The NZ First Foundation issue has become more involved with media reports that Shane Jones’ office only disclosed a conflict of interest over the NZ First-linked forestry company loan application the day that Radio NZ made an Official Information request about the loan proposal. NZ Future Forest Products (NZFFP) – whose directors include Winston Peters’
Eugene DeMarco jailed today for defrauding aircraft company De Marco, 57, previously worked for the company owned by Sir Peter Jackson and Dame Fran Walsh after being charged with committing frauds while employed by The Vintage Aviator Limited (TVAL). He was today sentenced to jail to two years and five months’ imprisonment on five charges
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Dan Brennan* Car accidents are the major cause of death among healthy citizens in the United States, with over 40,000 fatal accidents each year and 1.24 million globally. On average over 2 million US drivers receive some injury through auto accidents (check the infographic below for more stats on the auto accident details). Those are
Global legal giant Baker + McKenzie have been under some stringent criticism for the way in which they handled the issues relating to the former senior partner, Gary Senior, who faces charges of sexually harassing a younger female solicitor. The criticism came at the 15 day hearing before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) where lead
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Milton Cheng, new Chair at Baker + McKenzie
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Auckland family law barrister and former co-convener of the Auckland District Law Society’s Family Law Committee, has been censured and fined after failing to turn up to court on three occasions, leaving his client facing a criminal trial without representation. Anthony Morahan failed to tell his client or the court that the reason he could
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When New Zealand MP Chloe Swarbrick let loose with her viral “OK, Boomer” snipe – after it completed its viral circuit and social media trending – also unleashed some generational warfare and an issue as to whether the comment is actually OK at work. American employment attorney Joseph Sirbak at Cozens O’Connor wrote that the
If you’ve been a victim of personal injury, your attorney could be the difference between no compensation and a high payout. It’s an issue confronting thousands of Americans when you consider the statistics. The National Center for Health Statistics, a department within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, records that around 31 million people are
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Accidents, by their sheer definition, can happen to anyone, anywhere. However, accidents do vary in where they happen, and to whom. Slip and fall accidents, for example, typically happen on property owned or maintained by someone else. In these cases, the property owner or manager may be held legally responsible. Slip and fall lawsuits are
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LOS ANGELES – A Riverside County tax preparer was sentenced today to 41 months in federal prison for defrauding the IRS out of more than $2.1 million by submitting phony tax returns, including ones that maximized fraudulent refunds through child tax credits and bogus businesses for hundreds of his clients. Dennis L. Reed II, 31,
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