Muriel Newman* – In his recent article The Coming Economic Crisis and its Political Consequences, Sir Bob Jones predicts New Zealand will have a change in government: “Have an election today and the government would bolt in, primarily because of Jacinda’s star power induced by the media’s obsession with her. But the election is six months away […]
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Geoff Sharp* There is anticipation building around what our civil courts will look like once we leave Alert Level 4 both next week and beyond. And there is a dawning realisation that “beyond” maybe longer than we think as the world lives with COVID for some years. Will there be in person (suitably distanced) hearings,
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Power List member Jonathan Eaton QC spoke about his time in lockdown and the thoughts and thinbgs that occupired him, including his hiring of a tennis ball machine to practice his backhand in order to surprise his “tennis buddies” on his return to the tennis court. Apart from sorting through 15 years of archived files
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Sir Robert Jones’ latest blog post castigates the Prime Minister for the needless lockdown with “depression, suicides, family violence and despair” lying ahead. “For by the time the virus reached our shores we knew from the evidence elsewhere who it killed and why. Instead, the government acted as if it could kill us all, in
A LawFuel survey of New Zealand legal recruiters shows that there is inevitable uncertainty over law jobs when the virus pandemic settles down to anything approaching normality. >> New Zealand’s Largest Law Jobs & News Network LawFuel Jobs reach up to 20,000 unique users via LawFuel News & LawFuel Jobs LawFuel surveyed the leading legal
Leading law firm, MinterEllisonRuddWatts, has been named New Zealand Law Firm of the Year at the Chambers Asia Pacific Awards 2020 – it’s the second time the firm has held the prestigious award in four years. Andrew Poole, Chief Executive of MinterEllisonRuddWatts says: “We are delighted to be once again recognised as New Zealand’s market
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John Bowie – A growing number of law firms – including some of the biggest and richest in the country – are applying for the Government subsidy package, which may send observer eyeballs into orbit given their million dollar earnings. The Government subsidy is there to protect jobS, which is all well and good (although
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Barrister Warren Pyke has pointed out some important issues with the current Lockdown and the wide-ranging lockdown ‘laws’ that mimic the anti-picnic nonsense that has been seen in the UK. Arguing that an approach more similar to Australia, permitting some ongoing business activity and acknowledging that any attempt to eliminate a disease that is here
Despite the most unusual situation New Zealand has ever found itself outside of wartime, Jacinda Ardern’s popularity has remained high. That may all change, but two lawyers have taken her to task over the Bauer media shutdown, calling her comments “naive and reckless”. Anthony Harper lawyers Dan Hughes, the firm’s head of litigation, and senior
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