Changing climate law to prevent civil cases removes a key protection for NZ citizens
- Written by Bjørn-Oliver Magsig, Senior Lecturer in Law, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Ben McKay/AAP, Mark Baker/AP, The ConversationThe government’s plan to change the law to bar claims for harms from greenhouse gas emissions shuts down New Zealand’s most important climate tort case, meaning it will never be decided on its merits.
The move overrides a unanimous Supreme Court decision that Smith v Fonterra, a case...





