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When LawNews caught up with senior partner Arthur Young three years ago in his office at Chapman Tripp, the then 84-year-old wasn’t thinking of retirement.
He enjoyed the private client work, including family ...
Exclusion clauses are fundamental to the operation of insurance policies because they are critical in determining the scope of the risk that is being covered.
If someone was seeing attempts to grope them, then why would it matter if it was actually a physical grope or a virtual grope? They’re still seeing it, they’re still possibly hearing it. They’re seeing the ...
Where the police are not involved, service of a protection order can be difficult
Mass shootings in the United States are all too common and, sadly, unsurprising to much of the world. But when the victims of such violence are primary school students, the world takes notice.
In-work poverty is not an accurate description of New Zealand’s wider employment conditions and does not justify introducing Fair Pay Agreements across the economy.
The incidence of dementia is now so common in the community that all trust deeds should contain a mechanism to enable the speedy and inexpensive removal of a trustee who loses cognition.
How will Pakeha citizens react if the trial of a person accused of ram-raiding one of their businesses takes place in a court run by and for Māori? If the presiding judge is positioned beneath a traditional Māori ...
Our constitutional beginnings are about how different governance concepts are to be balanced, intertwined, reconciled here in Aotearoa. Talking about co-governance is at the core of our constitutional whakapapa.
You can’t use sunset clauses to intentionally delay building projects with the aim of exploiting buyers.
Employers should take the opportunity to tap into the specific wants and needs of their employees by implementing a consultation process.
The passing of the Unit Titles (Strengthening Body Corporate Governance and Other Matters) Amendment Bill into law, with the Royal Assent on 9 May 2022, represents a major step forward in building a more ...
As foreshadowed in her maiden speech when she entered Parliament at the 2020 election, employment-lawyer-turned-Labour-list-politician Helen White has drafted her Employment Relations (Restraint of Trade) Amendment ...
The political drama surrounding the Rotorua District Council (Representation Arrangements) Bill may soon be going on tour –nationwide.
If co-governance is legitimate, it must be capable of justification through free inquiry, reason and persuasion. It must be possible to use reason to demonstrate that legal discrimination on racial grounds – using ...
The doctrine of emerging sham is controversial and consider that for all practical purposes it doesn’t exist.