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Plan fail results in health and safety conviction

Deliver the health and safety work you promise, or there may be legal consequences – as a health and safety consultancy recently learnt! Earlier this year, WorkSafe prosecuted Safe Business Solution...

25.10.2024 Posted in Employment & Health & Safety

Rent reviews

As a tenant or landlord under a commercial lease, your business will be affected by rent reviews during the life of your lease. Therefore, it is essential that you understand the most common types o...

24.10.2024 Posted in Property

Serious misconduct – how serious does the conduct have to be?

What is serious misconduct, and when and how can an employer bring an employee’s employment to an end on these grounds?

23.10.2024 Posted in Employment

“More than an opinion”: criminal liability arising from PS4 producer statements under the Building Act 2004

In Solicitor-General’s Reference (No 1 of 2022) from CRI-2021-463-55 ([2022] NZHC 556) [2024] NZCA 514 the Court of Appeal was asked to consider the following question: Was the Court correct to find...

15.10.2024 Posted in Construction & Disputes

Close call on contribution: Beca decision confirms 10-year longstop does not bar contribution claims

In a 3-2 split decision, the Supreme Court in Beca Carter Hollings & Ferner Ltd v Wellington City Council [2024] NZSC 117 confirmed that contribution claims are not barred by the Building Act 2004...

11.10.2024 Posted in Construction & Disputes & Insurance

Addressing directors’ personal safety

The Companies Act 1993 (CA93) currently requires all company directors to make their residential addresses available as a matter of public record. However, in recent times, incidents of stalking and...

25.09.2024 Posted in Corporate & Commercial & Disputes & Health & Safety

Wielding the Secateurs: The High Court’s Pruning of Potentially Disruptive Decisions

Every now and then courts have to self-correct to prevent errant off-shoots of legal reasoning advancing into the law. In the decision, IAG New Zealand Ltd v Degen [2024] NZHC 397, the High Court t...

19.09.2024 Posted in Insurance

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