Sir Robert Jones’ latest blog post castigates the Prime Minister for the needless lockdown with “depression, suicides, family violence and despair” lying ahead. “For by the time the virus reached our shores we knew from the evidence elsewhere who it killed and why. Instead, the government acted as if it could kill us all, in […]
A LawFuel survey of New Zealand legal recruiters shows that there is inevitable uncertainty over law jobs when the virus pandemic settles down to anything approaching normality. >> New Zealand’s Largest Law Jobs & News Network LawFuel Jobs reach up to 20,000 unique users via LawFuel News & LawFuel Jobs LawFuel surveyed the leading legal
Leading law firm, MinterEllisonRuddWatts, has been named New Zealand Law Firm of the Year at the Chambers Asia Pacific Awards 2020 – it’s the second time the firm has held the prestigious award in four years. Andrew Poole, Chief Executive of MinterEllisonRuddWatts says: “We are delighted to be once again recognised as New Zealand’s market
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John Bowie – A growing number of law firms – including some of the biggest and richest in the country – are applying for the Government subsidy package, which may send observer eyeballs into orbit given their million dollar earnings. The Government subsidy is there to protect jobS, which is all well and good (although
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Barrister Warren Pyke has pointed out some important issues with the current Lockdown and the wide-ranging lockdown ‘laws’ that mimic the anti-picnic nonsense that has been seen in the UK. Arguing that an approach more similar to Australia, permitting some ongoing business activity and acknowledging that any attempt to eliminate a disease that is here
Despite the most unusual situation New Zealand has ever found itself outside of wartime, Jacinda Ardern’s popularity has remained high. That may all change, but two lawyers have taken her to task over the Bauer media shutdown, calling her comments “naive and reckless”. Anthony Harper lawyers Dan Hughes, the firm’s head of litigation, and senior
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He’s not known for holding back on his views, but Sir Robert Jones has taken to task the Government’s reaction to the pandemic, saying it will probably cost Labour the election and lead to massive economic pain, layoffs and business failures. The government pursued a policy of “mindlessly aping Britain” with an array of nonsensical,
We know that becoming a senior lawyer in a Big Law firm means preparing to exit when you’re in anything from mid-50s and beyond. But for Chapman Tripp consultant Arthur Young, who has spent 60 years as a partner, he has gone well beyond what hundreds before him have achieved in terms of Big Law
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The Kiwifruit Growers are aggrieved at losing their Court of Appeal case in a decision released today and following an appeal a year ago seeking damages for Government negligence in permitting the PSA disease into the country. The Court of Appeal decision today allowe the Crown’s appeal on the basis that the Crown had a
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The Court of Appeal today released its judgment in the Attorney-General’s appeal against the High Court finding that the Crown was liable in negligence to Strathboss Kiwifruit Ltd (as a representative kiwifruit grower plaintiff), but not liable to Seeka Ltd (a post-harvest operator), for losses caused by the outbreak of Psa3 in late 2010 and
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