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Should lay employment advocates be allowed to represent clients? It’s a question ADLS’ Employment Law committee has asked workplace relations and safety Minister Michael Wood to bump up his agenda.
In the final of a two-part series, LawNews examines how some lawyers have ditched billable hours in favour of new ways of pricing their services. Some are also embracing the four-day working week
The scheme will be compulsory for all workers and employers, regardless of whether they already have private income protection and health cover.
The Commerce Commission and Productivity Commission each began raising s 36 as a policy problem after a 2012 court decision
Traditionally, two things have remained constant in the lives of most lawyers: billable hours and working from an office. But covid has thrown a curve ball into the mix, forcing many to work from home and embrace ...
The Incorporated Societies Act was first passed in 1908. After a reform process kicked off in 2011 and many years of delays, a new and updated Act has finally received Royal Assent. Changes focus on improving the ...
An advantage of working within a smaller firm is the range of work to which you are exposed. Client requirements do not always fit neatly within legal work types and often involve a cross-section of legal issues. ...
Please see below a link to a media statement from the Chief Justice Helen Winkelmann regarding four senior court appointments.
A warning to anyone thinking of transferring residential property out of a family trust: you could be caught by the bright-line test.
The framework in the bill does not cover contractors, but the government has indicated that work will begin shortly on proposals to incorporate contractors into FPAs in the future
The laws of the land should come at the end of the political process, not at the beginning. The vexed question of Crown/Māori co-governance, with all of its profound constitutional implications, is opening up deep ...
There are a lot of lawyers spending a lot of time looking very carefully at whether people were unjustifiably dismissed. Especially where there is a health and safety policy in place rather than a mandate
As the controversial Mainzeal case on the scope of directors’ duties awaits a decision by the Supreme Court, officers of incorporated societies have been warned they may face a similar fate to the Mainzeal ...
As cliché as it might sound, the beauty of working in-house is that no two days are the same.
The disruption of the covid pandemic will continue to have major implications for the work of courtrooms. Parliament is considering the Covid-19 Response (Courts Safety) Legislation Bill, which amends several acts ...
LawNews spoke to five practitioners who’ve built thriving practices by focusing on the areas of the law that matter most to them. Here are their stories.