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Morison’s Securities Law
Service 217 is now available online.
This service includes updates to annotations in the Financial Markets Conduct Act, Part 6. Commentary has also been updated on personal property securities and security interests’ creation/priority. Companies’ precedents have also been updated.
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Practical Guidance: Insurance
Latest Legal Updates
IAG penalised $19.5 million for misleading customers
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Woke Banking Bill: Unintended Consequences for Insurers and Consumers
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Hall's Sentencing
Service 203 is now available online.
The Corrections Act 2004 and Public Safety (Public Protection Orders) Act 2014 have been amended. Commentary has been updated for Introduction: Principles of Sentencing, Sentencing Act 2002, Parole Act 2002, Sentencing Levels, and Appendices IV, VI, and VII. An updated consolidated index has been included.
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New Zealand Employment Law Reports
Volume 21 Part 8 is now available online.
Vegepod NZ Ltd v Lowe — (2025) 21 NZELR 561
Interim reinstatement — Balance of convenience — Interests of justice — Serious question to be tried — Unjustified dismissal — Sham redundancy — Family-run company — Transfer pricing — Employment Relations Act 2000, ss 3, 125, 127 and 127(4).
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Chief Executive of Oranga Tamariki—Ministry for Children v Hill — (2025) 21 NZELR 584
Personal grievances — Unjustified dismissal — Defendant worked as youth worker at youth justice residence operated by plaintiff — Plaintiff summarily dismissed defendant for using excessive and unnecessary force on rangatahi — Defendant raised personal grievance contending she was acting in self-defence — Employment Relations Authority (ERA) upheld defendant’s personal grievance — Plaintiff challenged determination on de novo basis in Employment Court — Proper approach to determining whether defendant acted in self-defence — Relationship between broader test in Crimes Act 1961 and narrower test in Oranga Tamariki (Residential Care) Regulations 1996 — ERA erred in considering only subjective elements of self-defence rather than objective elements — Defendant failed to consider available less intrusive forms of intervention — Defendant did not act in self-defence — Reasonable for plaintiff to conclude defendant’s actions were unlawful and constituted serious conduct — Open to plaintiff to dismiss defendant as fair and reasonable employer — Employment Relations Act 2000, ss 103 and 103A — Oranga Tamariki (Residential Care) Regulations 1996, reg 22 — Crimes Act 1961, s 48.
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LDJ v EZC — (2025) 21 NZELR 605
Employment Court — Practice and procedure — Parties — Incapacitated persons — Litigation guardians — Proper approach to appointment — Employment Court Regulations 2000, reg 6(2)(a)(ii) — High Court Rules 2016, rr 4.29, 4.30, 4.34, 4.35, and 4.47.
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Youtap Ltd v Johnston — (2025) 21 NZELR 621
Employment — Employer — Parties’ intention — Conduct — Control — Integration — Controlling third parties — Employment Relations Act 2000, ss 6, 103B, and 183.
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Various Intellectual Property precedents have been reviewed and updated.
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Kennedy-Grant and Weatherall on Construction Law
The following chapters in Part III: The General Law: Statutory Controls have been reviewed and updated by authors Tómas Kennedy-Grant KC and Michael Weatherall, Partner, Simpson Grierson:
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- Chapter 5: Control of the process: Resource Management Act 1991
- Chapter 6: Control of the process: Building Act 2004
- Chapter 7: Control of the process: other controls
- Chapter 8: Control of the personnel
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New Zealand Conveyancing and Property Reports
Volume 26 Part 2 is now available online.
Attorney-General (in respect of the Minister for Land Information) v Auckland Council — (2024) 26 NZCPR 78
Public works — Compulsory acquisition — Public reserves — Assessment of compensation — Appropriate valuation methodology — Acquisition of part of reserves — Statutory interpretation — Public Works Act 1981, ss 60(1), 62(1) and 62(2) — Reserves Act 1977, s 17.
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Wimax New Zealand Ltd v Fuge (as trustees of the Aberdeen Four Trust) — (2025) 26 NZCPR 97
Easements — Right of way — Private road — Registered vehicular right of way — Private nuisance — Claimed substantial interference with benefited owner’s rights — Primary right to pass and repass — Structures replacing historical structures erected that encroached on easement area but did not obstruct driveway or impede movement up and down it — No blanket prohibition on all structures on easement area — Easement area served as adequate and effective driveway — No current need for driveway to be widened — Erection of structures did not constitute substantial interference.
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Kennedy v Body Corporate 82981 — (2025) 26 NZCPR 126
Unit titles — Dispute resolution — Unit owners alleged damage caused to units from leaks in roof of building — Right of unit owners to information considered by body corporate — Unit owners seeking to bring action against body corporate and its committee members — Unit owners seeking to bring action against body corporate committee members both personally and by way of derivative action — Derivative action potentially available — Plaintiffs had not established standing in present case.
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Practical Guidance: Property
Latest Legal Update
Tenancy Tribunal outlines its limitations when a tenant breaks a fixed-term tenancy due to family violence
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New Zealand Resource Management Appeals
Volume 2025 Part 7 is now available online.
Environmental Law Initiative v Environment Southland — [2025] NZRMA 362
Local governments — Functions, powers and duties — Preparing and publishing evaluation reports — Duty to gather information, monitor, and keep records — Relationship between requirement to prepare and publish evaluation reports and duty to monitor — Proper approach to performance of those functions by local governments — Resource Management Act 1991, ss 32, 35, and 86F.
Judicial review — Procedure — Challenge to performance of statutory functions by local government — Declarations appropriate to provide guidance to all local governments — Orders in nature of mandamus not appropriate — Judicial Review Procedure Act 2016, ss 11 and 12.
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Belgiorno-Nettis v Auckland Unitary Plan Independent Hearings Panel — [2025] NZRMA 407
Application for leave to appeal — Costs — Indemnity costs — Judicial or quasi-judicial decision-makers — Good faith — Local Government (Auckland Transitional Provisions) Act 2010, s 167 — High Court Rules 2016, rr 14.1 and 14.6.
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Practical Guidance: Succession
Latest Legal Update
Pacific and Māori cultural inheritance practices clash with NZ law
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Practical Guidance: Practice Compliance
Topic Update
Overviews, guidance notes, and related precedents for the Client Care topic and Trust Account subtopic have been updated by Paul Collins.
Latest Legal Update
Employment Relations (Employee Remuneration Disclosure) Amendment Act 2025 introduces new protections for employees discussing pay
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Ethics & Professional Responsibility
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Matthew Palmer
RRP* incl. GST: $200.00 $180.00
ISBN: 9781988546728 (book)
Publication date: December 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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Mark Henaghan, Bill Atkin, Shonagh Burnhill, and Anna Chapman
RRP* incl. GST: $180.00 $162.00
ISBN: 9781991015228 (book)
Publication date: November 2025
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Medical, Health, and Mental Health
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Jeremy Skipworth and Warren Brookbanks
RRP* incl. GST: $200.00 $180.00
ISBN: 9781988598581 (book)
Publication date: November 2025
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