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Bell Gully Retains Place In Global Legal Rankings
Thursday, 11 October 2007, 12:47 am | LawFuel
LAWFUEL - The Law Firm Newswire - Bell Gully has retained its top rankings in the just released 2008 edition of IFLR1000, a guide to the world’s leading financial law firms. More >>
Prendergast Aware Of Husband’s Letter Over Hilton
Tuesday, 9 October 2007, 3:23 pm | LawFuel
LAWFUEL – The NZ Law Newswire - Wellington mayor Kerry Prendergast was aware of a letter written to the Ministry for the Environment by her husband, a property developer with hotel interests, seeking to prevent funding from the Ministry to help fund legal ... More >>
Dick Pratt’s Empire Faces $30Mn Price-Fixing Fine
Monday, 8 October 2007, 2:03 pm | LawFuel
LAWFUEL http://www.lawfuel.com/ – The Legal Newswire - An out-of-court settlement in Australia's biggest price-fixing prosecution could be struck today, with packaging giant Visy expected to agree to a fine of at least $30 million — the biggest penalty ... More >>
M&A Lawyer Joins Australian Securities
Monday, 8 October 2007, 12:33 am | LawFuel
LAWFUEL - The Law Newswire - Mr Tony D’Aloisio, Chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), today welcomed the Treasurer’s announcement of the proposed appointment of Ms Belinda Gibson as an ASIC Commissioner from 5 November ... More >>
LawFuel’s Google Guide To Law Firm Popularity
Wednesday, 26 September 2007, 9:52 am | LawFuel
LawFuel – The Legal Newswire - The ‘Google’ exposure for major law firms is a useful, if unscientific instrument to monitor the most prominent law firms in the country. LawFuel’s Google-mentioned law firm survey shows the names one would normally ... More >>
Clive James on David Beckham - Why Wellington Why?
Saturday, 22 September 2007, 6:27 pm | LawFuel
LAWFUEL - The Legal Newswire - Author, television celebrity and cultural icon Clive James criticized the Wellington City Council for spending public money bringing a broken down, injured football player, David Beckham, to Wellington. More >>
IRD Claims Secrecy over Tax Raid for Aussie Taxman
Thursday, 20 September 2007, 1:45 pm | LawFuel
LAWFUEL – NZ Legal Newswire - By Brent Gilchrist - It seems that the Inland Revenue Department is quick to act on requests for help from big brother taxman across the Tasman. The Australian Tax Office was investigating a $50M tax scheme that involved ... More >>
D&B proposes Aussie credit reform in NZ
Thursday, 13 September 2007, 11:21 am | LawFuel
Australia is one step closer to a consumer credit reporting model that can improve default rates and access to credit for under-served sections of the community, following the release of draft recommendations from the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC). More >>
How To Eat Healthily & Be Healthy
Tuesday, 4 September 2007, 9:30 am | LawFuel
MatchCompany.co.nz - Wellington Dietician Carole Gibb Offers Tips on Maintaining Lifestyle And Optimising Good Health More >>
Wellington Director Has Tax Charges Dismissed
Friday, 31 August 2007, 9:47 am | LawFuel
Wellington company director is to be dishcharged without conviction on tax charges, following the decision of District Court Judge John Walker yesterday, who said the consequences of a conviction on the charges would be out of all proportion to the ... More >>
Mugabe's Madness Continues - Journalists Targeted
Saturday, 11 August 2007, 1:07 am | LawFuel
In a further sign that Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe is a basket case collapsing into a legal quagmire as dangerous as its economic ruin, a new surveillance law targets "journalists with hidden agendas", allowing authorities to intercept all phone, Internet, ... More >>
ASIC Prosecutes Father & Son For Dishonestly
Tuesday, 7 August 2007, 11:31 am | LawFuel
Mr Roger Thomas May, of Macedon, and his son Mr Jason Roger May, of Port Melbourne, Victoria, have today been convicted and sentenced in the Victorian County Court on one charge each brought by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). More >>
Sex Abuse Book Case Re-Emerges On Appeal Ruling
Tuesday, 7 August 2007, 10:54 am | LawFuel
It may be no Harry Potter, but the sex abuse book-that-won’t go away is back, following a New Zealand Court of Appeal ruling – with certain conditions. The Court of Appeal’s decision to lift the ban previously imposed on Foxton author Anne Hunt’s book which ... More >>
Aust Law Council Slams Hicks Guantanamo Trial
Tuesday, 24 July 2007, 5:01 pm | LawFuel
As debate over the treatment of Dr Mohamed Haneef rages, the Law Council will today release a report into the case of another citizen who has fallen foul of a system of badly conceived, badly drafted and badly enforced laws –former Guantanamo Bay ... More >>
Brisbane Liquidator Reprimanded
Monday, 23 July 2007, 5:10 pm | LawFuel
The Companies Auditors and Liquidators Disciplinary Board (CALDB) has reprimanded Mr Robert Eugene Murphy, of Brisbane accounting firm RE Murphy Chartered Accountants, after finding that Mr Murphy had failed to carry out or perform adequately and properly ... More >>
ASIC Seeks Comments On Market Services
Monday, 23 July 2007, 5:09 pm | LawFuel
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has today released a consultation package on competition for market services (trading in listed securities and market data). ASIC is considering separate applications from AXE ECN Pty Ltd ... More >>
Helen Clark Positioning Herself For 2008
Friday, 29 June 2007, 10:38 am | LawFuel
New Zealand Prime Minister is already getting into pre-election mode with selected personal 'makeovers' and - at least six months before the election in 2008, the date of which is not yet known - will be seen more regularly with husband Peter Davis, ... More >>
Mallesons wins w work, clients in Australia, Asia
Wednesday, 23 May 2007, 9:41 am | LawFuel
Mallesons Stephen Jaques’ cutting edge work in Australia and Asia and its people initiatives have been praised with a broad range of awards. More >>
NZ's Top Dog Lawyer Has The Fortnight From Hell
Monday, 21 May 2007, 4:35 pm | LawFuel
New Zealand’s new top-dog lawyer, the Solicitor General Dr David Collins QC, friend of Prime Ministers and Judges (he doesn’t discriminate) has had a fortnight from hell – first the headline hogging quashing of David Bain, the man convicted of ... More >>
LawFuel Reports On Law Job Opportunities, Threats
Monday, 21 May 2007, 1:29 pm | LawFuel
LawFuel® the legal news and law jobs website new report “The Big LLB’OE” (www.LawFuel.com) outlines some of the threats and opportunities facing both law firms and law graduates as they enter the New Zealand law workforce. The report outlines what law firms are ... More >>
