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Practical Guidance: Business Law
Latest Legal Update: Overseas Investment Act changes coming into force 6 March 2026
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Mazengarb’s Employment Law
Service 299 is now available online.
This service includes updates to: The Employment Relations Act 200, Part 1: Key provisions and Part 2: Preliminary provisions; Selected Topic: Contractual Aspects of Employment; Selected Topic: Wages; Human Rights Act 1993; and the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015.
The Employment Relations (Termination of Employment by Agreement) Amendment Bill, and the Employment Relations Amendment Bill have been added to the Current Developments tab.
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The Landlord and Tenant precedents have been reviewed and updated.
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New Zealand Conveyancing and Property Reports
Volume 26 Part 7 is now available online.
Supermega Market Ltd v NBL (New Zealand) Ltd — (2024) 26 NZCPR 487
Leases — Cancellation — Whether Court has jurisdiction to make declaratory and compensatory orders in absence of underlying order granting relief against cancellation — Property Law Act 2007 s 256.
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Tadd Management Ltd v Weine (as trustees of the Ruth Weine Family Trust) — (2024) 26 NZCPR 496
Sale of land — Common mistake — Seismic capacity of building — Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017 s 24 — Senior Courts Act 2016 s 74.
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Carters Building Supplies Ltd (t/as Carters) v Mitalauskas — (2025) 26 NZCPR 502
Caveats — Application to sustain — Agreement allowing lodging of caveat to secure debt — Equitable charge — Whether Court costs were part of guaranteed debt — Land Transfer Act 2017 ss 143 and 145A.
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Flath v Minister for Land Information — (2025) 26 NZCPR 509
Public works — Compulsory acquisition — Compensation — Valuation — Application for leave to appeal earlier decisions regarding method of valuation — Notional subdivision where subdivision uneconomic — Highest and best use — Costs associated with obtaining highest and best use — No evidence of alternative method of valuation — Land Valuation Proceedings Act 1948 s 18A — Public Works Act 1981 ss 60 and 62.
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Chief Executive of Land Information New Zealand v Jarvis — (2025) 26 NZCPR 515
Overseas investment — Enforcement — Penalty for breach of Overseas Investment Act 2005 — Establishing contravening scheme and providing incorrect legal advice — Overseas Investment Act 2005 ss 7, 10, 12, 30, 43, 48, and sch 1 — Sentencing Act 2002 ss 7, 8, and 9.
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Cavit v Deng — (2025) 26 NZCPR 524
Cross lease — Consent to alterations — Redevelopment of house — No consent obtained before work commenced — Referral of dispute to arbitration — Injunction — Jurisdiction of High Court to make interim orders where dispute referred to arbitration — Substantial risk that development would continue before arbitration decision — Arbitration Act 1996 s 6, sch 1 cls 8 and 9.
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Cameron Drive Management Company Ltd v Jo-Ann Estate Ltd — (2025) 26 NZCPR 533
Freehold covenants — Interpretation — Covenant not to carry on any commercial activity from property — Use of property for short-term accommodation — Online booking platform — Airbnb — Commercial activity not carried out “from” property — Private homestay — Standing to bring proceeding for declaration as to meaning of covenant — Declaratory Judgments Act 1908 s 3.
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Re Mullins — (2025) 26 NZCPR 540
Māori land — Partition of Māori Land — Partition of block of land owned by sole owner — Interpretation Act 1999 s 5 — Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993 s 290.
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Douglas v Body Corporate 102029 — (2025) 26 NZCPR 545
Unit titles — Cancellation of unit plan — Reassessment of ownership interests on cancellation — Not directing reassessment of interests — Unit title cancelled because buildings at end of economic life — Reassessment of land value only — Previous costs apportioned on current assessment — Property Law Act 2007 s 339 — Regulatory Systems (Building and Housing) Amendment Act 2017 s 45 — Unit Titles Act 2010 ss 177, 187, 188, and 189.
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