#annualwager 🏉💛🖤🏉

Farewelling our friend and Mixed Veges stalwart, Kernel Corn, today. 🌽 ❤️

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...

#rantsandreckons before Justice select committee today on “Declarations of inconsistency: public protection orders and extended supervision orders” ala Chisnall etc.

Bless.

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...

Double order of flat whites for final pass on proofs. 🤓

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 🏈

#cmonetc 🏈

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...

Bless.

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. 🌽

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

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...

If you’d like to read the full judgment, it’s available here: www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/assets/cases...

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

My colleague, Dr Ria Holmes, rocking the annual Public Law in the Classroom workshop at #UNSW. 🤓

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...

Bless.

Bless.

💯 www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

Yuss!!

THE SUPREME COURT IN 2025 A thread with some headline figures about the UK Supreme Court's output in 2025. For last year's thread on the 2024 numbers, see here: bsky.app/profile/lewi... For more detailed figures, send me an email.

First select committee submission of the year — on declarations of inconsistency (PPOs and ESOs) — dispatched. 🤓

#rantsandreckons 🤓 www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

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Fellow creative… ☕️

Well, that wasn’t on my 2026 bingo card… 🏉

'Extrajudicial Communication: Perspectives and Practice' - new book of interest out in May 2026 which addresses the phenomena of extrajudicial communication. www.wildy.com/isbn/9781509...

#bump Apps close: 19 January 2026 (NZT), ie, this coming Monday!

And Canadian friends — what’s yours? 🤔

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And Canadian friends — what’s yours? 🤔

British colleagues: Biggest legal development or judicial ruling in public law for 2025? 🤔

The January 2026 issue of @publiclaw.bsky.social is now available on Westlaw. Analysis pieces from @erinferguson.bsky.social on the Tortoise Media and Sammut decisions; Dan Meagher on the interaction of art and non-discrimination law; and @diggorybailey.bsky.social on use of explanatory notes ...

Half days — but only to complete a specific project — this week. ☕️

One of the first events of the political year in Aotearoa New Zealand is expected to be the announcement of the date of this year’s general election.

I guess that the previous thread means I’ve given away another plausible exam question… 🤦🏼‍♂️

One of the first events of the political year in Aotearoa New Zealand is expected to be the announcement of the date of this year’s general election.

👀 careers.regulation.govt.nz/jobs/6872959... Apps close: 5pm, Wed 14 January 2026

Ode to @caravanrestaurants —broken lamb meatballs with aubergine on labneh and chermoula etc. #yumbles