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This decision of the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal concerns three disciplinary charges laid by a Professional Conduct Committee (PCC) against Sarai Ive Tepou, a registered nurse of Auckland. The ...
From Elle Woods in Legally Blonde to Jennifer Walters in SheHulk, Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird to Denny Crane in Boston Legal, our popular culture is often where we first see and witness legal practice.
Employers and employees continue to face “inordinate” delays in having their cases heard, despite the Employment Relations Authority clearing a backlog of unallocated claims built up during covid-19.
Perhaps known only to those schooled in the dark arts of resource management and environmental law, significant changes have been made to the way New Zealand’s indigenous biodiversity is to be managed.
Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD) Wi-Fi passwords at the Courts are now going to be changing every six months. The first change is occurring November 19, 2023.
Businesses are increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) to generate media content, including news, to engage their customers. Now, we’re even seeing AI used for the “gamification” of news – that is, to ...
After a recent run-in with the Bank of New Zealand, Gloriavale has warned the country’s competition watchdog that customers are being segregated into “desirable” and “undesirable” consumers.
This judgment relates to an application in the Cryptopia saga, which began when its cryptocurrency exchange was hacked in January 2019, resulting in a loss of $30 million of cryptocurrency holdings.
On 3 June 2022, after a 10-day trial before Grice J in the High Court at Wellington, a jury found A guilty by majority verdicts of two charges of sexual violation by rape and one charge of kidnapping. He was ...
A successful originating application by property developer Fairview Estate Investment Ltd to extinguish a restrictive land covenant over two lots of its land.
This is the first substantive appeal under the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Act 2011 (MACA) made to the Court of Appeal. It follows a landmark decision by Churchman J in Re Edwards (Te Whakatōhea No. 2) ...
Anjela Sharma is a lawyer. She was engaged by Gail Foster-Bohm and Andrew Corbin to help them make a claim for unjustifiable dismissal after their employment at IHC New Zealand Inc was terminated as part of ...
The rule of law is one of the most familiar catchphrases in the legal lexicon. But like other familiar catchphrases, it is frequently deployed without a great deal of thought about what it actually means.
After more than a year of tough talk and other regulatory sabre-rattling, action from the financial services watchdog to combat “greenwashing” appears to be on hold.
Governments love to regulate. It’s what they do. For years, they have regulated aspects of our daily lives. Little by little, our liberties are eroded incrementally with every regulatory interference.
Retirement villages are popular with older people, but the business model is poised for a shake-up with proposed legislative change threatening to dent village operators’ bottom lines.