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Michael Littlewood, University of Auckland Faculty of Law , has posted three papers on nineteenth-century New Zealand. The first is a short paper, Public Nuisance in Aotearoa New Zealand in 1849 . It “examines the Constabulary Force Ordinance enacted by the legislature of the New Zealand Province of New Munster in 1849" for its revelations into the everyday life of the time. A second paper, Nothing New under the Sun: Tax Avoidance in Otago in 1856 , reports on a tax on river crossings. The third Sir Geo
The History of the Technology and Construction Court on Its 150th Anniversary: Rewriting the Rules , edited by Peter Coulson and David Sawtell is now out from Bloomsbury/Hart: