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Law · October 2026

  1. Move-on orders: what police can require, of whom, and what a breach costs

  2. High Court rules Crown's Māori Wardens funding deal unlawful

  3. Enrolment closes tomorrow night, with youth sign-ups ahead of 2023

  4. Threat to burn Maketū Marae as Kāwhia landowners shut beach to vehicles

  5. Watson appeal: Crown says case is 'overwhelming' without Wallace's montage identification

  6. Watson's lawyers tell Supreme Court police 'primed' key witness before montage identification

  7. Christchurch and Ashburton family lawyers will have to file through new court portal from March 2027

  8. Former soldier convicted of attempted espionage named after losing suppression bid

  9. Food regulator's own assessment said silverbeet with banned pesticide could harm children. No recall was issued

  10. Commerce Commission takes two review sites to court over paid rankings

  11. Govt.nz app's digital IDs are due this month, six months after the minister's end-of-March promise

  12. Law firm took six months to report email hack it didn't recognise as a privacy breach

  13. Firearms licence decisions now go to an independent committee, and the regulator is called FSENZ

  14. The Arms Act 2026 is in force, and Police no longer license gun owners

  15. Labour would register lobbyists, limit urgency and scrap the ratepayer roll

  16. Privacy Commissioner gives Manage My Health and Health NZ until 2027 to fix security

  17. Licence actions against early childhood centres fell from 320 to 80 in two years, and ERO is now the regulator