Three public health advocates are relieved that their long-standing Whale Oil defamation trial against Cameron Slater, Carrick Graham, Katherine Rich and the Food and Grocery Council has finally concluded and they are pleased that the truth has come out. Shane Bradbrook, Doug Sellman and Boyd Swinburn settled their case at the High Court today, just […]
Tributes have flowed for former Law Society president Jonathan Temm, 58, who died this week. A Rotorua-based barrister who was appointed Queens’ Counsel in 2019, Jonathan Temm was a highly respected barrister and a popular member of the profession for his selflessness and humanity as much as for his service to the profession and his
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Lawyer of the Year Sponsors LexisNexis New Zealand [adrotate banner=”140″] Staedtler – The pens successful lawyers use Cassie Nicholson – Legal First Responder Government legal counsel Cassie Nicholson, perhaps the key legal figure behind the mountain of legal work required to be climbed during the Covid-19 pandemic, is LawFuel’s Lawyer of the Year for 2020.
BowPress.com- Newsroom’s Steve Braunias announces that the Ockham NZ Book Awards have gone ‘fully woke’ with the announcement of the contenders for the literary prize. Writing for Newsroom’s ReadingRoom, Braunias notes that New Zealand literaturehas long tried to be work and ‘made various woke noises’, but he notes thatthe recently announced 2021 Ockham New Zealand national book
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John Bowie* It’s an anniversary that the New Zealand law profession would rather not have needed to talk about. But the end of February marked the third anniversary since the allegations of bullying and sexual harassment in the profession first arose and important questions still remain. The news broke in February 2018 with stories about
It’s on 8 March, in case you didn’t know, but for Dunedin law firm Staley Cardoza Lawyers they’re celebrating being Otago’s first all women law partnership. Support Independent Law News: It’s appropriate that the firm would be in Otago where Ethel Benjamin became the first woman to study law in either Australia or New zealand,
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There’s been a lot happening in the patent law area in recent years and a gap in the IP legal market has seen Chapman Tripp move into the patent place with a new IP practice group established to exploit the offshore ownership of the two biggest IP law players in the New Zealand market. The
New Law firm Juno Legal has recruited another senior New Zealand In-house Counsel with its recruitment of former BP NZ General Counsel Rachael Lynch. She has spent 15 years as in-house lawyer with BAT NZ, working in Australia and London before moving to the BP role in New Zealand. She previously worked at Simpson Grierson.
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Why are litigators departing from Meredith Connell?
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Russell McVeagh Partner and Board member Allison Arthur-Young has been elected as Russell McVeagh’s Board Chair. Arthur-Young, who has been a Board member for three years, succeeds outgoing Board Chair Malcolm Crotty who has completed his term, having served three years in the role. Crotty will resume his full-time practice as a key Litigation partner at the firm. Joining
