There have always been lawyers-aplenty in parliament, but taking a leaf from the LawFuel book, The Herald’s Sasha Borissenko decided to take a look at some of the ‘more colourful’ of the profession by providing her ‘listicle’. >> See the LawFuel Power List – The Country’s 50 Most Powerful Lawyers Perhaps unsurprisingly, Winston Peters did […]
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Nola Dangen, a leading member of the Auckland District Law Society and a lawyer experienced in disciplinary and ethical matters through her Law Society work, has been suspended for two months for negligence “at the very high end of the negligence spectrum,” The suspension follows a ‘late’ admission of guilt and involves three apparent inaccurate
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Randerson to Pinochet And the Reverberating Judicial Fishing Epedition – Did Our New Chief Justice Just Get a “Fail” on the Fishing Expedition Case? John Bowie – Up here in Rarotonga, where I’m currently warming my bones, there remains a banana-republic taint that provides the island the sort of charm expected in small, tropical countries.
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The sudden death of highly experienced Christchurch barrister Tim Fournier has left colleagues and family mourning the death of the popular lawyer. He died on Friday after reportedly being injured in a fall. Known as both a cheerful and engaging personality, as well as a savvy and successful criminal defence lawyer, Fournier had been involved in
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When it comes to measuring true parity among law firms, it is the equity partner list that tells the true story of female parity in the large firms. The LawFuel equity partner list shows that more firms are disbanding the ‘paid partner’ roles, which conceal a multitude of issues, and instead provide true equity parity
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Brian Henry’s attempts to extricate himself from the Whaleoil defamation has become a question of the case that won’t go away. A Newsroom story reported that the “unorthodox advocate” has been trying to remove himself from the three year old defamation case following Whaleoil blogger Cameron Slater’s stroke last October. As a result of Slater’s
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LawFuel’s 2017 Lawyer of the Year, leading commercial silk David Goddard QC is to be appointed to the High Court and Court of Appeal on 26 July, which has raised some eyebrows for a reason quite separate from Mr Goddard’s unquestioned abilities and intellect. The concerns raised by several senior counsel were that the appointment
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Dunedin-based law firm Westgate & Williams has been ordered to pay a former personal assistant $30,000 after she was ‘humiliated and emotionally distressed’ by her dismissal. The employee, Joanne Morrison worked in the firm’s Balclutha office and an Employment relations Authority case in March has found that she was unfairly dismissed by the firm. An
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How and Why Linda Clark Left The Top Of Her Game In One Career To Move To The Law Kate Green & Rachel Moore – Moving from a successful career in journalism to law was a major step for Linda Clark. Now a partner at Kensington Swan, she spoke to LawFuel’s Kate Green and Rachel
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Bob Jones* In the legal battle between the sacked footballer and the Australian Rugby Union, the former is on pretty solid ground. The Rugby Union is relying on an agreement with Folau, following an earlier identical furore, that he would desist citing his religious beliefs publicly. The problem the ARU has is that such an
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