Chapman Tripp – The Privacy Bill tabled by Justice Minister Andrew Little this week will increase the Privacy Commissioner’s powers and strengthen privacy protections. The changes will align New Zealand more closely with comparable regimes but do not go as far as the Privacy Commissioner would have liked. No date has been set for submissions as yet. […]
A Christchurch man who defrauded his clients of at least $17.5 million through a Ponzi scheme has been sentenced to eight years in prison with a minimum non-parole period of four years for charges brought by the Serious Fraud Office. Paul Hibbs was sentenced today at the Christchurch District Court. He previously had pleaded guilty
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Auckland barrister John Eichelbaum, son of former Chief Justice Sir Thomas Eichelbaum, continues his colourful career with a move into the #Metoo movement, after being censured, fined $10,000 and order to pay $5000 costs by asking a woman to bend over through a window. Eichelbaum was the subject of a complaint from a female lawyer
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ProProfs.com – Documentation exists to explain a product’s functionality, unify project-related information, and allow for discussing all significant questions that arise between stakeholders and developers. But what’s the best way to deliver these docs to your users? Undermentioned is an insightful guide with Seven easy steps to help you write software documentation that is
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]From porn stars to Playmate models, the Trump accuser list continues to grow, but when the lawyers for one accuser, Stormy Daniels’ lawyer (Michael Avenatti) and for the President’s lawyer Michael Cohen’s lawyer (David Schwartz) got together on CNN the ‘discussion’ went right off the rails. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] Discussing whether Trump knew about the ‘hush money’
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Davis Polk – After a decade of enforcing different aspects of its antitrust laws through three separate bodies, China is expected to consolidate antitrust authority into a single agency as part of a broader reorganization of government ministries. The move could have significant repercussions for private parties, following long-standing reports of concerns about staffing shortages
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Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, John C. Demers, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, Cyrus Vance Jr., New York County District Attorney, and William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced today that ALI SADR
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The legal jobs market in New Zealand remains buoyant, with some excellent job opportunities across the board, but one of the important changes occurring is the increasing demand from younger lawyers for firms to provide greater work life balance opportunities. LawFuel spoke with legal recruiter Kirsty Spears of McLeod Duminy who said that ‘for the
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (‘Freshfields’) has advised InterContinental Hotels Group (‘IHG’) on a multi-faceted transaction involving the acquisition of a 51 per cent stake in the Regent Hotels and Resorts brand, management contracts for an existing portfolio of hotels, as well as the up-branding of the Intercontinental Hong Kong hotel to a Regent hotel. Regent operates
Hot on the heels of the CPTTP Agreement finalised earlier this year, the New Zealand International Arbitration Centre (NZIAC) has announced the launch of its new and innovative 2018 suite of International Arbitration, Mediation and Arb-Med Rules, and a fresh new website www.nziac.com Four key objectives of NZIAC are: to provide an effective and certain
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