Building defects and council liability
Sarah Macky, Heaney & Partners. Councils are often sued for defects in building work in circumstances where they have received and relied upon the expertise...
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Prohibitory injunctions case study
Frana Divich, partner, Heaney & Partners. Every council has at least one constituent that would describe themselves as a ‘political commenter’ and a “frequent critic...
Another look at the perils of council decision-making
Another look at the perils of council decision-making By Linda O’Reilly, Brookfields. Since its enactment, the constraints on the power of general competence provided by...
Pandemic lockdown challenged
Our team of five million did an amazing job of eliminating the Covid-19 virus. With the move to L1 last month we now have one...
Keep control of funding and spending
People and businesses are suffering economic pain from the pandemic, but that is not a good reason for local authorities to reduce rates. By Linda...
Funding services with targeted rates – tourism
By Linda O’Reilly, partner, Brookfields Lawyers. Auckland Tourism, Events and Economic Development (ATEED) is Auckland Council’s economic development agency. Its role includes growing Auckland’s visitor...
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...
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...