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TikTok Sued Over Alleged Illicit Collection From Child Users

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Former children’s commissioner for England launches case against video-sharing app Video-sharing app TikTok is being sued in an action commenced by a former children’s commissioner for England who has launched a claim that could cost TikTok billions of dollars if successful. Lawyers acting on the lawsuit claim that TikTok takes children’s personal information, including phone […]

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NZ Legal Jobs And What Makes The SFO Successful As An Employer? A ‘Growth Mindset’ Helps . .

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LawFuel Jobs Network – The Serious Fraud Office has continued to develop its reputation dedicated to white collar and complex crime in New Zealand, a vital ingredient to ensure transparency and low corruption in New Zealand. But in growing its team of experts it also employs what it describes as a ‘growth mindset’ to encourage

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The LawFuel Power Twitter List: Nos. 11 – 20

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No. 11 Felix Geiringer 4.1k Wellington-based barrister and Phoenix Football enthusiast Geiringer provides quirky wit and nifty legal insights – interspersed between regular cricket analysis.     No. 12 Dr Dean Knight 3.87k The Associate Professor of public law at Victoria University is another regular tweeter but his are also generally relevant and perceptive on

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Linklaters Big ‘Agile Working’ Move – Offering All Its Legal Secretaries & PAs Voluntary Redundancy

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The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the legal profession like every other business, but some law firms are taking the whole work-from-home trend a step further Linklaters is one of the world’s largest firms, with over $2 bn in gross billings and making it in the top ranks of the world’s largest law firms. It has

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Law Firm’s Copied Correspondence Was Not The Sincerest Form of Flattery, But Simply Breach of Copyright

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Manchester-based law firm JMW Solicitors obtained a £45,000 damages payout from a law firm competitor after it saw with surprise and disappointment that the competitor had been plagiarising its correspondence. A partner at JMW saw the plagiarism when he was sent a letter of claim issued by Widnes-based law firm Hayes Connor, seeing that it was one

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Minters’ CEO Leaves After Email Firestorm

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Minter Ellison CEO Anette Kimmitt has left the firm she headed following her email to staff about partner Peter Bartlett acting for Australian Attorney General Christian Porter who faced rape allegations. MinterEllison’s chairman, David O’Brien, told staff via an email sent on Wednesday that Kimmitt had left, and would be replaced in an acting capacity

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Joseph Parker Named As High Profile Sportsman In Drug Trial

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Boxer Joseph Parker has been named as the ‘high profile sportsman’ with connections to an international drug syndicate that smuggled 20 kgs of drugs into New Zealand through the postal service. A Supreme Court judgment released today saw the Court say that it was not in the interests of justice to allow Parker to appeal

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Tributes Flow For Former NZLS President and ‘Good, Kind Man’ Jonathan Temm

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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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Did You Read This? – NZ Book Awards Go ‘Fully Woke’ Says Braunias

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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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