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Te Au Reka – the Ministry of Justice's massive project to digitise the court system – is on track and on budget, insists...
13/10/2026

Te Au Reka – the Ministry of Justice's massive project to digitise the court system – is on track and on budget, insists one of the managers in charge of the roll-out. But documents obtained by LawNews tell a slightly different story.

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New Zealand’s new digital court management system, Te Au Reka, represents one of the most significant changes to the courts in decades. It has been designed to support a more accessible, responsive and efficient court system.

NZ Initiative chairman Roger Partridge critiques the process of selecting judges for the senior courts, including the Ch...
10/10/2026

NZ Initiative chairman Roger Partridge critiques the process of selecting judges for the senior courts, including the Chief Justice's effective power of veto over the three-person shortlist which the Attorney-General then considers before
recommending the preferred candidate to the Governor-General.

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Roger Partridge Appointments to the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court come down to a list of no more than three names. Who decides which names make the list is not straightforward, even if you have read the relevant statute. Parliament’s answer is simple. Judges are appointed by the Go...

Clients who use AI to generate lists of questions for their lawyer to review could be in for a shock when their bill arr...
09/10/2026

Clients who use AI to generate lists of questions for their lawyer to review could be in for a shock when their bill arrives.

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Steven Moe While I was recently helping finalise the constitution for a start-up, the client sent a short note saying he was sending over some additional questions he’d just thought of. There is no way the client had thought of those questions. They were obscure legal references that often importe...

Small communities in rural and provincial New Zealand often struggle to access quality legal advice. Technology can help...
09/10/2026

Small communities in rural and provincial New Zealand often struggle to access quality legal advice. Technology can help but it's only part of the answer.

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Michael Andrew When Carley Dwyer turns up at the office on a Monday morning, she knows the phone will be ringing. So much can happen over a weekend, she says, and when your practice houses the only family lawyers in a district of 30,000 people, there’s only one place they can call. “Something wo...

Legal practice has changed significantly for female lawyers over the past 60 years. Four senior practitioners tell LawNe...
09/10/2026

Legal practice has changed significantly for female lawyers over the past 60 years. Four senior practitioners tell LawNews how they dealt with the challenges.

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Michael Andrew In 1962, Dame Judith Potter was told she wouldn’t get a job as a junior law clerk because they wouldn’t employ a girl. Two decades later, when Lady Deborah Chambers KC joined her first firm, she was told by administrative staff that it had a policy of no women partners. Around the...

In the wake of the Supreme Court's decision in Rimmer v Wilton, lawyers who are drafting s 21 contracting-out agreements...
08/10/2026

In the wake of the Supreme Court's decision in Rimmer v Wilton, lawyers who are drafting s 21 contracting-out agreements under the PRA need to ensure their clients' property rights are preserved under the Administration Act

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Anthony Grant In Rimmer v Wilton [2026] NZSC 122, decided by the Supreme Court on 4 September 2026, the parties – David Rimmer and Carolyn Wilton – co-owned a house and by their s 21 agreement under the Property (Relationships) Act 1976 (PRA), it was to be divided in equal shares between them. R...

From law to craft b**rWhat happens when an ex-lawyer swaps the courtroom for the craft b**r industry? In our latest life...
30/09/2026

From law to craft b**r

What happens when an ex-lawyer swaps the courtroom for the craft b**r industry? In our latest lifestyle feature, we explore the story behind one of New Zealand’s craft b**r success stories and the “pure stubbornness” that helped drive it forward.

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The Behemoth B**r Company, and most craft b**r brands for that matter, are known for the witty and eccentric names of their products. Over the years, Behemoth has released many such satires: the Procrastination Pale Ale, a tongue-in-cheek nod to everyone’s failing habits. Then there’s The Dude A...

Barrister and TLANZ council member Warren Pyke says while AI technology may cause our "ultimate destruction", it is huma...
28/09/2026

Barrister and TLANZ council member Warren Pyke says while AI technology may cause our "ultimate destruction", it is humans who will decide whether to let it loose on the world.

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Warren Pyke On 17 September, New Zealand’s Head of State, King Charles, issued several warnings at an international AI summit in Scotland. Innovation, the King opined, must always be considered within the wider ecosystems upon which all depend. AI is already showing its immense capacity to improve...

On the day before Parliament was dissolved, the government introduced its long-expected bill to abolish the Broadcasting...
28/09/2026

On the day before Parliament was dissolved, the government introduced its long-expected bill to abolish the Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA). Going forward – if the government is returned to power and the bill is passed into law – responsibility for standards and complaints will fall on the industry itself, rather than the State.

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David Harvey The Broadcasting (Disestablishment of Broadcasting Standards Authority) Amendment Bill was introduced into Parliament on 22 September 2026 – one day before the House rises for the last time before the election. It will not get a first reading. The plan is for it to remain, hopefully t...

In one of his last interviews before quitting Parliament, former Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Andrew Bayly tol...
28/09/2026

In one of his last interviews before quitting Parliament, former Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Andrew Bayly told LawNews that while New Zealand needs radical change to boost productivity, the vagaries of MMP will make that difficult to achieve.

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Neil Sands New Zealand’s political system is too focused on short-term partisan point-scoring to deal with looming strategic challenges such as superannuation, adapting to artificial intelligence (AI), pandemic planning and climate change, outgoing National MP Andrew Bayly says. Bayly said parties...

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