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Practical Guidance: Business Law 

Service 136 is now available online.

Commentary has been updated for Parts 2 and 3 of the Evidence Act 2006 and for chapters 1 and 3 of Evidence law outside of the Evidence Act 2006.
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Hall's Sentencing

Service 205 is now available online.

The Bail Act 2000, Criminal Investigations (Bodily Samples) Act 1995, Criminal Procedure Act 2011, Criminal Records (Clean Slate) Act 2004, and Sentencing Act 2002 have been amended. Commentary has been updated for Introduction: Principles of Sentencing, Sentencing Act 2002, Child Protection (Child Sex Offender Government Agency Registration) Act 2016, Sentencing Levels, and Appendices II and VI. An updated index is included.
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New Zealand Family Law Reports

Volume 2025 Part 7 is now available online.

van Heerden v Barrett — [2025] NZFLR 265

De facto relationship — Error in law — Relationship of short duration — Property (Relationships) Act 1976 ss 2E(1)(b)(ii) and 25(3).
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Giles v Kang — [2025] NZFLR 270

Relationship property — Settlement agreement — Summary judgment — Agreement that money be paid by husband to wife — Husband failing to pay entire amount — Wife seeking balance due — Whether agreement enforceable as simple contract — Whether agreement complying with Property (Relationships) Act 1976 — Lack of legal advice prior to signing agreement — Agreement not witnessed — Lack of disclosure — Jurisdiction — Whether court able to give effect to agreement — High Court Rules 2016, r 12.2(1) — Property (Relationships) Act 1976, ss 4, 21A, 21F, 21H, and 22.
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Rimmer v Wilton (as administrator of the estate of Rimmer) — [2025] NZFLR 280

Relationship property — Contracting out — Impact of agreement upon death of party thereto — Deceased and surviving de facto partner entered into contracting out agreement — Agreement did not exclude entitlements on intestacy — Deceased died without leaving will — Surviving partner appointed administrator of deceased’s estate — Surviving partner made distributions to herself — Deceased’s adult children challenged distributions — Agreement did not exclude partner’s entitlements on intestacy — Surviving partner entitled to elect Option B — Effect of such election — Property (Relationships) Act 1976, ss 21, 61, 76, 87, and 95 — Administration Act 1969, ss 77 and 81.

Words and phrases — “administration” — “contracting out”.
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Kirchner v Howes — [2025] NZFLR 301

Care of children — Appointment of lawyer to represent child in proceedings — Care of child proceedings consolidated with pending family violence proceedings — Role and function of lawyer so appointed in respect of related family violence proceedings — Lawyer so appointed has statutory right to be present at family violence proceedings — Court has discretion to grant lawyer so appointed to do other things at hearings in respect of family violence proceedings — Family Court Act 1980, ss 9B and 9C — Care of Children Act 2004, ss 4, 5, and 7 — Family Violence Act 2018, ss 3, 4, 11, 147, 166, and 170 — Family Court Rules 2002, r 135.

Words and phrases — “lawyer appointed for child” — “consolidated proceedings”.
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