Russell McVeagh has assisted Summerset to complete a loan facility refinance for approximately $1.2 billion, incorporating a $700 million Sustainability Linked Loan (SLL) component, which takes effect 1 October 2021. This is one of the largest SLLs in the market to date, and the second SLL of significance that the firm has advised on so […]
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The recent High Court judgment against Radio New Zealand (RNZ) follows the approach in Slater v APN in relation to hacked information and is likely to influence future Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) and Media Council decisions. Background When the Waikato District Health Board (WDHB) refused to pay the instigators of the May 2021 ransomware attack, the media
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The New Zealand lockdown, if nothing else, provides an opportunity to examine our work, as well as home. You have a friend who is working two jobs and using the pandemic as a cover story, without telling either employer. You don’t believe it? Well, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal who talked
National Press Club Inc Submission to the Law Commission Re: Sergey Grishin vs John Bowie in the High Court National Press Club, Wellington, New Zealand
Global law firm DLA Piper has been ahead of the curve on inclusiveness policies for some time. Now DLA Piper in New Zealand are leading the private practice legal sector again with their new parental leave policy. The new policy takes large strides forward, topping up what the NZ Government is offering and committing
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Living Streets Aotearoa has filed a claim in the High Court in Auckland against the decisions of Auckland Council and the NZTA which resulted in large numbers of e-scooters being used on the city’s footpaths. Living Streets is seeking judicial review of those decisions. The essence of the case against NZTA is that it
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The changing dynamics of legal work means that law degrees continue to provide openings for lawyers well beyond just the law profession and this week’s New Zealand law jobs on LawFuel demonstrate that. In fact, with the major growth of in-house law roles and governmental, regulatory, business, social and other positions where a law qualification
James Hardie Industries plc , the world’s #1 producer and marketer of high performance fiber cement and fiber gypsum building solutions, is pleased to announce that the weathertightness class action litigation brought against James Hardie before the Auckland High Court has been settled (Case No. CIV-2015-404-2981, previously described by James Hardie as the “White litigation”).
Last week the New Zealand Law Society | Te Kāhui Ture o Aotearoa announced at the Auckland Branch Annual General Meeting that Anitesh Govind, Ben Kirkpatrick and Phil Ahern will join the Auckland Branch Council. Sarah Jerebine departs the council after one term. Senior Solicitor (Litigation & Dispute Resolution) at Auckland Council, Anitesh Govind was
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CERT NZ is urging Kiwi organisations to tighten up the way they enable remote working for staff to avoid a ransomware attack. Government cyber security agency, CERT NZ says the majority of ransomware attacks occur through poorly configured remote access systems, which businesses use to allow staff to access systems from outside the office. While
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