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Are The Crown Solicitors’ Still Making Too Much . . Or Is That Just One Media Report?

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John Bowie* The funding for the 16 Crown Solicitors’ offices, at $41 million, has piqued the interest of Guyon Espiner in an article in RNZ pointing to Auckland Crown Solicitor and Power List member Brian Dickey luxuriating’ in a “light-filled space on the top floor of a central city Auckland high rise”. Dickey, at Meredith […]

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The ‘Virgin’ Lawyer Behind The New Zealand Banking Class Action

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Scott Russell doesn’t necessarily come across as a big ticket litigator, but he has a potentially billion dollar claim to  handle now and has the cred to pull it off, particularly with his well funded backing from the litigation funders on both sides of the Tasman. A former Bell Gully lawyer, Russell moved to London

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Multi-Million Dollar Banking Class Action Against ANZ and ASB Seeks Repayment of Interest & Fees

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Power List lawyers acting on major class action A major class action filed in Auckland today against the ANZ and ASB banks is seeking repayment of interest and fees to 150,000 customers for alleged breaches of the consumer protection laws. The action is jointly funded by Australia-based litigation funder CASL and New Zealand litigation funder

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Women Storm The LawFuel Power List of New Zealand’s Most Powerful Lawyers

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More women than ever make the top 50 most powerful and influential lawyers in New Zealand on LawFuel list The top fifty in LawFuel Power Law list of the country’s most influencial lawyers in the Power List includes more women than ever, with 23 women making the list, the highest in the five years’ the

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Covid Court – How Covid is Changing Face(s) of Court Trials . . And Juries

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As New Zealand’s alert levels edge downwards the changing face of trials and court work has entered the realms of the new normal – face masks, scanning-in and social distancing. New laws and case law continue and academic treatises on the effect of Covid on society, the law, Maori, the justice system and more continue

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The Judge Who Queried The Obvious: Why Send Drug Users to the Drug Suppliers?

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It’s a bit like coals-to-Newcastle, or having the Taliban come to teach us how to educate more women. For District Court Judge Russell Collins, providing a discount to a Mongrel Mob member who was to attend the taxpayer-funded meth-treatment programme run by operated in part by the so-called ‘notorious’ Sonny Smith, a high profile Mob

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Five Russell McVeagh Partners Recognised in Women in Business Law Awards

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Five talented Russell McVeagh partners have been recognised as leading lawyers across Asia in their areas of specialty at the Women in Business Law Awards 2021 Asia.   Top Banking and Finance partner Deemple Budhia and market-leading Technology and Digital partner Liz Blythe were each named ‘Lawyer of the Year’ for a second consecutive year in their areas of ‘Structured Finance and Securitisation’

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Russell McVeagh Partner Departure

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A Russell McVeagh partner has resigned following an ‘independent external” review by an investigator over alleged breach or breaches of the firm’s policies, which the partner denies having breached. “A partner has recently resigned from the Russell McVeagh partnership. This followed the appointment of an independent external investigator to complete a thorough investigation into concerns raised that the

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Shane Reti On Labour’s ‘Meth Use and Misery’ Plan

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Labour’s short-sighted decision in 2018 to scrap National’s highly successful Meth Action Plan – and its outright refusal to accept that New Zealand has a gang problem – is contributing to a surge in gang membership, meth use and misery in New Zealand’s most deprived communities, National’s health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. Wastewater testing

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How The Colin Craig Lawsuit Pandemic Was Tangled By A Perception of Justice Fishhook

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John Bowie* Looking at the seemingly endless era of poet and property manager Colin Craig’s pursuit of various lawsuits that continue to define both him and the law of defamation, we can turn to the perhaps more significant issue of how the judicial time expended on this chundering churn of litigation might have been avoided.

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