New Zealand Law News

John McFetridge, GM Personal Client Services, Perpetual Guardian Whether for succession planning, risk mitigation or other reasons, swelling numbers of professional services providers – chiefly lawyers and accountants – are seeking to divest themselves of their trusteeships and trust books generally. Building a number of trusts and trusteeships might have been decades in the making […]

The New Zealand Law Society is planning a number of changes to the processes for reporting and taking action on sexual harassment and bullying in the legal profession. These include: New rules for lawyers which specifically require high personal and professional standards with specific reference to sexual harassment, bullying, discrimination and other unacceptable behaviour. A

– New Zealand Law Society initiatives The regulatory working group points out that sex discrimination and sexual objectification of women lawyers has taken place in the New Zealand legal profession since at least the 1950s. In a national survey in 1992, 38% of women lawyers reported sexual harassment. More recently, there have been widely publicised