Natalie Coates, LawFuel’s 2023 Lawyer of the Year, is leaving Kāhui Legal, the boutique firm specializing in Māori legal issues, to join Thorndon Chambers. Thorndon Chambers has 21 barristers, headed by Sir Terence Arnold KC, and specializes in commercial, international and public law issues. >> Latest Law Jobs on New Zealand’s Best Law News & […]
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Kim Dotcom Resists Extradition to US From ‘Obedient US Colony’ . Kim Dotcom, the man wanted by the US government, is to fight the extradition order from New Zealand Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith and is likely to be in the country months and years from now, firing abuse at the US government and the ‘obediant
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Russell McVeagh Opens First South Island Office Russell McVeagh is set to expand to the South Island, opening an office in Queenstown headed by local lawyer Tony Van Aart of Van Aart Sycamore Lawyers, the Dunedin-based commercial law boutique. The new office opens on 1 December and will take existing staff members from Van Aart
>> Law Jobs in New Zealand From The Leading Law Jobs Site A defendant in the SFO’s investigation into alleged mortgage and investment fraud has been sentenced at the North Shore District Court. Francis John Peters, who no longer has name suppression, was sentenced to nine months and two weeks home detention. Mr Peters entered
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>> Latest NZ Law Jobs Here AUCKLAND, 15 August 2024 – Treaty Law: Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi in Law and Practice named Best Legal Book at the Legal Research Foundation’s JF Northey Memorial Book Award The award-winning book Treaty Law came in response to one simple question – “What’s the leading textbook on Treaty principles’
Long-serving Bell Gully partner Haydyn Wong has taken the permanent role as the Group General Counsel and Company Secretary after serving in an acting capacity since April 2024. >> LawFuel’s Law Jobs Network with Top Law Jobs daily Before joining Fletcher Building, he was a senior partner at Bell Gully, where he worked for 30
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>> Best Law Jobs on LawFuel’s Jobs Network A Lawyers Standards Committee found Nelson Lawyer Sue Grey engaged in unsatisfactory conduct under the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006 by refusing to stand down when ordered to do so by a judge. While the Committee accepted Ms Grey had been genuinely motivated to assist the self-represented
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The Wellington High Court has handed Foodstuffs North Island $3.25 million for filing anti-competitive land covenants with the purpose of blocking competitors in a decision fromi Justice Radich who critized the company for its behaviour. The press release announcing the decision is below – Foodstuffs North Island hit with $3.25m fine for blocking rivals The
Senate finance committee learned of additional undisclosed travel on Harlan Crow’s jet Clarence Thomas, the conservative Supreme Court justice who has already helped upend two cases against former president Donald Trump, has once again found himself at the center of an ethics storm after failing to disclose additional private travel – to Hawaii and New
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The New Zealand Law Society has initiated an investigation into New Zealand Law Society president Frazer Barton with two private complaints against him being lodged with the Society. The investigations come in the wake of Barton’s connection to the destruction of documents by Presbyterian Support Otago, as detailed in the final report of the Royal
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