NZ Supreme CourtLaw Practitioners, certificate of characterNZ Law Society v Stanley [2020] NZSC 83 (17 August 2020) Unsuccessful appeal from CA - Having had a career in business, S completed the necessary academic and professional qualifications for admission – NZ Law Society (NZLS) refused to give him a certificate of character...

Since the passing of the 2015 Health & Safety at Work Act and the 2001 Accident Compensation Act, work practices have changed significantly. When the original laws were enacted it was uncommon for employees to work from home but it is now widely practised and it is predicted that in...

Sam is a private law scholar with primary research and teaching interests in the areas of torts, unjust enrichment, limitations, remedies, and privacy.

Melissa Johnson, Special Counsel at McVeagh Fleming, has been promoted to Partner. Melissa specialises in Employment Law, acting on a range of employment issues including contentious and non-contentious matters. Melissa advises employers on significant restructures, redundancies, personal grievances, mediations, employment documentation, employee entitlements and she undertakes and advises on employment investigations.

For the first time ever the New Zealand Law Society is proposing changes which mean that discrimination, bullying, harassment, sexual harassment and other unacceptable conduct within the legal profession will be clearly defined; there will be a clear threshold for when unacceptable conduct should be reported to the Law Society;...

The New Zealand Law Society | Te Kāhui Ture o Aotearoa believes the opportunity has been missed to make some much-needed improvements to the Sexual Violence Legislation Bill following the Justice select committee’s recent report back to Parliament. In a letter to Justice Minister Andrew Little, the Law Society laid out its concerns and...

It takes a while to coax Margaret Casey, QC, into an interview. “I’m not sure if you can tell, but I hate talking about myself,” she says when we eventually connect. Unassuming and direct, the Auckland barrister’s path to law school, and through the workforce, is its own tale of determination.

In my previous column for LawTalk in June this year I wrote about the massive disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and the effect it was having on our personal and professional lives. New Zealand has since emerged as one of the few countries to have controlled the transmission of the...