Is the ballot box calling you?
By Linda O’Reilly, Special Counsel, Tompkins Wake. If you are reading this … it is a fair assumption that you have an interest in local...
Category : Legal
Defending building defects claims
By Sarah Macky, Heaney and Partners. A decision delivered by the High Court in March of this year is a helpful reminder of the challenges...
Resource management – lots of questions, few answers
By Lucy de Latour, a partner at Wynn Williams. This year [2022] is shaping up to be yet another busy year for local government and the...
Local government’s central role in public health
FRANA DIVICH, HEANEY AND PARTNERS With Omicron very much in the forefront of my mind at the time of writing this article, I thought that...
Legal challenge to Three Waters’ proposals
By Gary Judd, QC, who is representing the Water Users’ Group, set to oppose the Government’s Three Waters reforms. The group has filed a legal...
The ‘longstop’ provision in the Building Act 2004
By Frana Divich, Heaney and Partners. One of the things that makes the law interesting is that different legal brains can come to different decisions...
Insurance matters
By Frana Divich, Partner, Heaney & Partners. In 1997 a mutual scheme to provide insurance for councils was established. It was born out of growing...
Climate and interesting court cases
By Frana Divich, Partner, Heaney & Partners. Royal Dutch Shell has been ordered by a court in the Netherlands to dramatically reduce its global emissions. I...
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...
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...