Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety Brook van Velden recently announced that Cabinet has agreed to prevent employees earning a base salary of $180,000 or more from bringing...
1 November 2024 Recent Government Announcement on Freshwater Plans The Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) has recently been amended to delay a council’s ability to...
Unravelling the Complexities of New Zealand's Evolving Environmental Legislation Introduction Uncertainty comes with the territory is how it feels to be practising in...
INTRODUCTION The National Policy Statement for Highly Productive Land 2022 (NPS-HPL) provides national direction for the management of highly productive land (HPL) under the...
Introduction The Fast-Track Approvals Bill 2024 (Bill) passed its first reading on Thursday 7 March 2024. The Bill aims to provide a streamlined decision-making process to...
The recent Supreme Court decision Smith v Fonterra considered arguments on the potential liability of individual greenhouse gas (GHGs) emitters through common law tort (known as a...
The new Government is moving at pace to achieve two of its key employment law related commitments before Christmas. The Government previously signalled its intention to repeal the...
The Employment Court’s recent judgment in Cronin-Lampe v Melville High School (5 December 2023) is, in a number of respects, breath taking and record breaking. ...
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...
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