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CASES

 

• Rehua Smallman and Te Au Maaro o Ngati Pukenga Charitable Trust [2018] NZHC 219 - Charitable Trust Restructure, Winding Up of Original Trust and Transfer of Surplus Assets to Another

• ActiveDocs Limited v Cadre Investments Limited  [2017] NZCA 121- Unsuccessful Appeal by other side to the High Court judgment in our clients favour

• Cadre Investments Limited v ActiveDocs Limited [2016] NZHC 1489 – Company Law Interpretation of preference shares

• Attorney-General v Haronga and Flavell v Waitangi Tribunal [2016] NZCA 626 - Judicial Review Appeal

• Flavell v Waitangi Tribunal [2015] NZHC 1907 - Judicial Review see media link

• Te Rangi v Jackson [2015] NZCA 490– Unsuccessful Appeal by other party to Judicial Review

• Jackson v Te Rangi  [2014] NZHC 2918– Judicial Review (in a local government legislation context)

• Sherard v Devereux (2016) 140 Taitokerau MB 60-77 (140 TTK 60-77) – Interim Injunction

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PUBLICATIONS

 

• Piers Davies - The Future of Shipwrecks and Underwater Cultural Heritage at the Maritime Law Association of Australia and New Zealand Federal Conference, Hilton Hotel Auckland. 11-13 September 2019

• Te Kani Williams and Coral Linstead-Panoho - Eurocentric Laws that Apply to Maori  (Powerpoint); Eurocentric Laws that Apply to Maori (Paper) at the World Indigenous Law Conference in Canada November 2018

• Te Kani Williams ADLS Paper (March 2018)

• Ihipera Peters ADLS Paper (March 2018)

• Piers Davies - South Pacific Perspectives on the 2001 UNESP Convention on Underwater Cultural Heritage - (2017)

• World Indigenous Law Conference Paper 2016 – “Te Tiriti o Waitangi: an act of cession or an assertion of Tino Rangatiratanga? The Impacts of the Waitangi Tribunal Te Paparahi o Te Raki Stage One Report on Māori Sovereignty” (Te Kani Williams, Alana Thomas, Coral Linstead-Panoho)

• Te Kani Williams - Waitangi Tribunal Advocacy Intensive: “The new approach: benefits and pitfalls” (NZLS CLE limited ) 1 November 2011

• Wackrow, Williams & Davies Ltd Submissions on Te Ture Whenua Maori Bill (2015) (Te Kani Williams, Alana Thomas, Ihipera Peters, and Coral Linstead-Panoho)

• Piers Davies - Reports on the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage to the International Law Association Conferences at the Hague, Netherlands (2010) Sofia, Bulgaria (2012), Washington DC, USA (2014)
  and Johannesburg, South Africa (2016)

• Chapter on Community Law Centres in Law Stories (2003)

• Convenor of the Ministerial Committee on Legal Services – Report “Te Whainga I Te Tika – In Search of Justice” (1986)

• The Chapter on New Zealand law and practice in relation to the 2001 UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage edited by Professor Sarah Dromgoole (2006)

• Appendix to Ingram’s Shipwrecks of New Zealand (8th edition); Appendix to the Shipwrecks of New Zealand Second Edition Companion to the 8th Edition of New Zealand Shipwrecks written by Lynton Diggle published 2014

• Appendices to the Companions to Shipwrecks of New Zealand dealing with New Zealand Law and practice relating to wrecks

JOINT PUBLICATIONS

 

• Piers Davies and Robert Ludbrook “The Gaps in the Existing Legal Services in New Zealand (1978) New Zealand Law Journal 457

• Piers Davies and Prof Paul Myburgh “The Return of the Treasures to Indigenous Peoples” Art Antiquity and Law Vol. IX Issue 1 – (March 2004)

• Piers Davies and Ihipera Peters “Cultural Landscapes – Aotearoa/New Zealand report to ILA Cultural Heritage Law Committee December 2014”

• Piers Davies and Prof Paul Myburgh “The Protected objects Act in New Zealand: Too Little, Too Late?” International Journal of Cultural Property Vol. 15 (2008) No 3. Page 321

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