2025 Insights: Proposed Legislative Changes and Employment Team Update

A successful exit from a business can be, and often is, affected by the steps you take when setting up the business. Although there are various business structures that can be used in New Zealand, by ...

“Gone are the days … when an employee could confidently sign up to a restraint and then breach it in the bold expectation that ‘those things are not worth the paper they are written on’”.[1]...

The current line of authorities establishing the ability for building owners to be able to claim in negligence for the cost of rectifying defects can be traced to the Court of Appeal’s (COA) judgmen...

Introduction The resource management landscape in New Zealand has undergone a seismic shift with the recent passage of the Resource Management (Consenting and Other System Changes) Amendment Act 2025,...