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Anjela Sharma is a lawyer. She was engaged by Gail Foster-Bohm and Andrew Corbin to help them make a claim for unjustifiable dismissal after their employment at IHC New Zealand Inc was terminated as part of ...
The rule of law is one of the most familiar catchphrases in the legal lexicon. But like other familiar catchphrases, it is frequently deployed without a great deal of thought about what it actually means.
After more than a year of tough talk and other regulatory sabre-rattling, action from the financial services watchdog to combat “greenwashing” appears to be on hold.
Governments love to regulate. It’s what they do. For years, they have regulated aspects of our daily lives. Little by little, our liberties are eroded incrementally with every regulatory interference.
Retirement villages are popular with older people, but the business model is poised for a shake-up with proposed legislative change threatening to dent village operators’ bottom lines.
If it stays true to its campaign promise, the incoming National government will sometime within the next 100 days remove taxpayer funding for “cultural” reports, put together under s 27 of the Sentencing Act 2002 ...
New Zealand Loyal, a registered political party founded by former broadcaster and anti-vaccination activist Liz Gunn, urgently sought judicial review of the Electoral Commission’s refusal to accept an amended party ...
Madhav Karmarkar is the sole director and shareholder of Jayashree Ltd. He filed an appeal for Jayashree against a decision of the District Court to strike out their statement of claim on an application of the ...
Alan O’Donoghue was married to Marc Comia, but they were estranged at the time of his death. Before Alan died intestate, the couple had entered an agreement purporting to settle their relationship property.
On 14 April 2016, Henry Afakasi collapsed and died of natural causes while in Auckland South Corrections Facility, having been sentenced to 14 years' imprisonment in late 2014 for serious drug offending.
The defendants, Sosaia Vaitohi and Methuselah Talakai, were unanimously found guilty of murder after a jury trial. The murder was a gang-related shooting, related to a drug deal. The defendants were given similar ...
New Zealand’s lawyers are standing at a crossroads over their future regulation and representation. Much disagreement exists about the creation of a new, independent watchdog and the insertion of a Treaty of ...
It wasn’t all peace, love and mung beans in the early 1970s. Not in New Zealand, anyway. When the Norman Kirk-led Labour government barnstormed to power in 1972, social-conservatism was still the default setting of ...
“Contestation is the treaty’s only consistent companion,” writes Justice Sir Joe Williams (Ngati Pūkenga, Waitaha and Tapuika), in a foreword to Ned Fletcher’s book The English Text of the Treaty of Waitangi. As a ...
Asked what impact the publication of his name would have on him, the plaintiff known only as ‘MW’ told the court it would destroy him. “Just the fact you had a dispute, there’s nothing good about that. I work in ...
You may have seen earlier today via What’s New for lawyers providing Legal Aid that a new hearing preparation fee has been added to Schedule J: Fee schedule for Parole for offenders serving indeterminate sentences ...
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