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Whiteboard Update

The Whiteboard update is a free weekly update on all things legal provided by the ADLS Library & Research Centre. Use the Whiteboard to help you stay up to date on what is happening in the Courts, Parliament and more. Have a summary of it emailed to you weekly, together with links to the full information online. Contact Janice Woolford to join the email list.

Below is the Whiteboard summary for 14 August 2008 as it was emailed. View the latest Whiteboard update.

Whiteboard summary - 14 August 2008

Recent NZ cases

  • Employment law - personal grievance - Air New Zealand Ltd v McAlister  [2008] NZCA 264 

From the Telegraph

  • Wrongful interference with goods  - Uzinterimpex JSC v Standard Bank Plc [2009] EWCA Civ 819
  • Negligence - financial planners - Shore v Sedgwick Financial Services Ltd & Anor [2008] EWCA Civ 863

Profession

  • Enhancements to IPONZ online services
  • Privacy is your Business - forum
  • Launch of the eco-labels directory
  • Court of Appeal confirms decision to control Powerco’s and Vector’s gas pipeline services
  •  'Young' Resource Management Lawyers Assoc Event : The Great (or not so great) OE

Legislation & reports

  • "Negative licensing" of insolvency practitioners
  • Tapuika and Ngati Rangiwewehi sign Joint Terms of Negotiation with the Crown
  • Sexual Violence discussion document released
  • Proposal for a definition of restricted building work
  • Govt supports Commissioner of Financial Advisers plan
  • Inquiry into the West Coast Development Trust

In the news...

  • Specialist family violence courts fail
  • Law societies square up over merger
  • Metal sliver in pie costs bakery $11,000 fine
  • Soccer: former Knight awarded big compensation package

Internet sites

  • The NZ Transport Agency
  • Skype 3.8.0.144

Law Commission papers

  • Review of Prerogative Writs

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