Kensington Swan is delighted to announce the promotion of Marija Batistich (pictured left) and Charlotte Parkhill as Partners with effect from 1 January 2018. Marija joins partners Nicky McIndoe and Christina Sheard in the firm’s leading environment and planning team. She joined Kensington Swan in 2017 from another major New Zealand firm and has more […]
Litigation funders LPF Group’s official complaint to the Judicial Conduct Commissioner regarding Chief Justice Dame Sian Elias’s alleged conflicts and bias and reveals the depth of opposition by insurers and others to litigation funding in New Zealand. The 10 page complaint explains the dramatic effect of Dame Sian’s alleged opposition to litigation funding and to
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Chapman Tripp have firmly entered the legal tech world with the launch today of their new legal documentation service, employing artificial intelligence and marrying tech and legal expertise into a new service offering. Operated by the firm’s technology partner Bruce McClintock, Zeren also uses Cambridge University-developed Luminance machine-learning technology to speed up large scale documentation
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In a dramatic move the leading litigation funding group LPF Group have laid a complaint against chief justice Dame Sian Elias alleging that her actions had brought a “breach of natural justice, judicial bias and a failure to disclose potential conflicts of interest.” In a press release issued today, the company, of which former Supreme
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Jim Farmer QC is a voice worth listening to beyond just the courtroom. His occasional blog offerings provide sage advice on everything from the state of the law to legal lifestyle issues. His latest offering relates to lawyers handling pro bono work as an aid to their legal lifestyle and general obligation to provide service
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The leading law firm has been named winner of ‘Best Gender Diversity Initiative by National Firm’ at last night’s IFLR Euromoney Legal Media Group Asia Women in Business Law Awards, held in Hong Kong. Russell McVeagh senior partner and board member Sarah Armstrong said the award highlights the firm’s success in implementing and supporting diversity
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Special Correspondent Lawyer Bridget Morton, the woman at the centre of the All Black Aaron Smith ‘toilet sex scandal’ is less than happy with the ‘formal warning’ given to Smith and wanted him to tell the truth, being less than happy with the way the rugby fraternity and media have treated her. Even her mum
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It’s a new look for Supreme Court Judges on ceremonial occasions, with a distinctive kiwi twist that will make the new robes more ‘reflective’ of New Zealand traditions and history, says the Judicial Office for Senior Courts (in what must be one of the first we’ve heard from them in many a year) e one of
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A row between Feltex funder Tony Gavigan and barrister John Eichelbaum, son of former Chief Justice Sir Thomas Eichelbaum, has been revealed in a Court of Appeal recent Court of Appeal ruling. Tony Gavigan drove the litigation against the Feltex directors, on behalf of 3639 investors in the name of Eric Houghton and seeking $185
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The development of artificial intelligence applications in the law field is not all about robot lawyers and applications that replicate legal roles. One of those sitting at the forefront of AI developments in modern law practices has been speech recognition (SR) software applications, which is a field that has become more crowded since Google
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