Projects

Empirical work and software from my research and practice, followed by publications.

What a method can see: measuring s 30 of the Evidence Act 2006

Data and method behind an empirical study of 509 reported New Zealand judgments applying section 30, from 2007 to 2025. Includes the extraction schema, the validation results, and a log of twenty-one defects found in the pipeline and in the tools written to check it.

GitHub

Tea Party Tools

Software for New Zealand defence lawyers, in beta. The main application turns disclosure packages into searchable case databases on the lawyer's own machine. The suite also covers practice administration and legal aid invoicing.

teapartytools.co.nz

MCP servers

Model Context Protocol servers give AI tools structured access to a source, so that answers can be drawn from the source itself.

BB4U

The public Criminal Jury Trials Bench Book, including commentary, specimen directions and question trails, as a searchable local database.

teapartytools.co.nz

OMDB

The Immigration New Zealand Operational Manual as a searchable local database.

teapartytools.co.nz

NZLEG

Search and retrieval of New Zealand Acts, Bills and secondary legislation through the official legislation.govt.nz API, with structured text and historical versions where available.

OpenAlex MCP

Read-only literature reconnaissance over the OpenAlex scholarly graph: topic searches, field overviews and citation trails.

Publications

Also available on Google Scholar. Code and data are on GitHub.

Unseen breaches, unseen remedies: measuring the exclusionary rule in New Zealand

Canterbury Law Review, forthcoming

Human traffickers' fair trial rights and transnational criminal law

Anti-Trafficking Review, 2022, 159–173 · DOI

Research note: How modern slavery legislation might reimagine New Zealand companies' supply chains

With B Burmester, C Stringer and S Michailova. New Zealand Journal of Employment Relations 47(1), 2022, 17–24 · DOI

Toward a Modern Slavery Act in New Zealand: Legislative Landscape and Steps Forward

White paper, with C Stringer, B Burmester and S Michailova. Centre for Research on Modern Slavery, University of Auckland Business School, 2021

Human trafficking as a fisheries crime? An application of the concept to the New Zealand context

With C Stringer. Marine Policy 105, 2019, 169–176 · DOI

Is the law an ass when it comes to mules? How Indonesia can lead a new global approach to treating drug traffickers as human trafficked victims

With F Gerry QC, N Naibaho, J Muraszkiewicz and N Boister. Asian Journal of International Law 8(1), 2018, 166–188 · DOI

'Asian Values' and the 'ASEAN Way' in the case of human trafficking of fishermen

SSRN, 2017 · SSRN

Is there a problem in New Zealand waters? Prosecution, prevention and the protection of victims of human trafficking

Three-part series. New Zealand Law Journal, 2015

Human trafficking for forced labour at sea: an assessment of New Zealand's response

LLM thesis, University of Canterbury, 2013 · Repository

Confronting the challenge of human trafficking for forced labour in the Pacific: some thoughts from New Zealand

New Zealand Yearbook of International Law 10, 2012, 173–187

Book reviews

Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States

International Journal of Refugee Law 27(1), 2015, 198–200

Borderline Justice: The Fight for Refugee and Migrant Rights

International Journal of Refugee Law 26(3), 2014, 469–471