Dealing with self represented defendants has been an issue for the courts for some time, notwithstanding the Court of Appeal indicating that amicus curiae appointments should be rare to avoid conflicts, confusion and undermining the legal aid system. The Court of Appeal decision in Grenville Henare Fahey v. The Queen saw the court consider submissions
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Wellington Queen’s Counsel and former partner of what is now Minter Ellison Ken Johnston has been appointed an Associate Judge of the High Court. The appointment was announced by Attorney General David Parker. Ken Johnston practised from Lambton Chambers and has handled extensive arbitration work, as well as commercial and criminal trial and appellate work. Following
Slaughter & May – Superhuman Resources Slaughter and May and ASI Data Science, the high-growth British Technology firm, have published Superhuman Resources, a joint white paper on the responsible deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in business. We believe that AI could become the most transformative workplace technology of the 21st Century, with the associated need
Harris Beach PLC – With President Trump’s recent announcement of import tariffs on solar panels, the domestic solar energy industry now faces an additional challenge – how to continue to generate cost-competitive power in order to continue recent gains and achieve even greater energy market penetration. In recent years, U.S. solar developers have begun
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The law firm gender pay gap continues as before, according to a survey from a law firm recruiter in the UK which has surveyed London law firm partners. It comes as no surprise that women are consistently underpaid on the law pay front, notwithstanding the repeated efforts and statements from law firms about how they’re
January 29, 2018 – DLA Piper announced today that Michael Garfinkel and Miles Cooley have joined the firm’s Media, Sport and Entertainment practice as partners in Los Angeles. Garfinkel, who has spent more than 25 years as an entertainment industry litigator, joins DLA Piper from Perkins Coie LLP, where he served as its firmwide chair
Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that DEREK BROOMES, the former president and chief executive officer (“CEO”) of a nonprofit housing organization based in Harlem, New York (the “Housing Nonprofit”), pled guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Kevin Nathanial Fox to abusing his position at the
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Shaun Weaver – Kardashian Law has a ring to it, wouldn’t you agree. And given that Robert Kardashian Sr, one of OJ Simpson’s ‘Dream Team’ was a prominent lawyer, it should not perhaps surprise anyone to know that Kim Kardashian West has achieved a legal internship. Yet it does somehow. Except that it is with
Liz Swann Miller, the noted naturopath and nutritional author, recount5s a life changing event that occurred in Africa, which lead to the development of her popular, new ‘Red Tea Detox’ book. The development of the book resulted from an incident affecting the author in Africa, which almost cost her her life and lead to the
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Photo by LinkedIn Sales Navigator on Unsplash What are the liability risks for Airbnb property owners? How can you protect and secure your home, your finances, your livelihood? What can you do to minimize risk and ensure the success of your business? Whether you occasionally rent out a room or have multiple properties to manage,
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