New Zealand

Legal Jobs For Everyone – From Spys To SFO Roles on Growing Law Jobs Network

LawFuel’s law jobs network has continued to attract a wide range of legal jobs for New Zealand lawyers, including positions with the Government Communications & Securities Bureau, seeking an intermediate lawyer, to a range of other roles. The LawFuel law jobs are unique in that they are posted across the entire network, which includes not

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Does Eric Watson Have Russell McVeagh & Others In His Netflix Sights?

A recent Stuff article on former high flyer Eric Watson and his move from Pentonville Prison to some sunny place in Europe has him now planning his revenge, it would see, with a tell-all book and television series on his various grudges. Just how these tales will unfold and via what format in the Netflix

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Bob Jones: Our COVID Crisis – Were “Blatant lies” fed to the government?

HIpkins & COVID

An international row broke out yesterday in Europe, with the European Union crying unfair and accusing Britain of hogging access to coronavirus vaccines at the expense of EU nations. Boris countered, saying it’s a contractual matter which they expect to be honoured. Plainly Britain had acted quickly ordering the vaccines while of all countries, amazingly

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Placing Her ‘Neck On The Line’ In Samoa Didn’t Prevent Recognition In Samoa For Tiana Epati

A run-in with Samoa Prime Minister Tuilaepa Dr. Sailele Malielegaoi over a plan to overhaul the country’s legal system didn’t prevent Law Society president Tiana Epati from being recognised for standing up for legal rights in the country. >> Coming Soon! The 2021 Lawyer of the Year Her support of the Samoa Law Society (SLS)

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Legal Disrupter Arrives In New Zealand to ‘Democratise’ Legal Access

Australian-based ‘legal disrupter’ LegalVision has opened its doors in New Zealand with a plan to do to the local market what it has been doing in Australia. As we wrote in LawFuel last year, LegalVision began life as a business resource for business owners rather than as a law firm but now has over 350,000

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Jailhouse Lawyer Taylor To Take ‘Gangland’ Book Censorship Case To Court

Arthur Taylor, the now somewhat celebrated “jailhouse lawyer” is making a return to court by suing his former landlords, Corrections, over their banning of the book ‘Gangland’ from New Zealand prisons. The book, written by journalist Jared Savage, deals with organised crime in New Zealand and specifically the ‘inside story’ of how the police took

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Russian Billionaire Takes US Legal Action For LawFuel Emails

The Russian billionaire vendor of the mansion recently sold to Meghan Markle and Prince Harry has sought to obtain private emails from New Zealand-based law news site LawFuel.com. Russian banker Sergey Grishin has indicated that he will take legal action against the small kiwi-based website and has attempted to obtain emails between the website and its

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Christchurch Barristers Suffer $170,000 Ripoff

The practice manager of two Christchurch barristers stole around $170,000 over a 16 months’ period to feed her meth addiction. Barristers Rupert Glover and Margaret Sewell have worked from their chambers for several years and employed Sarah McGirr as a reportedly ‘cheerful and obliging’ practice manager. Glover described the series of thefts to Stuff.co.nz as

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The Twin Lawyers With Equal Passion For Maori Legal Issues

Maori law, LawFuel

The twin  23-year-old girls inspired by their non-lawyer father’s arguments for Maori Land Rights has seen them develop their respective legal careers, recently reported in the Southland Times. The twins, who grew up in Bluff and attended high school in Invercargill, are of Kāi Tahu and Kāti Māmoe descent.  Their father was on the Titi/Mutton

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