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Mohammad Mostafaei – along with the Iran regime’s sense of humanity – is missing! If you locate him please tell the Iranian authorities that he is (hopefully) alive and well and that they should start dusting off their nuclear scientist ploy of holding family members’ hostage. And they can fire their PR team while they’re at it. Oh, and stop stoning women would be helpful too. And some democracy. And quit the endless anti-zionist ranting … Read entire article »
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The Lawyer World Cup – US 1 / NZ 3 | nz law
We joke sometimes, through gritted teeth, about the number of lawyers in America, but just hang … Read more »
Mel Gibson Sees The *****N Lawyers | mel gibson lawyer
As the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department continues its domestic violence investigation of Mel Gibson, the Mad … Read more »
The Big, Big Securities Report . . But Is It Any Good? | securities law, nz law, nz securities law, securities commission
Securities law has been having bad hair days for as long as most of us can remember. … Read more »
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Michael Jackson – Contd.
Have you see ‘This is It’, the Michael Jackson film? we’ve always liked Michael Jackson and it’s … Read more »
London Lawyers Slaughter Fees, Thanks Very Much | london lawyer
Northern Rock cracked, but Slaughter and May cracked the bigger one with fees of £32.9m, according to … Read more »
Letterman’s Pants Apology
Listen, don’t mess with John Key. See what happened to Letterman? His writers give our Johnny … Read more »
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Focus, Focus . . The NZLS Is Focusing | nzls. nz law society
After a whole bunch of trouble dealing with its formerly pesky Auckland branch, the NZLS is now out and about in the provinces and elsewhere seeing what its membership actually wants, as LawFuel reports. What do they want? Probably what Auckland was largely providing before. … Read entire article »
Here Comes the NZ Law Society
The Law Society is presently going to its membership to find out what they need and want in the days of voluntary membership. Following the relatively harrowing establishment of the new law society structure under the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act, in particular the question of how orphaned the Auckland District Law Society might become in the … Read entire article »
Here Come The Ladies . . Barristers, That Is
The growing representation of women in the legal profession has been one of its defining characteristics over the past quarter century. Law Society figures show women holding 43 per cent of practising certificates, representing over 4700 lawyers. This figure is an increase of 35 per cent since 1980 although, as our LawFuel survey earlier this … Read entire article »
Comeskey, Comeskey
There’s a palpable feeling that the Comeskey drama has not yet played out as the man who lived by the publicity machine was almost consumed by it last week as the imbroglio reached its climax, for the week at least. One of the Comeskey defences was the ‘legal aid rort’, based on allegations of wide ranging … Read entire article »
The Lawyer World Cup – US 1 / NZ 3 | nz law
We joke sometimes, through gritted teeth, about the number of lawyers in America, but just hang on to your horses on that one. In the World Cup of lawyers-to-citizens, New Zealand comes in third, right behind Brazil and the US. The Law Society had an major inflow of in the second half of last … Read entire article »
Crocodile CameronDee | nz judge
Serving judicial time in the tropics has always sounded highly appealing and reading this weekend about Tom Weston, the Cook Islands Chief Justice, querying where else in the world you could look out your office window and see hump back whales, prompted me to think of another judge with an exotic outlook, but from his own … Read entire article »
Defending Ivan
Among the annals of unexpected defenders of accused persons, one of the most unusual in recent times has been the fight by Israeli criminal lawyer Yoram Sheftel, the defender of Ukranian-American Nazi death camp accused, John Demjanjuk. Sheftel, who has been called everything from the “conscience of Israel” to “Satan’s lawyer”, has exposed the failure by lawyers workings of … Read entire article »
Mel Gibson Sees The *****N Lawyers | mel gibson lawyer
As the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department continues its domestic violence investigation of Mel Gibson, the Mad Mel’s lawyer is reportedly set to meet with police on the matter. According to RadarOnline.com, the site that premiered the actor’s ability to cuss like no other, the meeting is slated to happen next week. “The plan is for Mel’s lawyer to … Read entire article »
King’s Court | greg king
TV lawyers in New Zealand have surfaced with varying degrees of success over the years – Mike Bungay being a TV darling at one point – but they’ve generally been confined to a role as talking heads on news programmes. Last night saw the first specialist law show, “Court Report”, featuring Greg King who probably has … Read entire article »
“Who Wants To Be An Entertainment Lawyer?” | entertainment law
John Bowie – On the entertainment law front, there was some ballyhoo last week about the successful lawsuit against Disney by the owners of the “Who Wants to Be A Millionaire” television concept, which screened with great success on Disney’s ABC network. This was trumpeted as a homerun for the “creatives” against the studios, being a … Read entire article »
Aussie Tax Snags Merger
You would think lawyers would have sorted this out, but the much-touted merger between Australian firm Deacons and UK multinational Norton Rose, which would have lead to a law firm combination billing around NZ$1 billion, was designed to play a leading role in the region, has hit a tax snag. The merger requires Deacons to incorporate, but that poses … Read entire article »
Spanner in Adoption Act
Justices John Wild and Simon France have thrown a spanner in the adoption works with a “loosening” of the fuddy-duddy, 1955 Adoption Act that has seen them defy parliament. They have done what the Act specifically does not contemplate and permit two people living in a stable de-facto relationship to adopt. You may think this eminently sensible. … Read entire article »
Catharsism and the Pelican Club
It’s always interesting to read a Justice Rhys Harrison judgment, if only for their clarity. Indeed, always for their clarity. This week came the release of another judgment in the Stephen Versalko saga, he being the fraudulent ASB banker who acted as a generous-to-a -major-fault patron to a Pelican Club prostitute who we shall call “BC”, because that’s … Read entire article »
Cactus on Chris Comeskey
Never one to pull punches, let alone cacti needles, CK has characterised Comeskey as the next Christopher Harder. Chris Comeskey acts for some of the worst crooks in town. He upsets people. There’s not much love in the Inn for him. He’s like the 2010 version of Christopher Harder. Seems like he’s been diddling the billings for the Legal Services … Read entire article »
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