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Lawyers don’t want or need an independent regulator. The job should be done by the New Zealand Law Society, but NZLS must first relinquish its representative role as an advocate for the profession to avoid actual ...
Peter Ellis’ convictions, while long ago, were not final. Unfortunately, neither will be the outcome of his appeal to the Supreme Court.
Ellis had been granted an extension of time to appeal but died before the ...
Arguably the most famous person sentenced under the “three strikes law”, Clinton Fitzgerald, was sentenced to jail for a seven year stretch after kissing a woman in the street. His sentence has now been overturned ...
The Incorporated Societies Act 2022 replaces the Incorporated Societies Act 1908 which, at 114 years old, was outdated and failed to address modern governance and management best practice. Incorporated societies ...
Arguably the most famous person sentenced under the “three strikes law”, Clinton Fitzgerald, went to jail for a seven-year stretch after kissing a woman in the street. His sentence has been overturned by the ...
The Incorporated Societies Act 2022 replaces the Incorporated Societies Act 1908 which, at 114 years old, was outdated and failed to address modern governance and management best practice. The Act marks the end of ...
The ADLS Employment Law committee has written to Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Michael Wood, asking for employment law advocates who don’t work for unions to be barred from appearing in the Employment ...
Has the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act 2009 (AML-CFT) and its implementation by regulators gone too far? Updates to the law that came into force on July 15 are bedding in and it’s ...
The ADLS Employment Law committee has written to Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Michael Wood, asking for employment law advocates who don’t work for unions to be barred from appearing in the Employment ...
Anti-money laundering and counter financing of terrorism are the bane of many businesses. On one hand, they’re a huge cost to organisations. On the other, they could be seen as a building block creating a civil ...
To do what we do now efficiently, we need better technology and the only way we can significantly expand access to justice is through smart use of technology.
To do what we do now efficiently, we need better technology and the only way we can significantly expand access to justice is through smart use of technology.
Armed with a big chunk of funding allocated in this year’s Budget, the Ministry of Justice and the judiciary are going to market to seek bids for Te Au Reka – the first phase of the long-awaited digitisation of New ...
There seems to be an ambivalence in New Zealand about freedom of expression.
Although the right to communicate and receive information is guaranteed by s 14 of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990, the ...
Some of our country’s top legal brains are backing calls for greater use of plain language in the law to make it more accessible for New Zealanders. Leading the charge is General Una Jagose who launched her ...
An untidy aspect of the law of trusts is knowing whether a proposed action is subject to a fiduciary constraint and, if so, to what extent. The Court of Appeal recently dealt with this question in Pollock v Pollock ...