Access to justice (including legal aid)

• Triennial Legal Aid Review 2025 and accompanying Economic Analysis of the Legal Aid Scheme, 1 August 2025
• Legal Assistance in the Waitangi Tribunal, 27 June 2025
  
• Long-Term Insights Briefing: The Future of Courts and Justice Services, 31 January 2025
• Review of the Courts (Remote Participation) Act 2010, 12 December 2024
• Feedback on Draft Digital Strategy for Courts and Tribunals, 30 September 2022
• Rules Committee report - Improving Access to Civil Justice, 27 February 2023
• Feedback on draft Interpreter Services Quality Framework, 24 February 2023
• Options to achieve improved outcomes in the corrections system, 23 September 2022
• Wayfinding for civil justice draft framework, 30 June 2022
• Access to civil justice: Costs for self-represented litigants, 11 February 2022 
• Improving access to civil justice: Rules Committee further consultation, 2 July 2021
• Improving access to civil justice: Rules Committee consultation, 25 August 2020
• Police Detention Legal Assistance Scheme, nationwide trial roster, 18 February 2021
• Supreme Court proceedings-publication proposed changes, 27 April 2021
• Legal Aid, Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Court, proposed legal services model, 1 April 2021
• Access to civil justice: Costs for Litigants-in-Person, 30 October 2020
• Legal Aid, proposed variation to provider contract, 11 June 2020 
• Dispute Resolution, Model Standards, 15 January 2020
• Legal Aid – changes to approvals process, 14 November 2019
• Legal Aid, High Cost Cases and Amendments to Grant, 17 January 2019 

Accident compensation

• Proposed amendments to ACC Hearing Assessment Regulations, 12 Sept 2022
• Proposed amendments to ACC Hearing Assessment Regulations, 12 Sept 2022
• Proposed amendments to the Accident Compensation (Review Costs and Appeals) Regulations 2002, 1 April 2022

AML/CFT

• AML/CFT Levy proposals, 9 April 2026
• AML/CFT industry levy - initial levy design consultation, 30 May 2025
• Proposed amendments to AML/CFT regulations, 14 April 2023
• Review of the AML/CFT Act, 10 December 2021
• AML/CFT-Electronic Identity Verification draft guideline, 19 March 2021
• AML/CFT, barristers–class exemption draft Notice, 20 March 2020
• AML/CFT-expiring regulations, 30 October 2019
• AML/CFT-exemption application, barristers-further consultation, 13 March 2019

Civil litigation & dispute resolution

• Proposed statutory adjudication framework for civil disputes, 26 September 2025
• Updating daily recovery rates for costs: consultation with the legal profession, 25 August 2025
• Key court rule changes to enable Te Au Reka to be implemented in the District and High Courts, 20 August 2025 
• The use of remote participation in courts, 20 September 2024
• Draft High Court (Improved Access to Civil Justice) Amendment Rules, 12 September 2024
• Depositor Compensation Scheme Regulations, 9 May 2024
• Charities Appeals Regulations, 18 January 2024
• Regulations to enable charities appeals, 18 January 2024
• Potential Coroners Amendment Bill: MOJ Discussion Note, 29 November 2021
• Draft Domestic Student Contract Dispute Resolution Scheme Rules, 21 May 2021
• Class Actions, Supreme Court appeal-NZLS intervenor submissions, 16 March 2020
• Building reform, risk and liability, 17 June 2019 

Commercial law (including insolvency and intellectual property)

• Tokenisation in financial markets, 31 October 2025
• Consultation on exposure draft of open banking regulations under the Customer and Product Data Act, 29 August 2025
• FMA - review of expiring class exemption notices and designations, 16 July 2025
• Exposure draft of the Patents Amendment Bill, 1 April 2025
• Capital Markets Reforms - Climate-related disclosures, 13 February 2025
• Promoting Competition - a targeted review of the Commerce Act 1986, 7 February 2025
• Exploring a consumer data right for the banking and electricity sectors, 10 October 2024
• Enhancing Telecommunications Regulatory and Funding Frameworks, 19 June 2024
• Policy proposals for regulations under the Deposit Takers Act 2023, 9 May 2024
• Proposed Fair Outcomes for Consumers and Markets Guide, 01 March 2024
• Review of the Insurance (Prudential Supervision) Act 2010 - omnibus consultation, 12 December 2023
• Incorporated Societies Act 2022: Proposed regulations, 28 July 2023
• Proposals for the Resale Right for Visual Artists Regulations, 25 May 2023
• Reform of geographical indications law, 28 February 2023
• Exposure draft Insurance Contracts Bill, 12 May 2022
• Draft Plant Variety Rights Regulations and proposed changes to fees, 18 May 2022
• Plant Variety Rights Act 1987, proposed regulations, 1 September 2021
• Review of the Insurance (Prudential Supervision) Act 2010 (scope of the Act and overseas insurers), 23 March 2021
• Statutes Revision Programme 2021-23, 10 March 2021
• Case management and procedural proposals, 11 December 2020
• Review of the Plant Variety Rights Act 1987 – outstanding policy issues, 17 September 2020
• EU-NZ Free Trade Agreement, Geographical Indications, 17 April 2020 
• Climate-related financial disclosure, 17 December 2019 
• Insolvency practitioner licensing standards, 13 December 2019
• Supplementary Submission, Intellectual Property Laws Omnibus Bill Discussion Paper, 3 October 2019 
• Plant Variety Rights Options Paper, 11 September 2019 
• Intellectual Property Laws Omnibus Bill Discussion Paper, 16 August 2019 
• Insurance Contract Law Review options, 27 June 2019 
• Conduct of Financial Institutions: review, 7 June 2019 
• Copyright Act 1994 review, 4 April 19 08 Apr 2019 

Contract and consumer law

• Draft Domestic Student Contract Dispute Resolution Scheme Rules, 21 May 2021

Criminal law and youth justice

• Notice of declarations of inconsistency: Public Protection Orders under the Public Safety (Public Protection Orders) Act 2014 and Extended Supervision Orders under the Parole Act 2002, 23 January 2026
• Key court rule changes to enable Te Au Reka to be implemented in the District and High Courts, 20 August 2025 
• Feedback on options for more transparent management of extreme threat prisoners, 31 March 2025
• Arms Act rewrite, 27 February 2025
• Improving jury trials timeliness, 31 October 2024
  
• Submission to the Petitions Select Committee – Wayne Jessop’s petition, 18 October 2024
• Consultation on options to improve safety within prisons, 30 September 2024
• Fourth phase of monitoring the implementation of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention in New Zealand, 3 May 2024
• OT - Potential changes to the OT Act, options papers - 14 October 2022
• Options to achieve improved outcomes in the corrections system, 23 September 2022
• Review of the Search and Surveillance Act 2022, 29 June 2022
• Covid-19 response: proceeding with jury trials at Level 3, 4 March 2021
• Evidence Act, proposed repeal of section 202, 10 May 2021
• Crown Law - Solicitor-General Prosecution Guidelines consultation, 30 April 2021
• New Zealand Parole Board, draft memorandum to counsel, 17 February 2021 
• Court-appointed Communication Assistance, draft quality framework, 17 February 2021 
• Covid-19 PHR (Air Border) Order 2020, 9 July 2020 
• Firearms Prohibition Orders – consultation, 13 January 2020 
• Jury Amendment Rules 2019, 16 September 2019
• Regulations for the appointment of youth advocates under the Oranga Tamariki Act 1989, 13 August 2019
• Improving the justice response to sexual violence, 11 October 2018 
• Sexual Violence Trials, 2 June 2017
• Customs Infringement Notice Scheme, 23 January 2019 

Employment law

• Feedback on the work health and safety regulatory system, 31 October 2024
• A New Zealand Income Insurance Scheme, 29 April 2022, 
• Bullying and harassment at work - issues paper, 30 March 2021
• Better Protections for Contractors consultation, 17 February 2020 
• Temporary Migrant Worker Exploitation review, 27 November 2019 
• Fair Pay Agreements System, 27 November 2019 

Environmental and climate change law

• Review of Fast-track Approvals Panel Conveners’ Practice and Procedure Guidance Note 2025, (7 May 2026)
• Fast-Track Approvals Panel Conveners' Practice and Procedure Guidance Note, (28 May 2025)
• Updating RMA national direction, 15 July 2025
• Conservation land management reform, 27 February 2025
• Proposed amendments to the Biosecurity Act, 13 December 2024
• Consultation on amendments to the Climate Change Response Act 2002 under the Severe Weather Emergency Recovery Legislation Act 2023, 9 May 2023
• Consultation on national direction for plantation and exotic carbon afforestation, 18 November 2022
• Managing our wetlands in the coastal marine area, 20 September 2022
• Exposure draft of the national policy statement for indigenous biodiversity, 21 July 2022
• Exposure draft of changes to the National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management, 11 July 2022
• Conservation management and processes, 30 June 2022
• Exposure draft of the Crown Minerals (Petroleum) Amendment Regulations 2022, 30 June 2022
• Proposed technical amendments to fisheries regulations, 3 March 2022 
• Proposed amendments to the Fisheries Act 1996, 11 February 2022 
• Natural and Built Environments Bill, exposure draft, 4 August 2021, 5 August 2021
• National Policy Statement - Indigenous Biodiversity, 13 March 2020 13 Mar 2020 
• Resource Management Review - Issues and Options paper, 3 February 2020 04 Feb 2020 
• Review of the Crown Minerals Act 1991, 27 January 2020 29 Jan 2020 
• Action for healthy waterways, national direction on freshwater, 4 November 2019 07 Nov 2019 
• Crown pastoral land review, 11 April 2019 12 Apr 2019 
• Fisheries review, 18 March 2019 19 Mar 2019 

Family law

• Adoption in Aotearoa MOJ Discussion Document, 31 August 2021
• Family Violence Act 2018 Information Sharing Guidance, 12 March 2019 14 Mar 2019
• Family Court review, further consultation, 1 March 2019 05 Mar 2019 

Health and disability law

• End of Life Choice Act review, 25 September 2024
• Review of the Health and Disability Commissioner Act 1994 and the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights, 1 August 2024
• A new adoption system for Aotearoa, 16 August 2022
• Transforming our Mental Health Law – discussion document, 27 January 2022 27 Jan 2022

Immigration and refugee law

• Feedback on proposed changes to Immigration & Protection Tribunal Practice Notes, 31 May 2023
• Refugee Status Branch, Draft Guidelines for persons presenting with serious mental health issues – feedback, 27 June 2019 27 Jun 2019 
• Immigration New Zealand, complaints policy implementation-feedback, 1 March 2019 05 Mar 2019 

Law Commission submissions

• Hate crime | hara ngākau kino (Issues Paper 55), 14 March 2025
• Here Ora? Preventive measures for community safety, rehabilitation and reintegration (Preferred Approach Paper 54), 25 September 2024
• Ia Tangata — A review of the protections in the Human Rights Act 1993 for people who are transgender, people who are non-binary and people with innate variations of sex characteristics (Issues Paper 53), 5 September 2024.
• Review of Adult Decision-Making Capacity Law | He Arotake i te Ture mō ngā Huarahi Whakatau a ngā Pakeke (Second Issues Paper 52), 1 July 2024
• Hapori whānui me te tangata mōrea nui | Public safety and serious offenders, 28 July 2023
• Te Arotake Tuatoru i te Evidence Act 2006 | The Third Review of the Evidence Act 2006, 13 July 2023
• Law Commission - Adult Decision-Making Capacity, 10 March 2023
• Class Actions & Litigation Funding SIP48, 22 November 2021 
• Law Commission Issues Paper 47: Surrogacy, 1 October 2021
• Review of Succession Law IP46, 17 June 2021
• Class Actions & Litigation Funding IP45, 11 March 2021 
• The Use of DNA in Criminal Investigations, IP43, 1 April 2019 

Property law

• Review of Anti-competitive Land Agreements, 25 August 2023
• Regulation of Residential Property Managers, 7 April 2022 
• EDO231: Excusing Estates from filing income tax returns, 9 July 2021
• Retirement Villages-White Paper, 25 March 2021, 25 Mar 2021
• Overseas Investment Act review, phase 2 consultation, 24 May 2019 27 May 2019 

Public law (including rule of law)

• Review of Standing Orders 2026, 25 September 2025
• Proposed Regulatory Standards Bill, 13 January 2025
• Exposure draft of Valuers Bill and associated Amendment Paper, 9 September 2024
• Draft voluntary code of conduct for political lobbyists, 8 April 2024
• Improving scrutiny of OIA exemption clauses, 18 March 2024
• Feedback on Independent Electoral Review Interim Report, 24 July 2023
• Review of Standing Orders 2023 – proposals for entrenchment, 3 February 2023
• Review of Standing Orders 2023, 16 September 2022
• Review of the Intelligence and Security Act 2017, 13 June 2022
• Inquiry into Parliamentary Scrutiny of Confirmable Instruments, 22 April 2020 
• Review of Standing Orders 2020, 31 October 2019
• Official Information Act consultation, 24 April 2019 
• Proposed amendments to the Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007, 23 March 2018

Human rights and privacy

• Draft guidance documents for sector proportionality assessments and FRT retail information-sharing under the Biometric Code, 26 November 2025
• Amending Privacy Act Codes of Practice to incorporate IPP3A, 23 October 2025
• Privacy Amendment Bill draft guidance: IPP3A, 19 June 2025
• Schedule 4 of the Telecommunications Information Privacy Code 2020, 4 June 2025
• Proposed amendments to the Fisheries Act, 27 March 2025
• Biometric Processing Privacy Code, 7 March 2025
• Review under section 158 of the Privacy Act of the Gang Harm Insights Centre approved information sharing agreement (AISA), 17 September 2024
• Feedback on the OPC exposure draft biometrics code, 8 May 2024
• Report on the 4th Cycle of the Universal Periodic Review, 11 October 2023
• Recognising gender on birth certificates and exploring a gender registration process for people born overseas, 25 July 2022
• A legislative response to modern slavery and worker exploitation, 7 June 2022
• Proposals against the incitement of hatred and discrimination, 12 August 2021
• Proposals against hate speech and incitement to discriminate, 5 August 2021
• Options for establishing a consumer data right in New Zealand, 9 October 2020
• Health Information Privacy Code – consultation, 26 August 2020
• Telecommunications Information Privacy code consultation, 28 February 2020
• Register of Lawyers – potential Rules change, personal safety and privacy concerns, 17 September 2019 
• United Nations Committee against Torture, NZ 7th periodic review – draft government report, 18 June 2019 18 Jun 2019 

Tax law

• EDO267: Off-market share cancellations – bright line tests and the Commissioner’s notice requirements and other matters, 19 March 2026
• IRRUIP18: Cryptoassets Issues Paper, 11 March 2026
• PUB00500: Shortfall penalties, 28 October 2025
• PUB00520: GST – Meaning of payment, 9 September 2025
• PUB00478: Income tax – Business activity, 5 September 2025
• PUB00494: Income tax – Distributions from foreign trusts, 23 June 2025
• Selling excess electricity, 8 May 2025
• ED0265: Mutual transactions of associations (including clubs and societies), 1 July 2025
• PUB00469: Whether an off-market share cancellation is made in lieu of the payment of a dividend, 3 June 2025
• PUB00488 and PUB00460 - Brightline residential sale, 9 April 2025
• Taxation and the Not-For-Profit Sector, 31 March 2025
• Issues Paper: Employee share scheme timing issues, 12 March 2025
• PUB00519 - CB 3 and disposal of land, 13 February 2025
• Effect of the FIF rules on immigration: proposals for amendments, 27 January 2025
• PUB00489 - Application of bright-line rollover relief provisions to transfers of residential land between associated persons, 23 October 2024
• ED0258 & ED0260 The Commissioner’s search powers and section 17GB notices, 18 October 2024
• PUB00454 - Income Tax - Share Investments, 17 September 2024
• PUB00480 - Overdrawn shareholder loan account balances, 31 July 2024
• PUB00429: Income Tax – main home exclusion to bright-line test, 29 May 2023
• PUB00367: Income Tax – Partnerships, 8 May 2024
• PUB00364 - Employee Share Schemes, 18 April 2024
• Taxation of Trusts, 12 October 2023
• GST - Unit Title Body Corporates, 15 June 2023
• Main home exclusion to the bright-line test – absences from the main home, 29 May 2023
• Charities – Business Income Exemption, 31 January 2023
• Income Tax – IS 13/01 tax avoidance and interpretation of sections BG 1 and GA 1 of the Income Tax Act, 30 November 2022
• GST – Section 58 – Specified agents of incapacitated persons, and mortgagees in possession, 9 November 2022
• Application of section CZ 39 bright-line test to certain family and close relationship transactions, 11 October 2022
• Issues Paper: OECD Pillar 2, GloBE Rules for NZ, 27 June 2022
• Re: IRD ED0240 Disputes process, 15 June 2022
• Re: Dividend integrity and personal services income attribution - Government discussion document, 26 April 2022 
• Re: The role of digital platforms in the taxation of the gig and sharing economy, 20 April 2022 
• Re: Officials Issues Paper - Tax Administration in a Digital World, 30 March 2022 
• Deductibility of costs incurred due to COVID-19, 9 March 2022
• Re: ED0237 Section 17GB notices – the Commissioner’s power to obtain information for tax policy purposes, 31 January 2022 
• Cross-border workers: issues and options for reform, 25 November 2021 
• ED0235: reporting requirements for domestic trusts (draft operational statement), 25 November 2021 
• Reporting requirements for domestic trusts, issues paper, 15 November 2021 
• PUB00305: tax avoidance BG 1 and GA 1 of the Income Tax Act 2007, 14 April 2021, 21 April 2021 
• IRRUIP15 - Income tax, trusts and the Australia - New Zealand Double Tax Agreement, 26 March 2021, 31 March 2021 
• Tax treatment of cryptoassets – blockchain forks, airdrops, 24 February 2021
• PUB00359a & PUB00359b, charities business exemption, 15 February 2021
• PUB00364: Employee share schemes (specific interpretive issues), 23 December 2020
• PUB00332 GST – unconditional gifts, revised draft, 16 December 2020
• PUB00381: do certain supplies wholly or partly consist of land for the purposes of the CZR rules?, 12 November 2020
• PUB00326: minor development or division work, revised examples, 25 June 2020 
• Goods and Services Tax – GST and agency, 23 October 2020
• ED0223: Non-resident employers obligations, cross-border employment, 2 September 2020
• GST – unconditional gifts, 29 May 2020 02 Jun 2020 
• GST Policy Issues – Issues Paper, 26 May 2020 26 May 2020 
• Investment in US Limited Liability Companies, 13 May 2020 14 May 2020 
• Income tax – tax issues arising from ownership of overseas rental property, 13 May 2020 14 May 2020 
• Unclaimed Money Act 1971 review, 28 February 2020 02 Mar 2020 
• Charities and donee organisations, 25 February 2020 26 Feb 2020 
• Purchase price allocation, 18 February 2020 19 Feb 2020
• Habitual buying and selling of land, (proposed draft amendments), 3 February 2020 04 Feb 2020 
• Income tax - when is development or division work minor, 20 December 2019 23 Jan 2020 
• GST treatment of short-stay accommodation, beneficiaries and trustees renting, 10 December 2019 12 Dec 2019 
• Holding costs for privately used land that is taxable on sale, 1 November 2019 05 Nov 2019 
• Habitual buying and selling of land, 23 October 2019 24 Oct 2019 
• Distributions from foreign trusts, 12 September 2019 12 Sep 2019 
• Income tax — application of discretion in section 18D(2) TAA – an exception to confidentiality, 16 August 2019 20 Aug 2019 
• Income tax - application of ESSR rules to employer issued crypto-assets provided to an employee, 15 August 2019 15 Aug 2019
• Employer issued cryptocurrency, 28 June 2019 02 Jul 2019
• Charities Act 2005 review, 13 June 2019 13 Jun 2019
• Business premises exclusion (bright line test), 12 June 2019 12 Jun 2019 
• Business premises exclusion (section CB 19), 12 June 2019 12 Jun 2019 
• Cryptocurrency – salary, wages and bonuses, 7 May 2019 05 Jun 2019 
• Donee organisations, factsheet wholly or mainly, 22 August 2018 17 May 2019
• Short stay accommodation, 21 March 2019 25 Mar 2019
• Voluntary Disclosures, 4 February 2019 11 Feb 2019