Legal Issues – Evening Report https://eveningreport.nz Independent Analysis and Reportage Wed, 12 Aug 2015 21:18:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 Jane Kelsey: Give-A-Little fund for legal challenge to TPPA secrecy https://eveningreport.nz/2015/08/13/jane-kelsey-give-a-little-fund-for-legal-challenge-to-tppa-secrecy/ https://eveningreport.nz/2015/08/13/jane-kelsey-give-a-little-fund-for-legal-challenge-to-tppa-secrecy/#respond Wed, 12 Aug 2015 21:18:12 +0000 http://eveningreport.nz/?p=6442 ]]> Source: Professor Jane Kelsey.

A ‘Give-A-Little’ page http://givealittle.co.nz/cause/tppnosecrecy has been established for donations to support the urgent challenge to the Trade Minister’s refusal to release official documents on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) negotiations.

[caption id="attachment_6443" align="alignleft" width="300"]Give-A-Little fund for legal challenge to TPPA secrecy. Give-A-Little fund for legal challenge to TPPA secrecy.[/caption]

The proceedings were lodged in the High Court in Wellington on 5 August, asking for the case to be accorded urgency.

The Court is being asked to declare that the Minister got the law wrong and should release some or all the information asked for, including draft texts.

This application for judicial review is being brought in the names of Consumer NZ, Ngati Kahungunu, Oxfam, Greenpeace, Association of Salaried Medical Specialists, New Zealand Nurses Organisation, the Tertiary Education Union, and Professor Kelsey who made the original request.

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]]> https://eveningreport.nz/2015/08/13/jane-kelsey-give-a-little-fund-for-legal-challenge-to-tppa-secrecy/feed/ 0 Radio: RCR’s Aaron Mooar IVs Angeline Greensill on Waitangi Tribunal Submissions over TPPA Concerns https://eveningreport.nz/2015/08/11/radio-rcrs-aaron-mooar-ivs-angeline-greensill-on-waitangi-tribunal-submissions-over-tppa-concerns/ https://eveningreport.nz/2015/08/11/radio-rcrs-aaron-mooar-ivs-angeline-greensill-on-waitangi-tribunal-submissions-over-tppa-concerns/#respond Mon, 10 Aug 2015 21:28:16 +0000 http://eveningreport.nz/?p=6382 ]]> Interview by Raglan Community Radio’s Aaron Mooar. Interviewee: Angeline Greensill.
[caption id="attachment_6383" align="alignleft" width="200"]Angeline Greensill. Angeline Greensill.[/caption] Aaron Mooar talks to Angeline Greensill about the TPPA and the approach she made to the Waitangi Tribunal about the TPPA and where it might go now that the talks in Hawaii failed.

‘Angeline Greensill is of Tainui, Ngati Porou, and Ngati Paniora descent, born in the late 1940s in Kirikiriroa (Hamilton) and raised at Te Kopua (Raglan), Whaingaroa on the turangawaewae of Tainui o Tainui ki Whaingaroa.’ (Ref. Wikipedia) —

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