Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/Law task force

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Nau mai, haere mai to the WikiProject New Zealand Law task force. The aim of this sub-project is to improve the coverage of New Zealand law-related articles.

The scope of this sub-project covers all New Zealand law-related topics, for example:

• Te Tiriti o Waitangi (and anything relevant to Te Tiriti that is of relevance to law)
• New Zealand legislation, court cases, jurisprudence and judges
• People who have made significant contribution to, or are an interest within the scope of, New Zealand law

However, this does not include:

• Any Minister of the Crown or member of parliament by virtue of holding or their actions in that office
  Note: Their actions, such as passing statute, or other related legal policy may be relevant to the sub-project, however, their articles as a person fall outside the scope of this project (See the WikiProject NZ politics task force instead)

If you are in doubt whether something falls under the scope of this sub-project, just ask.

To join the task force, place the following userbox on your userpage:

{{User WikiProject New Zealand/Law task force}}

Category:WikiProject New Zealand law task force participants shows the membership of the task force.

Note that you can watchlist these alerts:

Good article nominees

• 04 Dec 2024 – New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Carolina2k22 (t · c); start discussion

Peer reviews

• 04 Sep 2024 – University of Canterbury Faculty of Law (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by MitchellMatchbox (t · c); see discussion

Any articles that are within the scope of this project should be tagged with the project banners of WikiProject New Zealand and WikiProject Law. You may also find {{WikiProject banner shell}} useful.

For stub class articles, apply one of the three templates at the bottom of the article:

• General law stub: {{NewZealand-law-stub}}
• Case law stub: {{NewZealand-case-law-stub}}
• Law biography stub: {{NewZealand-law-bio-stub}}

Assessment results in articles are included in the table at the top of this page. Article class and law importance are the aspects to be assessed:

• Add{{WPNZ}} to the talk pages of articles that come under WikiProject New Zealand's scope.
• Articles that come under this politics task force's scope should have |law=yes included in the WPNZ template. Importance to this task force can be defined by including and filling in the law-importance= parameter.
• For example, for a start class article of low importance for WPNZ, but mid importance for the law project, the full template entry would look like this: {{WPNZ|class=start|importance=low|law=yes|law-importance=mid}}. See WP:WikiProject New Zealand/Assessment for more information.
• Many articles will be needed to be tagged with the law task force parameter.

The table updates itself about daily. It's done by a bot, so if you have just assessed an article, the table itself will not change immediately.

To-do list for WikiProject New Zealand law task force: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2023-07-01 Split subsidiaries of Lists of Acts of the New Zealand Parliament by parliament Note: The naming scheme for individual parliaments could be: List of Acts of the 53rd New Zealand Parliament; Redlinking all acts under these lists may also be helpful Improve coverage of prominent court cases and pages for judges of senior courts that meet WP:GNG Add importance to NZLAW articles without importance tagged

The naming of articles should follow WP:TITLE (Wikipedia article title policy) and WP:NCNZ (New Zealand naming conventions for article titles.

When creating an article for an act use its title, inclusive of the year, (i.e. Abortion Legislation Act 2020). For acts passed before 2000, use its short title instead of its long title, and include its long title in the infobox. Acts passed on or after 2000 do not have long titles. An example introduction of an act in the lead is:

The Abortion Legislation Act 2020 is an Act of Parliament in New Zealand that [succinctly summarise what the act does/covers]. [Additional information summarising article content, if applicable].

When creating an article an article for a court case, use the full court case's title as displayed on NZLII. Ensure that you follow guidance for case names as in the New Zealand Law Style Guide. An example NZ court case good article is Make It 16 Incorporated v Attorney-General, and example introduction of a court case in the lead is:

Make It 16 Incorporated v Attorney-General [2022] NZSC 134 is a decision of the [court name, make sure to wikilink—i.e., Supreme Court of New Zealand] which [explain outcome of case]. [Additional information summarising article content, if applicable].

For legislation after 2000, do not include a long title in the infobox as these have not been used since prior to 2000. However, when adding long titles for pre-2020 legislation ensure that you are using the long title as written in the legislation and not elsewhere.

Most of the law task force act or court case articles will follow, respectively, the following article structure:

• Legislative features (explains the act more in depth)
• Legislative history or History (may consist of a background sub-heading and sub-headings for some/all of its stages in parliament)

• Background (may consist of general background, as well as sub-headings for any previous action in a lower court, or related cases)
• Judgment (consists of in-depth coverage of the court's judgment; use sub-headings if there are multiple opinions)
• Appeal (consists of in-depth coverage of the subsequent appeals and the judgment of those courts; use sub-headings for multiple appeals and opinions within them)
• Responses (responses to the court's judgment)

Ensure that you are adhering to WP:MOS. Common style guidelines and additional guidelines with particular relevancy to this task force include:

• Avoid legalism abbreviations such as Winkelmann CJ or France J. Instead, type out Chief Justice Helen Winkelmann on first reference, and Winkelmann afterwards, or in the case of another justice, Justice Ellen France on first reference, and France afterwards. Remember to change the wiki-links as necessary. (see WP:MOS on unwarranted abbreviations)
• Avoid using honorifics in prose unless necessary and appropriately use post-nominals. (see MOS:HON and MOS:POSTNOM)
• Avoid the capitalisation of Act unless within a phrase such as Act of Parliament or Act of the New Zealand Parliament. If Act is being used standalone, it should not be capitalised and instead be act. (see MOS:INSTITUTIONS)
• When referencing parliament, refrain from using Parliament of New Zealand, and instead use the more common phrase of New Zealand Parliament. Also avoid using Parliament standalone, it should not be capitalised and instead be parliament. (see MOS:INSTITUTIONS)

• Template:Cite NZLII (cite court cases, linking to NZLII)
• Template:Cite Legislation NZ (cite legislation, linking to NZLII)

• Lists of statutes of New Zealand
• Category:High Court of New Zealand cases
• Category:Court of Appeal of New Zealand cases
• Category:Supreme Court of New Zealand cases
• Category:District Court of New Zealand judges
• Category:High Court of New Zealand judges
• Category:Court of Appeal of New Zealand judges
• Category:Supreme Court of New Zealand judges

• NZLII full databases list
  • NZ acts (as enacted)
  • NZ acts (as consolidated)
  • Supreme Court cases
  • Court of Appeal cases
  • High Court cases
  • District Court and Family Court cases