Updates & Insights

Inside the Trust eSpeaking Spring 2025 edition:

- The office of executor: does it ever end?

- Enduring Power of Attorney: Is the attorney carrying out their role correctly?

- Trustees signing unlimited bank guarantees: Danger of breaching duties

Inside the Rural eSpeaking Winter 2025 edition:

- Understanding workplace accommodation and service tenancies: Complex legal obligations

- Shearing the love: Focus on New Zealand wool

- Over the fence: Health and safety on farms in the wet season | Changes to the Recognised Seasonal Employer scheme | Foot and mouth disease agreement 

Inside the Property eSpeaking Autumn 2025 edition:

- Vacant possession: What does it mean?

- GST and land transactions: Understanding your tax obligations

- Property briefs: Healthy Home Standards come into force on 1 July | Sunset clauses | Real estate commission: claim or not to claim

Inside the Commercial eSpeaking (Budget Edition) Winter 2025 edition:

- Budget 2025: ‘Fiscally conservative’?

- Major changes ahead for New Zealand’s financial landscape: Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Amendment Bill

- Business briefs

Inside the Property eSpeaking Autumn 2025 edition:

- New deed of lease documentation: Landlords and tenants should be up to date

- Issues affecting finance and settlement: Insurance and natural hazards, and unconsented works

- Updates to the residential tenancies legislation: Tenancy terminations and pets 

Inside the Trust eSpeaking Autumn 2025 edition:

- Disinheriting your children: Can it be done?

- Gloriavale: De-banked?

- Succession drama for Rupert Murdoch trust: Could this happen in New Zealand? 

Inside the Commercial eSpeaking Summer 2025 edition:

- Health and safety: successful prosecution of chief executive – lessons to be learned

- Fair Pay Agreements Repeal Act 2023 what this has meant for you

– Tax changes for charities.

Inside the Rural eSpeaking Summer 2025 edition:

- The moral dilemma of virtual fencing

- Changes for customary marine title applicants

- Requirements when transporting livestock

– Employment contracts for seasonal workers

Inside the Trust eSpeaking Spring 2024 edition:

- Contracting out agreements for relationships late in life

- How non-traditional family structures can result in unfair estate outcomes

- Making a Will when you have overseas assets

Inside the Commercial eSpeaking Spring 2024 edition:

- Voidable transactions: Liquidator can claw back payments

- Embracing Tikanga Māori in your commercial contracts

- Business briefs