Legal

Issues covered include: Criminal law, case law, memory experience, sexual experience, expert evidence, Evidence Act 2006, sentencing, imprisonment, anti-money laundering, costs, Criminal Procedure Act

Issues covered include: consumer law update, regulatory investigation, IP requirements, innovation, GDPR and Privacy

Issues covered include: commercial lease, leasing, maintenance, repair obligations, landlord, tenant, tax, commercial property, GST

Issues covered include: Board, diversity, corporate trustee, insurance, indemnities, anti-bribery, corruption, corporate risk, risk management, safety, safety governance, tax risk, IRD, best practice, corporate governance

Issues covered include: Employment, bullying, harassment, social media, dismissal, sick leave, medical certificates, medical incapacity, mental health, governance, school board, Teaching Council, natural justice, New Zealand School Trustees Association, Education Act

Issues covered include: Employee, share schemes, fair pay agreements, holidays Act, parental leave, employment legislation

Issues covered include: relationship property, Property Relationships Act, Family Income Sharing Arrangements, FISAs, violence, psychological abuse, property, immigration, section 21A, settlement agreements, FCR 182 injunction, professionals

Issues covered include: Alcohol, toxicology, drug, DNA, forensic, laser scanning

Issues covered include: Investor and business residence categories, Immigration and Protection Tribunal, IPT, employment, employer, Employment Relations Authority, ERA, ANZSCO, ethic, Immigration Advisers Complaints and Disciplinary Tribunal, IACDT, licensing

Issues covered include: ethics, advertising, Fair Trading Act, influencer, ASA guidelines, cyberbullying, copyright infringement, user generated content, general data protection regulation, GDPR, privacy, consumer protection, data ethics

Issues covered include: Trust, relationship property, trust restructuring, resettlements, trustee, trust administration, estates, capacity, powers of attorney

Issues covered include: Students and mental health, bullying, discrimination, guidance counsellors, social media, pastoral care, counselling, suicide, self-harm, risk assessment, sharing information, Parent Separation, Family Court Orders and Protection Orders, Court Proceedings and Giving Evidence, Expert evidence.

Issues covered include: Landonline, Automation and eDealing, Real Estate Agents’ Disclosure Obligations, Real Estate Agents Act (Professional Conduct and Client Care) Rules 2012, Co-Ownership & Property Share Agreements.

Issues covered include: Case law litigation update, lawyers as trustees, Earthquake repairs damage, Liabilities, Professional Indemnity Insurance,

Sure it’s a whole day, but once you are done, you really are well and truly done. Featuring an expert speaking panel and timely topics hand-picked to cover new legislation, new cases and new trends, along with updates on some of the most crucial topics in legal practise right now. Gain all your CPD hours, all in one day.

Issues covered include: privacy, conflicts of interest, confidentiality, GDPR, free speech, public interest, judicial review, statutory interpretation, Bill or Rights

Issues covered include: contact variation, estoppel, forbearance, contract disputes, arbitration clauses, arbitration decisions, insolvency, insolvency legislation, insolvency contracts, default contracts

We get it – you’re busy. But you also need your CPD Hours, and it never hurts to spend time elevating your practice and bringing it up to speed in the modern legal market. So we’ve put together a convenient, efficient and practical lunchtime web series to catch you up on the essential updates needed to bolster your practice, all from the comfort of your home or office.

We get it – you’re busy. But you also need your CPD Hours, and it never hurts to spend time elevating your practice and bringing it up to speed in the modern legal market. So we’ve put together a convenient, efficient and practical lunchtime web series to catch you up on the essential updates needed to bolster your practice, all from the comfort of your home or office.

Issues covered include: Privacy Act, privacy law reform, privacy priorities

Issues covered include: pleadings, interlocutory injunctions, contentious applications, costs, civil costs, indemnity costs, enforcement of cost awards

Issues covered include: Property valuation, property advisory, property development, property financing, easements, Overseas Investment Act

Issues covered include: Overseas investment, residential property, forestry, due diligence, property, cognitive bias, ethical decision making, business sales, ownership structuring, corporate entities, intellectual property, commercial contracts, privacy, GDPR, AML/CFT compliance, contract disputes, arbitration clauses, warranties, indemnities, limitations of liability, tax, Family, wills, probate, Oranga Tamariki, culture, interpreter, multicultural, pleadings, judicial review, JR, Construction Contracts A

Refine your contract law skills by gaining a deeper understanding of when to use, query or contest a contract clause and why. Our panel of experts will offer practical guidance on key issues including the ever topical and contentious areas of rectification and variation, warranties and indemnities, and the best strategies and practices for terminating a contract.

Staying on top of the seemingly endless issues affecting your staff, students and school can seem daunting, so we have distilled the most important issues affecting schools rights now. Recent legislative changes affecting physical restraint and seclusion guidelines and privacy, important family issues and employment hot spots will be covered to bring you up to speed on what you need to know.

Imagine a prospective client comes to you and asks… • Is the traditional asset model the best way to protect my family wealth? Are there other options? • What are the limits on Deeds of Family Arrangements? • What is the court’s current thinking around trusts, estate planning and relationship property claims? • Who can be personally exposed to legal costs? • How can we prove capacity to execute a will? Ensure you can answer these questions confidently, accurately, and with the most up to date information

Few things are more synonymous than New Zealand and wine. For legal practitioners and those in the industry grappling with legal issues, however, there is more to the story. Join our experienced panel as we explore the latest legal and legislative developments that can and will affect the wine industry. Gain critical insights as we examine intellectual property issues, immigration law updates, employment law concerns, the geographical indications regime and more.

To start with you have game changing developments in overseas investment in residential property, updates in tax issues in conveyancing and new trends in residential, commercial, industrial and rural conveyancing. Then just to keep things interesting you have the many perpetual pitfalls that can and do arise in each of these areas, threatening to simultaneously undo a deal and ruin a relationship with a client. Get caught up on the latest changes in conveyancing while honing your practical skill

Many recent legislative changes and legal developments in employment law simply must be considered, understood and addressed in current practice to ensure your clients are properly advised. Our experts will bring you up to speed with the most important issues in employment law with an afternoon of practical and timely insights.

Settle in for a comprehensive round up of the latest developments, cases, new legislation and trends impacting the public sector delivered by the Parliamentary Counsel, Crown Law and leading practitioners. With the sector facing a proliferation of inquiries and governmental reviews, anticipated privacy reforms, the impact of the Legislation Bill 2017, and challenges and changes in Crown and Māori issues brought about by a new government

With recent and upcoming changes to trusts, privacy law, AML/CFT compliance, and the Commerce Act, staying up to date on the latest legislation is essential for anyone working in the commercial space. Conveniently, we’ve created a timely and useful live web seminar to update you on all of these areas and more. Invest in an efficient morning filled with the latest changes, trends and developments that your clients or your organisation will expect you to know inside and out.

Master how to skilfully handle any complication or dispute that arises in an application for probate as you cover everything from complex common and solemn form probate to proving informal wills. Receive practical information, realistic examples and relevant legal updates that will enhance your mastery of probate in practice.

Get an edge in the courtroom and ensure your matters withstand scrutiny under the relevant rules by refreshing your knowledge of civil litigation practice and procedure. This half day program will finesse your drafting skills to avoid evasive pleadings and statements of defence, explore the grey areas of the discovery process and refine your strategy and persuasive techniques when you are bringing or defending an interlocutory claim.

Ensure you’re up to date with the 3 biggest legislative property reforms that are either before parliament or expected to commence before the end of 2018, and the latest cases and updates, all examined in this rigorous half day program.

This one day program will answer some of the key questions that arise during the transaction of a business or franchise and diagnose where things can - and do - go wrong. You will consider structuring selection, how to get the most out of your agreement for sale or purchase, and tax and employment issues that need to be thought through and incorporated in to the transaction. Stay for the afternoon and work through specific tax termination and other issues that arise during the life of a franchise.

Attend and you will receive a timely update on significant family law case developments including a case study on spousal maintenance from the perspective of the applicant and respondent’s respective Counsel. Master how to distinguish a gift from a loan and also the disputes that ensue in property division claims. Familiarise yourself with the taxation consequences in a settlement by working through common situations encountered by tax specialists, and receive an in-depth analysis of trusts

Whether you’re a private legal advisor, in-house counsel or firm owner, you know how important it is to protect IP assets, however, by the time an infringement occurs it is often too late. Examine critical IP protection strategies and consider not only what an infringement is but also how to avoid infringement and how to deal with one when it occurs.

With so much happening in the Not-for-Profit sector it is crucial that you are on top the most current and important issues facing NFPs, charities and trusts to ensure transparency, integrity and effective management. Receive strategic updates from leading experts, and understand the implications, on legislative developments, legal and governance structures, employment and volunteers issues, and financial, tax and reporting obligations, and risk.

Take this opportunity to tackle some of the more complex situations that arise for you and your clients including the ever evolving employment issues and guidelines, separated families, applications that are appealed or come before judicial review plus difficult situations in relation to section 61 and ‘accredited employers’. Explore these issues with leading experts and receive 4 CPD hours while attending an information packed morning.

Suspect that a transaction is fishy? Master how to identify red flags and risks when faced with a disclosure requirement, potential ethical dilemma or situation that may put your firm at risk. Law firms ultimately benefit from this program by mitigating the potential for oversights and mistakes by closing rank on their due diligence processes. Legal executives, junior lawyers, conveyancers and settlement agents on the frontline will benefit from the practical training.

In this rigorous programme you will hear about the practical implications of Tomorrow’s Schools Independent Taskforce Report and other timely updates, suspensions and expulsion, lockdown procedures, dealing with difficult parents, employment essentials you need to know, privacy and online essentials that are imperative for you to know right now. Stay for the afternoon and you will workshop the mechanics of a competent and comprehensive workplace investigations from ‘Oh No! to Let’s go’.

Employment issues are the perennial thorn in the side of many schools. If left unmanaged, things can go wrong – fast and be severely detrimental to your school’s morale, culture and the quality of education. This programme assembles 8 legal experts who will galvanise you with updates, information and tips that can be practically implemented in your school.

Issues covered include: evidence, inquiry, judicial review, employer obligations, role of inquiries abroad

Issues covered include: making good decisions, artifical intelligence, privacy

Issues covered include: heads of agreement, pre-contractual representation, liability, contract trisks, indemnities, contract breach, contract remedies, mitigation, dispute resolution clauses, technology contracts, hackers

Issues covered include: Mainzeal case, directors, insolvency legislation, cross border recovery, chasing debtors, claims against directors, director's liability

Issues covered include: recent cases on evidence, Evidence Act, appellate trends, expert opinion evidence, hot tubbing, cross-examination, drug trials, search powers, warrantless searches, searching electronic devices

Issues covered include: bullying and harrassment, bully policies, Health and Safety at Work Act, WorkSafe, ERA, collective bargaining, Fair Pay Agreements, Holidays Act Audits, Labour audit

Issues covered include: Employment Relations Authority procedures, applications, evidence, appearances

Issues covered include: mediation skills in commercial and family matters

Issues covered include: trust law reform, removal and retirement of a trustee, non-compliant trusts, independent trustees in family trust disputes, estate planning and succession across jurisdictions and overseas, relationship property, claims Under the Family Protection Act 1955

Issues covered include: building and construction, defective buildings, earthquake strenghtening, asbestos, building regulations, building products, building levy, insolvency and bankruptcy, builders and suppliers, construction disputes

Issues covered include: IP infringement, cease and desist letters, IP disputes, IP strategy, commercial IP considerations, IP dispute resolution

Issues covered include: Overseas Investment Act, residential land sale, warranties in agreements, purchase of real estate, due diligence, tax in property, commercial property, industrial property, lease inducements, residential real estate investment, subdivision, resource management reforms

Issues covered include: purpose, context and structure of legislation, statutory interpretation rules, legislative intent, delegated legislation, technical terms, interpretation of statutes

Issues covered include: Business transitions purchases and sales, agreement for sale, intellectual property, tax, employment

In this intensive and in-depth program you have an opportunity to develop skills to better handle individuals who have experienced a mental health issue, severe trauma or when you are confronted with a difficult ethical decision about what you ought to do. With the spectrum of clients extending, and an aging population these types of tough situations will arise more frequently which is why it is important consider how you and your practice will respond.

You will explore the various structuring alternatives including companies, limited partnerships, trusts and tax implications as well as what does and doesn’t work. You will learn what options are available and develop the skills to think carefully about what is needed to future proof a structure, contemplate possible scenarios and what is needed for best practice.

Issues covered include: employment agreements, confidentiality and IP clauses, employment surveillance clauses, drafting non-compete clauses, non-solicitation clauses, restraint clauses, enforcement of employment agreements

Issues covered include: implied contractual terms, unsigned contracts, indemnities, dispute resolution clauses, drafting issues