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Pathways in the Law: Oceanlaw New Zealand

Practising marine law is not for the faint-hearted or those that wish to spend their day stuck behind an office desk. In this area of law, that desk is more like a dinghy constantly moving, in sync with the ebb and flow of the sea. The small team of lawyers at Oceanlaw…

How to value what is on offer

Too few people know when to close the deal they are negotiating, particularly when trying to resolve a dispute. However, the same comments can be made for commercial negotiations. The issue is that negotiators often do not know how to correctly value what is on offer. So this article might better…

NZ’s first Public Protection Order granted

New Zealand’s first Public Protection Order (PPO) was imposed on 21 December 2016 in the matter of The Chief Executive of the Department of Corrections v Glen Anthony Douglas [2016] NZHC 3184. A PPO is a court order that allows the detention of very high-risk individuals at a secure facility within…

America provides insights to in-house work

My roles as in-house counsel for government departments in New Zealand and the UK have enabled me to work on many different legislative projects that are hard to find outside of in-house government roles, and develop a string to my bow that I find highly rewarding. Over the years I have…

Making mobile call data work for you

The OpportunityEvidence is key to any court case and having access to a large pool of data that can be used as evidence is always advantageous. In 2015, New Zealanders made 6.63 billion minutes of mobile calls and sent 12.1 billion text messages. That is, on average, around 1500 minutes of…

Auckland Law School increases second year numbers

Andrew StockleyUp to 1500 students enrol in the first year of a law degree at Auckland University’s Law School. For the past 10 years Auckland has admitted up to 330 students into second year law, but this year it has increased the number by 50, to 380 students. The Law…

Reality check for the majority of sport stars

Think football, and you will imagine the likes of Lionel Messi, Carlos Tevez and Cristiano Ronaldo being feted by fans and the media, with oodles of money in the bank to live lavish lives – for the rest of their days. Argentinean striker Tevez, for example, is said to be paid…

Ensuring Pacific Island lawyers can take on the world

“New Zealand lawyers have benefited for 30 years from attending trial skills enhancement programmes devised here. The learning by doing method under tuition of experienced lawyers and judges has been shown to markedly improve lawyers’ confidence in conducting aspects of trial work more effectively be it leading evidence, cross examination,…

The Equal Pay Act - Where is it at?

Over the past three years, the Equal Pay Act 1972 (EPA) has gained unprecedented attention. In the 15 years prior to 2014, there were only a handful of unremarkable equal pay cases. None of which successfully progressed the concept or practical application of equal pay under the EPA, despite the…

Cartel laws applying to principal and agent? The High Court of Australia’s Flight Centre decision

The High Court of Australia has issued an important decision overturning traditional thinking on whether an agent can be considered to be “in competition with” their principal for the purpose of competition law. The decision is important to a dual distribution model where a business supplies direct to consumers and also…

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