2007

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – A recent High Court case contains some important lessons for lawyers, notably that you cannot deduct fees from funds held for a client without express authority, and that you must finish the work for which you have been retained unless you can give reasonable notice of termination, as Duncan […]

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Auckland lawyer John Hackett travels to Tanzania this month to climb Mt Kilimanjaro and, as he does, to raise money for people with cystic fibrosis, LawTalk reports. The AJ Park partner leaves for Tanzania on 17 September with a group of intellectual property lawyers and others closely associated with

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – If Conrad Black thought prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald was a lingering piece of gum beneath his brogue, wait till he re-meets Peter C. Newman. The self-described “establishment’s court jester” has written a 16-pager on the actionable Brahmin in the coming-soon issue of TL–and it is, by all accounts, juicy, dirty,

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – A leading solicitor is being investigated by police over allegations of bribery after a senior judge raised concerns about her conduct. Mudassar Arani will be the subject of a criminal inquiry into whether she attempted to bribe a defendant in the recent July 21 bomb trial and asked the

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Very rarely in history have people got together because of a common interest in a judge – and when they have it has usually been to conspire to do something nasty to him. Lord Denning is an exception. The social networking site Facebook has a thriving discussion group in

Wellington, September 3 (JY&A Media)LAWFUEL – Niue Island is making history by installing its very first-ever real-time booking and distribution system as part of developing their main economic industry—tourism. Christchurch-based SAFI Technologies Ltd. won the contract with funding made available from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), undertook an extensive international search and chose Wellington,

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – A Queensland judge will today become just the third woman to sit in the High Court of Australia. Justice Susan Kiefel will officially take up the position this afternoon in a ceremony at the High Court in Canberra. The 53-year-old Federal Court judge is regarded as a conservative and

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Good news for Scottish law firm Ledingham Chalmers who today announced “impressive” maiden results as a limited liability partnership, establishing the firm among the mid-tier law firms in the country, the Scotsman reports. The average profit per member for the year to 31 March was £146,000, based on turnover

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – TSB is the seventh major bank to plead guilty to breaching the Fair Trading Act by failing to properly disclose currency conversion fees paid by its credit card customers between 1 September 2002 and 19 December 2004. TSB customers paid fees of up to 1.75% of their total transactions