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Flooding due to overland flow paths and damaged drainage

Persistent heavy rainfall across the country often results in damage to property due to flooding caused by overland flow paths and defective drainage. But who is responsible for the cost of the dama...

17.06.2025 Posted in Climate Change & Property

Understanding Indirect Privacy Notification: What you need to know

The Privacy Amendment Bill (the Bill), if passed into law, will require agencies to notify individuals when their personal information is collected from a source other than the individual themselves, ...

16.06.2025 Posted in Corporate & Commercial & Employment

Family Ties: Intra-Family Succession and Exit Planning

As the second instalment in a series of articles looking at the generational wealth transition and its impacts on business succession in New Zealand, Ben Hickson (partner, Corporate & Commercial...

16.06.2025 Posted in Corporate & Commercial & Private Wealth

Employment law at a glance – June 2025

If you are anything like us, you will be shocked to realise that we are halfway into 2025. As time has been marching on, so too have employment law developments – and there have certainly been quite...

05.06.2025 Posted in Employment

ETS Update: Climate Change Commission recommends minor tweaks to ETS Settings

Last month, He Pou a Rangi Climate Change Commission (the Commission) released its annual advice to the Government on the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) settings for the period 2026 to 2030 (Advice)....

09.05.2025 Posted in Climate Change & Corporate & Commercial & Forestry

Health and safety learnings for landowners following latest Whakaari decision

The leasing and subleasing of land, buildings and infrastructure is commonplace in New Zealand business and commerce, but what happens when something goes wrong? Do landowners have health and safety o...

08.05.2025 Posted in Health & Safety

Navigating Settlor Intentions in Trust Restructures – Legler v Formannoij [2024] NZSC 173

In Legler v Formannoij the surviving widow Marina Formannoij, was forced to navigate the complexities of two trusts that were part of her late husband Ricco Legler’s estate plan: the Kaahu Trust (wh...

08.05.2025 Posted in Private Wealth

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