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Commercial Property – The Consumer Law Reform Bill - A Real Estate Perspective
28 Jun 2012
The Consumer Law Reform Bill was introduced on 20 April 2011 and is currently going through the select committee process...
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Corporate Advisory – Financial Markets Authority and External Reporting Board Levies
26 Jun 2012
A number of levies are to be introduced to help fund the Financial Markets Authority and the External Reporting Board...
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X-Tech:
ezine – Open Source in the Cloud
19 Jun 2012
In our June 2011 x-tech article, 'Making Open Source an Asset, and Not a Liability, In Your Commercialisation Strategy', we discussed some of the basic types of open source licences, and steps to take to ensure that open source materials do not jeopardise the commercial exploitation of proprietary products...
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ezine – Cloud Developments: "TV Now" - Creating a Storm Across the Tasman?
19 Jun 2012
Late last month in National Rugby League Investments Pty Limited v Singtel Optus Pty Ltd the Federal Court of Australia declared that the Optus personal video recorder service infringed copyright in live broadcasts...
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X-Tech:
ezine – No Pen? No Paper? No Problem(?)!
19 Jun 2012
Electronic signature (e-signature) providers DocuSign and RightSignature both announced in April that they had paired up with Google to bring their services to Google users the world over...
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Corporate Advisory – FMA Issues Final Guidance Note on Securities Offering Documents
18 Jun 2012
The Financial Markets Authority has now released its final guidance note on effective disclosure. The guidance is relevant to all issuers of securities to the public in New Zealand and their directors and advisers...
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Feature Article:
Financial Markets Conduct Bill before the Select Committee
14 Jun 2012
The Financial Markets Conduct Bill passed its first reading in March 2012 and is currently before the Commerce Select Committee...
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Internet & Digital Media – The New Domain Names
14 Jun 2012
1,930 proposals for new top-level domains were announced on 13 June by the governing body for Internet domain names, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ...
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Competition Law – Overseas Application of the Commerce Act
12 Jun 2012
A recent decision in the Court of Appeal, regarding alleged price fixing in the freight forwarding industry, has provided clarification on the application of the Commerce Act (Act) to overseas companies...
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Environment, Planning & Resource Management – A "New Direction" for Freshwater Management
08 Jun 2012
The Second Report of the Land and Water Forum was released on Friday 18 May...
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Q&A:
Land and Water Forum
08 Jun 2012
In this Q&A we answer some questions about the implications of the May 2012 Land and Water Forum Report for those investing or involved in irrigation infrastructure...
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Litigation – Bridgecorp - Lessons for Directors
06 Jun 2012
On 5 April 2012 Justice Venning found Rod Petricevic and Robert Roest guilty of distributing offer documents containing false statements under section 58 of the Securities Act, as well as making false statements to the trustee and investors in breach of the Companies and Crimes Acts...
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Local Government – Local Government Bill - the Highlights
31 May 2012
The Bill implementing the Government's Better Local Government reforms was introduced into Parliament yesterday...
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Making the RMA “Treaty-compliant" – The Waitangi Tribunal’s report on WAI 262
31 May 2012
In this article Gerald Lanning and Kathleen Bell discuss the Waitangi Tribunal's report on Wai 262 and the recommendations made to improve participation of Maori in relation to environmental management...
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Resource Management – "On" vs "Of": Climate Change and Resource Consents
30 May 2012
The Environment Court, not surprisingly, has recently followed the Supreme Court in holding that councils, in assessing applications for resource consents, can deal with the consequential effects of climate change but not the causative effects of particular activities on climate change...
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Employment Law – Government Announces Changes to Employment Law
18 May 2012
Recently the Government has announced its intention to make changes to a number of areas of employment law, including approving the changes it proposed in its pre-election manifesto...
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Q&A:
2012 Consultation on proposed changes to Emissions Trading Scheme
10 May 2012
In this Q&A we answer some questions about the scope and implications of consultation undertaken by the Government on the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme in May 2012...
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Environment, Planning & Resource Management – Heritage New Zealand: Looking to the Future
10 May 2012
The Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga Bill does a lot more than change the name of the New Zealand Historic Places Trust (HPT) to Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga (HNZ)...
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Employment Law – Case Law Update
07 May 2012
This FYI provides an update on recent topical decisions from the Employment Relations Authority and Employment Court...
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Overseas Investment – Lessons from the Crafar Consent
03 May 2012
The Government has, for the second time, approved Shanghai Pengxin Group’s purchase of 16 dairy farms, known as the Crafar farms...
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Dispute Resolution – Protecting your Online Reputation - Walking the Social Media Tightrope
30 Apr 2012
Twitter reportedly has more than 140 million active users. Facebook users post over 60 million status updates a day. Obviously, social media offers unprecedented opportunities to connect with customers, enhance reputation and build brand...
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Feature Article:
Bridgecorp Decision
16 Apr 2012
The verdict in the Bridgecorp trial was delivered on 5 April, with directors Rod Petricevic, Rob Roest and Peter Steigrad all being found guilty in the High Court on charges of making untrue statements in prospectuses, investment statements and directors' certificates...
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X-Tech:
ezine – Put a Clip on YouTube....Nek Minnit Someone Stole My IP
16 Apr 2012
Levi Hawken has become an internet phenomenon. All it took was a nine second YouTube clip in which he "coins" the phrase "nek minnit"...
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X-Tech:
ezine – Syndicated Procurement and Third Party Benefits - the Legal Pitfalls
16 Apr 2012
Syndicated procurement has proliferated in recent years, particularly in the government sector. This has been driven, to an extent, by international success stories. What is not so well known is that New Zealand contract law has some unique features, which can trap an unwary promoter of a syndicated procurement...
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X-Tech:
ezine – Say Goodbye to the .coms – New Top Level Domains Are On Their Way
16 Apr 2012
The word "dotcom" has always been synonymous with the internet and domain names. But, despite being the most popular, the .com domain has for a long time been only one of many top level domains...
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ezine – Electronic IDs - Proving You Are Who You Say You Are
16 Apr 2012
One of the Government's key priorities for the next three years is the delivery of a more efficient public service. This has resulted in a review of Government technology systems and a focus on how technology can be used to improve customer service...
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Corporate Advisory – FMA Issues Revised Guidance on Securities Offering Documents
11 Apr 2012
The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) has released its revised guidance note on effective disclosure for prospectuses and investment statements...
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Commercial Property – First Conviction for Unlicensed Real Estate Agency Work - The Penalties
10 Apr 2012
Convictions for breach of the Real Estate Agents Act 2008 have been rare, which is why the case of Home Buyers Limited v Real Estate Agents Authority is a significant one...
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