by Kaitlyn Yakas-Dance | Dec 1, 2023 | News
Major changes are expected to the Residential Property Managers Bill – if it survives the change of government. Introduced on 18 August, in the dying days of the previous administration, the Bill establishes a new and comprehensive regulatory regime for the currently...
by Kaitlyn Yakas-Dance | Dec 1, 2023 | News
‘Some common law rights presumably lie so deep that even Parliament cannot overturn them’ – Taylor v NZ Poultry Board [1984] 1 NZLR 394,398 (Cooke J) A week ago, criminal barrister Lucy Rogers was arrested and hand-cuffed by police for holding up a hand-lettered sign....
by Kaitlyn Yakas-Dance | Nov 24, 2023 | News
Treat alcohol and drug abuse and addiction as a public health issue. Remove benefit fraud prosecutions from the criminal jurisdictions. Overhaul the legal aid system and invest more in community law centres. Improve access and resourcing to therapy in prisons and...
by Kaitlyn Yakas-Dance | Nov 24, 2023 | News
Financial services businesses are in limbo after a bombshell revelation from the incoming government that it might scrap legislation designed to clean up the conduct of the banking and insurance sectors. Though passed in mid-2022, after banks, insurers and nonbank...
by Kaitlyn Yakas-Dance | Nov 24, 2023 | News
In the 30 years since our Defamation Act 1992 came into force, comparable jurisdictions have overhauled their legislation: England in 1996 and 2013, Australia in 2005 and 2021, Scotland in 2021 and Ireland in 2009 (with further reforms afoot). By contrast, in New...
