Issue 483 | 10 August 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
CPD compliant?
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Tuesday, 11th of August at 11am
This webinar covers an overview of LexisNexis criminal publications including textbooks online. Join us for an overview of our criminal materials, Garrow and Turkington, and Halls sentencing, Abbot & Thompson – District Courts Practice, Cross on evidence, Linxplus, The New Zealand Law Reports and the CaseBase® Case Citator. Look at the Practical Guidance Criminal module, covering District Court Litigation, High Court content, and the Criminal Forms and Precedents. NZ unreported judgements, Sim's Court Practice, Becroft and Halls transport law will also be looked at during this session.
Duration: 60 min
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Friday, 14th of August 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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Monday, 17th of August at 12.30pm
LexisNexis Practical Guidance (NZ) offers the practically-focused content that lawyers need to conduct a new matter. Guidance, practice tips, legislation, cases, checklists, tools, forms and precedents are all in one place and in the context of a lawyer’s workflow. This session will focus on what is offered in Practical Guidance and how it integrates with Lexis Advance to provide a practical approach to researching.
Duration: 60 min
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Tuesday, 18th of August at 3pm
Lexis Draft is a legal drafting solution. It is a Microsoft Word and Microsoft Outlook add-in ribbon that helps you draft faster and more efficiently. Lexis Draft contains legal proofreading, editorial review, research and analytical tools for accurate, consistent and efficient drafting. It checks for inconsistencies in documents, flags areas that need your attention and links directly to your LexisNexis services without leaving Word – saving you time.
Duration: 30 min
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Thursday, 20th of August 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 online, 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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Monday, 24th of August 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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Friday, 28th of August 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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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.
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Company and Securities Law Bulletin
Issue 7 is now available online.
This issue features an editorial on directors’ duties of collegiality by Peter Watts QC. The issue also features headnotes on Mills v ASB Bank Ltd [2020] NZCA 228, Vey Group Ltd v Vance [2020] NZCA 232 and FV Aluminium 2011 Ltd v Firma Construction Ltd [2020] NZHC 1358.
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Employment Law Bulletin
Issue 3 of the 2020 Employment Law Bulletin is available online.
Mazengarb's Employment Law
Service 254 is now available online.
This service includes updates to commentary on the Employment Relations Act 2000, Parental Leave and Employment Protection Act 1987, Health and Safety at Work Act 2015, Social Security Act 2018, Employment Court Regulations 2000 and Selected Topics Contractual Aspects of Employment.
Personal Grievances
Service 81 is now available online.
This service includes updates to chapters on the Grievance process, Unjustifiable dismissal, Grounds for dismissal, Substantive fairness, Unjustifiable disadvantageous action and non-compliance, Discrimination and Remedies.
Latest legal update
Solly's Freight Ltd to pay two dismissed employees nearly $60,000
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Family Law Service
Service 199 is now available online.
This service includes legislative amendments made by the Family Court (Supporting Families in Court) Legislation Act 2020 No 17, Family Court Amendment Rules 2020 (LI 2020/135) effective 1 July 2020 and Family Court (Emergency) Amendment Rules 2020 (LI 2020/105), effective 5 June 2020.
The Practice Note: Lawyer for the Child: Selection, Appointment and other Matters was issued by Principal Family Court Judge Jacquelyn Moran on 19 June 2020.
This service includes updated case commentary in the following topics: Civil Unions, Hague Convention, International Family Law, Maintenance and Relocation.
Practical Guidance: Family
Latest legal updates
Whānau Māori “torn apart” by broken Family Court
Government has put reform of relationship property law on hold
Ministry of Justice: Amended Care of Children fixed fee schedule
Ministry of Justice: New Protection Order "Information at Service" packs
Andrew Little committed to reviewing legal aid threshold in Family Court if re-elected
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Maria Hook & Jack Wass
RRP*incl GST: $200.00
ISBN: 9780947514112 (book)
Publication date: July 2020
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[2020] 2 NZLR Part 3
The following cases are included in Part 3:
- Regan v Brougham - [2020] 2 NZLR 299 - 2 September 2019
- Zhang v Sealegs International Ltd - [2020] 2 NZLR 308 - 27 August 2019
- Aotearoa Water Action Inc v Canterbury Regional Council - [2020] 2 NZLR 359 - 5 December 2019
- Mediaworks TV Ltd v Staples - [2020] 2 NZLR 372 - 3 May 2019
- Smith v Fonterra Co-operative Group Ltd - [2020] 2 NZLR 394 - 6 March 2020
- Smyth v Chief Executive of the Department of Corrections - [2020] 2 NZLR 423 - 19 December 2019
- Re Gordon - [2020] 2 NZLR 436 - 20 February 2019
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LEX & LORE Podcast
We all know LEX is Latin for law, and LORE represents what’s interesting about the law – the gossip, the intrigue, the debates! In this podcast, you'll explore the development of the "new legal system" in New Zealand with Geoff McLay, Barrister, Professor of Law at Victoria University of Wellington and Editor of the New Zealand Law Reports, as he dissects cases and judgements with esteemed colleagues and legal experts.
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Editor’s Notes Blog
New Zealand Law Reports Editor Geoff McLay’s Editor’s Notes is a blog that provides readers with regular commentary on the cases we publish in the Reports. It is designed to not only let you know what is significant in terms of the doctrine in cases reported, but to also provide a flavour of how New Zealand judges are deciding important cases and reveal possible links between what seem like disparate decisions. Cases mentioned therein are linked to the reports on Lexis Advance.
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Hinde McMorland & Sim Land Law in New Zealand
June 2020 updates are now available online.
Chapter 13 Concurrent interests in land has been updated as well as the index which is now current up to service 78.
Practical Guidance: Property
The module has received a full review and update.
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Don McMorland
RRP*incl GST: $220.00
ISBN: 9781988546230
Publication date: June 2020
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Derek Nolan (editor)
RRP*incl GST: $220.00
ISBN: 9781988546247
Publication date: July 2020
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Practical Guidance: Succession
Latest legal update
Multimillion-dollar family estate dispute entered its 20th year in court
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Sarah Parsons
RRP*incl GST: $160.00 $144.00 (pre-order price)
ISBN: 9781988546254
Publication date: September 2020
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Practical Guidance: Trusts
Latest legal updates
Are family trusts still useful?
Compulsory disclosure of trust information to beneficiaries new development in the Trusts Act 2019
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Sarah Parsons
RRP*incl GST: $160.00 $144.00 (pre-order price)
ISBN: 9781988546278
Publication date: September 2020
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Kennedy-Grant and Weatherall on Construction Law
May 2020 updates are now available online and include a full review and update of chapter 3: The law of contract and chapter 4: The law of torts.
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Matthew S R Palmer (general editor)
RRP*incl GST: $200.00
ISBN: 9780947514914 (book)
Publication date: May 2020
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Ursula Cheer
RRP*incl GST: $185.00 $166.50 (pre-order price)
ISBN: 9781988546117 (book)
ISBN: 9781988546124 (ebook)
Publication date: October 2020
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Disclaimer: This service is intended to provide a summary of information recently made available on the LexisNexis online legal platform. The contents of Summing Up do not purport to be professional advice on any particular matter. The publishers therefore accept no liability for any claim or other action that may arise from the use of the information provided in this publication.
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