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How – and Why – The NZ Transport Agency Sidelined Its Lawyers

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If They Didn’t Like What Was Happening Employees Were Told to ‘Get off the bus’ Anonymous* There are fresh revelations about the NZTA’s dubious work on developing new transport technologies, which details how NZTA officials under Fergus Gammie made astonishing and over the top promises about the potential for certain types of transport technologies they were wanting […]

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Former Israeli Businesswomen & Lawyer Wins Fairway Scholarship For Gender Power Paper

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Powered by LawFuel – The 2019 winner of the FairWay Resolution Anne Scragg Scholarship is Nurit Zubery. Born and raised in Israel, Nurit studied law at Tel-Aviv University and worked as a lawyer in the areas of litigation, commercial and employment law, prior to moving to NZ in 1999 where she has owned and managed

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Nigel Hampton QC

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31 Nigel Hampton, QC Last Year – No. 35 Remaining in the same position, Nigel Hampton QC was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the law. His active legal career continues, capping an already successful and esteemed involvement in his representation of the families of the Pike River

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Baker + McKenzie Act On Major Australia/NZ Paper Deal

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Orora Ltd Sells Australasian Fiber Business Powered By LawFuel –Baker McKenzie has successfully acted for its client, Orora Limited (ASX: ORA), in entering into a binding agreement to sell its Australasian Fiber Business to a wholly owned subsidiary of Nippon Paper Industries Co., Limited (Nippon Paper) for an enterprise value of AUD 1.72 billion. Baker

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Queenstown Lawyer Fined $15,000

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2 Criminal Convictions Lead to Censure Powered By LawFuel –A Queenstown lawyer has been fined $15,000 and censured by the New Zealand Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal, after receiving two criminal convictions. Adam McAra Copland was convicted in July 2018 for driving with excess breath alcohol and disqualified from driving for six months as part

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Second CBL Class Action Launched

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The litigation funders are fighting to battle CBL Corp, with the ‘first-up-best-dressed’ contender being Australian-based IMF Bentham, but now local heavyweight LPF Group has joined the fray with even more heavyweight institutional backing. The second class action against CBL Corp and its directors has been launched with the support of the company’s largest, institutional shareholder,

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Phil Newland

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20 Phil Newland October 29, 2018 by LawFuel Editors (Edit) The litigation landscape has been lit up with more claims than ever and one of the prime movers – and funders – is Phil Newland’s Litigation Funding Group, LPR. The slow-moving efforts to change the High Court rules relating to litigation funding have now slowed the movement towards

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MinterEllisonRuddWatts Advise Japanese Forestry Group on First OIA Standing Consent

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Hawkes Bay based and Japanese owned forestry and timber products company Pan Pac Forest Products Limited has received the first forestry standing consent under the Overseas Investment Act, with top law firm MinterEllisonRuddWatts advising throughout the process. Under the changes to the Overseas Investment Act introduced in 2018, a standing consent enables overseas persons like

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Bar Association Welcomes Decision on Meth Sentencing

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Revamp of guidelines for meth sentencing welcomed The New Zealand Bar Association welcomes a Court of Appeal decision which gives detailed guidance on sentencing people convicted of offences related to the importation, manufacture and supply of methamphetamine. The court accepted submissions by both the New Zealand Bar Association and the New Zealand Law Society that

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