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Few cases will ever compare to the three-decade saga of Peter Ellis. Lurid allegations in the early 1990s of bizarre child abuse rituals at a crèche in Christchurch produced convictions that stand alone in the ...
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ADLS committees have made submissions to the independent panel which has been tasked with a wide-ranging review of the profession. The committees were asked to consider whether there should be an independent ...
Ellis had been granted an extension of time to appeal but died before the appeal could be heard. Therefore, a decision had to be made on whether to allow the appeal to proceed, which meant deciding whether the ...
Lawyers don’t want or need an independent regulator. The job should be done by the New Zealand Law Society, but NZLS must first relinquish its representative role as an advocate for the profession to avoid actual ...
Peter Ellis’ convictions, while long ago, were not final. Unfortunately, neither will be the outcome of his appeal to the Supreme Court.
Ellis had been granted an extension of time to appeal but died before the ...
Arguably the most famous person sentenced under the “three strikes law”, Clinton Fitzgerald, was sentenced to jail for a seven year stretch after kissing a woman in the street. His sentence has now been overturned ...
The Incorporated Societies Act 2022 replaces the Incorporated Societies Act 1908 which, at 114 years old, was outdated and failed to address modern governance and management best practice. Incorporated societies ...
Arguably the most famous person sentenced under the “three strikes law”, Clinton Fitzgerald, went to jail for a seven-year stretch after kissing a woman in the street. His sentence has been overturned by the ...
The Incorporated Societies Act 2022 replaces the Incorporated Societies Act 1908 which, at 114 years old, was outdated and failed to address modern governance and management best practice. The Act marks the end of ...
The ADLS Employment Law committee has written to Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Michael Wood, asking for employment law advocates who don’t work for unions to be barred from appearing in the Employment ...
Has the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act 2009 (AML-CFT) and its implementation by regulators gone too far? Updates to the law that came into force on July 15 are bedding in and it’s ...
The ADLS Employment Law committee has written to Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Michael Wood, asking for employment law advocates who don’t work for unions to be barred from appearing in the Employment ...
Anti-money laundering and counter financing of terrorism are the bane of many businesses. On one hand, they’re a huge cost to organisations. On the other, they could be seen as a building block creating a civil ...
To do what we do now efficiently, we need better technology and the only way we can significantly expand access to justice is through smart use of technology.
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