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Connor McPhee was found not guilty of manslaughter in the Wellington District Court and applied for permanent name suppression on the ground of “extreme hardship”.
Adrian Rewiri is incarcerated at Auckland South Corrections Facility (ASCF) in respect of a sentence of seven years and nine months for drug-related offending. His sentence ends 28 January 2027. Rewiri also faces ...
A health technology services provider, healthAlliance NZ, sues software company Hewlett-Packard (HP). In 2015, healthAlliance entered into a contract with HP where healthAlliance would purchase 5,000 perpetual ...
The appellant, Joshua Hürlimann, a first-home buyer in his twenties, signed an agreement for sale and purchase (ASP) to buy one of three lifestyle blocks Paul and Melanie Lilley were selling, after subdividing ...
A was a serving prisoner at Whanganui Prison when he was assaulted by another prisoner, C, in an exercise yard in June 2017, suffering bruising, a cut lip and redness to the top of his head. A sued the ...
Fletcher Construction Limited (Fletchers) was head contractor working on the construction of the convention centre and car parks (contract works) for SkyCity Entertainment Group. The building contract included an ...
Tens of billions of dollars are being loaned on the basis of natural love and affection, but the “Bank of Mum and Dad” is fraught with legal peril.
Legal workers in New Zealand’s private firms are the least satisfied with their pay and job, a new report from the Aotearoa Legal Workers’ Union (ALWU) has found.
The tight labour market for lawyers is easing. That’s unless the law firm or in-house team needs to staff teams in areas such as resource management, litigation and a few other in-demand roles, say ...
A legal brawl is brewing about how, and whether, copyright law should apply to the use of artificial intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT. In one corner are authors who own copyright in their work; in the other are those ...
Peter Vi pleaded guilty to the murder of Georgina Nagataki on 1 March 2023, following a sentencing indication given on February 2023.
LF pleaded guilty to sexual offending in relation to six complainants. The offending occurred when he was 14 to 17 years old. He was sentenced to 12 months’ home detention. E was a connected person.
Luke Stainton pleaded guilty to one charge of having sexual connection with a young person and was sentenced to two years and three months’ imprisonment.
Mongrel Mob member Ratana was shot dead at his partner’s home, which was located in an area considered to be Black Power territory. Members of the Black Power gang went to Ratana’s address with firearms and other ...
Francisc Catalin Deliu was found guilty by the Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal (LCDT) on charges of misconduct in 2016, resulting in a 15-month suspension. The most serious of those charges related ...
The Tūhoe Trust is a post-settlement governance entity (PSGE) established by Ngāi Tūhoe in 2011 to receive redress from the Crown for historic breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi. The trust is a discretionary trust ...