by AlexanderDorrington | Nov 15, 2013 | Building, Business Law, Fresh Business Thinking, General property Law
Next month the Government will begin to introduce a new Health and Safety (H&S) regime in its bid to achieve a 25% reduction in workplace fatalities and serious injuries by 2020. As a result, most businesses will need to immediately up skill, perform due...
by Debra Dorrington | Mar 11, 2013 | Fresh Business Thinking
In Britain legal services can be sold by a supermarket. In Chicago clients can nominate the fee they want to pay – they decide after the job is done. In India thousands of lawyers deliver legal services to law firms throughout the globe in response to those firms’...
by AlexanderDorrington | Oct 26, 2012 | Business Law, Fresh Business Thinking
We have for some time had a policy of contributing to selected start-up projects that have the potential to benefit New Zealand or humanity in the wider context. This is a contribution in the form of legal and business services made available either at no cost or at...
by Denise Marsden | Jul 28, 2011 | Fresh Business Thinking, General property Law, Subdivisions
The changes to the NZ investor migrant policy that we flagged a couple of months ago have just been made operative. This should be of interest to developers seeking development funding. Migrants can now invest in residential property developments in...
by AlexanderDorrington | May 27, 2011 | Fresh Business Thinking, Subdivisions
We were interested to hear that the investor migrant policy is changing with effect from 25 July 2011. Residential property will be an "acceptable investment" for migrants relying on the ‘investor’ category to seek residency in NZ. The migrant’s own house...
by Debra Dorrington | Feb 23, 2011 | Fresh Business Thinking
Imagine how difficult it is for lawyers to limit their comments to 140 characters. We face a dilemma having to leave some ambiguity in our message. Reducing beautifully formed, grammatically correct language to a small group of symbols and abbreviations goes against...
