by Rod Vaughan | Mar 12, 2021 | Health
By Rod Vaughan Three years after the New Zealand legal profession was rocked by damning allegations of sexual harassment, bullying and exploitation of junior staff at major law firms, it seems little has changed. A just-released report by the Aotearoa Legal Workers’...
by Anthony Grant | Mar 12, 2021 | Wills & Trusts
By Anthony Grant The courts’ most powerful tool for modifying a trust is s 182 of the Family Proceedings Act. Its English equivalent is s 24(1)(c) of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973. This section gives the courts freedom to modify “nuptial settlements” (in simple...
by Rod Vaughan | Mar 12, 2021 | Health
By Rod Vaughan Despite tragedies such as Pike River and the Whakaari/White Island eruption, when it comes to workplace safety, New Zealand’s track record still isn’t too flash. We have twice as many workplace deaths per capita as Australia where there has been a...
by Anonymous | Mar 12, 2021 | Misc
University of Auckland law student Will Turner has won this year’s Greg Everard Memorial Moot, beating three others in the finals to win best oralist. The moot problem was based on Frucor v Commissioner of Inland Revenue, which is scheduled to be heard by the Supreme...
