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FYI: 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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FYI: 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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FYI: 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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FYI: 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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FYI: 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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FYI:Environment, Planning & Resource Management – A "New Direction" for Freshwater Management

The Second Report of the Land and Water Forum was released on Friday 18 May... MORE

FYI:Litigation – Bridgecorp - Lessons for Directors

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... MORE

FYI:Local Government – Local Government Bill - the Highlights

The Bill implementing the Government's Better Local Government reforms was introduced into Parliament yesterday... MORE

FYI:Resource Management – "On" vs "Of": Climate Change and Resource Consents

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... MORE

FYI:Employment Law – Government Announces Changes to Employment Law

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... MORE

FYI:Environment, Planning & Resource Management – Heritage New Zealand: Looking to the Future

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)... MORE

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