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Prominent Maori Arts Educator Donna Grant Charged With Fraud

New Zealand Law News, NZ Press Releases /

Prominent Maori performing arts educator Donna Grant has appeared at the Rotorua District Court on charges laid by the Serious Fraud Office. Mrs Grant faces representative charges of ‘Dishonestly using documents’ and ‘Obtaining by deception’ and individual charges of ‘Creating a forged document’ and ‘Using a forged document’. The SFO alleges that the defendant used

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Strong Demand For Lawyers in New Zealand, Says LawFuel Law Jobs Network

New Zealand Law News /

The jobs market for New Zealand lawyers remains strong with a range of new jobs coming onstream. LawFuel law jobs site and social media pages have shown a record number of new postings, ranging from in-house jobs (Gisborne, Auckland, Wellington) to provincial firms seeking lawyers in practice areas ranging from relationship property and family work

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Q+A: Lawyer Catriona MacLennan interviewed by Corin Dann

New Zealand Law News, NZ Press Releases /
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Judges need more training in domestic violence law – Lawyer Catriona MacLennan Catriona MacLennan told TVNZ 1’s Q+A programme that the Domestic Violence Act is an excellent law but it’s not being applied properly. ‘I’ve been saying for a long time that I think judges need a lot more training in domestic violence, and this

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When to ‘cry halt’ – lawful dismissals on medical grounds

Briefings, Briefings, New Zealand Law News /
Worried

MinterEllisonRuddWatts –  Deciding whether to end an employment relationship on medical grounds can cause quite the headache for employers. Helpfully, drawing on existing cases, the Employment Court (Court) has confirmed the core principles to follow in medical incapacity situations in its recent decision in Lyttelton Port Company v Arthurs [2018] NZEmpC 9. Mr Arthurs had

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Jim Farmer Weighs In On MacLennan ‘Investigation’ Calling For Law Society Committee to Be Reined In

Law Firms, Lawyers, New Zealand Law News /
Inquiry

Jim Farmer QC has heavily criticised the Law Society’s standards committee for their prosecution of barrister Catriona MacLennan, saying he “earnestly hoped that the Law Society will quickly rein in its National Standards Committee.” Ms MacLennan, who has publicly pronounced that she would ‘not be silenced’ on the matter’, criticised the comments and decision by

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Australian Class Action Firm Takes Shine to New Zealand

Australia Law News, New Zealand Law News /
Class action lawyers

Australian-based litigation lawyers Shine Lawyers are making a splashy entrance to the New Zealand legal scene, taking naming rights over a downtown Auckland building and providing a presence in Christchurch, with an eye on the insurance claims in the south. SHine is listed on the ASX and has over 850 lawyers in Australia in a

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Aussie Celeb Eddie McGuire Takes on Facebook Over False ED Ad

Australia Law News, Featured, LawStars /
Petergordon

Ever wondered quite how those Facebook ads featuring famous faces can be legit? We do too. And now Australian media personality Eddie McGuire, whose face was used to market an erectile dysfunction ‘solution’, is taking legal action against Facebook to challenge the practice. The ad, like so many, was a spoof and using a high

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Manhattan US Attorney Announces $6.6 Million Settlement Against CityMD for False Medicare Claims

Press Releases /

CityMD Admits that it Billed Medicare for More Expensive and Complex Services Than it Performed, and Billed Medicare Under the Names of Doctors Who Did Not Actually Render the Services Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today a settlement of a civil fraud lawsuit against CityMD.

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#Hertoo? NZ #Metoo Critic Not Invited to Law Society Task Force Membership

Lawyers, New Zealand Law News /
Olivia

The #Metoo campaign has seen high profile and vocal lawyer Olivia Wensley banned by the Law Society from participating in the Society’s panel investigating a raft of sexual harassment complaints from within the profession but says she will continue  “calling out the profession” Although Law Society President Kathryn Beck said Ms Wensley would be invited

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