by Debra Dorrington | Oct 24, 2019 | Blog, Cause related
Did you know? According to the Million Metres Streams Project, Virtually nothing can survive in 44% of New Zealand’s polluted monitored lakes? We can’t safely swim in 62% of New Zealand’s lowland rivers because too many pathogens are...
by AlexanderDorrington | Oct 17, 2019 | Blog, Building, General property Law
Building law reform comes in waves in New Zealand, and it appears that a set is forming. In April 2019, MBIE released a comprehensive discussion paper that proposed radical reforms to the building industry. This came in response to a growing sentiment that the...
by Debra Dorrington | Oct 14, 2019 | Blog, Cause related, Fresh Business Thinking, General property Law
Last week I went to a conference. Not a property conference this time, but one about business and climate change. I went to listen, not to be evangelised. To hear what’s happening outside of the business of property and the practice of law. I especially...
by Debra Dorrington | Oct 7, 2019 | Blog, Business Law, First time buyers, General property Law
New Zealanders wishing to enter the property market or to save for their home have often occupied a property while doing it up, then sold it at a profit. Exclusions have meant that the profit made hasn’t been taxed. Now the opportunity to use this process is...