A summary of decisions delivered in March 2023 by the Supreme Court, available on Westlaw New Zealand.

In a unanimous decision in 2022, the Supreme Court posthumously overturned Peter Ellis’ 1993 convictions on 16 counts of sexual offending against seven children attending Christchurch Civic Childcare Centre where he was a teacher. Earlier the Court found there was jurisdiction to...

The Human Rights Law product has two new authors, Lauren Qiu and Shi Sheng (Shoosh) Cai, who will co-write for the immigration section.

For some time, we have known that the very large “Principles of Adoption” chapter that is lodged within the Family Law – Child Law product, with so much gold in it, would benefit from a large review and ideally worked in as annotated commentary under the sections of the Act, but will...

Thomson Reuters are focusing on trusts legislation this year by releasing the reviewed and rewritten trusts chapters of Working with Trusts (New Zealand Guide to Trusts) commentary and two major books, the 3rd edition of Equity & Trusts in New Zealand and Professor Emerita Nicola...