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Reserve Bank dodges political minefield with pre-election OCR hold

Neil Sands The Reserve Bank shied away from a pre-election rate hike on Wednesday in a split decision that surprised ...
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Labour pledges immediate action on under-16s social media ban, proposes Aussie-style ‘digital duty of care’

Neil Sands Labour says it will implement a social media ban for under-16s and impose a “digital duty of care” on tech giants ...
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ANZ pays out $3.25 million after misleading and over-charging customers

After an investigation by the Financial Markets Authority (FMA), the ANZ bank has admitted misleading hundreds of thousands of customers in two breaches of the fair dealing provisions of the Financial ...
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Critics and supporters run the rule over National’s plan to criminalise the right to silence in child murder cases

Neil Sands The National Party has pledged to abolish the right to silence in child murder cases, in a move welcomed by ...
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The fault in democracy that elections do not fix

Roger Partridge The American satirist PJ O’Rourke spent the late 1980s watching the United States Congress at work. He ended the book he wrote about it,  (Parliament of Whores  1991), with this: ...
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Crown rejects ‘tainted witness’ claim, tells Supreme Court evidence against convicted double-murderer Scott Watson is ‘overwhelming’

Neil Sands The case against Scott Watson is “overwhelming”, even without an eyewitness identification that placed him with ...
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Why the government’s proposed criminalising of the right to silence in child murder cases is archaic, Dickensian and chilling

LawNews welcomes opinion and commentary pieces from all sides of the political and social spectrum. LawNews supports the right of individuals to hold and express different opinions and will publish a ...
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Lawyer censured for courtroom drunkenness – the sixth disciplinary matter for this ‘experienced and competent’ practitioner

Neil Sands A lawyer who turned up to court drunk has been censured and barred from practising on her own, with a disciplinary ...
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Disciplinary officer clears lawyer of unsatisfactory conduct, overturns standards committee censure and blasts complainants

Neil Sands A disciplinary review officer has overturned an unsatisfactory conduct finding against Tauranga lawyer Kirsten ...
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‘It’s really frustrating and difficult’: One year on, still no tribunal decision in high-stakes legal battle between lesbian group and Wellington Pride

Neil Sands A group involved in a high-profile dispute involving transgender rights and free speech has expressed frustration ...
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Senior practitioner censured, suspended and hit with big costs award after multiple misconduct findings and ‘sometimes appalling’ behaviour towards juniors

Mahvash Ikram A senior lawyer barred from practising on her own account – but ran her firm anyway – has been censured, ...
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Scott Watson contests his double-murder conviction in the Supreme Court, counsel disputes identification evidence

Neil Sands Eyewitness evidence that identified Scott Watson as the “mystery man” seen with Olivia Hope and Ben Smart on the ...