Dr Dean Knight
@drdeanknight.bsky.social
⟦ law + govt ⟧ ⟦ coffee + kai ⟧ ⟦ critic + conscience ⟧ ⟦ rugby + rugby ⟧ ⟦ rainbows + unicorns ⟧ — usual disclaimers apply
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ICYMI: Our annual Govt Law - Year in Review event at @vicuniwgtn.bsky.social is next Wednesday. Plenty of great topics and speakers on the programme. Get your ticket now! 🤓
www.wgtn.ac.nz/public-law/e...
www.wgtn.ac.nz/public-law/e...
February 12, 2026 at 4:53 AM
ICYMI: Our annual Govt Law - Year in Review event at @vicuniwgtn.bsky.social is next Wednesday. Plenty of great topics and speakers on the programme. Get your ticket now! 🤓
www.wgtn.ac.nz/public-law/e...
www.wgtn.ac.nz/public-law/e...
February 12, 2026 at 6:46 AM
#rantsandreckons before Justice select committee today on “Declarations of inconsistency: public protection orders and extended supervision orders” ala Chisnall etc.
February 12, 2026 at 6:27 AM
#rantsandreckons before Justice select committee today on “Declarations of inconsistency: public protection orders and extended supervision orders” ala Chisnall etc.
ICYMI: Our annual Govt Law - Year in Review event at @vicuniwgtn.bsky.social is next Wednesday. Plenty of great topics and speakers on the programme. Get your ticket now! 🤓
www.wgtn.ac.nz/public-law/e...
www.wgtn.ac.nz/public-law/e...
February 12, 2026 at 4:53 AM
ICYMI: Our annual Govt Law - Year in Review event at @vicuniwgtn.bsky.social is next Wednesday. Plenty of great topics and speakers on the programme. Get your ticket now! 🤓
www.wgtn.ac.nz/public-law/e...
www.wgtn.ac.nz/public-law/e...
My eyes are too old to read footnote text! 👀
February 10, 2026 at 12:10 AM
My eyes are too old to read footnote text! 👀
Double order of flat whites for final pass on proofs. 🤓
February 9, 2026 at 9:11 PM
Double order of flat whites for final pass on proofs. 🤓
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John Campbell returns to RNZ as Morning Report co-host on April 13
John Campbell returns to RNZ as Morning Report co-host on April 13
The veteran broadcaster will join Ingrid Hipkiss as the new co-host of Morning Report on April 13.
www.rnz.co.nz
February 9, 2026 at 8:35 PM
John Campbell returns to RNZ as Morning Report co-host on April 13
I may have just raised my arms in the air and yelled “TOUCHDOWN”, while sitting in my garden scribbling away with the match streaming beside me… #seahawks 🏈
February 9, 2026 at 2:29 AM
I may have just raised my arms in the air and yelled “TOUCHDOWN”, while sitting in my garden scribbling away with the match streaming beside me… #seahawks 🏈
Also, the column fudges whe pointing to Elias CJ’s tenure as its case for change — when her first 5/20 years as chief justice weren’t as a member of the apex/Supreme Court?
February 8, 2026 at 7:54 AM
Also, the column fudges whe pointing to Elias CJ’s tenure as its case for change — when her first 5/20 years as chief justice weren’t as a member of the apex/Supreme Court?
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This column is hiding the point it wants to make. We haven’t had a head of bench at DC, HC or CA level in station for longer than six-ish years in the last 25. It’s really a column against limits for CJ.
www.nzherald.co.nz/business/why...
www.nzherald.co.nz/business/why...
Deborah Chambers: Why we need term limits on our most powerful judges
OPINION: New Zealand's Chief Justice can currently lead the courts for up to 20 years.
www.nzherald.co.nz
February 8, 2026 at 5:59 AM
This column is hiding the point it wants to make. We haven’t had a head of bench at DC, HC or CA level in station for longer than six-ish years in the last 25. It’s really a column against limits for CJ.
www.nzherald.co.nz/business/why...
www.nzherald.co.nz/business/why...
Donned the lapel pin and joined some lads at the Brooklyn pub last night to honour one of our fallen soldiers. 🥹
Vale, Kernel Corn, vale. 🌽
Vale, Kernel Corn, vale. 🌽
February 5, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Donned the lapel pin and joined some lads at the Brooklyn pub last night to honour one of our fallen soldiers. 🥹
Vale, Kernel Corn, vale. 🌽
Vale, Kernel Corn, vale. 🌽
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
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A reminder that the NZ Centre for Public Law’s usual Government Law - Year in Review event is less than a fortnight away. #bestreckonsandbestvalueintown 🤓
Full programme below.
Register here:
www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/2026-gover...
Full programme below.
Register here:
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February 4, 2026 at 8:07 PM
A reminder that the NZ Centre for Public Law’s usual Government Law - Year in Review event is less than a fortnight away. #bestreckonsandbestvalueintown 🤓
Full programme below.
Register here:
www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/2026-gover...
Full programme below.
Register here:
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If you’d like to read the full judgment, it’s available here: www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/assets/cases...
February 5, 2026 at 2:57 AM
If you’d like to read the full judgment, it’s available here: www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/assets/cases...
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Today, the Court of Appeal has given clarity and confidence to medical professionals in Aotearoa to continue prescribing GnRH agonists/reversible pubertal suppression. You can read PATHA’s statement at patha.nz/news
February 5, 2026 at 2:52 AM
Today, the Court of Appeal has given clarity and confidence to medical professionals in Aotearoa to continue prescribing GnRH agonists/reversible pubertal suppression. You can read PATHA’s statement at patha.nz/news
A reminder that the NZ Centre for Public Law’s usual Government Law - Year in Review event is less than a fortnight away. #bestreckonsandbestvalueintown 🤓
Full programme below.
Register here:
www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/2026-gover...
Full programme below.
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www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/2026-gover...
February 4, 2026 at 8:07 PM
A reminder that the NZ Centre for Public Law’s usual Government Law - Year in Review event is less than a fortnight away. #bestreckonsandbestvalueintown 🤓
Full programme below.
Register here:
www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/2026-gover...
Full programme below.
Register here:
www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/2026-gover...
I should add that that's probably not dissimilar to the standard of review standard in Datafin etc - especially where the body has the power to re-legislate the governing instrument at whim (hence, if I recall, only a declaration about what particular words in constn meant)?
February 2, 2026 at 7:24 AM
I should add that that's probably not dissimilar to the standard of review standard in Datafin etc - especially where the body has the power to re-legislate the governing instrument at whim (hence, if I recall, only a declaration about what particular words in constn meant)?
I’m not saying that will prevail either. FWIW, I reckon it gets in the door on publicness etc but with a very light hands standard - prob restricted to meaning of constitution and processes.
February 2, 2026 at 5:56 AM
I’m not saying that will prevail either. FWIW, I reckon it gets in the door on publicness etc but with a very light hands standard - prob restricted to meaning of constitution and processes.