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Dame Helen Winkelmann Says Rising Court Costs Put Rule of Law at Risk in New Zealand

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Chief Justice Dame Helen Winkelmann has sounded the alarm on rising court fees, warning that they’re making it harder for everyday New Zealanders to access justice. >> Best NZ Law Jobs on LawFuel’s Network Speaking at a New Zealand Law Society event, she highlighted how increased fees-some up by as much as 30 percent -are […]

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Class Actions – NZ Government’s Retrospective Law Change Threatens Consumer Protection

New Zealand, Power Law, Press Releases /
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Media Release | 9 April 2025 The Government’s proposed amendment to the Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act (CCCFA) has been criticised as explicitly discriminatory legislation benefiting major Australian-owned banks at the expense of New Zealand consumers. Banking Class Action lawyer, Scott Russell, says:  “This amendment represents unprecedented political interference with the judicial process, specifically

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Stephen Franks Hits Back At ‘Hysteria’ Over Letter

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Gender-Affirming Letter Backlash The letter written by Stephen Franks law firm, Franks Ogilvie regarding so-called ‘gender affirming care’ has created a firestorm of criticism and two Law Society and a Police complaint from those reportedly offended by the letter sent by Franks’ firm to general practices and warning of potential legal liability for advice they

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Elite Litigators Join NZ Law Power List

New Zealand, New Zealand Law News, Power Law /
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Although senior KCs and other barristers continue to exert their influence within the legal profession a younger group of litigators are already playing a key role in major litigation. Although commercial lawyers like Jack Hodder KC and Davey Salmon KC are have occupied significant places on the List, the new additions include effective litigators who

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NZ Law – Criminal Lawyer Joins LawFuel Power List Ranks

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Prominent criminal lawyer Emma Priest has joined the ranks of leading lawyers on LawFuel’s Power List as a result of both her work as an effective advocate and an effective legal educator. Emma Priest’s her’s two-decade journey has been marked by versatility and a career as a criminal lawyer, a job she loves as she

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Don Brash Sues Matthew Hooton in Defamation Action

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Former Reserve Bank Governor and Opposition Leader Don Brash has filed a defamation claims against Matthew Hooton after attempts to resolve the matter proved unsuccessful. >> Latest Law Jobs on LawFuel’s Network Brash, represented by Stephen Franks, has retained defamation lawyers Peter McKnight (pictured) and Ali Romanos as counsel and follows Files Defamation Claim Against

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The LawFuel Power List And New Zealand’s Top Criminal Lawyers

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Criminal lawyer Ron Mansfield KC has made the media regularly in his ‘Peaky Blinder’s cheesecutter in his much-‘Heralded’ Polkinghorne defence (thanks in part to the unprecedented Braunias reports). Should he be on the Top 40 ‘power law’ list currently being developed by LawFuel? Have your say on who must make the cut for the top

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DLA Piper Africa partners with Olympic gold medallist and African sprint sensation Letsile Tebogo

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DLA Piper’s Olympian Partnership DLA Piper Africa is proud to announce its partnership with 2024 Olympic Gold medallist and African sprint sensation, Letsile Tebogo. Under its partnership, DLA Piper Africa will be Tebogo’s official legal sponsor, providing the 21-year-old Motswana sprinter with legal services locally in Botswana, across Africa and globally. Born in Kanye, Botswana,

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“Communist Judge” Comment Leads To Legal Complaints To Attorney General

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>> Latest Law Jobs Here . . New Jobs Daily Comments by Shane Jones that Justice Cheryl Gwyn was “a Communist Judge’ have lead to the inevitable criticism and complaints from lawyers. Justice Gwyn, appointed to the High Court in 2019, was formerly the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security. A former partner at both Chapman

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Investigation Into Law Society President Commenced

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The New Zealand Law Society has initiated an investigation into New Zealand Law Society president Frazer Barton with two private complaints against him being lodged with the Society. The investigations come in the wake of Barton’s connection to the destruction of documents by Presbyterian Support Otago, as detailed in the final report of the Royal

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