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Do you really need a Fixed Term Agreement? Really really?

Most of us (and especially lawyers) like certainty. Experience tells us however that there is nothing as uncertain as a sure thing. Frequently, we speak to employers that are tempted to use fixed ...

28.11.2019 Posted in Employment Law

New National Interest Test Proposed for New Zealand’s Overseas Investment Rules

The New Zealand Government has recently announced yet more proposed changes to New Zealand’s overseas investment rules to be introduced early next year.

27.11.2019 Posted in Foreign Investment

ACP Cladding Update – Class Action Proposed

Media reports indicate that class action litigation in relation to ACP cladding is very likely. A litigation funder has announced it will be funding a class action lawsuit for owners of buildings cl...

27.11.2019 Posted in Construction Law & Litigation & Dispute Resolution

Complaints are on the rise: A snapshot of complaints made to the Commerce Commission

The Commerce Commission (Commission) has recently released a snapshot of the complaints it has received in the year to 30 June 2019. A copy of the Commission’s report can be viewed here. The snaps...

25.11.2019 Posted in Regulatory

Unfair Contract Terms: High Court issues its first declaration

On 12 November 2019 the High Court issued its first declaration under the Fair Trading Act 1986 (FTA) that terms in a standard form consumer contract are unfair.[1] The Commerce Commission (Commiss...

14.11.2019 Posted in Regulatory

Who is working when? Public holidays and ‘otherwise working days’

With Labour Day just around the corner, and Christmas/New Year looming, we are getting a few questions about the “otherwise working day”.

24.10.2019 Posted in Employment Law

A trust on a trust – how strange is that?

In New Zealand we are trust crazy and owning a home in trust is common place. For many, just as for Mr Hodgkinson in Judd v Hawkes Bay Trustee Company Limited [2016] NZCA 397, the trust has been set u...

21.10.2019 Posted in Trust Wills Estates

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