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Kanwarpal Singh pleaded guilty to murdering 21-year-old law student Farzana Yaqubi on 19 December 2022 and was sentenced to life imprisonment with a 17-year minimum period of imprisonment (MPI).
Fourteen-year-old M killed Bram Williams, 22, by repeatedly stabbing him. M’s defence was that he acted in self-defence and did not have murderous intent. He was found guilty of murder following a jury trial and ...
In 2013, a group of apartment owners sued the Napier City Council over building defects. They said the council had been negligent in issuing building consents, ensuring adequate inspections, and issuing code ...
This case was a successful claim by Premier Property Developments, the vendors of a 14-storey, unit-titled commercial property on Auckland’s Kitchener St, against the purchaser, OHL.
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 ...
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