Christchurch lawyer Grant Cameron scored a major win with his ‘opt-out’ class action win this week, representing another major advance in class action litigation in New Zealand. His lawyers argued an opt out action would better protect the rights of class members, be more efficient, and allow better access to justice. Southern Response opposed an opt […]
A Former Employee’s Conviction, A Jet Sale and a Billionaire Buy-in . . A Big Week For the Movie Mogul The conviction for fraud of Movie mogul Sir Peter Jackson’s former aviation company director Eugene John DeMarco has been another unhappy aviation experience for the movie mogul, who recently sold his top-end private jet for
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Robert Morgan* Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s crisis-de-jour is the sex scandal surrounding allegations around an alleged staffer in Labour HQ and the PM has once again sought the assistance of QC Maria Dew to help sort out the mess. You may recall that Bankside Chambers-based Ms Dew, an employment law specialist and Top 10 mediator
Brian Henry’s attempts to extricate himself from the Whaleoil defamation has become a question of the case that won’t go away. A Newsroom story reported that the “unorthodox advocate” has been trying to remove himself from the three year old defamation case following Whaleoil blogger Cameron Slater’s stroke last October. As a result of Slater’s
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The top mediators in New Zealand have been named in the LawFuel Mediators “Power List”, published by the legal news network LawFuel.com Mediation in New Zealand has continued to develop with its use at the direction of Courts in over 50 statutes in New Zealand as well as with a requirement in employment disputes, family
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Dame Helen Winkelmann has taken her seat as New Zealand’s top Judge, noting in the legal star-studded swearing in ceremony that access to justice issues were some of the most important that confronted the legal profession. Addressing the court, she said the Supreme Court has woven the history of New Zealand into important judgments concerning
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Tom Brody – LawFuel wrote some time ago about what judges do when they retire – and the trend towards the ‘hitting 70 and the golf course’ may be changing as Justice Raynor Asher evidences with his return to legal work. The trend may also evidence that 70, which will shortly see Chief Justice Dame
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John Bowie – The Mainzeal case was a win for litigation funder LPF Group, which hit the trifecta after succeeding in the PSA kiwifruit case and the earlier settlement in the PwC claim involving Dave Henderson’s property group. But it will also place litigation funding into sharp relief with the Law Commission’s imminent review of
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Dame Jenny Shipley and her fellow directors of failed building company Mainzeal have been found liable for $36 million in damages, a ruling from Justice Francis Cooke has found. The company, which went into liquidation in 2013 had been trading while insolvent despite its high profile – and creditors would have been better off if
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