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Tikanga-based dispute resolution processes are being more widely traversed within the employment jurisdiction. However, an understanding as to what such a process entails or the responsibility of representatives ...
Now more than ever, the boundaries between a person’s working life and personal life are blurred. The ubiquitous smartphone enables employees to be connected to their work 24 hours a day, with many work phones and ...
This is shaping up to be a definitive year for one of the thorniest issues in employment law – whether ostensibly self-employed workers offering services through tech platform-based providers are employees of the ...
The Chief Justice welcomes the Attorney General’s announcement today of the appointment of Auckland King’s Counsel Laura O’Gorman as a Judge of the High Court.
The Chief Justice announced today that from 14-16 August 2023 the Supreme Court will sit in the Auckland Environment Court to hear several appeals– the third time that New Zealand’s highest court has sat outside ...
Tewiremu Napia Swanson appointed his brother, Walter Swanson, a solicitor in Rotorua, as sole executor and trustee of his will. Tewiremu Swanson’s estate included a house he owned with his ex-wife, Amanda Norris, ...
In this High Court case the General Manager of Veterans’ Affairs New Zealand (GMVA) appealed a decision by the Veterans’ Entitlements Appeal Board, which ruled glioblastoma should be treated as a service-related ...
On 23 May 2016, Gregory John Jones and New Zealand Bloodstock Finance and Leasing entered into a loan agreement granting Jones up to an initial $200,000 in advances, at 10% interest on the unpaid daily balance. ...
Hakyung Lee is alleged to have murdered her two children and hidden their bodies in suitcases, which were stored along with her other property in a storage garage in south Auckland.
After a judge-alone trial in the District Court, Sarah Bell was found guilty of two charges of harassment and one charge of resisting a constable acting in the execution of his duty.
Part 6 of the Broadcasting Act 1989 empowers the Electoral Commission to allocate a fixed pool of public funds to eligible political parties for advertising purposes in the lead-up to a general election.
As a law student at the University of Sydney in the early 1960s, Michael Kirby would raise his hand and query and question. But at no point during his studies did the 84-year-old former judge of the High Court of ...
Access-to-justice issues remain a “continuing failure” and the knee-jerk preference to imprison offenders is not healthy for society, retiring High Court judge Ailsa Duffy said at her valedictory sitting in ...
This is a successful application for judicial review by Lawyers for Climate Action NZ Inc (LCANZI) of a Cabinet decision to ignore advice from the Climate Change Commission to tighten the settings for the Emissions ...
This is an unsuccessful appeal by Bushmere from a High Court decision upholding the council’s rating valuation of its SunGold kiwifruit orchard.
Chao Chen was found guilty of the manslaughter of Lele He. One evening, Chen, He and an associate attended a dinner. There, Chen allegedly described He as “stubborn”. He later called Chen around to his house; the ...