Nola Dangen, a leading member of the Auckland District Law Society and a lawyer experienced in disciplinary and ethical matters through her Law Society work, has been suspended for two months for negligence “at the very high end of the negligence spectrum,” The suspension follows a ‘late’ admission of guilt and involves three apparent inaccurate […]
Power Law Firm: MinterEllisonRuddWatts – The Law Commission’s final report Review of the Property (Relationships) Act 1976 – Te Arotake i te Property (Relationships) Act 1976was tabled in Parliament on 23 July 2019 and will now be considered by Government. The Report proposes a new Relationship Property Act intended to better assist spouses or partners (spouses)
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National law firm, Lane Neave, has acted for the family owned Sanderson Group on the sale of three large retirement villages to NZX listed company, Arvida Limited. Under the $180m deal, completed on 31 July 2019, the Sanderson Group sold Bethlehem Country Club and Bethlehem Shores in Tauranga, along with the Queenstown Country Club, which
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A trend towards in-house counsel briefing counsel directly is evolving in both Australia and New Zealand, following the increased growth and sophistication of in-house legal teams in both countries. Australia has around 30 per cent of its lawyers working in-house and New Zealand is closing in on that number with around 25 per cent working
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A LawFuel story on the law event in New Zealand that permitted the ladies to wear cocktail dresses has generated high interest in the US, where leading law site AbovetheLaw reported on the disturbance Down Under. By way of recap, the story involved an invitation from the New Zealand Law Society that outlined the dress
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The strong trend towards open plan office space is something we’ve written about previously, but the honest approach, according to one major Australian law firm, is because open plan = less expense. And they don’t want lawyers to be battery hens. The firm recently designed new offices for its Brisbane and Cairns offices, but it
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John Bowie* I had planned to see a recent film on the archangel of legal evil, Roy Cohn. Yes, yet another. Having spent a good part of one afternoon with Cohn for an interview in the early ’80s I wanted to see whether “Where’s My Roy Cohn” was another Cohn hit job, although it would
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The NZ Law Society has now been held to account for its ‘casual sexism’ in respect of its forthcoming 150th anniversary celebration, with a note that men should wear formal wear and women a cocktail dress. And therein lies the issue. Wellington lawyer Mark Ford posted a note on his LinkedIn account that received a
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Mark Copeland Lawyers – Regional Councils take unlawful effluent discharge, especially when it enters waterways, extremely seriously. Under the Resource Management Act (RMA) any discharge is unlawful if it breaches the permitted activity rule in your region. The severity of the fines imposed has recently increased significantly as the government cracks down on polluters, with
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