Courts
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Interlocutory applications and appeal rights
1 June 2018
The Supreme Court’s decision in Ceramalus v Chief Executive of Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment [2018] NZSC 26 is… -
Pressures spell redeployment of judicial workforce
24 May 2018
For several years now the District Court has been coping with the relentless workload and demand for court time by…
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Bullying from the bench
4 May 2018
It’s nothing new. Some judges have reputations for behaviour which varies from stern to rude and offensive and which falls… -
New Zealand juries get better judicial guidance, study shows
29 March 2018
Changes to judges’ summing-up in New Zealand criminal trials have led to jurors getting more helpful guidance, enabling them to… -
Study to assess sexual violence court pilot
2 March 2018
A new Law Foundation-backed study will assess whether special court processes used in pilot sexual violence courts are making it… -
How do our courthouses measure up?
2 February 2018
Courthouses are very much in the news as 2018 gets underway. On 26 January Dunedin’s legal profession paraded through the… -
Demolition by neglect? The saga of Hamilton's old court on the hill
2 February 2018
What value does New Zealand’s legal profession place on its historic courthouses? Internationally, at least, developments in online courts and… -
Testing resolve in testing times
2 February 2018
The New Year is often a time for making and, shortly thereafter, breaking resolutions.Although resolutions may be easy to make… -
‘Distributed Courts’: AVL in New Zealand’s Courts
3 November 2017
Chief Justice Sian Elias’ address, Managing Criminal Justice, to the Criminal Bar Association Conference in Auckland in August, raised a… -
Five month opt-in granted for leaky-building class action
3 November 2017
A class action proceeding claiming that James Hardie’s Harditex and Titan Board plaster cladding products are inherently defective and cause…
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Junior counsel must hold current practising certificates
25 October 2017
The Chief Justice has written to the President of the New Zealand Law Society to ask for practitioners to be…
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Reminder from Chief Judge on judicial recusal
6 October 2017
The Chief District Court Judge, Jan-Marie Doogue, has asked that a reminder be issued to the profession about not approaching… -
One Court, One Judge: What is an Integrated Domestic Violence Court?
6 October 2017
The recent discussion paper One Court, One Judge: An Integrated Court System for New Zealand Families Affected by Violence by… -
Court costs: end of the lawyer-litigant exception
1 September 2017
In Joint Action Funding Ltd v Eichelbaum [2017] NZCA 249 the Court of Appeal has concluded that the rule that… -
Working with expert witnesses in New Zealand
30 June 2017
In a 60-minute episode (with ad breaks) of Law and Order, The Practice or Boston Legal, lawyers build a case,…
Last updated on the 29th January 2018