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 on […]
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 stroke and
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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.comMediation 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 disputes
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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 the
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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 Elias
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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 the
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Court appearances are second nature to Anne Stevens, but last week’s admission to the Inner Bar saw the feisty barrister as nervous as she had ever been.At a special sitting in Dunedin’s ornate courtroom, presided over by Chief Justice Dame Sian Elias the highly experienced criminal defence lawyer and former hippy who usually bikes to
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The Government’s controversial decision to block Chinese tech giant Huawei from building the country’s 5G network was not the result of ‘Five Eyes’ pressure, say the top spies.Security Intelligence Service chief and LawFuel Power List member Rebecca Kitteridge and GCSB Director General Andrew Hampton fronted Parliament’s intelligence and security committee, saying that the decision had
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