by Brenda Newth | Apr 19, 2024 | General
Where do you work, what’s your role? I am a barrister in Auckland, near Britomart. I moved to the independent bar in July 2006 after working in a few boutique Auckland litigation firms, specialising in insurance work. Although I have been in a few chambers (most...
by Chris Trotter | Apr 19, 2024 | Administrative / Public
The most striking aspect of the crisis engulfing the news media is its victim’s inability to grasp what’s happening. So preoccupied has the journalistic profession become with its own precarity that it has failed to notice that almost nobody else appears to share its...
by Sally Lindsay | Apr 19, 2024 | Property
Fined by City Gardens body corporate because of his tenant’s unruly behaviour, the landlord of an Auckland inner-city apartment has been able to claim back the money. The Tenancy Tribunal has ordered Moeroa Piriau Junior to pay the landlord $6,573.62, which includes...
by Anthony Grant | Apr 19, 2024 | Wills & Trusts
Sections 45 – 48 of the Trusts Act 2019 impose various obligations on trustees to maintain records about a trust. In my experience, it is surprising how many trustees fail to comply with these obligations. The statutory requirements provide that trustees must keep not...
by Reweti Kohere | Apr 19, 2024 | Privacy Law
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner has made three changes to a draft code of practice to regulate the “growing and diversifying” use of biometrics, including a proposal that organisations try to get people’s consent before collecting this special type of personal...
