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Employment Law Bulletin
Issue 4 is now available online
This issue includes the following articles: The Landmark Decision of BGH v Kumar: upholding accountability for sexual harassment perpetrators, by Steph Dyhrberg and Tanya Narayan; The illusion of progress: why the Pay Transparency Bill has limited impact, by Annick Masselot and Alexandra Crampton; How precarious is employment during parental leave?, by Mathew Barnett and Bronwyn Heenan; and Pay equity — the amendments, by Megan Vant.
With a Q&A from Fleur Fitzsimons, the National Secretary of the Public Service Association.
The case comments in this issue are: Bread of Life Christian Church in Auckland v Chen [2025] NZEmpC 69, by Saadi Radcliffe; Wiles v Vice Chancellor of the University of Auckland [2025] NZEmpC 109, and Chief Executive of Oranga Tamariki — Ministry for Children v Hill [2025] NZEmpC 98 by Zachary Pentecost and Phillis Goredema.
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Practical Guidance: Family
Latest Legal Updates
Family Court appoints mokopuna as welfare guardian after whānau battle over kaumātua’s care
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Some international adoptions stopped under urgency to fight trafficking, slavery
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Supreme Court upholds 80/20 settlement split after “marriage of short duration”
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Practical Guidance: Family Dispute Resolution
Latest Legal Updates
Including children in mediation can help to reduce conflict
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Fisher on Relationship Property
Service 109 (September 2025) includes new case commentary in Chapter 1 (Nature of relationship property), Chapter 2 (De facto relationships), Chapter 4 (Trusts), Chapter 5 (Agreements), Chapter 6 (Variation of agreements and trusts on dissolution), Chapter 9 (Protecting the non-owner spouse or partner), Chapter 16 (Changes after separation) and Chapter 18 (Jurisdiction, orders and implementation).
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New Zealand Family Law Journal
(2025) 11 NZFLJ Part 10 (September 2025) includes an article by Anna Piebenga “When are trust powers “property” under the Property (Relationships) Act 1976? A critical analysis of Cooper v Pinney [2024] NZSC 181”.
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Practical Guidance: Succession
Latest Legal Updates
$400,000 inheritance to be divided between cousins after one beneficiary is missing
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Wills and Succession
Service 88 (September 2025) includes new case commentary in Chapter 3 (Testamentary capacity), Chapter 4 (Formal requirements for a will), Chapter 4A (Validation of wills by the High Court), Chapter 6 (Construction of wills), Chapter 7 (Gifts by will), and Chapter 10 (Probate and letters of administration).
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Patents and Inventions Reissue 1
Additional content for the first reissue of the Patents and Inventions title, written by David Koedyk, has been published and is now available online, which is completing the coverage in this title of new content in relation to the law of patents. In addition to Chapters already published (Chs 1 to 6), new content has been added online offering essential guidance on the examination of patent applications by IPONZ (Ch 7), opposition to grants of patents (Ch 8), re-examination after the acceptance of a patent application (Ch 9), and also includes new material relating to the revocation and surrender of patents (Ch 10), the restoration of lapsed patents applications (Ch11), and on what constitutes infringement of a patent (Ch 12). Concluding the patents section of this reissued title are new chapters on compulsory licences and the use of inventions by the Crown (Ch 13), international agreements (Ch 14), and patents attorneys (Ch 15).
Content for the remainder of this first reissue of the title, which will offer coverage on the topic of plant variety rights, is currently in development, and will be published as soon as it becomes ready for release. This will mark the completion of this title in full, at which point the title will also be published in hard copy format.
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Law of Trusts
Service 72 (September 2025) includes new case commentary under the Trusts Act 2019, the Charitable Trusts Act 1957, Chapter 1 (Charitable trusts), and Chapter 2 (Trusts and family law).
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Anna Parker and Tony Dellow
RRP* incl. GST: $165.00
ISBN: 9781991015273 (book)
Publication date: August 2025
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Jonathan Barrett
RRP* incl. GST: $140.00
ISBN: 9781991015242 (book)
Publication date: September 2025
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Bill Atkin and Shonagh Burnhill
RRP* incl. GST: $160.00 $144.00
ISBN: 9781991015488 (book)
Publication date: November 2025
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Mark Henaghan
RRP* incl. GST: $160.00 $144.00
ISBN: 9781991015471 (book)
Publication date: November 2025
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