New Zealand’s Quiet Constitutional War Is Getting Louder Attorney-General Chris Bishop, fresh from yet another National Party leadership stoush and infrastructure fisticuffs, has tipped his toes into the quicksands of tikanga Māori, judicial power and climate litigation. For a former Russell McVeagh and Crown Law summer clerk with scant hands on legal experience the boy
Zuru and Rascals International have lost their High Court case against the owners of rival nappy brand Treasures, ending a long-running commercial dispute with an uncomfortable finding about statements made by Zuru co-founder Nick Mowbray to Countdown. The decision is a reminder that commercial communications made to a customer can create Fair Trading Act exposure
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Auckland-based legal and tax AI company Nylon, formerly Law Cyborg, has opened a Seed funding round seeking $20 million to accelerate growth in the United Kingdom and prepare its product for the United States market. Founded by former EY and EY Law tax lawyer Andrew Wierda, (pictured) Nylon provides AI-powered tax and legal research for
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Latest NZ law jobs – Napier Roles – Check LawFuel Jobs The Kim Dotcom extradition saga has devolved into a staggering display of judicial inefficiency, exposing a glaring incompetence at the heart of New Zealand’s justice system, according to Deborah Chambers KC’s latest NZ Herald column. After more than a decade of endless legal gymnastics,
Britomart Chambers continues its expansion, but this time with its new Queenstown Chambers, setting up shop in the impeccably manicured, aggressively tranquil confines of Millbrook Resort. Negotiating a grueling settlement in a windowless boardroom, or even one with a view of Rangitoto, has nothing when compared to being a few steps away from a world-class
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Bell Gully may have led the New Zealand legal team, but one of the more interesting features of the Warkworth to Te Hana Public Private Partnership (PPP) is the involvement of global infrastructure specialist Ashurst Perkins Coie. For a 26‑kilometre stretch of Northland highway, that might sound like over‑lawyering. The concrete may be poured in
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Former MinterEllisonRuddWatts star Silvana Schenone is making career waves again, exiting local investment bank Jarden, who have had their ups and downs in recent years, to join fast‑rising Australian player Barrenjoey and taking her trans‑Tasman dealmaking clout with her. However the move has attracted the ire and investigation of Jardens as the Australian Financial Review
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Greater Wellington Regional Council (GWRC) has taken the unusual step of suing its former law firm, Luke Cunningham Clere, in the High Court, seeking to recover millions of dollars in ratepayer funds spent on a failed Resource Management Act enforcement and subsequent civil claims. From wetland prosecutions to appeal catastrophe GWRC originally brought 35 criminal
Sam Neill may never have practised law but he has spent a large amount of time circling the profession, as though the legal world kept trying to recruit him before Hollywood arrived with dinosaurs and better catering. Before Jurassic Park, before the vineyard, before the endlessly reposted photos with farm animals, Sam Neill, who died
A senior lawyer’s misconduct case has peeled back the curtain on what prosecutors describe as a full-blown system breakdown at a North Island law firm. Missed court deadlines, inadequate supervision of juniors, unlawful “de facto” practice, and a staff walk-out triggered by an “unpleasant” email. The prosecution, brought by the Law Society’s National Standards Committee,
