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Hamilton Law Firm Fined $60K for AML Breaches and Obstruction

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A Hamilton-based law firm has been fined $60,000 after pleading guilty to multiple breaches of New Zealand’s Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act (AML/CFT), following a Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) investigation that exposed what regulators described as prolonged and systemic non-compliance. Foster & Milroy admitted to criminal failures including not undertaking a […]

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ANZ’s CCCFA Defence: The Dog Ate My Compliance Calculator

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By John Bowie  |  LawFuel publisher The summary judgment hearing may be over, but as Justice Venning considers the verdict, ANZ’s problem remains entirely the same — and the bank’s three lines of defence have a familiar quality: plausible at the bar, less convincing in the cold light of the statute. Few things are quite

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NZ Law – Former Dentons Lawyer Joins Lowndes Jordan

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>> See LawFuel.com for the breaking law news AUCKLAND 13 April 2026 – Experienced corporate law practitioner Nick Scott has joined corporate and commercial law firm Lowndes Jordan as Special Counsel. Formerly a partner in the corporate and commercial team of Dentons Kensington Swan, Nick brings more than 35 years’ experience in corporate and commercial law.

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Winston Peters Disavows Key Claim in Attorney-General’s Letter – Judicial Conduct Panel Report on Judge Ema Aitken

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In a significant procedural footnote to New Zealand’s first full Judicial Conduct Panel inquiry, Winston Peters has formally disavowed a specific statement attributed to him in a letter sent by then-Attorney-General Judith Collins to Chief Justice Helen Winkelmann.

The revelation is contained in the Judicial Conduct Panel’s report released on 10 April 2026 into the conduct of acting District Court Judge Ema Aitken, which we have reported previously on several occasions, as befits hearings of rowdy judicial goings-on in salubrious surroundings.
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NZ Law – The Great Escape: Why NZ’s Regional Law Firms Can’t Hold Their Lawyers

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>> In-House Role – Top Role – Just Listed The numbers tell a brutal story. Only 7.2% of new practising certificates issued since July 2025 went to lawyers working in regional New Zealand NZ Herald, according to Law Society chief executive Katie Rusbatch. The rest? Auckland, Wellington, or increasingly, across the Tasman where salaries dwarf

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Legal AI – JustFund: From Divorce Funding Pioneer to Estate Law Disruptor

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JustFund is an Australian legal finance startup that has rapidly evolved from a niche divorce funding provider into a dual-purpose lender targeting both family law and estate administration. Founded in 2022 by Sydney lawyers Jack O’Donnell and Andy O’Connor alongside fintech entrepreneur Craig Carroll, (pictured) the company has positioned itself as Australia’s first and only dedicated provider of legal funding for both family law and estate matters. As we reported last year, the company has also expanded to the New Zealand legal market.
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Former NZ Lawyer’s BDO Complaints Campaign Sparks Billboard Dispute

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In posts on LinkedIn, retired lawyer Dave Jaques has upped his battle with BDO Auckland (specifically Growth Advisory Partner Nicholas Innes-Jones) to review supplier and sales contracts and verify cashflow forecasts for bank lending for his digital billboard business, Digital Signs (2017) Limited. He claims Innes-Jones provided positive verification and advisory support. Jaques further claims

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NZ Law Society slams Racist Email Conduct by Law Firm Staff as ‘unsatisfactory’

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Two staff members at a New Zealand law firm have been hit with a formal unsatisfactory conduct finding after a Standards Committee concluded their private email exchanges about a colleague crossed the line into racism. LawFuel’s Law Jobs’ Network has New Jobs Daily The exchanges were uncovered by a third party through the firm’s email

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Women In Law Firm Leadership: The Stubborn 20% Ceiling That Won’t Crack

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The legal profession has a mathematics problem. Women now constitute the majority of law school graduates, comprise over half of associates at major firms, and represent 47% of all lawyers globally.

Yet when the elevator reaches the executive floor, the numbers tell a different story: just two in ten law firm leaders are women (although when they do reach the top women legal leaders are making a difference).

The latest research from the International Bar Association’s Raising the Bar: Women in Law project confirms what many practitioners have long suspected – the profession is experiencing a spectacular leakage of female talent somewhere between the mid-career mark and the managing partner’s office.

The Numbers That Should Keep Managing Partners Awake

The IBA’s December 2024 Progress Report, synthesizing data from 11 countries across five continents, reveals the uncomfortable arithmetic:

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