I am pleased, as the Director of Postgraduate Studies at the University of Auckland Law School, to welcome you to the new issue of the New Zealand Postgraduate Law e-Journal.

It is of course one of the objectives of university-based legal research, especially at postgraduate level, that the fruits of it should be not only publishable but published. This journal is intended to facilitate the achievement of that objective. The journal is run by the Law School’s own postgraduate students; that they have been able to take on such a project is a measure of the strength and vitality of the postgraduate student community. The Law School is proud of them.

To date, most of the articles and other pieces published in the Journal have been the work of the Law School’s own postgraduate students. The Journal’s aim, however, is to foster postgraduate research in law generally. It accordingly welcomes submissions from postgraduate students at any of New Zealand’s law schools. Indeed, the Journal welcomes submissions from students undertaking postgraduate research in disciplines other than law, too, if the subject-matter of their research is the law. I hope you will enjoy this issue and that you will find it useful and stimulating.

Dr MICHAEL LITTLEWOOD, Director of Postgraduate Studies, The University of Auckland Faculty of Law

 

It is with great pleasure that we present the fourth issue of the New Zealand Postgraduate Law eJournal. We are about to enter the third year of the journal's existence and feel very gratified at the response so far from contributors and readers alike. Special mention is due to Saul Holt, whose article on appellate sentencing in the last issue was cited in a recent High Court judgment, indicating that things have certainly changed since the days when judges only cited the printed works of deceased authors in the legal Pantheon!

This edition contains articles that we hope our readership will find both stimulating and informative, representing as they do some of the best work at postgraduate level on the subject of the law. Included in this issue are pieces on topics as diverse as Korean environmental law, judicial oversight of election campaign broadcasting in New Zealand, and the controversial line of "Wrongful Birth" cases from the United Kingdom. We welcome any feedback on the contents of this issue.

Special thanks are, as ever, extended to our editors who have devoted a great deal of effort into giving this issue wings; and we would also like to welcome Carlene Nienaber onto the editorial staff. And finally, we offer our warm thanks to the journal's authors for their patience and endeavour. We wish you all the best in your future writing careers.

DAVID GRIFFITHS , NZPGLeJ Deputy Editor-in-Chief

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