Parliament’s lawyers – who to watch and who to not Parliamentary Reporter – With the Ardern government finally coming down from the shock of making it into the Beehive, it is become increasingly clear who the key players are in the administration. Ardern herself, along with Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters and Finance Minister Grant […]
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Long serving, hard case Otago Law School Dean Mark Henaghan has called it a day after almost 50 years at his beloved university, including 19 years as dean of the law school. But his role as one of the country’s best known and most highly regarded legal academics is not forsaking legal education, having accepted
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The Ministry of Justice has been criticised for failing to properly track expenditure on major projects intended to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the courts. Auditor General Greg Schollum identified projects including video conferencing, centralised administration and online fine dispute resolution as three key areas that had not properly been tracked by the Ministry
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Leading QC Michael Heron is once again rising in LawFuel’s “Power List” with a career spanning success in private and public practice after relinquising one of New Zealand’s most senior legal roles in 2005 to return to a career as a leading barrister and legal entrepreneur. He spoke with Sasha Borrisenko about his career. There
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Among Australia’s most powerful lawyers, a LawFuel Power Selection of some of the most prominent – Allan Fels Professor Allan Herbert Miller Fels AO is regarded as the country’s leading regulator. An Australian economist, lawyer and public servant he is best known for his job as chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission from
15. – Andrew Bridgman Chief Executive of the Ministry of Justice with 3000 employees and over 100 offices, vast power over the way justice is dispensed, fines collected, courts organised and much more. A self confessed “recidivist” Justice Ministry mandarin, Andrew Bridgman is nonetheless a highly effective operator who has wrought significant change to the reorganised
