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Law Assignment in New Zealand - LAW 121G

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Laws in new Zealand (LAW 121G)

   

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LAW 121G - In this assignment, we will discuss about the laws in New Zealand and how the government of New Zealand establishes new laws to decrease the crime ratio in the country is beneficial to growing up

Law Assignment in New Zealand - LAW 121G

   

University of Auckland

   

Laws in new Zealand (LAW 121G)

   Added on 2020-03-13

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Running head: LAW ASSIGNMENTLaw AssignmentName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor Note
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1LAW ASSIGNMENTIn New Zealand, the Bill of Rights Act 1990 (the Act) confirms the fundamental rightsand freedoms. It governs the rules about the relationship between the people and the state in thecountry. The Act sets out the minimum standards about how the people of the country expect tobe treated in law and by the state with a view to ensure that the state exercises its powers in aresponsible manner. Under section 21 of the New Zealand Bill of Rights 1990 (NZBORA)incorporates the right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure which is also recognizedby the International Human Rights Community (Clarke and Council 2016). According to article21 every person has a right to be secured against search or seizure, whether of the property,person or correspondence or otherwise. This right to safeguard person from unreasonable search and seizure is concerned aboutsafeguarding the interests of individuals against unreasonable intrusions by the State. Theprotection of privacy is the sole purpose of section 21 of the NZBORA 1990 and individualswho become subject to such unreasonable search and seizure shall be entitled to a remedy, thepolice cannot use any material obtained during such unreasonable search and seizure asevidence. The Search and Surveillance Act 2012 establishes the statutory framework for theapplication of the law in practice, in New Zealand. The purpose of this statute is to recognize theimportance of the rights affirmed in the NZBORA 1990 and non-compliance with the provisionsshall be unlawful (Harvey 2015). In the given circumstances, if Blake is subject to strip search, after serving a three yearsentence, it shall amount to unreasonable search which is prohibited under section 21 of the NZBORA 1990(Gunasekara, Adams and Murata 2017). In other words, the commission of suchunreasonable search shall amount to infringement of the human rights guaranteed under article21 of the Bill of Rights 1990. However, the police officers must either be conferred with
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