Crown Law warned of ‘significant legal risks’ from foreshore and seabed changes

Treaty Negotiations Minister Paul Goldsmith received legal advice that his preferred approach to rolling back Māori access to customary marine title would “trigger a strong response from the courts” and “raised significant wider strategic legal risks for the Crown”.
The comments were referred to in the Regulatory Impact Statement on the changes, paraphrasing legal advice from Crown Law. Newsroom was provided an unredacted copy of the impact statement for the repeal by the House Office, which revealed passages that were redacted from the online version of the document.