the Rome III Regulation on the Law Applicable to Separation and Divorce the recent CJUE decisions on jurisdiction in contractual disputes, in particular in the case of e-commerce the law applicable to the actio pauliana national reports from Egypt, Iran, Israel and Norway
Download or read book Mississippi Reports Being Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of Mississippi written by Mississippi. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
