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February 2012

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FYI: Litigation – Bloggers, Tweeters and Facebook - New Media or News Media

22 Dec 2011

The Law Commission is proposing significant changes to the law affecting mainstream and new media...

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FYI: Litigation – Enforcing Foreign Judgments in New Zealand

30 Nov 2011

Wherever you are in the world, once the effort and expense of obtaining a judgment is over, the last thing you want to face is a problem enforcing it...

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FYI: Litigation – Class Actions and Litigation Funding

03 Nov 2011

Parliament's Commerce Committee has recommended that the Government take steps to allow class actions, and regulate third party litigation funders in New Zealand...

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FYI: Competition Law – Cartel Criminalisation One Step Closer

21 Oct 2011

Early last year, we signalled proposals to criminalise cartel conduct in New Zealand. With the recent introduction of the Commerce (Cartels and Other Matters) Amendment Bill into Parliament on 13 October, those proposals are one step closer to reality...

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FYI: Tax – Penny & Hooper - The Fallout

17 Oct 2011

You have probably seen or heard media coverage of the Supreme Court's recent decision in Penny & Hooper v CIR. It has had a lot more media airplay than the average tax avoidance case...

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