Geoff Bevan, Gerrad Brimble, Andrew More As from 13 June 2023 employees have 12 months to raise a personal grievance related to sexual harassment. This is an exception to the...
Freshwater Farm Plans: thought you’d herd it all? Bridget Irving, Simon Peirce, Gus Griffin, Hannah Perkin From 1 August 2023 Freshwater Farm Plans (FWFP) start...
Lawyers will generally tell you to get legal advice. But nowadays you can do a lot yourself, without paying a lawyer (especially as AI develops). So, if you’re starting or...
Kari Schmidt, Gerrad Brimble, Geoff Bevan It’s been almost a year since the Protected Disclosures (Protection of Whistleblowers) Act 2022 (the Act) came into force on 1...
Late last year the Employment Court recently issued a judgment finding that four Uber drivers working for Uber Rideshare and Uber Eats are in fact employees, rather than...
We have encountered several disputes stemming from a perceived interference of privacy created by one property looking into another. The recent UK Supreme Court case of Fearn v...
In today’s article, we’ll take a short break from commercial law, and look at something closer to home: pets. As King Frederick of Prussia said in 1789: “the...
Sometimes you might do business with people you don’t like. But sometimes you get to cut those ties and end a contract. For example, global shoe company Adidas recently cut...
On 18 September, the Ministry for the Environment announced a new National Policy Statement for Highly Productive Land 2022 (NPS-HPL) which seeks to protect highly productive land...
The Protection of Personal and Property Rights Act 1988 (the PPPR Act) governs the area of law that relates to a person losing mental capacity and how their affairs are to be...
The recent Supreme Court decision of Melco Property Holdings (NZ) 2012 Ltd v Hall[1] has provided helpful guidance on the circumstances in which a party may cancel[2] a...
The housing crisis. It’s near impossible to watch the news, listen to the radio or read any news site without catching something about the housing shortage. In May, Auckland...
The Fair Trading Act 1986 (Act) has, since March 2015, prohibited the use of unfair contract terms in standard form consumer contracts, i.e. business to consumer contracts. The...
Significant Natural Areas (SNAs) remain the central mechanism in the latest draft of the National Policy Statement for Indigenous Biodiversity (NPSIB) released June 9, 2022. As we...
The Employment Court’s recent decision in Courage v Attorney General[1] has found that members of Gloriavale Christian Community (Gloriavale) were employees while living...
NEW WORK VISA POLICY: ACCREDITED EMPLOYER WORK VISA With the New Zealand borders opening up, Immigration New Zealand’s long-awaited Accredited Employer Work Visa (the...
Our thanks to Gus Griffin for assisting with this article. Looking to establish or invest in carbon forestry? Then you should understand the Government’s ETS...
If you’re in business with other people (like co-founders or investors), it’s important to have a shareholders’ agreement. Today we’ll look at some of the...
Signing a commercial lease is a big decision, whether it’s for an office, retail space or café/restaurant location. In this article, we’ll consider the key...
Starting a business is hard work. There’s lots to do and plenty to spend your money on. So how do you know what to do and where to start? In this article, we’ll briefly...
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