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“I’m good, I’m good. I’m sweaty,” confesses incoming ADLS president Tony Herring. “I know you don’t need to know that but I’ve been racing around.”
That’s not surprising. Since learning at the ADLS annual ...
On 1 June 2021, the Supreme Court issued judgment in Lambie Trustee Limited v Addleman [2021] NZSC 54. The case involved the principles relating to disclosure of legal advice obtained by trustees to beneficiaries ...
As the “chatbot wars” rage in Silicon Valley, the growing proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) tools specifically designed to generate human-like text has left many baffled.
Educators in particular are ...
A key part of our planning has been a review of the ADLS brand. ADLS is a national organization and as such, we would like our name to reflect our New Zealand footprint. To achieve this, the ADLS Council is ...
Cyclone Gabrielle will significantly widen New Zealand’s burgeoning infrastructure gap, with early cost-estimates of $13 billion adding to the current shortfall of hundreds of billions of dollars. With roads ...
Do we truly need judges? I’m going to lay my cards on the table here and say that the answer is yes.
It would be virtually impossible to maintain the rule of law and legal certainty without an independent ...
Regulating crypto can be like nailing jello to the ceiling. But while regulation of the emerging cryptocurrency technologies is necessary to protect consumers, it needs to be sufficiently flexible to allow ...
The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of members of ADLS will be held on Thursday, 2 March 2023, at 5.30pm, at the offices of Link Market Services, Level 30, PwC Tower, 15 Customs Street West, Auckland.
Three ...
Should it have the numbers to form a government in October, National is expected to take immediate and comprehensive action to fulfil its election promises, including the unwinding of a raft of Labour-introduced ...
Should it have the numbers to form a government in October, National is expected to take immediate and comprehensive action to fulfil its election promises, including the unwinding of a raft of Labour-introduced ...
How judges should be appointed is often one of the most contentious issues in constitutional law. In some countries, the executive and/or the legislature play a decisive role in appointing judges. Federal judges in ...
Let me start with three quotes.
First: “There can be no free society without law administered through an independent judiciary. If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That ...
After last week’s widespread flooding and property damage in Auckland, Northland, the Coromandel and the Bay of Plenty – and with a cyclone said to be on the way – many people are likely to be seeking help from ...
It’s been a long day. As you are shutting down your computer a client calls and asks for an urgent memo on a complicated legal issue. You sigh deeply as the sun is setting. You would rather be at home, and this ...
Even if the government moves to claw back some of the more draconian provisions of the Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act 2003 (CCCFA), the good old days of relaxed assessments and easy access to mortgage ...
Bruce Jesson (1944-1999) would not have made a good courtroom lawyer. With his coke-bottle glasses and his tendency to mumble, Jesson’s rapport with the average jury was not likely to have been much better than Mr ...