Below are some areas of law that people have suggested for review in recent years.
Tell us your ideas about law that you think needs to be changed, simplified or modernised.
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Topic |
Year recommended |
Recommender type |
Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accident compensation legislation | 2022-2023 | Legal profession | |
| Accident compensation legislation | 2021-2022 | Legal profession | |
| Accident compensation legislation | 2020-2021 | Legal profession | Referred to the Minister 2021 |
| Adoption | 2019-2020 | Legal profession | • Ministry of Justice review underway - proposals due 2023. • Adoption of surrogate-born children considered in the Commission's Review of Surrogacy project, completed 2022 |
| Anti-corruption Commission | 2022-2023 | Private Sector / NGO | |
| Arbitration Act 1996 | 2022-2023 | Legal profession | |
| Arbitration Act 1996 | 2021-2022 | Te Aka Matua o te Ture | Law Commission | |
| Artificial intelligence | 2020-2021 | Te Aka Matua o te Ture | Law Commission | Research pending. Preliminary research undertaken; futher research pending |
| Artificial intelligence | 2020-2021 | Academic | Research pending. Preliminary research undertaken; futher research pending |
| Artificial intelligence - large language methods | 2022-2023 | Individual | Research pending. Preliminary research undertaken; futher research pending |
| Birth registration | 2021-2022 | Te Aka Matua o te Ture | Law Commission | |
| Charities | 2022-2023 | Legal profession | Assessed - not proposed and not supported for work programme. |
| Charities | 2021-2022 | Legal profession | |
| Charities | 2021-2022 | Legal profession | |
| Charities | 2020-2021 | Legal profession | Provided comment to the Minister 2021 |
| Charities | 2020-2021 | Legal profession | Provided comment to the Minister 2021 |
| Companies Act 1993 | 2021-2022 | Te Aka Matua o te Ture | Law Commission | Referred to the Minister 2022 |
| Corporate liability framework | 2022-2023 | Legal profession | |
| Corporate liability framework | 2021-2022 | Public sector | |
| Crimes Act - Section 66(2) (party liability) | 2021-2022 | Academic | |
| Criminal disclosure | 2021-2022 | Te Aka Matua o te Ture | Law Commission | |
| Criminal misconduct in office | 2021-2022 | Individual | |
| Criminal Procedure (Mentally Impaired Persons ) Act 2003 - Section 34 | 2021-2022 | Legal profession | |
| Cultural reports for sentencing | 2022-2023 | Legal profession | Research pending |
| Cultural reports for sentencing | 2021-2022 | Te Aka Matua o te Ture | Law Commission | Referred to the Minister 2022 |
| Declaratory judgments | 2022-2023 | Legal profession | Withdrawn from work programme 2019-2020 |
| Declaratory judgments | 2020-2021 | Legal profession | Withdrawn from work programme 2019-2020 |
| Defamation | 2022-2023 | Legal profession | |
| Defamation | 2022-2023 | Legal profession | |
| Defamation | 2021-2022 | Media | Referred to the Minister 2021 and 2022 |
| Defamation | 2019-2020 | Legal profession | Referred to the Minister 2021 and 2022 |
| Defamation | 2019-2020 | Academic | Referred to the Minister 2021 and 2022 |
| Defamation | 2019-2020 | Academic | Referred to the Minister 2021 and 2022 |
| Defamation | 2018-2019 | Legal profession | Referred to the Minister 2021 and 2022 |
| Defamation | 2021-2022 | Individual | Referred to the Minister 2021 and 2022 |
| Defence of duress | 2021-2022 | Academic | |
| Designing offence provisions | 2021-2022 | Public sector | |
| Digital property on death | 2020-2021 | Te Aka Matua o te Ture | Law Commission | |
| Directors' duties | 2022-2023 | Legal profession | Overtaken - A member’s bill on director’s duties (the Companies (Directors Duties) Amendment Bill 2021 was introduced. |
| Directors' duties | 2020-2021 | Private Sector | Companies Act 1993 review referred to the Minister 2022 |
| Emergency preparedness | 2020-2021 | Legal profession | Study Paper 23: The Legal Framework for Emergencies in Aotearoa New Zealand published 2022 |
| Employment Relations Act 2000 / processes of the Employment Relations Authority | 2019-2020 | Individual | |
| Evidence | 2021-2022 | Legal profession | Included in the Commission's third statutory review of the Evidence Act 2006 in 2022 |
| Evidence | 2021-2022 | Academic | Included in the Commission's third statutory review of the Evidence Act 2006 in 2022 |
| Evidence | 2020-2021 | Legal profession | Referred to the Minister 2021; Included in referral of the third statutory review of the Evidence Act 2006 by Minister 2022 |
| Evidence | 2020-2021 | Legal profession | Referred to the Minister 2021; Included in referral of the third statutory review of the Evidence Act 2006 by Minister 2022 |
| Evidence | 2019-2020 | Judiciary | Referred to the Minister 2021; Included in referral of the third statutory review of the Evidence Act 2006 by Minister 2022 |
| Family law treatment of multi-party relationships / non-intimate relationships | 2021-2022 | Te Aka Matua o te Ture | Law Commission | |
| Freedom of information | 2019-2020 | Academic | |
| Genomic discrimination | 2022-2023 | Legal profession | |
| Governance models for statutory entities | 2021-2022 | Public sector | |
| Human Rights Act 1993 | 2022-2023 | Te Aka Matua o te Ture | Law Commission | Some Human Rights Act issues referred to the Commission by the Minister in 2022 and 2023 |
| Leasehold land | 2021-2022 | Individual | |
| Legal aid | 2021-2022 | Individual | |
| Litigants in person - costs | 2018-2019 | Judiciary | |
| Lobbying regulation | 2022-2023 | Legal profession | |
| Media freedom | 2021-2022 | Academic | |
| Minimum age of criminal responsibility | 2022-2023 | Legal profession | |
| Minimum age of criminal responsibility | 2020-2021 | Other expert | Overtaken - work being done by the Office of the Children’s Commissioner |
| Professional regulation | 2021-2022 | Te Aka Matua o te Ture | Law Commission | Referred to the Minister 2022 |
| Retirement village law | 2022-2023 | Legal profession | Overtaken - Act to be reviewed in 2023 by Ministry of Housing |
| Retirement village law | 2020-2021 | Public sector | Overtaken - Act to be reviewed in 2023 by Ministry of Housing |
| Review of Substance Addiction (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 2017 | 2020-2021 | Legal profession | |
| Rights of disabled people | 2019-2020 | Public sector | |
| Sovereign immunity | 2021-2022 | Legal profession | |
| Te Ture Whenua Māori Bill 2016 | 2021-2022 | Judiciary | Referred to the Minister 2021. |
| Terrorist act - offence to plan to commit | 2020-2021 | Judiciary | Referred to the Minister 2021. Superseded by the Counter-Terrorism Legislation Bill introduced 13/04/2021. |
| Testamentary capacity | 2020-2021 | Legal profession | |
| Trans-Tasman Mutual Recognition Act 1997 | 2022-2023 | Legal profession | |
| Treaty of Waitangi - clauses in legislation | 2022-2023 | Legal profession | |
| Treaty of Waitangi - clauses in legislation | 2020-2021 | Academic | Referred to the Minister 2021 |
| Treaty of Waitangi - development of post-settlement governance entity frameworks | 2022-2023 | Public sector | |
| Treaty of Waitangi - update to the Cabinet Office guidance | 2021-2022 | Te Aka Matua o te Ture | Law Commission | |
| Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975 | 2022-2023 | Māori Liaison Committee | |
| Trustee company legislation | 2021-2022 | Private sector | |
| Unified review of criminal law and procedure | 2019-2020 | Legal profession | Forwarded to the Minister's Office 2020 |
| Whistle blowing | 2019-2020 | Academic | Overtaken by the enactment of the Protected Disclosures Act 2022 |