Judith Collins’ role as new National Party leader cements a leadership role she has sought for some time, as a lawyer who also once served as president of the Auckland District Law Society and has been a strong ‘law and order’ proponent for decades. Her election to National leadership following the inglorious appointment-and-departure of the […]
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AJ Park are to buy their competitor Baldwins in a $7.4 million deal. AJ Park are owned by legal services giant IPH Limited (ASX: IPH) and will see IPH pay approximately $7.4 million for the firm, including a deferred consideration of approximately $400,000. The deal will see AJ Park IP acquire Baldwins and the benefit
Secretary for Justice Andrew Kibblewhite has provided some heartfelt thanks in his message to the New Zealand legal profession in the latest LawTalk, adopting the Americanism for the profession’s disruption by “Turning the Titanic on a Dime”. “The past weeks have been challenging, to say the least, but I thank the Heads of Bench for
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Jelena Gligorijevic* – As the Government begins to ease the lockdown, serious questions remain about the lawfulness of these extraordinary measures. Parliament’s Epidemic Response Committee has indicated it will issue summonses for the production of legal advice about the legal basis of the powers exercised by the Government over the past few weeks. It is possible the
Under the Alert Level 4 lockdown, many businesses are prohibited from accessing their premises. Some leases suspend a “fair” proportion of rent and outgoings while the tenant is unable to gain access. But how do landlords and tenants calculate a fair amount? Prevention of access under the ADLS lease One of the common leases used
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The Coronavirus lockdown has undoubtedly brought the use of online courts and mediation – quite apart from remote working – into sharp relief. And Auckland QC Michael Heron’s entrepreneurial CODR online dispute resolution service has further developed its platform to deal with online disputes and online document signing. CODR has teamed up with Immediation, the
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The message to stay at home could not be more clear . . so we at LawFuel urge everyone to listen to the message and do so during the time New Zealand shuts up shop. We’ve helped by providing the Stay at Home message from the “Grand Tour” team of Clarkson and others. And –
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Bell Gully – The first months of 2020 have seen the new coronavirus, COVID-19, grow in its scale and impact, including in New Zealand. The World Health Organisation has declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, and New Zealand has activated its pandemic response plan. The commercial impacts are likely to be significant, with the
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Victoria Hudgins*The mountain of emails greeting a lawyer when they start their work day can be a daunting task. Add in a steady avalanche of emails throughout the day, and a lawyer can easily feel besieged and stressed. Being inundated with emails was one of various work stressors that the “Friend or Foe: Tech and
The family trust has long been at the cornerstone of wealth and succession planning, but most trusts serve no real purpose and should be closed. Trusts lawyer Henry Stokes, a former General Counsel at Public Trust and General Counsel at Perpetual Guardian, says that there should be a 50 per cent reduction in the number
