Commercial Law in New Zealand
Service 85 is now available online.
This service contains updates to Part Four: Specific contracts, Part Five: Competition law, and Part Eight: Secured transactions and hire purchase.
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Practical Guidance: Business
The Lending and Taking Securities, and Business Disputes topics have been updated by MinterEllisonRuddWatts. Topics on In-House Know How, Ethical Conduct, and Regulation of In-house Lawyers have been updated by Helen Mackay and Wendy Chen at Juno Legal.
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Becroft and Hall's Transport Law
Service 227 is now available online.
Commentary on the Land Transport Act 1998 and Sentencing Principles & Practice has been updated. An updated index is included.
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Fisher on Relationship Property
Service 108 is now available online.
This service includes updated case commentary in Chapter 1 Nature of relationship property, Chapter 2 De Facto Relationships, Civil Unions, Engagements, and Other Relationships, Chapter 9 Protecting the non-owner spouse or partner, Chapter 18 Jurisdiction, orders and implementation and Chapter 19 Proceedings under the Act.
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Wills and Succession
Service 87 is now available online.
This service includes updated case commentary in Chapter 4A Validation of wills by the High Court, Chapter 5 Revocation of wills, Chapter 10 Probate and letters of administration, Chapter 11 Personal representatives and Chapter 16 Māori wills, intestacy, estates and succession.
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New Zealand Family Law Reports
Volume 2024 Part 8 is now available online.
Cooper v Pinney — [2024] NZFLR 362
Relationship property — Trust — Rights and powers under family trust — Clayton v Clayton (Vaughan Road Property Trust) — Whether rights and powers under trust should be treated as relationship property — Effective control of trust assets — Meaning of “property” — Power to remove and appoint trustees — Lack of unilateral control — Two trustees required — Dispositive powers — Proper purpose rule — Fiduciary nature of powers — Fiduciary constraints — Tikanga — Interpretation Act 1999, s 18 — Property (Relationships) Act 1976, ss 2 and 8(1) — Trusts Act 2019, ss 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 32, 35, 45–55, 95, 126, 138 and sch 1 cl 8 — Trustee Act 1956, s 68.
Trusts — Relationship property — Rights and powers under family trust — Clayton v Clayton — Whether rights and powers under trust should be treated as relationship property — Applicable legislation — Whether effective control of trust assets — Lack of unilateral control — Dipositive powers — Proper purpose rule — Fiduciary nature of powers — Fiduciary constraints — Tikanga — Interpretation Act 1999, s 18 — Property (Relationships) Act 1976, ss 2 and 8(1) — Trusts Act 2019, ss 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 32, 35, 45–55, 95, 126, 138 and sch 1 cl 8 — Trustee Act 1956, s 68.
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Hinde McMorland & Sim Land Law in New Zealand
Service 97 is now available online.
This service includes updates to chapters on The Extent of the Landholder’s Rights, The Land Transfer System, Residential Tenancies and Dwellinghouses and Capacity to Own and to Deal with Land.
It also includes legislative amendments made by the Residential Tenancies Amendment Act 2024 and the Land Transfer Amendment Regulations 2004.
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New Zealand Resource Management Appeals
Volume 2025 Part 1 is now available online.
Environmental Law Initiative v Canterbury Regional Council — [2025] NZRMA 1
Resource management — Resource consents — Decisions — Decisions on applications relating to discharge of greenhouse gases — Restriction on grant of certain discharge permits — Applicant held resource consent giving rise to prohibited effects triggering prohibition against discharge permits because of significant adverse effects on aquatic life — Applicant applied for fresh resource consent — Commissioner granted consent imposing conditions to effect that discharge of contaminant into water would be reduced over duration of permit — Corollary of Commissioner’s conclusion that prohibition triggered in respect of such continued discharges — Proper approach to application of restriction — Relationship between prohibition and power to impose conditions on consent — Resource Management Act 1991, s 107.
Resource management — Resource consents — Decisions — Consideration of applications — Requirement to have regard to relevant plans and policies — Proper approach — Relationship between policies and plans in respect of freshwater environments and coastal environments — Absence of direct discharge of greenhouse gases into coastal environment — Relevance of consequential effects on coastal environment — Resource Management Act 1991, s 104.
Resource management — Resource consents — Public notification and limited notification of applications — Proper approach — Resource Management Act 1991, ss 95A and 95B.
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Susan Barker
RRP*incl GST: $150.00
ISBN: 9781991015198 (book)
ISBN: 9781991015204 (eBook)
Publication date: April 2025
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RRP*incl GST: $30.00
ISBN: NZWLJ2024VOL9 (book)
Publication date: April 2025
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Jason Goodall KC
RRP*incl GST: $242.00
ISBN: 99780473619749 (book)
Publication date: February 2022
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