Issue 511 | 11 October 2021
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Guidance on the principles and practical issues associated with workplace disciplinary processes and investigations.
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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.
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Company and Securities Law Bulletin

Issue 9 is now available online.

This issue provides headnotes on Glenvar Vault Capital Ltd (in liq) v Foster Crescent Ltd [2021] NZHC 139 and Cancian v Carters (a division of Carter Holt Harvey Ltd) [2021] NZCA 397, and Current Developments and Legislative Updates.
Textbooks
 
Paul Heath & Mike Whale (editors)

RRP*incl GST: $200.00
ISBN: 9781988546605 (book – two volume set)            
Published: 13 September 2021
 
 
Peter Watts QC, Hon. Justice Neil Campbell & Chris Hare

RRP*incl GST: $160.00 $144.00 (pre-order price)
ISBN: 9781988546346 (book)
ISBN: 9781988546353 (ebook)                          
Publication date: December 2021
 
Hall’s Sentencing

Service 180 is now available online.

Commentary has been updated for Introduction: Principles of Sentencing; Sentencing Act 2002; Criminal Procedure Act 2011; Parole Act 2002; Habeas Corpus Act 2001, Sentencing Levels; and Indices II, IV, and V. The Index has also been updated.
 
Personal Grievances

Service 85 is now available online.

This service provides commentary updates to: Chapter 3: Unjustifiable dismissal; Chapter 4: Procedural fairness; Chapter 5: Substantive grounds for dismissal; Chapter 7: Unjustifiable disadvantageous action; Chapter 8: Discrimination; and Chapter 11: Remedies.

Privacy Law and Practice

Service 115 is now available online.

This service includes updated commentary to the Privacy Act 2020.
Practical Guidance: Employment

Latest Legal Updates
Judges’ salaries increased without routine performance reviews

Employers advised not to reject the unvaccinated

Community fund to support vulnerable women and girls affected by COVID-19

Wage subsidy bill of $1,200,000,000 passed
Textbook
 
Gordon Anderson & Dawn Duncan                     

RRP*incl GST: $150.00 $135.00 (pre-order price)
ISBN: 9781988546582 (book)                            
ISBN: 9781988546599 (ebook)                          
Publication date: December 2021
 
Practical Guidance: Family

Latest Legal Update
High Court allows man to adopt two Sudanese half-sisters
Textbooks
 
Mark Henaghan, Bill Atkin, Shonagh Burnhill & Anna Chapman              

RRP*incl GST: $175.00 $157.50 (pre-order price)
ISBN: 9781988546636 (book – two volume set)                         
Publication date: October 2021
 
 
LNNZ                                        

RRP*incl GST: $150.00 $135.00 (pre-order price)
ISBN: 9781988546889 (book – two volume set)                         
Publication date: October 2021
 
Conveyancing Bulletin

Volume 19 issue 15 is now available online.

This issue includes comment on key cases in the areas of co-ownership, sale of land and unit titles, as well as an analysis of Mountfort v Cheam [2021] NZHC 1535 on the application of cl 27.5 of the ADLS Deed of Lease in the context of COVID-19 alert levels.
 
Practical Guidance: Succession

Latest Legal Update
Daughter abandons High Court claim against mother’s will
 
Textbook
 
Chris Kelly, Greg Kelly, Colette McKenzie & Kimberly Lawrence

RRP*incl GST: $220.00 $198.00 (pre-order price)
ISBN: 9781988546292 (book)
ISBN: 9781988546308 (ebook)
Publication date: December 2021
 
Service 100 (updated to 1 December 2020) is now available online.

Service 100 includes significant updates to:
  • the "Administrative Law", "Banking", "Betting, Gaming and Lotteries", "Building and Construction", "Censorship", "Employment", "Energy", "Charities", "Children and Young Persons", "Constitutional Law", "Crown Land", "Defence: Armed Forces", "Elections", "Employment", "Environment", "Personal Bankruptcy and Insolvency", "Police", "Prisons and Enforcement of Sentences", "Public Safety", and "Research and Libraries" titles as a result of the Public Service Act 2020, which (except for s 90 and 133(1)) came into force on 7 August 2020;
  • the "Employment" title, as a result of the Equal Pay Amendment Act 2020, which came into force on 6 November 2020;
  • the "Health" title, as a result of the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Vaping) Amendment Act 2020, which came into force on 11 November 2020, and the Privacy Act 2020, most of which came into force on 1 December 2020;
  • the "Parliament" title as a result of the Public Finance Amendment Act 2020, which came into force on 7 August 2020;
  • the "Compulsory Acquisition and Compensation", "Energy", "Environment", "Rating", "Resource Management", and "Transport" titles as a result of the Urban Development Act 2020, of which s 299(3) was treated as coming into force on 1 October 2019, s 298 came into force on 30 September 2020, and the remainder (except s 299(2)) came into force on 7 August 2020;
  • the "Local Government", "Personal Bankruptcy and Insolvency", "Rating", and "Water" titles as a result of the Infrastructure Funding and Financing Act 2020, which came into force on 7 August 2020;
  • the "Companies" title as a result of the Insolvency Practitioners Regulation Act 2019, of which the remainder came into force on 1 September 2020;
  • the "Companies" and "Insurance" titles as a result of the Insolvency Practitioners Regulation (Amendments) Act 2019, of which the remainder came into force on 1 September 2020.
 
Textbooks
 
New Zealand Women’s Law Journal – Te Aho Kawe Kaupapa Ture a ngā Wāhine, Volume 4, 2020                                     
The New Zealand Women’s Law Journal Trust

RRP*incl GST: $30.00
ISBN: NZWLJ2020VOL4        
Publication date: September 2021
 
 
Katie Cowan                                               

RRP*incl GST: $30.00
ISBN: 9781988546520 (book)
ISBN: 9781988546537 (ebook)        
Publication date: September 2021
 
 
John Burrows and Jeremy Finn (editors)           

RRP*incl GST: $150.00 $135.00 (pre-order price)
ISBN: 9781988546544 (book)                          
ISBN: 9781988546551 (ebook)                
Publication date: December 2021
 
 
 
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