E-scooters and e-everything else
When a disruptive technology hits your district, it’s really disruptive. When Aucklanders woke up on the quiet spring morning of October 15 last year to...
Category : Legal
Major legal rethink needed
LINDA O’REILLY – PARTNER, BROOKFIELDS LAWYERS What would it take to introduce localism in this country? Maybe the time has come for the idea of...
Hells bell. Will we drown?
Legal framework unfit to cope with costs of sea level rise. So much for the debate on whether climate change is real. Now we must...
Tidying up loose ends
By FRANA DIVICH – PARTNER, HEANEY & PARTNERS. Stopped clock provisions come under scrutiny again. At the end of 2016, the Supreme Court in Lee v...
Sobering prospects
by Linda O’Reilly – Brookfields Lawyers The risks of being an elected member. Most elected members are aware of the constraints placed on them under...
The unpopular poplar
Sarah Macky, PARTNER, HEANEY & PARTNERS. sarah.macky@heaneypartners.com The case of the council tree that fell onto private property. In the decision of Plaza Investments Limited...
Pressures on the littoral edge
Esplanade reserve is not for boatyard business. The humble, local purpose (esplanade) reserve generally comes in for attention in relation to waterfront subdivisions. Occasionally, it...
Separate but related
PARTNER, HEANEY & PARTNERS. sarah.macky@heaneypartners.com Councils must manage relationship between two key laws. Having represented councils for many years defending liability claims against them, I...
Climate risk & materiality – Linda O'Reilly, Brookfields
Salvation may demand disclosure but disclosure can be risky. Over the past five or six years, there has been increased focus on disclosure by corporations...
The power of lay witnesses – Court confirms builder’s duty is to build code-compliant buildings.
By FRANA DIVICH – Heaney & Partners In the case Minister of Education v H Construction North Island Limited (formerly Hawkins Construction North Island Limited)...