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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 21h

🚨 New assistant prof job posting at LSE with a focus on crime and criminal justice

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Assistant Professor, , LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university <spa...

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Paul Thistoll @pault.bsky.social · 1d

Letter from Goldsmith to Rights Aotearoa about the Ia Tangata report.

"Therefore, progressing the Commission’s recommendations is not a priority for the Government at this time."

The Law Commission’s Ia Tangata report Thank you for your email and accompanying letter of 9 September 2025, regarding your concerns about the Law Commission’s (the Commission) report: Ia ‘Tangata 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’. The Commission has made 27 recommendations for reform of the Human Rights Act 1993 (HRA). The Commission’s central recommendation is to add two prohibited grounds of discrimination to the HRA, which are: 1. gender identity or its equivalents in the culture of a person, and 2. having an innate variation of sex characteristics. The Commission also makes recommendations on how the 19 existing exceptions which allow, in prescribed circumstances, discrimination based on sex in the private sector, should apply to the two new prohibited grounds. The Commission’s report covers a number of complex questions and will attract a range of views. As Minister of Justice, I will be receiving advice over the coming months about the Commission’s recommendations. Whilst I do not want to predetermine the Government’s response, we have significant commitments and priorities in the Justice portfolio to restore law and order and improve timeliness in the courts. Therefore, progressing the Commission’s recommendations is not a priority for the Government at this time. The Government will formally respond to the recommendations from the Commission as required, by the beginning of March 2026. I acknowledge your request to meet with me, however, I regret that I am unable to meet with you at this time. Thank you for taking the time to write. Yours sincerely

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Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing against the clerks re this — I know the managing the cars they had been dealt.

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Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social · 1d

Somewhat frustrating when I have published scholarship directly on one of the core changes in the bill and provided extensive commentary on another (members access to info). 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Rhetoric or Reality? Recasting Local Government's Purpose and Role

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Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social · 1d

… — and only a couple of lunchtime slots left. Hmm, that’s tricky as that’s when I am convening an important university meeting. 🤷🏻‍♂️ …

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Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social · 1d

Called by the Clerk’s office late morning today to see if I still wanted to speak to my written submission on the Local Govt Amendment Bill. Sure, I said. But the committee is only slated to be hearing oral evidence tomorrow between 9:50am and 1:40pm…

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 2d

"Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report littered with errors including three nonexistent academic references and a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement."

bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 2d

“Deloitte was forced to investigate the report after University of Sydney academic Dr Christopher Rudge highlighted multiple errors in the document.”

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Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report

Deloitte will issue a partial refund to the government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a report littered with errors.

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Ben Yong @bymyong.bsky.social · 2d

I‘m giving a public talk at UCL on Thurs 16 Oct. The title is “Bureaucracy and distrust: the civil service in the constitution” looking at the civil service’s constitutional foundations, and how it might respond to a populist govt. @sirJJkc.bsky.social will chair!
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Hybrid | CLP - Bureaucracy and Distrust: The Civil Service in the Constitution

This lecture will be delivered by Dr Ben Yong, as part of the Current Legal Problems Lecture Series 2025-26

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Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social · 2d

ICYMI: Prof Kate O’Regan — former judge of South Africa’s constitutional court — is speaking at the NZ Centre for Public Law at Victoria University of Wellington this Tuesday at 12:30pm.

Register here:
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Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social · 6d

Great conference on the Bill of Rights Act, with insightful and sometimes challenging remarks.

Total 🐜 count = 81 across the two days.

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Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social · 6d

Keynote remarks from the Chief.

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Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social · 7d

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Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social · 7d

Forgot to post the score at stumps sorry.
🐜 = 36 n/o

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Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social · 7d

And David Lepofsky speaks about the Canadian experience re the duty to accommodate people with disabilities.

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Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social · 7d

And an excellent session on human rights and technology — during which I engaged Meta-AI to make a cartoon of me at the conference. 😳

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Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social · 7d

Interesting afternoon sessions on human rights … and employment law … and environmental law etc.

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Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social · 7d

New Fitzgerald v Muldoon fact pattern for an exam just dropped…? Hmmm… 🤔

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Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social · 7d

Lunch on the first day.

So far 13 weevils. 🐜

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Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social · 7d

Also, I should note that I am recording a count of the number of times our precious rights instrument is described in terms of weevil… 🐜

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Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social · 7d

And he proposes the repeal of section 4 — but subject a legislative override power. However, disallowance power wouldn’t apply retrospectively to existing legislation.

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Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social · 7d

And typically rousing remarks from Sir Geoffrey!

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Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social · 7d

Excellent keynote from Prof Kate O’Regan.*

* She’s speaking in Wellington next Tuesday too!

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Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social · 7d

Bill of Rights Act: legacy and lessons — where to now? 🤓#hecklingfromthebackrow

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