Content updates

Latest commentary available for the last three sections of pt 4, subpt 2 of the Trusts Act 2019

Waka Kotahi has renewed the E-scooter (Declaration Not to be Motor Vehicles) Notice for a period of five years with a new expiry date of 30 September 2028.

The Resource Management (National Environmental Standards for Commercial Forestry) Regulations 2017 have been updated as from 3 November 2023. They were previously called the National Environmental Standards for Plantation Forestry.

Important appellate decision on directors’ duties

The latest Environmental Law Reports of NZ includes July's High Court case, a win for climate activist lawyers.

A draft national planning framework was issued in early October, ahead of the election

Latest MOJ statistics include decade of data on legal aid grants and expenditure

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

Family Law is needed by us all. So what do we provide at Thomson Reuters, what have we been getting up to, and what are we going to get up to?

This Practice Direction replaces three Practice Notes from 2016, 2019 and 2022

The Natural and Built Environment Act 2023 and Spatial Planning Act 2023 have been passed by Parliament and came into force on 24 August 2023.

The Legal Services Amendment Act 2023 came into force on 31 August 2023, completing the phased removal of user charges for civil/family legal aid and interest on unpaid legal aid debt (first announced in Budget 2022)