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Thursday, September 09, 2010

 Issue 89


News

Media Guidelines not correct statement of law, says High Court Judge - By Darise Ogden

New legal service promotes respect for disability rights - By Amy Mansfield

Architect of Fiji’s family law will deliver 2008 Dame Silvia Cartwright Lecture - By Darise Ogden

“Serious court” launches clear and concise info resources

Submissions sought on Commerce Commission’s new regulatory regime - By Darise Ogden

Gay marriage to stay in the Federal government’s closet - By Lauren Dickinson

Civil Litigation in Crisis – What Crisis? - By Roger Partridge, Director, Legal Research Foundation, and Jim Farmer QC, President, New Zealand Bar Association


Features

Family Files - Verbal agreements – binding or otherwise? - By Andrea Manuel, barrister

Age discrimination: do employers really have anything to fear? - By Greg Cain, partner, and Steve Wragg, senior associate, Minter Ellison Rudd Watts

Section 98 – time to start asking questions? - By Jenny Stevens, senior associate, Bell Gully

0867 dials-up competition law changes? - What is the 0867 litigation all about, and how did Telecom win – under section 36 of the Commerce Act 1986 – in Commerce Commission v Telecom? Michael Wigley explains

A rugby player, a lawyer, and a sheep farmer walk into a Chinese bar… - By Sarah Kim, solicitor, Chapman Tripp

2008 Australia Report - Trans-Tasman: From New Zealand to Australia - What is it about Australia that keeps attracting New Zealand lawyers to its shores? Dolman’s Andrew Mason-Jones explains why we can’t get enough of the land across the ditch

2008 Australia Report - In defence of double jeopardy - Harmonising Australia’s double jeopardy laws is a challenging but worthy task, Daniel Tynan writes, but the desire to find a guilty party needs to be balanced against the rights of acquitted individuals

2008 Australia Report - CER – harmony in waiting - With 2008 marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of Closer Economic Relations with Australia, Darise Ogden looks at why it’s taking so long for New Zealand to have closer legal relations with Australia

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