The New Zealand Law Society | Te Kāhui Ture o Aotearoa has appeared before the Justice Select Committee, to express its support for the Conversion Practices Prohibition Legislation Bill, and to recommend changes that will ensure better clarity on what the Bill seeks to prohibit.

The High Court has dismissed an appeal by a Standards Committee seeking a longer period of suspension for lawyer John Paul Timothy Schlooz.

Decisions, proceedings and news from the highest courts in some common law jurisdictions in the past week.

Decisions, proceedings and news from the highest courts in some common law jurisdictions in the past week.

A Standards Committee has held that a lawyer looking to get payment for his fees did not have the right to register a caveat against land owned by a debtor. The lawyer also had not issued an invoice for the unpaid fees.

Lawyers are reminded that caveats on property can only be registered in very limited circumstances. A recent decision of a Standards Committee held that registering a caveat to exert leverage in advancing a Family Protection Act claim was improper. Lodging the caveat in those circumstances amounted to unsatisfactory conduct by…

Decisions, proceedings and news from the highest courts in some common law jurisdictions in the past week.

A survey being conducted by the New Zealand Law Society | Te Kahui Ture o Aotearoa is being sent today to all practising lawyers in Aotearoa New Zealand to get a national picture of access to justice across the country.

Chief District Court Judge Taumaunu has released a letter to the profession to advise of updated protocols for Alert Level 4

Decisions, proceedings and news from the highest courts in some common law jurisdictions in the past week.