Issue 123

News

Raising phoenix companies from ashes aiding and abetting, declares NSW Supreme Court - By Darise Ogden

New Zealand’s trust law – in context? - By Thomas Gibbons, partner, McCaw Lewis Chapman

Purposeful complicity in human rights abuse needed for US Alien Tort Statute - By Darise Ogden

Southern law firm lauded for advancing resource management best practice - By Craig Sisterson

Sham trusts and constructive trusts over assets of a Trust - By Anthony Grant, barrister, Radcliffe Chambers

Features

Wellington Watch - Education (Polytechnics) Amendment Bill 2009: A major law reform in the polytechnic sector - By Mai Chen, Founding Partner, Chen Palmer New Zealand Public Law Specialists, Barristers and Solicitors

Cartels, leniency, markers, and double-dip dobbing - By Simon Ladd, partner, and Jenny Stevens, senior associate, Bell Gully 

Turning the blow drier on the leaky building torts - Should the corporate form be ignored in the leaky building context? Peter Watts discusses

Rethinking sexual violence - In the third of a series looking at changes mooted by the Justice Minister in his speech on reforming New Zealand’s criminal justice system, Craig Sisterson talks to academics about addressing the tricky area of sexual violence

Risky business in tricky times - Linda Julian provides some tips for doing business as we come out of the recession

Where were the auditors? - When an organisation is targeted by a fraudster – just who is responsible for uncovering the fraud? Simon O’Connor and Sasha Cleaver discuss