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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.
Armed with a big chunk of funding allocated in this year’s Budget, the Ministry of Justice and the judiciary are going to market to seek bids for Te Au Reka – the first phase of the long-awaited digitisation of New ...
There seems to be an ambivalence in New Zealand about freedom of expression.
Although the right to communicate and receive information is guaranteed by s 14 of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990, the ...
Some of our country’s top legal brains are backing calls for greater use of plain language in the law to make it more accessible for New Zealanders. Leading the charge is General Una Jagose who launched her ...
An untidy aspect of the law of trusts is knowing whether a proposed action is subject to a fiduciary constraint and, if so, to what extent. The Court of Appeal recently dealt with this question in Pollock v Pollock ...
Some of the country’s top legal brains are backing calls for greater use of plain language in the law to make it more accessible for New Zealanders. Leading the charge is Solicitor-General Una Jagose who for years ...
An untidy aspect of the law of trusts is knowing whether a proposed action is subject to a fiduciary constraint and, if so, to what extent. The Court of Appeal recently dealt with this question in Pollock v Pollock ...
A statement has been released to the profession from the Chief Justice of New Zealand as new Covid-19 court operating protocols come into effect from midnight on Tuesday 13th September.
A statement has been released to the profession from the Chief Justice of New Zealand as the sad news travelled the world, that Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has passed.
A bill sponsored by Labour backbencher Dr Deborah Russell to extend the deadline for filing personal grievances for sexual harassment has come a step closer to becoming law. Parliament’s Education and Workforce ...
This is an edited extract from Wood’s keynote address to the Australian jobs summit last week. In an economic landscape that is increasingly digital, increasingly focused on services sector work and increasingly ...
From the outside, a sexual harassment victim looks like a once-performing employee who gradually loses confidence, starts to under-perform, begins taking excessive sick leave and makes careless mistakes. A bill ...
In an economic landscape that is increasingly digital, increasingly focused on services sector work and increasingly focused on a looming deadline for net zero emissions, Danielle Wood puts forward three priorities ...
Some 30,000 societies incorporated under the Incorporated Societies Act 1908 and the Charitable Trusts Act 1957 are likely to be transferred to the new incorporated societies regime within the next few ...
Former Chief Justice Dame Sian Elias and her son, historian and lawyer Ned Fletcher, took the stage at the Auckland Writers’ festival last weekend for a discussion about why the law is too important to be left to ...
Most law firms should have a lawyer or work group assigned to deal with inquiries about the new Act and those who will be doing this work need to start up-skilling themselves now.
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