When the Rules Fail
International law does not create states: it presupposes their existence. If powerful states conclude that the rules offer them no viable path to protect themselves, they will eventually abandon them.
Law
This Is Why We Should Take No One’s Word for It
‘Believe women’ is an inevitable recipe for injustice.
The Lawsuits Begin for ‘Big Social’
The Big Tobacco of the 21st century is finally being held to account.
‘This Is a Case About Swinging Dicks’
Business and property owners have no rights. Their female patrons have no rights. Girls as young as 13, who are now forced to be nude in front of grown men, have no rights. Only they/them have rights.
A Useful Tool or Dangerous Overreach?
The problem is that once a power like this exists, it rarely stays confined to one purpose. The same law that clears a footpath today could just as easily clear a protest tomorrow.
Getting Away with Murder?
A German man who strangled a Tasmanian sex worker is walking free after just a couple of years.
Tikanga on Trial
If the rule of law is to mean anything in this country, the creeping judicial elevation of tikanga must be dismantled. The integrity of our legal order, and the equality of every New Zealander before the law, depends on it.
Why Can’t the Public Decide Public Interest?
The disgraceful dropping of the Te Papa vandalism case.
Yes, the Attacks on Iran Are Legal
The US and its allies have every right to bomb the mullahs out of existence.
UMA Broadcasting Hammered: $43k Sting for Email Axe Job
This judgment vindicates my reporting and Matt McCarten’s advocacy and it pours shame on the legacy media for failing to hold truth to power.
Dollars, Cents and Trade-Offs of Drug Legalization
What would happen if all class one narcotics were legalized?
Blobudsman Shows His True Colours
New Zealand’s Chief Ombudsman unlawfully sides with the forces of opaqueness and censorship.