Essay Legal Commentators and the Waitangi Tribunal – Law Assignment Help

Assignment Task:

• QUESTION ONE (40 marks)

 Legal commentators and the Waitangi Tribunal note that: “While the reports of the [Waitangi] Tribunal are often influential in court proceedings, the Tribunal itself is not a court.” 

Write an essay exploring at least two or three arguments for and two or three arguments against the following proposition: 

‘Since its recommendations cannot be enforced by the courts, the Waitangi Tribunal cannot adequately ensure that the obligations to M?ori under the Treaty of Waitangi are honoured by the Crown’

 In your conclusion, indicate which arguments you find most persuasive and why.

• QUESTION TWO (30 marks) 

Write an essay exploring at least two or three arguments for and two or three arguments against the following proposition: 

‘The current constitutional arrangements in Aotearoa do not adequately safeguard the rights of individual citizens or the rights of M?ori as Tangata Whenua’ 

In your conclusion, indicate which arguments you find most persuasive and why. 

• QUESTION THREE (30 marks) 

‘A lawyer is not a “hired gun”, available to do anything for money…. A lawyer must place obligations to the court before those owed to the client.’ 

* *Ruru, Scott, Webb, The New Zealand Legal System: Structures and Processes, 6th ed., LexisNexis, Wellington, 2016, at 332