by Reweti Kohere | Dec 9, 2022 | Criminal
The ice caps melt, the planet heats up, living costs rise, and real wages stagnate. The middle class struggles, the poor barely survive, economies shrink and labour shortages hit businesses. Conspiracies flourish, tyrants wage war, democracy declines and a global...
by Reweti Kohere | Dec 8, 2022 | Administrative / Public
Attorney-General David Parker has warned that Parliament will disregard senior court orders declaring legislation inconsistent with fundamental human rights legislation if judges were to go “mad” in deciding every margin-call error rather than focusing on the most...
by Reweti Kohere | Dec 8, 2022 | General
Becoming a King’s Counsel has always been one of Stephanie Grieve’s aspirations. Yet upon hearing she had taken silk, Grieve says she was still “overwhelmed and honoured”. The new KC got her start as a summer clerk for Russell McVeagh after graduating from Otago...
by Chris Trotter | Dec 8, 2022 | General
How far back should we go for the answers? To 1932? Or 1952? Too far? What about 1982? Closer? Very well, let us begin our investigation in 2019. Let’s begin in the hours, days and weeks following the Christchurch terror attack because it was there, amidst all the...
by Joanna Pidgeon | Dec 8, 2022 | Property
For some years the property market has been rising and the issue of vendor negative equity has not been a key concern. But with property prices falling and some vendors having purchased at the peak of the market, the sale price after paying the real estate agent’s...