A New Zealand Legal History

A New Zealand Legal History PDF

Author: Peter Spiller

Publisher: Thomson Brookers

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13:

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A New Zealand Legal History 2nd Edition offers a summary of the major historical themes of New Zealand legal development since European colonisation. Particular attention is paid to four key issues: legal heritage. In particular, the role played by the English to influence our legal heritage. The growing importance of New Zealand's own legal environment and the local modifications implemented largely through statute law. The unique role played by Maori values embodied in particular in the Treaty of Waitangi. The development of New Zealand's legal institutions by our judges and lawyers and the.