Centrist: Hobson’s Pledge backs Treaty Principles Bill, rejects race-based laws

Hobson’s Pledge representatives Elliott Ikilei and Thomas Newman defended the ACT Party’s Treaty Principles Bill before the Parliamentary Justice Committee, arguing for a single sovereign Parliament and equal laws for all New Zealanders.

DTNZ: Lawyer challenges compulsory Tikanga Māori in Legal Education

Auckland lawyer Thomas Newman has raised a formal complaint to New Zealand’s Regulation Review Committee, challenging the compulsory inclusion of tikanga Māori in legal education.

The submission, which supports a complaint by prominent legal expert Gary Judd KC, contends that the requirement unduly infringes on the personal rights and freedoms of law students, while also questioning the relevance of tikanga to modern legal practice. Newman argues that forcing law students to study tikanga as a core subject represents an overreach of regulatory power and calls for the Regulation to be disallowed by Parliament.