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Best private law case of each year, starting with 2022, one case per each like
Some doubt I'll get back far enough to name a single Hoffmann case
@rustie5555
I'd do a private law case of the year thread but, somehow, don't think I'd get even a pity like
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National being so zealously against light rail - which is v popular and suspiciously less stupid than their motorway plans - shows just how dominated they are by tauranga car brain and general reactionism
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@gothgirl_prelaw
one of the best economists on here spends all day explaining the difference between median and mode
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someone on reddit is shook that nicola Willis's dad, a big firm lawyer, acted for oil and gas companies. This is a revelation apparently
My guy Chapman Tripp literally won a case in the Supreme Court today acting for Seafood NZ against Forest and Bird today
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NZ doing a surge of public house building during a construction boom then plummeting when residential construction fell drastically is, like, suboptimal
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Sydney Sweeney reveals that she endorses Lord Hoffmann's principles in ICS on contract interpretation
"Interpretation in law, like in ordinary language, is about how a reasonable person would read the provision in context, not picking a 'dictionary' definition for each word."
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@lastpositivist
The Letby case is unique because the CPS description of key evidence makes me more convinced no murders occurred
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@antihobbes
I love me some strident Jacinda, when she wants to remind everyone she is the clearest communicator, not just a softly spoken one
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i am a lowly not-even-a-lawyer-atm but if you want to use your power as an elected official to stop an event occurring on council grounds, in a way that will undoubtedly breach NZBORA, don't post your exact intentions on reddit
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the difference between the progressive, practical and lively urban economics literature, and the degraded humanities and planning literature regurgitating its own buzzwords and failed programmes, is v striking
Many, many housing academics are engaged in a fundamentally literary exercise and have no interest in figuring out what kind of policies work to actually house people.
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Lol is bish really just listing every point NIMBYs raised in the WCC process and going "gonna fucking legislate against that"
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shocked and horrified that a human geography lecturer at vic has posted something nimby on newsroom, who could have seen this coming?
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ACT's housing policy will keep boomers rich as the country gets poor and young renters get sick
but at least the young renters can get decent cold medicine in the 5 minutes before they randomly destroy pharmac and public healthcare
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what a true poster way to go
the only thing that could fill the gap in my heart is a green mp with a climate policy background and student politics experience
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@JeoffM8
Wayne Brown's superpower is its v enjoyable to hear him talk about or to people you disagree with
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@YIMBYLAND
Like a third of protestors are bad and wrong and a third have generally ok aims but bad strategy and a third r actually political sensible
And that's being generous
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The IHP genuinely decided that the fundamental underpinnings of the NPS-UD and MDRS - build moar- were wrong because they weighted an idiot citing his own blog post (that they didn't read)
Featuring a fringe economist, a narrow frame of evidence, and some wild interpretations of the law of supply and demand.
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Polkinghorne got off but also we have evidence that most the jury think he did it - genuinely a burden of proof case
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when wellington boomers kill density in trendy inner city suburbs, young ppl don't suddenly move to taita, they go to brunswick east
... I advise policy makers to avoid second-guessing people's preferences for locations. And not simply assume that we can easily move "housing capacity" around between suburbs with any consequences.
In doing so, we may be stretching or even breaking the social ties that bind!
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War for Wellington has been the greatest journalistic series I've followed in my life, I donated today, you should too
If you've been following along with the War for Wellington, please go ahead and flick
@TheSpinoffTV
a cheeky wee donation.
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@GeorgistSteve
"because it doesnt vibe with my theory, it doesn't exist in practice" is one hell of a take
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Not to be smug, but:
100k subs on Conversion Therapy Bill
38k unique, others ctrl-c/v
Select Committee report starts by saying they read only the unique ones
When commenting on laws, don't spam Parliament. They want help on drafting and policy. I was right, others weren't, js
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Wayne Brown is the king boomer provincial battler - he took one look at infra costs for sprawl and decided to be actually p good on urbanism
included a nice lil rant about how dreary and lifeless he thinks residential-only suburbs are
"it's just... houses"
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@JulieAnneGenter
@boxcar_joey
this corner of twitter wants a green mp that's a climate policy expert with a background in student politics (also filipino) more than anything
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need a dating app where u sort solely by views on housing policy, desirable typology and favoured forms of transit
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the War for Wellington series must be the most obvious W for the journo awards
Turning some v dry reports and interminable politics into an incredibly successful, accessible and influential series is v impressive
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@GeorgistSteve
genuinely so many people that think it's fine to ban SROs but not tents
Weird sort of liberalism where you only need to care when it's too late
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OMFG
Rebecca has done more in her political career than most cabinet ministers
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y r u watching the us debate u r in New Zealand u r Free to go have a nice lil stroll and pastry
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imagine nuking your political career but not being the top story because its wet
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24% turnout in the most politically active suburbs in the country
my longstanding view that no one cares about councils and they should be abolished as irrelevant and undemocratic remains
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this might be contrarian now but the MDRS was good policy and politics, and it's only issue is the Nats showed they can't be trusted to keep a compromise
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FRAN FRAN FRAN FRAN
Francisco Hernandez will become a Green Party List MP later this week, following the retirement of James Shaw.
Hernandez has a background in climate policy.
#nzpol
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Wellington probably needs like 7 12 storey blocks of studio apartments between thorndon and berhampore, and a couple of big warehouses with creative studio space over a couple of dive bars with small stages
And the we will be cool like the early 2010s again
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in utterly distinct ngati whatua news, they're doing some sort of joint venture with Precinct to build the most baller building in Auckland, which I love and approve of
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There's at least two posters that have reliably better political takes than Jason himself being criticized for knowing Mr Meagher will vote for benefit and state housing cuts as soon as practicable
The usual line-up of insufferable Twitter people lining up to prove James Meger's point for him.
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Tam voted to spend more money on the Town Hall, and against seeking a private bill to delist heritage buildings, and both of those votes were bad and against the interests of Wellington
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lot of people insisting that Labour should have ran a more left campaign to win (by taking votes off the Greens ig???) and I don't understand it at all
The centrists are realistic - the economy was unfavorable and Ardern hadn't put the party for a good place for success
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Bill English's valedictory speech famously mentioned a solo mother in South Auckland going to a dozen agencies for help in a fortnight, and only the loan sharks offered her a cuppa
The new gov view is she shouldn't have children and the state should be even more demanding
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Wfh is good for everywhere except wlg cbd, a place that another 15k people would happily live in the middle of instead of carterton
Work from home would not be hurting city centres like this if they hadnt made it illegal to build houses in inner suburbs for 30 years
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This is an excellent article and a very depressing reminder of why we get v expensive sprawl when the main unmet demand is for city living and why ACT are a bunch of hypocritical fucks
Chris Bishop is in the middle of replacing the MDRS, a widely-praised law that was on its way to delivering ~75k new homes.
It’s a big job: His office had exchanged 2100 emails on the topic by late Feb.
In Stuff today I take a look at his options:
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@feraljokes
@BenjaminPDixon
I still can't believe that tweet... its been months and I can't process the worldview that makes it a comprehensible thought
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if it's too far to commute to kapiti or the wairarapa, which it is, maybe we should bowl premier house and build two apartment blocks for MPs and staffers
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Congrats to Max Harris for running a campaign that seized defeat from the jaws of victory
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big day at the office - someone resigned, someone is pregnant and I did a full day of work - wonders never cease
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I think nz dudes need to have a style forum and agree that ties are never needed for any formality
Rawhiri has been flexxing with his greenstone for like two years now
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there's a judge on the High Court of Australia who is better at law, economics, history and philosophy than all the others combined and its just a bit embarrassing that the others turn up to work
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for the avoidance of doubt, regardless of my views on public law, TERFs can fuck off and die
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A tiny nerdy minister of the Crown telling a lowly paid bus driver to get personally involved in a fight on their bus is a bit much
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@drdeanknight
if Belgium can handle 500 days without a govt, we can probably handle a Zoom PM til Tuesday
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I once used a laundry powder for 6 months that consumer nz tested and found to be worse than just using water
so i've noticed that when i wash clothes with non-crunchy toxic laundry detergent, they get very clean and smell nice
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architects are dreadful at housing policy but also constantly consulted
Must be a social class thing, we don't go around privileging subbies voices
I don't want to be an egg but I'm getting the feeling that many planners and architects would benefit from some basic training in economic policy.
Like, many don't seem to understand the key distinction between social and private benefits / costs?
Hence they're willing to ...
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YIMBYs should have a word like gentrification for 'only ancient boomers can live there now' for formerly more cheap places for young people, artists and families - "old boring gerontification"? maybe?
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@SydneyYIMBY
Artists impression of a genuinely top tier mid sized apartment block, might as well show off floorplans and prices and make it an ad
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do public transit people understand that riders hate transfers yet?
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@yimbyalliance
mysteriously, housebuilding in nz collapsed from 1977 when we passed our Town & Country Planning Act
Am sure that's a unique situation
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Begging lefties to remember high politician pay remains a key left wing demand
Ardern, 2018: in these tough times we are freezing MPs' already high salaries
Luxon, 2024: ?
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the reason AUT law girl's shit was unsustainable is there r like 6 ppl in nz law - ive judt discovered she's my brother's best friend's friend's ex
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@JosephPolitano
am New Zealander who knows far too much about US localities zoning law
I know Seattle allows point access blocks but their urban villages concept has failed. Why??
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I still rather suspect disillusionment over housing rather than transport, education or health is the dominant issue in NZ - housing went bonkers 20 years ago and we never really recovered
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today in 'couple shocked that their private property rights aren't self-enforcing'
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I've learned to be a pretty alright cook as an adult but man, at a guess 60% of households have bad cooking just because of dreadful stoves/ovens and non stick pans
no wonder people love air fryers lmao
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Lord, I see what you do for others, and I would like it in my backyard
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@pixelatedboat
in fairness, most the comics are written for 30 year olds who like roughly the same comics as when they were 12
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@GeorgistSteve
housing co-ops have similar issues - they're usually some mix of community and wealth increasing project, hence they tend to be comically discriminatory
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Demure and mindful posting is worse by far than brat posting, at least some ppl were actually brat
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/r/nz currently saying it 'anticompetitive' that chemist warehouse could waive the $5 fee and that small pharmacies couldn't
pharmacy guild gives people brainworms and should be destroyed
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@henrycooke
It seems poor in political terms, but it also just really funny that the nats ran on localism and want to micromanage every council decision
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do ppl know that most of diplomacy is being diplomatic to, and about, other ppl that totally suck?
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@build_beaut
I hate many existing developers, liberalise regs so they have more competition and suffer for our benefit collectively
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RNZ is really something else - i guess they know their audience is all retired boomers who want no change but house price increases
but the wellington zoomer audience remaining tends to be super yimby so
Auckland’s housing market has been struck by a disastrous plague of affordability, to the point that some buyers might even be *pauses to retch violently* getting bargains
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me and the high court rules
@JackyNinjakitty
@Nelfoos5
@JoePotterButler
@dimsie
@hellomotorbike
@KyleDChurch
I fully understand this. No need for me to read. Thanks though. 💜
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@Fran4Dunedin
beyond me how it was so slow
The left needs to do more iterative lawmaking next time, to ensure it actually gets the big stuff across early
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Wfh is basically good as an occasional thing and for people that want to ignore a solid third of their role being mentoring and culture reinforcing
But a lot of offices are set up disastrously, esp in gov
my take: working from home is pretty great for individuals but less good for institutions; the Govt is probably right to push for more in-person work
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lol rnz so nimby they're reporting on the wellington upzoning as just a win for heritage protections, v brief mention of upzoning, deeply unserious outlet
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@grogersxyz
people never understand scale in gov
20 mil isn't nothing for a spend of 1.3ish billion a year - but its pretty small, and its also probably a much more sensible spend than the marginal 20 million on car-centric development
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i honestly think this divide is basically as fundamental as the yimby v rent-control sorts on housing
The purpose of a mass transit system is to make car free living desirable for the average resident, not to provide mediocre transportation of last resort for the poor.
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I'm not stoked about having kids largely because one week of sleep deprivation would drive me insane, why would I want multiple months? Who are these ppl saying it's nbd??
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The two dumbest takes for dealing with growth r a) New Towns and b) force jobs/firms out of existing successful cities to failing ones
Just build up where demand is already high
Building new planned cities is generally pretty dumb. Most of the time, the money would be far better spent improving existing cities.
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Relating to Wayne brown p hard right now
Empathy is an attribute I am not well known for.
I am more ‘solutions-focused’ rather than ‘feelings-focused’.
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I did not vote for Tory Whanau so "the heritage look" of Wellington wouldn't change
The new buildings are much nicer than the old, and we should have many more of them
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i get home and my flatmate has joe rogan, andrew tate and a "how to escape the friendzone" podcast on his browser
this is gonna be worse than the month he was obsessed with the petro-dollar
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stu makes a typically good point - NZ reforms have made housing supply more elastic and so go up and down more - but the construction sector is v worried about its boom/bust cycles
the solution i think is countercylical institutional (mainly gov, but CHP and BTR) spending
@RichardHills_
yes, and the slowdown is entirely predictable: When you make housing supply more responsive to demand, it rises quicker when demand rises and vice versa.
So, the slowdown is exactly what you'd expect in a situation where housing supply responds to demand.
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London has fucking appalling housing outcomes and apparently building towers is "violence"
I'll take some blunt economist utilitarianism over the nuance of social scientist wank anyday
Light violence at the threshold of acceptability by
@casperlaing
#OpenAccess
#ForensicArchitecture
#verticality
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the v funny thing about anti house builders on 'heritage'/'public housing only' grounds is their view is the precise right amount of housing was built, by a private market and mainly without a planning system or heritage rules, decades ago, in just about every city
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like for me to restate something I'm right about, occasionally interspersed with something I used to be wrong about
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I remember months of processing a breakup went away in 15 minutes by catching up with my ex again where she just whinged about a bunch of v dry problems
the ONLY way to get over a really intense crush on somebody is to get to know them better
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@MHReddell
real shopping centers don't have a suburban main road going through the middle of them let alone a pile of parking
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Menswear guy is the living embodiment of a cosmopolitanism that is deeply invested in local histories and culture beyond almost all the fake-trads and superficial-chauvinists
In any case, I write this as a non-white immigrant living in an English-speaking country. However, I love British tailoring and American culture. I hope this shows that immigrants can offer something to native-born citizens.
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@jonobri
Melbourne is famous, in nz, for trams, the arts, some v trendy vibes, being a big city, having good food and sport
if you said it was a particular ring of suburbs with terraced housing people might piss themselves laughing
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@BenThomasNZ
if there's one thing the courts love, it's well-off litigants trying to run v clever arguments to try avoid drink driving convictions
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