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The Lawyers Who Created A Digital Accessibility Solution For Website Owners

New Zealand Law News, NZ Featured Posts / November 12, 2020

Creating a new digital accessibility app has been an interesting journey for two Rotorua lawyers whose iaccess app is designed to provide greater accessibility choices for website users who are impaired in some way. Lawyers Danielle Caudwell and Ros Morshead set up the app when they were seeking some challenges beyond their legal work. The […]

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‘Fake News’, Says Jones Day Over US Election Voter Fraud Challenge . . But The News Remains

The chaotic US election has been enveloped in the ‘voter fraud’ controversy, which has also largely enveloped Big Law firm Jones Day and their involvement in lawsuits for the GOP. The firm has worked to avoid being drawn into the controvery, any more than it can, that is, by releasing a statement that affirms that

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MinterEllisonRuddWatts Gender Diversity Recognition

New Zealand Law News, NZ Power Law Firms, NZ Press Releases / November 5, 2020

MinterEllisonRuddWatts’ leadership of gender diversity initiatives in the legal profession has again been recognised by the prestigious Euromoney Legal Media Group Asia Women in Business Law Awards 2020. The awards celebrate the achievements of leading women in the legal profession, as well as progressive initiatives for gender diversity, mentorship, minority women, talent management, and work-life

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Are Lawyers – And Others – Ready For The Coming Trust Law Changes?

New Zealand Law News, NZ Featured Posts / November 5, 2020

In what is dubbed as the biggest change to trust law in 60 years, people entitled to benefit from trusts will soon receive basic information about them. For some, finding out they’re a beneficiary of a trust may come as a surprise. Following an 18-month lead-in, on January 30 the new Trusts Act takes effect.

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Una’s Joyless Day: Crown Law & Solicitor General Attacked Over Abuse Claims

Headlining NZ, Lawyers, New Zealand Law News / November 5, 2020

The Solicitor General, Una Jagose QC and Crown Law came under vociferous attack during the hearings into historic abuse claims being held presently. Jagose, a LawFuel power list member, had given evidence earlier when she said some cases handled by Crown Law had been poorly handled, but that the office had ‘evolved’ in how it

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The Business Email Compromise Scam – Who Is Liable?

Law Firm Technology, New Zealand Law News / November 5, 2020

The increase in the number of email scams or business email compromise scams is a major concern for lawyers. This article from Australia’s GotoCourt Lawyers looks at the liability issue. Michaelle Makela* During an initial consult, a client presented the following scenario: The client had engaged a local small business in Melbourne (Business) to complete

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The Lower Hutt Boy Who Beat The Pirate of the Caribbean

Headlining NZ, New Zealand Law News / November 3, 2020

John Bowie – The Johnny Depp libel trial win for The Sun newspaper was a high stakes gamble by the Murdoch-owned newspaper, but it was also a major test for its primary gossip columnist and executive editor, Lower Hutt-born Dan Wootton who wrote the allegedly defamatory story. The story exposed Depp as a wife beater

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Today’s the Day – ‘Let’s See Trump in Handcuffs’

New Zealand Law News / November 3, 2020

Bob Jones Makes His Predictions on the US Election Outcome Bob Jones – The big day has finally arrived. I was hoping Duncan Copley of Milford who alone knows the result given that 70 million votes have already been cast, would spill the beans. But the buggers remained silent. Presumably he was flat out cleaning

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The High Flying Lawyer Who Changed Jobs For Something Closer To Earth

New Zealand Law News / November 3, 2020

Angela Beazer is a high flying lawyer – she must be, as she established one of the country’s first aviation law firms – but she’s now going to ground with a new enterprise, developing a hydroponics business. The founder of Southland-based aviation law boutique AMC Legal Services, she has been an aviation law specialist for

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The Smokin’ Hot Defamation Verdict Against Johnny Depp Case And The Lawyers Who Prevailed In The Libel ‘Trial of the Century’

Featured, LawStars, NZ Featured Posts / November 3, 2020

The Sun newspaper’s win in the Johnny Depp libel trial – the so called libel ‘trial of the century’ has seen some of Britain’s top lawyers battling it out in a bruising and eye wateringly expensive encounter that has paid dividends for the staunch view taken by Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper against the Hollywood actor in

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