Access to Justice – Survey report 2021 The largest ever survey of lawyers on ‘access to justice’ in Aotearoa New Zealand shows the legal aid system is on life support. Thousands are struggling to get legal aid, with potential life-changing consequences when they don’t, and Covid-19 has greatly aggravated the problem. Almost 3,000 lawyers responded
Chapman Tripp is stoked and stunned to have won New Zealand Law Firm of the Year for the sixth consecutive year in the KangaNews Awards for the Australian and New Zealand debt markets. The winners are decided purely on the votes of market participants. KangaNews does not employ an awards committee or ask for awards pitches.
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>> Latest law jobs on New Zealand’s Best Law Jobs Network Here Following the announcement of three new partner promotions last week, Russell McVeagh has promoted seven of its emerging leaders to Senior Associate. With a further two alumni senior lawyers having recently returned to the firm from overseas, they round out a total of nine new
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Wellington Crown Solicitors expand to Auckland
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Law firm Anderson Lloyd has launched a fixed-fee service to act for people who settled with Southern Response who are now entitled to a top up payment. It is estimated up to 3,000 homeowners may be entitled to further compensation where Southern Response underpaid their earthquake damage settlements, with the average top up payment expected
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Leading New Zealand law firm Russell McVeagh is set to further grow its partnership* with the announcement of the promotions of three outstanding lawyers and leaders of the firm – Jesse Fairley, Sarah Blackmore and Tom Gillespie. Appointed from today, 1 December 2021, these promotions continue the expansion of the firm’s senior teams and follow the partner appointments earlier
Jimmy Singh* – On 17 July 2020, the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) released the statistics report on the average income based on occupation (and state) for income year 2017/18. The report is based upon millions of 2018 income tax returns in respect to millions individuals, and hundreds of thousands of corporations. In a nutshell,
The America’s Cup legal wars heat up again as wealthy businessman Mark Dunphy launches an increasingly acrimonious fight to keep the next America’s Cup battle – that is, the on-the-water battle – in New Zealand waters. Dunphy’s lawyers have sent letters to Team New Zealand and to TNZ boss Grant Dalton, but senior barrister Jim
NZ First – Press Release – “Legislation passed that allows illegal iwi roadblocks to now become legal is pure legislative separatism,” says Winston Peters Leader of New Zealand First. “Not only does it allow the government to continue their dangerous separatist agenda, it makes a mockery of the policing system in New Zealand.” “The concept of
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Morrison Kent has been the latest New Zealand law firm to face Law Society complaints over an incident occurring at the firm’s 2019 Christmas Party that was allegedly offensive and racist. >> See the latest New Zealand law jobs here The firm said there were “isolated instances” where behaviour has fell short of expected standards
