Aimed at promoting the study of technical aspects of criminal law and procedure, this site considers selected cases from the top appeal courts of Australia, Canada, the UK, the USA, the European Court of Human Rights and New Zealand. From August 2004 there have been approximately 780 entries, including book reviews.
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Criminal Procedure in New Zealand, 2nd ed 2015
The second edition (hardcopy) of the criminal procedure text by Professor Finn and me will be available from 23 October, and may be ordered from Thomson Reuters NZ Ltd. Electronic formats, updated quarterly, are also available by subscription.
Sunday, September 06, 2015
Life, and the meaning of Proust
“In Search of
Lost Time” – what does that mean? It is the search for happiness, for the
connection between past happiness and the state of being in the present which allows
us to exist outside time and to enjoy the essence of things. It is the search
for that which is common to the past and the present and which is more
essential than both because it energises the desire to live.
“let
a sound, a scent already heard and breathed in the past be heard and breathed
anew, simultaneously in the present and in the past, real without being actual,
ideal without being abstract, then instantly the permanent and characteristic
essence hidden in things is freed and our true being which has for long seemed
dead but was not so in other ways awakes and revives, thanks to this celestial
nourishment.”
Although the
book has strong themes of unequal love, of jealousy, hatred and disgust, of
death and grief, there is also an irrepressible happiness. The point is that,
although time will eventually drag us all down, it is only the extent to which our
spirit has soared with the joy of life that really matters.
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