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Cognitive biases: challenging the way we think

We may think we are rational, open-minded thinkers making ethical decisions in an objective, non-biased fashion. However, this is almost impossible. No matter how intelligent we believe we are, we are all susceptible to a swarm of cognitive biases. Our decisions are often shaped by emotional attachments, misleading memories or…

Queen’s Counsel

Geoff Adlam’s otherwise excellent article on Queen’s Counsel in LawTalk 927, April 2019 contains an error at p73, in his list of longest-serving Queen’s Counsel still in practice. He states that Alan Galbraith QC who was appointed in April 1987, is followed in this respect by Nigel Hampton QC, appointed in…

Spreading the TLC

Jessie PorteusComing from a family of teachers, Sydney-based lawyer Jessie Porteus has always had a passion, and great respect, for education as well as an unbridled enthusiasm for the law. A lawyer with a rare combination of legal experiences and a developed practice ranging from corporate and commercial law, to IP,…

Property transactions and technology

Property lawyers can be slow adopters of technology: exhibit A has for some time been the ADLS/REINZ agreement, which sees security or efficiency (or something) in settlement by fax machine, rather than by a nominated email address. Crystal ball gazing about technology is difficult and dangerous. It is very easy to…

Tania Sharkey: It’s Island Time and the Pacific Lawyers Association

Tania SharkeyThe walls of Tania Sharkey’s office are bare. The empty picture hooks and stark white palette are noticeably different to the busy reception area of Friendship Chambers in Manukau. When I ask about the lack of artwork, save for one out-of-place painting left over from the previous occupant, Ms Sharkey smiles…

Better justice for people with disabilities

Throughout its existence, the Law Foundation has supported projects that have demonstrably improved access to justice for disadvantaged social groups. We have recently approved grants for two further projects that I am confident will improve the lives of people with disabilities, a group especially deserving of support. A new accessibility systemNew Zealand…

Retiring from practice

It’s a journey for which you have a one-way ticket. At the beginning you strive to get professional qualifications, a job, perhaps a practice. And once on board it is a continuum of events, places and people, all of whom seem important. The stops are usually brief and intermittent, but…

Court security and searching of lawyers

Recently after the Christchurch shooting, there have been changes to the searching of people entering the court. Now lawyers must also be searched. In no possible logic, can lawyers suddenly become a terrorist risk at court, because some lunatic shot a particular religious group in Christchurch. The Law Society needs to stand up…

An ‘earn-out’ tale revisited

As a sequel to the article entitled “A tale of two earn-outs” (LawTalk 922, October 2018, page 22) this article considers The Malthouse Ltd v Rangatira Ltd [2018] NZCA 621 in which the Court of Appeal overturned the High Court ruling ([2018] NZHC 816). Although the High Court was prepared to…

The Right Track

A driving programme changing lives with an 80% success rateOver a decade ago, a former school teacher, John Finch, started a programme in Auckland designed to address driving offences committed by young people and recidivist drink drivers in a rehabilitative way. The Right Track has, as its name suggests, put the…

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