by Jenni McManus | Sep 2, 2022 | Administrative / Public
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 lawyers and Fletcher’s just published book on the...
by Jenni McManus | Sep 2, 2022 | General, Misc
Freelance journalist and regular LawNews writer Rod Vaughan had a lucky escape on Sunday afternoon after crashing a light plane on the main highway into Thames. Vaughan says he was preparing to land at Thames airfield when he was hit by sunstrike and momentarily lost...
by Sacha Jugum | Sep 2, 2022 | Environmental Law, Treaty / Māori
Judicial Review Procedure Act 2016 – Crown Minerals Act 1991 – application for judicial review of decision to grant petroleum exploration permits – whether substantive consideration of climate change implications – public policy – scope of review – exercise of...
by Mark von Dadelszen | Sep 2, 2022 | General
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 years. When drafting new society constitutions that comply with...
