Public Address | Cafe | Legal Beagle: Short circuiting the legislative process; or why are we still writing about Nuk Korako? https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Graeme Edgeler https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/legal-beagle-short-circuiting-the-legislative/?p=367624#post367624 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/legal-beagle-short-circuiting-the-legislative/?p=367624#post367624 Also the next time Chris Bishop says “X isn’t suitable for a Statutes Amendment Bill”, we can simply point to this, and tell him to go away?

Yes.

why would a bylaw saying “Queenstown airport may sell lost property by way of an auction on the Trade Me website” be…

]]> Sat, 05 Nov 2016 11:33:53 +1300 Andrew Geddis https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/legal-beagle-short-circuiting-the-legislative/?p=367623#post367623 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/legal-beagle-short-circuiting-the-legislative/?p=367623#post367623 No, but the opposition didn't object, and it would only have taken one.

So, the next time the opposition complains about select committee stages being skipped, we can compare the measure they are complaining about to Doocey's bill and if they are substantively the same simply point to this and…

]]> Sat, 05 Nov 2016 11:20:47 +1300 Graeme Edgeler https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/legal-beagle-short-circuiting-the-legislative/?p=367622#post367622 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/legal-beagle-short-circuiting-the-legislative/?p=367622#post367622 The SOP that added Doocey’s Bill to the Statutes Amendment Bill was not an opposition measure.

No, but the opposition didn't object, and it would only have taken one.

If he really believed that, I wonder why he didn’t object to Seymour’s SOP, which would have prevented the SOP being…

]]> Sat, 05 Nov 2016 10:51:29 +1300 Andrew Geddis https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/legal-beagle-short-circuiting-the-legislative/?p=367620#post367620 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/legal-beagle-short-circuiting-the-legislative/?p=367620#post367620 This is good. Selling some types of items at an online auction site is likely to increase the amount of money received for them, and when we’re talking about public assets (which unclaimed lost property is), giving those tasked with looking after those assets powers to best realise public benefit… ]]> Sat, 05 Nov 2016 10:24:50 +1300 tussock https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/legal-beagle-short-circuiting-the-legislative/?p=367610#post367610 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/legal-beagle-short-circuiting-the-legislative/?p=367610#post367610 National's ballot stuffing became an embarrassment. Opposition parties wanted the private members bill time for more useful things, National wanted to be not continuing to embarrass itself.

Could have been done better, yes, in the past. The alternative at this point seems to be continuing to waste parliament and select…

]]> Fri, 04 Nov 2016 18:01:46 +1300 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/legal-beagle-short-circuiting-the-legislative/?p=367606#post367606 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/legal-beagle-short-circuiting-the-legislative/?p=367606#post367606 It feels like the MPs in general and the government in particular have become so arrogant that they believe they can make no mistakes ever.

Everyone makes mistakes. But our MPs make a habit of never admitting mistakes and finding someone else to blame at all costs – generally those…

]]> Fri, 04 Nov 2016 13:44:39 +1300 Rich of Observationz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/legal-beagle-short-circuiting-the-legislative/?p=367603#post367603 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/legal-beagle-short-circuiting-the-legislative/?p=367603#post367603 What about SOPs? Don't quite major changes get made after the committee stage in SOPs on some Bills (I was thinking the Harmful Digital Communications Act).

I'd assume these changes would have been discussed by the committee – but how far from the Bill as presented for submissions can/do they…

]]> Fri, 04 Nov 2016 13:16:29 +1300 David Haywood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/legal-beagle-short-circuiting-the-legislative/?p=367598#post367598 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/legal-beagle-short-circuiting-the-legislative/?p=367598#post367598 Fri, 04 Nov 2016 11:36:51 +1300 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/legal-beagle-short-circuiting-the-legislative/?p=367597#post367597 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/legal-beagle-short-circuiting-the-legislative/?p=367597#post367597 Discussion from blog post.

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