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Some of the 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 Solicitor-General Una Jagose who for years ...
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 ...
A statement has been released to the profession from the Chief Justice of New Zealand as new Covid-19 court operating protocols come into effect from midnight on Tuesday 13th September.
A statement has been released to the profession from the Chief Justice of New Zealand as the sad news travelled the world, that Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has passed.
A bill sponsored by Labour backbencher Dr Deborah Russell to extend the deadline for filing personal grievances for sexual harassment has come a step closer to becoming law. Parliament’s Education and Workforce ...
This is an edited extract from Wood’s keynote address to the Australian jobs summit last week. In an economic landscape that is increasingly digital, increasingly focused on services sector work and increasingly ...
From the outside, a sexual harassment victim looks like a once-performing employee who gradually loses confidence, starts to under-perform, begins taking excessive sick leave and makes careless mistakes. A bill ...
In an economic landscape that is increasingly digital, increasingly focused on services sector work and increasingly focused on a looming deadline for net zero emissions, Danielle Wood puts forward three priorities ...
Some 30,000 societies incorporated under the Incorporated Societies Act 1908 and the Charitable Trusts Act 1957 are likely to be transferred to the new incorporated societies regime within the next few ...
Former Chief Justice Dame Sian Elias and her son, historian and lawyer Ned Fletcher, took the stage at the Auckland Writers’ festival last weekend for a discussion about why the law is too important to be left to ...
Most law firms should have a lawyer or work group assigned to deal with inquiries about the new Act and those who will be doing this work need to start up-skilling themselves now.
Courts in the US and Britain have made legal history by allowing documents to be served on defendants over the blockchain ledger by NFT in order to try in a bid to stop unidentified crypto asset thieves in their ...
The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) has signalled a crackdown on fund managers who claim their products are environmentally friendly but fail to back up these assertions by clearly explaining to investors how and ...
The family court are currently undertaking a review of the list of lawyers on the lawyer for child list.
It is imperative that NZLS avoids the post-modernist fetish of tearing down long-established institutions and traditions, only to replace them with ideological fantasy.
Did you know, in fact the rule is not as strict as commonly understood? A self-dealing transaction can be approved by the court in various circumstances – for example, if there is an independent valuation of at ...