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Saturday, February 04, 2012

 Issue 84


News

Using law as a sword - By Darise Ogden

www.limitedpartnerships.govt.nz goes online

Companies Office enters 21st Century

Simpson Grierson celebrates launch of Laws of New Zealand titles - By Darise Ogden

Festive DLA Phillips Fox opens new Wellington offices - By Amy Mansfield

Shortland Chambers seeks to raise public law awareness - By Darise Ogden

Court of Appeal mostly golden on its 50th anniversary - By Amy Mansfield

In God we trust - By Lauren Mentjox

Mediation - an employer's salvation? (Part two of a two-part series) - By Bridget Fleming, associate, Kensington Swan

 


Features

Greater regulation of financial advice: getting the balance right? - By Mai Chen, partner, and Katia Fraser, senior associate, Chen Palmer, Public Law Specialists

Open Justice - By the Honourable Justice A P Randerson, Chief High Court Judge

The war of the wills - John Caldwell looks at judicial rewriting of wills and asks whether it’s time for the Courts to pay heed to the Law Commission’s 1997 report

Sorry seems to be the hardest word - By Terry Chenery, Megan Davis, Dixie Link-Gordon, Shane Phillips, and Jane Stratton

Hold the line, Caller - The days of the analogue phone and the gum-chewing telephonist listening in to your calls are long gone. Darise Ogden explores the next generation in telephone systems

The overseers have become crueller - Drawing on ongoing research being carried out in Melbourne law firms, Iain Campbell, Jenny Malone, and Sara Charlesworth examine the operation of the billable hours system

Outlook: continuing growth - A new report providing benchmarking data for in-house counsel asks the question: “It works, but can it work better?” Darise Ogden looks at the trend towards growing in-house teams


   

 

 


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