Issue 517 | 21 February 2022
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Peter Watts
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ISBN: 9781988546841 (book)
ISBN: 9781988546858 (ebook)
Publication date: 27 December 2021
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Stephen Todd & Matthew Barber
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ISBN: 9781988546704 (book)
ISBN: 9781988546711 (ebook)
Publication date: April 2022
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Julia Tomie, Kris Gledhill, Fleur Te Aho & Khylee Quince
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ISBN: 9781927248225 (book)
ISBN: 9781927248553 (ebook)
Publication date: 31 January 2022
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Mazengarb’s Employment Law
Service 266 is now available online.
Updates to the Employment Relations Act 2000 have been made in Part 1: Key provisions; Part 2: Preliminary provisions; Part 5: Collective bargaining; Part 6: Individual employees’ terms and conditions of employment; Part 6A: Flexible working; Part 9: Personal grievances, disputes and enforcement; Part 9A: Additional provisions relating to enforcement standards. Updates have also been made to Selected Topic: Contractual Aspect of Employment; Selected Topic: Pay equity; Minimum Wage Act 1983; Wages Protection Act 1983; Parental Leave and Employment Protection Act 1987; Human Rights Act 1993; Accident Compensation Act 2000; and the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015.
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Personal Grievances
Service 87 is now available online.
Updates have been made to Chapter 3: Unjustifiable dismissal; Chapter 4: Procedural fairness; Chapter 5: Grounds for dismissal; Chapter 7: Unjustifiable disadvantageous action; Chapter 8: Discrimination; Chapter 9: Sexual and racial harassment; and Chapter 11: Remedies.
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Gordon Anderson & Dawn Duncan
RRP*incl GST: $150.00
ISBN: 9781988546582 (book)
ISBN: 9781988546599 (ebook)
Publication date: 17 December 2021
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Practical Guidance: Family
Latest legal updates
When guardians cannot agree whether to vaccinate children
Five-year family trust court battle of the Prestons finally over
New Zealand Family Law Reports
Part 9 Volume 2021 is now available online.
Re TN — [2021] NZFLR 431
Enduring powers of attorney — Court’s jurisdiction — Whether donor is mentally incapable — Whether attorney should be authorised to execute will for and on behalf of donor — Distinction between mental incapacity for purposes of enduring power of attorney and lack of testamentary capacity — Donor not wholly competent to manage affairs and was “mentally incapable” for purposes of enduring power of attorney — Donor did not lack testamentary capacity — Protection of Personal Property Rights Act 1988, s 102.
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Panikkar v Sharma — [2021] NZFLR 443
Relationship property — Proceedings — Powers of Court — Interlocutory applications — Order for sale — Applicant sought urgent order for sale of family home because of surge in market prices following COVID-19 lockdown — Interlocutory orders for sale should not be based on speculation in residential property market — Application refused.
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B W (2004) Ltd v Mlouk — [2021] NZFLR 451
Relationship property — Notice of claim — Properties owned by companies — Claim of interest in company property — Shareholder and directors having no legal or beneficial interest in properties owned by company — Companies Act 1993, s 15 — Land Transfer Act 2017, s 142 — Property (Relationships) Act 1976, ss 2, 42 and 44.
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Wooldridge v Kumari — [2021] NZFLR 461
Relationship property — Agreement to oust jurisdiction of New Zealand courts — Informal agreement — Implied ousting of New Zealand courts — Marriage of short duration — Periods of absence — Periods of absence not making marriage one of short duration — Unequal sharing — Equal sharing being repugnant to justice — Age differences — Future earning potential of parties — Value of family home as high proportion of relationship property — Marriage of limited duration — Periods of absence — Non-monetary contributions insufficient to offset unjust consequences of equal sharing — District Court Act 2016, ss 126, 127, 128, 129 and 130 — Evidence Act 2006, s 65 — Property (Relationships) Act 1976, ss 1N, 2E, 7A, 13, 14, 18 and 39 — High Court Rules 2016, rr 20.14 and 20.16.
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David Bullock & Tim Mullins
RRP*incl GST: $150.00 $135.00 (pre-order price)
ISBN: 9781988546193
Publication Date: April 2022
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Matthew S R Palmer (editor)
RRP*incl GST: $200.00 $180.00 (pre-order price)
ISBN: 9781988546728
Publication Date: May 2022
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Caroline Miller & Lee Beattie (editors)
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ISBN: 9781988546742 (book)
ISBN: 9781988546759 (ebook)
Publication date: March 2022
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New Zealand Conveyancing and Property Reports
Part 7 Volume 22 is now available online.
Lendlease Capital Services Pty Ltd v Arena Living Holdings Ltd — (2021) 22 NZCPR 498
Sale of land — Vendor’s warranties — Contractual requirement to give notice before claiming on warranties — Effectiveness of notice — Requirements of form and content of notice — Reasonable recipient of notice — Understanding of reasonable recipient of notice — Weathertight Homes Resolution Services Act 2006, ss 32 and 37.
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Reynolds (as trustees of the F & J Reynolds Trust) v Parklands Properties Ltd — (2021) 22 NZCPR 516
Easements — Extinguishment — Change in use of land — Change in use only occurring once easements removed — Change in character of neighbourhood — Change in character anticipated when easements put in place — Change in planning rules — Changes in planning rules just facilitating earlier modifications — Compensation for removal of easement — Calculation of compensation — Value which parties acting reasonably would have agreed to — Willing buyer willing seller approach — Land Transfer Act 2017, s 245 — Property Law Act 1952, s 126G — Property Law Act 2007, ss 316 and 317.
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Seabrook v Draiocht Trust Partnership Ltd — (2021) 22 NZCPR 550
Division of land — Order of sale and division of proceeds — Occupation rent — Property held by two trusts equally for estranged siblings — Property parents’ former home — Daughter living in house with children — Whether order for sale necessary — Whether property should be sold — Effect of parents’ wishes that daughter remain in property until grandson finished education — Hardship — Value of respective contributions — Whether trustees breached obligations to beneficiaries — Property Law Act 2007, ss 339, 342, 342(a), 324(b), 342(c) and 343 — Trustee Act 1956, s 68.
Trusts — Trustee — Removal of trustees — Breach of obligations — Sale of property — Two trusts owning equal shares in property for siblings — Property former home of deceased parents — Parents expressing wish that daughter stay in house until grandson finished education — Proposed dissolution of partnership of two trusts — Whether improper delegation by trustees — Whether proposed sale of property breach of trustee obligations — Failing to take wishes of settlors into account — Trustee Act 1956, s 68.
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Lu v Wila Development (Ormiston) LP — (2021) 22 NZCPR 569
Caveats — Application to sustain — Caveat as purchaser under agreement for sale and purchase — No assignment without consent clause — Nominated purchaser — Unconsented nomination — Nomination ineffective — No equitable interest as purchaser — Sunset clause — Reasonable efforts to obtain title — Evidence of reasonable efforts.
Caveats — No-caveat clause — Entitlement to cancel contract for breach of no-caveat clause — Repudiation of contract — Court’s discretion to remove caveat — Acceptance of repudiation by not seeking specific performance — Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017, ss 12, 17, 35, 36 and 42 — Land Transfer Act 2017, ss 138, 142 and 143 — Resource Management Act 1991, s 224.
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Chris Kelly, Greg Kelly, Colette McKenzie & Kimberly Lawrence
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ISBN: 9781988546292 (book)
ISBN: 9781988546308 (ebook)
Publication date: March 2022
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John Burrows QC and Jeremy Finn (editors)
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ISBN: 9781988546544 (book)
ISBN: 9781988546551(ebook)
Publication date: March 2022
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Judge Peter Spiller (editor)
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ISBN: 9781988546735 (book)
Publication date: 05 February 2022
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Nicholas Wood
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ISBN: 9781988546865 (book)
ISBN: 9781988546872 (ebook)
Publication date: March 2022
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