MinterEllisonRuddWatts – Authors Daniel Fielding, Sarah Salmond The International Labour Organization estimates that at any time there are approximately 40 million people in modern slavery. This may be a shocking fact for many given it is the year 2021 and the developed world we live in. To combat these sad statistics, there has been a […]
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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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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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 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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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
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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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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The Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal has made a finding that Auckland lawyer Quentin Duff was at the relevant time not a fit and proper person or was otherwise unsuited to engage in practice as a lawyer due to his attempts to evade paying tax. Mr Duff faced one charge of misconduct in relation to
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The shifting sands of law school rankings The list of the best law schools is always an area of both interest and contention. LawyersWeekly’s Protege podcast has provided a list of the best law schools, with top place going to the University of Melbourne. The report notes that the University of Melbourne has dropped in
