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Changes to the NZLS property transactions and e-dealing practice guidelines

Buddle Findlay
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New Zealand
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September 11 2012

The New Zealand Law Society's Property Transaction Practice Guidelines 2009 and the New Zealand Law Society's E-Dealing Guidelines 2008 have recently been updated and combined to form one comprehensive document, the "NZLS Property Transactions and E-Dealing Practice Guidelines July 2012" (the 2012 Guidelines

Developments in the Waitangi Tribunal - mixed ownership model claim

Buddle Findlay
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New Zealand
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June 28 2012

Laws affecting the rights of the indigenous Maori population are a unique and important facet of life in New Zealand

New counterfactual test for overseas investments in New Zealand

Buddle Findlay
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New Zealand
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May 15 2012

On 27 January 2012, China-based Shanghai Pengxin was granted consent under the Overseas Investment Act 2005 to acquire 16 dairy farms (the infamous - in New Zealand - Crafar Farms) comprising close to 8000ha of land

Power to make rules controlling the clearance of indigenous vegetation

Buddle Findlay
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New Zealand
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May 9 2012

The clearance of indigenous vegetation is commonly controlled by district councils through district plans, pursuant to section 31(1)(b)(iii) of the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA

The case for identifying "special special conditions" in your contracts

Buddle Findlay
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New Zealand
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April 2 2012

The recent Court of Appeal decision in Love v Auburn Apartments Ltd 2012 NZCA 34 demonstrates the importance of including a precedence clause in agreements, especially where you are attaching special conditions or negotiated clauses to an otherwise standard form agreement

Status of claims over rental payments

Buddle Findlay
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New Zealand
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April 2 2012

The Court of Appeal has recently considered the status of rental payments in relation to the competing claims of a first registered mortgagee as against a secured creditor with a registered interest under the Personal Property Securities Act 1999 in Marac Finance Limited & Kerryn Downey & Alan Isaac v Murray John Greer & Equitable Property Holdings Limited (CA) 2012 NZCA 45

Guarantees are not always easy to wriggle out of

Buddle Findlay
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New Zealand
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March 30 2012

In the recent case of Hieber v Reddington, the Court of Appeal affirmed the general position that when a guarantor dies, a guarantee that he or she has given over a lease does not automatically terminate unless this is specified in the guarantee

Supreme Court on LIMs and missing water rights

Buddle Findlay
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New Zealand
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March 8 2012

The Supreme Court has just released its judgment in the long running Marlborough District Council and Altimarloch case

Building safety and the workplace

Buddle Findlay
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New Zealand
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February 20 2012

Nearly a year has passed since the February quake, and building safety is very much at the forefront of people's minds

Court modifies tenancy agreement to ensure the provision of health services

Buddle Findlay
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New Zealand
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December 13 2011

A provider obtained personal orders under the Protection of Personal and Property Rights Act 1988 after a consumer's de facto partner refused entry into the property to provide services

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