The further #Metoo debacle encircling the Law Society has lead to a press statement today correcting any impression that there was an attempt to hide a breach of privacy. The situation with the so-called ‘super injunction’, the gag order legal device used in the UK and elsewhere to prevent embarrassing information becoming public. It is
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] When Graeme Todd started his Queenstown-based law firm seven years ago in a move his wife thought was inspired more from a mid-life crisis than proper consideration. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]After all, he had enjoyed a successful career over almost three decades working in a large firm that had served him well. But concerns over firm strategy
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Rumours that have spread about Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s partner Clarke Gayford has seen Kensington Swan lawyer and former broadcaster Linda Clark, acting for Gayford, issue a press release warning against publication of unspecified rumours about the television fish show presenter. “The allegations (which the NZ Herald did not publish) are untrue and defamatory.
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Lawyers are quite entitled to express views publicly which are critical of judicial decisions made in cases where they have not appeared, but they are expected to be careful not to do so in a way that may undermine public confidence in the judicial system when doing so, New Zealand Law Society President Kathryn Beck
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Barrister Catriona MacLennan’s investigation over her berating of a district court judge has left the Law Society once again being battled for its alleged “repugnant” investigation into the barrister. Benedict Tompkins wrote to Law Society president Kathryn Beck saying the investigation into MacLennan was repugnant and has asked for the National Standards Committee to be
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The New Zealand Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal has ordered that Timothy Upton Slack be struck off the roll of barristers and solicitors. He admitted a charge that, having been convicted of an offence punishable by imprisonment, that conviction reflected on his fitness to practise, and/or tended to bring the legal profession into disrepute. The
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Tax expert and barrister Rob McLeod, of Ngati Porou background, is to receive an award this week as a 2018 distinguished alumni from Auckland University. He has held numerous leadership positions, including as chairman of Ernst and Young New Zealand and chief executive of Ernst and Young Australasia, from 2010 to 2014. He was also
Over the past 20 years there have been a limited number of allegations of poor behaviour involving consensual sexual events including on our premises. A social media post has referred to one of these, which occurred more than 10 years ago. Due to the consensual nature of the event, a formal complaint was never made.
Russell McVeagh’s Board and Partners have reflected on the events of two years ago and the recent media coverage relating to those events. What happened in the summer of 2015/16 was completely unacceptable. The brave actions of the young women who spoke out, resulted in the Board and managing partners taking significant action to improve
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In a dramatic move the leading litigation funding group LPF Group have laid a complaint against chief justice Dame Sian Elias alleging that her actions had brought a “breach of natural justice, judicial bias and a failure to disclose potential conflicts of interest.” In a press release issued today, the company, of which former Supreme
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