Issue 480 | 29 June 2020
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LexisNexis ONDEMAND webinars are delivered by subject experts and accompanied by a short comprehension quiz. Our latest ONDEMAND webinars are as follows:


Guidance on the principles and practical issues associated with workplace disciplinary processes
and investigations.
Duration: 60 min

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The webinar looks at the recurring issues of fairness and reward that are commonly encountered during inheritance disputes and provides legal advisors, arbitrators and mediators with tools to advise and manage these when drafting or advising clients on wills, estates and succession. 
Duration: 60 min

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This webinar examines the ongoing challenges of knowing your customer and practicalities of ensuring appropriate customer due diligence in an increasingly digital world in order to meet AML/CFT requirements.
Duration: 60 min

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Applying for a court order to administer a deceased estate when a person dies without a will is often complicated. This webinar appraises the requirements for an application of intestacy; the selection of appropriate evidence in support of the application and the recognition of factors that affect entitlement.
Duration: 60 min

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The application process for Letters of Administration with the will annexed differs from probate applications and knowing what matters need to be considered and addressed and supported by evidence, or indeed omitted, when making an application, is not always clear. This webinar provides guidance on recognising the key requirements for the preparation of a valid will and the requirements for making an improperly executed will declared valid.
Duration: 60 min

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Did you know that our LexisNexis training webinars are complimentary and most are 
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Monday, 6th of July at 2pm

The Laws of New Zealand is an encyclopaedic work updated regularly reliably stating the whole of the law of New Zealand – statutory, regulatory and judicial, including extensive cross-referencing to Halsbury's Laws of England and Halsbury's® Laws of Australia. Authors of this prestigious work include Judges, academics, and senior members of the profession. The authors give the publication its authority through their specialist and practical knowledge of New Zealand law. Learn about the 150+ titles in LONZ and how to work with these efficiently.
Duration: 60 min

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Tuesday, 14th of July at 4pm

This session shows you how to browse and search your digital versions of key LexisNexis publications. We show you how to quickly find, highlight and annotate content for effective offline use of publications when you are out of the office.
Duration: 45 min

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Thursday, 16th of July at 4pm

This is an overview of LexisNexis employment publications, Mazengarbs and Personal Grievances, the Employment Law Bulletin, NZ Law Journal, Linxplus, Privacy Law and Practice, The Laws of New Zealand Employment titles, including the employment Practical Guidance modules. Use these publications and the Practical Guidance modules, compiled by expert practitioners in their field to enhance your research productivity. View the up-to-date contents, plus various tips for efficient research. Become familiar with constructing search terms and using simple filters, setting up alerts along with specific topic search alerts and folders.
Duration: 60 min

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Tuesday, 21st of July at 1pm

Lexis Draft is a legal drafting solution which contains legal proofreading, editorial review, research and analytical tools for accurate, consistent and efficient drafting. These tools will help reduce professional liability risks whilst improving your competitive advantage through increased productivity. This session uses real life sample drafting documents.
Duration: 60 min

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Tuesday, 21st of July at 3pm

This session will provide knowledge on the basic features and functionalities of Lexis Advance. Make use of the red search box for general searches and be able to filter and narrow your results. Get familiar in using the alerts, favourites. Utilise the different pods such as your history and publications and the availability of creating your own work folders to organise your research, documents and matter you are working on.
Duration: 45 min

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Friday, 24th of July at 10am

NZBA members—Improve your skills and save time researching with
Lexis Advance. In our Bar-focused training session, discover how to make the most of the big red search box, filter your search results, create links to your favourite publications, highlight and annotate content, create your own work folders to organise your research. Makes researching easy for you.
Duration: 60 min

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Tuesday, 28th of July at 1pm

This session will focus on how CaseBase and LexCite work on Lexis Advance. Both of these provide valuable insights into the material on Lexis Advance that relates to the primary law you are investigating. Learn how to access this information with ease, saving time and maximising research efficiency.
Duration: 60 min

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Thursday, 30th of July at 4pm

In this session, you’ll learn how to maximise your efficiency using Lexis Advance, allowing you more time for further legal research and activities. View the extensive legal resources you have on-line, how to filter search results, create links to your favourites publications, learn how to annotate and put leading content into your own work folders for easy access of research materials. We will discuss time saving methods on how to conduct searches to customize your publications pod and find favourites, ensuring that the platform is working for your research needs.
Duration: 60 min

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Unable to attend our webinars? For a whole host of additional learning material including videos and guides, click here to access the LexisNexis Knowledge Network.
 
Abbott and Thompson District Courts Practice (Criminal)

Service 92 is now available online.

This service provides legislative updates to the Search and Surveillance Act 2012. Commentary has been updated to the Search and Surveillance Act 2012 and Criminal Procedure Act 2011.

Becroft and Hall’s Transport Law

Service 202 is now available online.

Commentary has been updated to the Land Transport Act 1998, Search and Surveillance Act 2012, Bill of Rights Act 1990, Sentencing Principles and Practice, and Traffic Court Practice and Procedure.

Hall’s Sentencing

Service 175 is now available online.

Commentary has been updated to the Introduction: Principles of Sentencing, Sentencing Act 2002, Parole Act 2002, Criminal Procedure Act 2011, Child Protection (Child Sex Offender Government Agency Registration) Act 2016, Appendix I – The Sentencing Process, Appendix II – Appeals Against Sentence, Appeals III – Proceeds of Crime, Appendix VI – Bail, Appendix VII – Traffic Offences and Appendix IX – Sentencing Levels.
 
Personal Grievances

Service 80 is now available online.

This service includes updates to chapters on Unjustifiable dismissal, Procedural fairness, Grounds for dismissal, Unjustifiable disadvantageous action, Discrimination and Remedies.

Practical Guidance: Employment Law

Latest legal update
Bidfood investigated for potentially breaching wage subsidy terms

Practical Guidance: Employment Law for Employers

Latest legal update
Countdown giving staff stake in company
 
Practical Guidance: Family

Latest legal updates
Court of Appeal granted $700,000 to ex-wife to fight multimillion-dollar divorce case

Man abuses role as power of attorney by taking $41,000 from mother with dementia

Supreme Court dismissed ex-husband’s appeal to recoup $250,000 gift from former wife

Family Court (Emergency) Amendment Rules 2020 enable electronic filing

Court of Appeal ruling on child abduction leads to procedural change
Textbook
 
Mark Henaghan & Bill Atkin

RRP*incl GST: $160.00
ISBN: 9780947514969 (book)
Publication date: March 2020
 
Textbooks
 
Alberto Costi (editor)

RRP*incl GST: $220.00
ISBN: 9781877511042 (book)
Publication date: March 2020
 
 
Maria Hook & Jack Wass

RRP*incl GST: $200.00 $180.00 (pre-order price)
ISBN: 9780947514112 (book)
Publication date: July 2020
 
Service 95 (updated to 13 January 2020) is now available online.

Service 95 features significant updates to:

- the "Companies" title as a result of the Companies (Clarification of Dividend Rules in Companies) Amendment Act 2019, which came into force on 17 November 2019;

- the "Agriculture" and "Animals" titles as a result of the National Animal Identification and Tracing Amendment Act 2019, which came into force on 14 December 2019;

- the "Animals" title as a result of the Dog Control (Category 1 Offences) Amendment Act 2019, which came into force on 14 December 2019;

- the "Building and Construction" title as a result of the Building Amendment Act 2019, which came into force on 17 December 2019;

- the "Consumer Credit", "Consumer Protection", and "Mortgages" titles as  result of the Credit Contract Legislation Amendment Act 2019, of which ss 16(1), 17(1), 18(1), 19, 22, 23, 28, 30 to 32, 34(2), 35, 38, 41 to 43, 46, 52, 53, and 54 came into force on 20 December 2019;

- the "Education" title, as a result of the Education (Pastoral Care) Amendment Act 2019, which came into force on 19 December 2019;

- the "Elections" title, as a result of the Referendums Framework Act 2019, which came into force on 7 December 2019, and the Electoral Amendment Act 2019, most of which came into force on 1 January 2020;

- the "Prisons and Enforcement of Sentences" title, as a result of the provisions of the Corrections Amendment Act 2019 that came into force on 29 October 2019; and

- the "Public Safety" title as a result of the Terrorism Suppression (Control Orders) Act 2019, which came into force on 20 December 2019.
Stop Press has been updated to include a summary of the following decisions of the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal:

  • Minister of Justice v Kim [2020] NZSC 18;
  • Lodge Real Estate Ltd v Commerce Commission [2020] NZSC 25; and
  • Trans-Tasman Resources Ltd v Taranaki-Whanganui Conservation Board [2020] NZCA 86.
A summary of these decisions in Stop Press is now available online.
 
Hinde McMorland & Sim Land Law in New Zealand

Service 78 — June 2020 is now available online.

This service includes updates to chapters on Caveats, Leasehold Estates, Residential Tenancies (including special provisions during COVID-19), Easements, Covenants and Licences, as well as the COVID-19 Response (Further Management Measures) Legislation Act 2020 amendments to the Property Law Act 2007.

Butterworths® Conveyancing Bulletin

Volume 19 issue 4 is now available online.

In this issue, Don McMorland offers a detailed look at the amendments made in the 10th ed (2) of the REINZ-ADLS sale and purchase form. The issue also includes comment on key cases in the areas of Landlord and tenant and Division of land.

Practical Guidance: Property

Latest Legal Update
Government announces rent relief for some affected tenants — Bell Gully
Textbook
 
Don McMorland

RRP*incl GST: $220.00
ISBN: 9781988546230
Publication date: June 2020
 
Textbook
 
Derek Nolan (editor)

RRP*incl GST: $220.00 $198.00 (pre-order price)
ISBN: 9781988546247
Publication date: July 2020
 
Practical Guidance: Succession

Latest legal updates
Dispute over multimillion-dollar Christchurch estate

Farming estate case being appealed to Court of Appeal

High Court dismissed claim of niece over family beach house owned by Lotto winning uncle
 
Practical Guidance: Trusts

Latest legal updates
Review of ruling setting aside discretionary decision of trustee

New Zealand trust used to steal Belgian man’s inheritance

Man took his sisters to court over family trust
 
Textbook
 
Matthew S R Palmer (general editor)

RRP*incl GST: $200.00
ISBN: 9780947514914 (book)
Publication date: May 2020
 
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