High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Charles Pierre Chauvel (born 16 April 1969) is a New Zealand lawyer and politician. Since 2006 he has been a Member of Parliament in the New Zealand House of Representatives. He is the first New Zealand MP of Tahitian ancestry. Chauvel is the current Chair of the Regulations Review Committees and member of the Privileges Committee, and is also the Labour Party Shadow Attorney General, and Spokesperson for Justice, and Arts, Culture and Heritage.