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FYI: Applied Business Law – Don't Know Exactly What's in Your Supply Chain? Then Brace Yourself for the Backlash

29 Mar 2010

Consumers want to know exactly what's in your products, where the ingredients or components came from, and whether your ethics measure up with theirs.

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FYI: Sales & Marketing – Dietary Supplements Reform: A Lighter Shade of Grey?

26 Mar 2010

We summarise the main proposals from the Government and Ministry of Health's paper on a proposed Natural Health Products Bill to replace the Dietary Supplements Regulations...

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FYI: Naturally Resourceful – Maximising Our Mineral Potential: Stocktake of Schedule 4 of The Crown Minerals Act and Beyond

26 Mar 2010

Much media attention has focused on the review or "stocktake" of the provision of access to minerals...

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FYI: Competition Law – Hard Core Cartels: Whistleblowers Wanted

17 Mar 2010

The Commerce Commission has released new Cartel Leniency Policy and Process Guidelines. The guidelines, which apply from 1 March 2010, set out the way in which companies and individuals can apply to the Commerce Commission for conditional immunity from prosecution...

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FYI: Publicly Speaking – Liquor Licensing for Party Buses: Reporting on the Oddballs and Marshall cases

01 Mar 2010

The High Court has recently ruled that a district licensing agency may not issue special licences to operators of charter bus operations in Christchurch, involving consumption of bring-your-own liquor...

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FYI:Sales & Marketing – Dietary Supplements: Food-Type or Therapeutic-Type? A change in the law!

With no public announcement, the Dietary Supplements Regulations have been amended... MORE

FYI:Competition Law – Cartel Criminalisation on the Cards

The Ministry of Economic Development has last month released a discussion paper which recommends that cartel conduct in New Zealand is made a criminal offence... MORE

FYI:Naturally Resourceful – Priority for competing applications

The date on which a resource consent application obtains priority of hearing over other competing applications has been the topic of much debate and a series of Court decisions... MORE

FYI:Commercial Property – Ground Leases - Rent Reviews Revisited

Recently the High Court heard a case on the valuation of a rent review of a residential leasehold property... MORE

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