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For some years the property market has been rising and the issue of vendor negative equity has not been a key concern. But with property prices falling and some vendors having purchased at the peak of the market, ...
Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of members of ADLS will be held on Thursday, 2 March 2023, at 5.30 pm (NZ time), at the offices of Link Market Services, Level 30, PwC Tower, 15 Customs ...
ADLS CALL FOR COUNCIL NOMINATIONS
ADLS is calling for nominations from eligible members who are interested in serving as President or elected Councillor.
Nominations for the office of President and elected ...
The United Nations this week slammed corporate greenwashing and said organisations cannot claim to be net-zero while supporting fossil fuel projects. The report, released at the global COP27 climate conference in ...
The ice caps melt, the planet heats up, living costs rise, and real wages stagnate. The middle class struggles, the poor barely survive, economies shrink and labour shortages hit businesses. Conspiracies flourish, ...
Attorney-General David Parker has warned that Parliament will disregard senior court orders declaring legislation inconsistent with fundamental human rights legislation if judges were to go “mad” in deciding every ...
How far back should we go for the answers? To 1932? Or 1952? Too far? What about 1982? Closer? Very well, let us begin our investigation in 2019. Let’s begin in the hours, days and weeks following the Christchurch ...
Led by Chief Justice Dame Helen Winkelmann, tributes are flowing in for former High Court judge Sir Ian Barker KC who died last Friday at the age of 88. “Sir Ian was an outstanding judge and a true leader,” the ...
Led by Chief Justice Dame Helen Winkelmann, tributes are flowing in for former High Court judge Sir Ian Barker KC who died recently at the age of 88.
In early November 2022, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) released its much anticipated report on the review of the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act 2009. The 256-page document, ...
The report on the review of the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act 2009, 256-page document included 215 recommendations, to assess how the AML/CFT regime had performed since 2017 and ...
The Privacy Commissioner says a “strong case” exists for tighter regulation of facial recognition technology amid concerns that the Privacy Act 2020 alone is insufficient to protect the public. Accompanying facial ...
The Privacy Commissioner says a “strong case” exists for tighter regulation of facial recognition technology amid concerns that the Privacy Act 2020 alone is insufficient to protect the public. This is a marked ...
The Minister of Justice has recently released the long-awaited “hate speech” proposals, in which looks to extend the grounds of the current Human Rights Act 1993 in both the civil (S61) and criminal (S131) ...
A long-awaited report from the judiciary’s Rules Committee has recommended a three-point plan for improving access to civil justice. Three years in the making, the report suggests amending the procedural High Court ...
The Minister of Justice has released the long-awaited “hate speech” proposals. The press release dated 19 November 2022 states: Currently, under the Human Rights Act 1993, it is illegal to publish or distribute ...