Georgina Bond Part 1 of a two-part series When the partners at Kennedys sit down for meetings, the first agenda item isn’t ...
Ani O’Brien I have thought long and hard about writing this. I wrote a kind of explainer about 6 weeks ago, but I wanted to ...
One of the more absurd questions to emerge in the leaders’ debate on Tuesday 6 October focused upon the morality of wealth ...
Mahvash Ikram A senior practitioner was “grossly negligent” when he twice set up corporate structures designed to circumvent the consenting provisions of the Overseas Investment Act (OIA), a ...
Ani O’Brien Every election campaign we, the voters, are treated to a pantomime in which parties make promise after promise ...
Labour will reject minor parties’ demands for sweeping new tax measures, Chris Hipkins says, insisting a capital gains tax ...
Chris Trotter From the perspective of New Zealand’s two largest parties, the first MMP election in 1996 was also the worst.
Mahvash Ikram A lawyer who “foolishly” gave her employer a fake obituary to justify taking bereavement leave has been ...
A disciplinary tribunal has dismissed all charges against a barrister accused of having sex with his client, finding that the ...
Chris Trottter I tried. Really, I did. But, honestly, 90 minutes of Christopher Luxon and Chris Hipkins, with Jack Tame ...
Michael Andrew In 1962, Dame Judith Potter was told she wouldn’t get a job as a junior law clerk because they wouldn’t employ a girl. Two decades later, when Lady Deborah Chambers KC joined her first ...
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