Council Brief
Wellington
The monthly newspaper of the Wellington Branch New Zealand Law Society
Issue 452
November 2015
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Branch Council undertakes
strategic planning session
From the
President
F
IRST, my grateful thanks to
the many members of our
profession who completed our
Wellington Branch Engagement
Survey.
The survey has provided us
with extremely helpful feedback
and ideas, and was of invaluable
assistance in informing Council’s Strategic Planning session
in October. (More on that below.) We are still digesting the
survey responses and will report
on the results in future. In brief,
though, satisfaction levels are
high, and preliminary results
overwhelmingly endorse the key
priority areas set by Council in
2014, and the work Council has
been leading in conjunction
with our Branch Manager, our
committees and the wider New
Zealand Law Society. I would
like to particularly acknowledge
and thank Council member
Julius Maskell for his work compiling the survey and leading
this project.
Strategic planning
In October our Branch Council undertook its Strategic Planning session, again superbly
facilitated by Paul Rayner of
BetterChange.
Paul Rayner of BetterChange leads the
strategic discussion.
This year we adopted the
SOAR approach, assessing
Strengths, Opportunities, Aspirations, Results. Our areas of
focus were threefold:
• Engagement & participation
• Professional development
• Pastoral care & member benefits.
As a result of the workshop, we
determined our main priorities
for the rest of the Council year:
1. Online presence: updating the
website and a Facebook page.
2. A Complaints Information
Pack: for practitioners when
they are advised of a complaint against them.
3. Instituting a CPD Register:
consisting of CPD topics, and
the people who will present
CPD (especially locals in outlying areas).
4. Sharing best practice: more
engagement with the profession, particularly the big
firms, on their initiatives (e.g.,
wellness, flexible hours, retention).
5. The Solicitors Benevolent
Fund: raising its profile, and
fundraising.
6. A re-launch of regular collegial events: including Friday
night drinks; walking and running groups; and adding a
wider variety of featured
events. Also, introducing new
ways of promoting our events,
and encouraging friends and
partners to come along.
We will be doing more work
on the delivery of these outcomes, and this will be discussed
at our November Council meeting. We are also looking forward
to catching up with our committee convenors, who will be joining us at our November meeting.
Many thanks to our Council
members for an excellent session. I also thank Paul Rayner of
BetterChange for his time and
marvellous facilitation, and Vice
President Cathy Rodgers for her
work in preparing for the strategic planning session.
Members of the judiciary taking part in the ‘Life on the Bench’ event held recently at Buddle Findlay were Hon Justice Kós, Hon
Justice Winkelmann, retired Family and District Court Judge Paul von Dadelszen QSO, and Chief District Court Judge Doogue.
Members of the Women in Law Committee are Caroline Rieger, left, Karen Feint and Morgan Coats, right.
‘Life on the bench’ – what is it really like?
By Caroline Rieger
T
HE Women in Law Committee and Buddle
Findlay held a highly successful panel
discussion recently about the process of becoming
a judge and what it is really like when you are a
member of the judiciary.
The panellists for the event were Justice Winkelmann, Justice Kós, Chief District Court Judge
Doogue and retired Family and District Court
Judge, Paul von Dadelszen, QSO. The wealth of experience and humour that the panellists provided
helped make for a thoroughly enjoyable and informative event.
The event chairpersons, Women in Law committee member Morgan Coats and Committee CoConvenor Caroline Rieger, facilitated discussions
around the question of becoming a judge: a possible career path to be taken if you want to be a judge,
whether or not it is essential to go to the independ-
ent bar if you are wanting to be appointed, the
differences between District Court and High
Court (and higher Court) appointments and several other topics. The discussions were complemented by comical personal anecdotes and
occasional words of warning from the panellists.
The key traits required to be a judge, the panellists agreed, include humanity, humility, patience,
a touch of humour and legal acumen.
What was apparent was that being a member of
the judiciary is not at all lonely – a common misconception. All the panellists commented on how
much they enjoyed their time on the bench and no
matter how long you are a member of the judiciary, it is not quite long enough.
Those attending were impressed by the openness of the judges and appreciated an enlightening and enjoyable CPD compatible event.
Newly sworn-in Justice Matthew Palmer’s first High Court sitting was an admission ceremony in Wellington last week
for Isaiah Okorie. Mr Okorie, who is from Nigeria and was admitted to the Nigerian bar in 2006, is based in Australia
and wants to be able to practise in all three jurisdictions. It will probably be Justice Palmer’s only Wellington sitting
as he will be based in Auckland. Moving counsel was Geoff Adlam, Wellington Branch member and New Zealand Law
Society Communications Manager.
The Solicitors’ Benevolent Fund – ways to donate
Donations to the Solicitors Benevolent Fund can be made through:
• “Give a Little” http://www.givealittle.co.nz/org/Solicitors, which will be automatically receipted, or
• by Direct debit: Bank of New Zealand: 02-0506-0101108-097
All donations go directly to the capital reserve. The Solicitors’ Benevolent Fund Trust is registered as a
charitable trust (number CC48709) and has tax deductible status.
If a receipt is required when making a direct debit, please email [email protected] with your name,
the amount deposited and a contact number to ensure a receipt is issued and sent to the correct place.
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News
COUNCIL BRIEF, NOVEMBER 2015
Wellington Branch Diary Nov-Dec
Appointment of High Court Judge
WELLINGTON Queen’s Counsel
Matthew Palmer has been
appointed a Judge of the High
Court.
Justice Palmer graduated with
an LLB (Hons) (First Class) in
1987. He has degrees in economics and political science from the
University of Canterbury and a
Masters and Doctorate in Law
from Yale Law School. Justice
Palmer held positions at the
Treasury and as Deputy Secretary for Justice (Public Law) before taking up the role of Deputy
Solicitor-General (Public Law) at
the Crown Law Office in 2008
where he remained until 2012.
While working in the public
sector, Justice Palmer provided
advice to Ministers, Cabinet and
select committees on a range of
matters including
the agreement
of protocols between the Commissioner
of
Inland Revenue
and SolicitorGeneral. He was lead negotiator for
the Crown in an international
compensation claim for the MV
Rena and in the first historical settlement of a Treaty of Waitangi
land claim in New Zealand.
In 2012, Justice Palmer joined
the independent bar and was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2014.
He has specialised in litigation
and advice challenging or defending decisions of government,
Crown entities and public bodies
and has led argument in over 50
public law cases in the Supreme
Court, Court of Appeal, High
Court and Waitangi Tribunal.
Justice Palmer was also Pro
Vice Chancellor and Dean of
Law, and Director of the NZ Centre for Public Law, at Victoria
University of Wellington for five
years. He has taught law at the
Victoria University of Wellington
Schools of Law and of Government, Hong Kong University
Law Faculty, Yale Law School,
the Australian and NZ School of
Government and the University
of Chicago Law School.
Justice Palmer was sworn in
on 27 October and will sit in
Auckland.
Library News
New research librarian this month
By Robin Anderson
Wellington Branch Librarian
THE Wellington Library has a new Research
Librarian starting on Thursday 19 November. Her
name is Nicola Stedman. She has a law degree and
has nearly finished a library qualification. She
currently works in the Otago Library as assistant
librarian and she also writes headnotes for the
LINX database. We look forward to welcoming her
to Wellington
Professional responsibility database
We also have a new database of interest to practitioners. It is the LexisNexis New Zealand online
work Professional Responsibility in New Zealand
written especially for lawyers with a lot of relevant
and timely information for your day-to-day life
and any lawyerly problems you may encounter.
It can be used in the library on the public computers and in the branch library kiosks and is
found under the Administrative & Public link in the
databases menu.
Auckland library move
Our colleagues up in the Auckland Library are
moving temporarily while a new courtroom and
conference room are constructed using part of
their library space. All the staff will be in the Auckland District Court till this work is finished. A lot of
the books will still be in the High Court Library but
you will need an access card 24/7 to get into this
space. For more information, see the NZLS webpage: http://www.lawsociety.org.nz/law-library/
auckland-hc-library-move
Monday 9 November
Criminal Law Committee
Tuesday 10 November
Money Laundering: Independent Practitioners Committee, 5.15pm
Law Society Building, 26 Waring Taylor Street (bookwhen.com/wellington-branch)
Vulnerable Witnesses – Children, NZLS CLE Webinar, 11am-12.30pm 1.5 CPD Hrs
Thursday 12 November
Courts, Tribunals & ADR Committee
Meetings – Legal Essentials, NZLS CLE Webinar, 11am-12.00pm 1 CPD Hrs
Monday 16 November
Wills, Estates & Trusts Law Committee
Mon-Tues 16-17 November
Reading Accounts and Balance Sheets, NZLS CLE Workshop,
Terrace Convention Centre 7 CPD Hrs
Tuesday 17 November
Family Law Committee
District Court Etiquette, Criminal Law Committee seminar, Jury Assembly Room,
Wellington District Court, 5.30-7.30pm (bookwhen.com/wellington-branch)
Wednesday 18 November
Wellington Branch Council meeting
Thursday 19 November
Immigration Law Committee
Retirement – Villages, Subsidies, Loans, NZLS CLE Webinar, 11am-12.30pm
1.5 CPD Hrs
Final Sitting of Coroner Garry Evans, 4pm Courtroom 5.01, Wgtn District
Court RSVP [email protected]
Friday 20 November
Informal drinks at Wellesley Boutique Hotel
Monday 23 November
Employment and Discrimination, NZLS CLE Webinar 1.5 CPD Hrs
Tuesday 24 November
Council Brief deadline December issue
Tues-Wed 24-25 November
Lawyer As Negotiator, NZLS CLE Workshop, Terrace Convention Centre 11.5 CPD Hrs
Tuesday 24 November
Update on Contract, NZLS CLE Seminar, Wellesley Boutique Hotel 2.5 CPD Hrs
(Webinar 11am-noon 1 CPD Hr)
Wednesday 25 November
Legal Assistance Committee
Parole Law Committee
Thursday 26 November
Human Rights Committee
Friday 27 November
Women in Law Committee
New books
Corporate governance intensive
Wellington : New Zealand Law
Society 2015 KN255.L1 NEW
Cyber bullying, Wellington : New
Zealand Law Society
2015 KN340.5.L1 NEW
Cyber law : what happens to your
bits & bytes when you die?
Wellington : New Zealand Law
Society 2015 KN347.L1 NEW
Engaging with Maori business : the
post settlement iwi dynamic
Wellington : New Zealand Law
Society 2015 KM208.431.L1 NEW
Environmental law in New
Zealand, Wellington : Thomson
Reuters 2015 KN94.L1 ENV
Estate administration in the 21st
century, Wellington : New Zealand
Law Society 2015 KN142.L1 NEW
Farm
succession
planning
Wellington : New Zealand Law
Society 2015 KN120.L1 NEW
Gale on easements, London: Sweet
and Maxwell 19th ed 2012
KN65.1.A1 GAL
Health & safety in employment
Wellington : New Zealand Law
Society 2015 KN198.L1 NEW
Health law in New Zealand
Wellington: Thomson Reuters
2015 KN185.L1 HEA
Interviewing children : the steps to
success, Wellington : New Zealand
Law Society 2015 KN176.L1 NEW
Law and custom of the
constitution, Oxford: Clarendon
Press KM31.A1 ANS
Legal Executives Conference,
August 2015 Wellington : New
Zealand Law Society 2015
KL87.2.L1 NEW
LinkedIn for lawyers, Wellington :
New Zealand Law Society 2015
KL98.L1 NEW
Invitation from Wairarapa practitioners
for a collegial lunch in a country garden
Wairarapa lawyers are having a collegial gathering for lunch at the home &
country garden of Adrienne Hewitt and Grant Allan and cordially invite
Wellington Branch lawyers to join them
Saturday 14 November, 12.30pm, 139 Tararua Drive, Upper Plain, Masterton
Bring your own drink but food will be provided by Wairarapa practitioners,
although a donation to the trust fund for Louise Elder’s three girls would be
appreciated. RSVP essential and can be made at
http://bookwhen.com/wellington-branch
For those wanting to make a weekend of it, there are other Wairarapa
events and Toast Martinborough is on that Sunday.
Deadline December Council Brief — Tuesday 24 November
Proceedings before the Coroners
Court, Wellington : New Zealand
Law Society 2015 KL254.L1 NEW
❑ Continued on page 5
Crossword Solutions
From page 7
Cryptic Solutions
Across: 7 Lariat; 8 Select; 10 Opinion; 11 Paste;
12 Emit; 13 Fence; 17 Quits; 18 Peri; 22 Dwarf;
23 Ill-fame; 24 Euclid; 25 Capers.
Down: 1 Almoner; 2 Prairie; 3 Ratio; 4 Respect;
5 Tense; 6 Other; 9 Uncertain; 14 Fun-fair; 15
Relaxed; 16 License; 19 Idled; 20 Hatch; 21 Float.
Quick Solutions
Across: 7 Expert; 8 Zenith; 10 Emotion; 11 Lucid;
12 Sane; 13 Bogus; 17 Greed; 18 Pair; 22 Thing;
23 Crucial; 24 Result; 25 Revere.
Down: 1 Reverse; 2 Appoint; 3 Drain; 4 Zealous;
5 Pinch; 6 Shade; 9 Innocence; 14 Wriggle; 15
Mariner; 16 Trolley; 19 Story; 20 First; 21 Queer.
MA
DESIGN
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Answers for puzzles from page 7
1 Rambunctious
2 Black wins if black moves first:
1…exBf5 2 g7 (if 2 d6 then 2…fxRg4
3 d7 gxNh3 4 d8=Q 4 hxRg2#)
2…fxRg4 3 g8=Q gxNh3 4 Qe6
(threatens 5 Qe3#) 4…hxRg2#.
However, white would win after 1
dxe6 or 1 Bxe6, as this eliminates
black’s best chance (stalemate is out
of reach if white is careful because
the black king has mobility).
Friday 11 December
Admissions
Conferences
November 27 2015 – Third Biennial Labour
Law Conference: New Zealand Labour Law
Society, VUW Law School, Wellington.
www.victoria.ac.nz
Nov 30-Dec 3 2015 – Annual Conference of
the Law and Society Assn. of Australia and
New Zealand, Flinders University, Adelaide.
www.lsaanz.org
December 4-5 2015 – 4th International
Humanitarian Law Moot Court Competition
for NZ law students, VUW & Old High
Court. Red Cross/NZ Law Foundation.
www.lawfoundation.org.nz
December 7-8 2015 – International
Organisations and the Rule of Law: Perils and
Promise, NZ Centre for Public Law, Victoria
University of Wgtn. www.victoria.ac.nz/law/
about/events
December 10-12 2015 – Australia & NZ Law &
History Society (ANZLHS) 34th Conference,
Adelaide. law.adelaide.edu.au/anzlhs)
January 7-11 2016 – 5th International
Conference on Adoption Research (ICAR5),
Auckland. www.icar5newzealand.com
March 3-5 2016 – Dispute Resolution on the
Edge: International Academy of Mediators,
Queenstown. www.aminz.org.nz
April 14-15 2016 – 13th Australasian Property
Law Teachers’ Conference, Canterbury
University School of Law.
www.laws.canterbury.ac.nz
April 14-16 2016 – ICAB World Bar
Conference, Edinburgh. www.nzbar.org.nz
May 12-13 2016 – ILANZ (In-house Lawyers
Association) Annual Conference, Nelson.
www.ilanz.org.nz
May 19-20 2016 – Symposium on QuasiConstitutionality and Constitutional
Statutes, NZ Centre for Public Law, VUW
Faculty of Law. [email protected]
August 27-29 2016 – Banking & Financial
Services Law Assn. 33rd Annual Conference,
Queenstown. www.bfsla.org
September 12-14 2016 – Public Law
Conference: The Unity of Public
Law?
University
of
Cambridge.
www.publiclawconference.law.cam.ac.uk/
2016-conference
September 18-23 2016 – 23rd ANZFSS
International Symposium of Forensic
Sciences, Auckland. www.anzfss2016.org
September 18-23 2016 – IBA Annual
Conference, Washington DC www.ibanet.org
September 22-24 2016 – RMLA (Resource
Management Law Assn.) Conference 2016,
Nelson. www.rmla.org.nz
November 4-7 2016 – Asian Patent Attorneys
Assn. Annual Council Meeting, Auckland.
www.apaa2017.com
2016 (date to follow) – Aviation Law Assn. of
Australia & NZ. Annual ALAANZ Conference,
Canberra.
April 5-9 2017 – Inter-Pacific Bar Assn.
Annual Meeting & Conference, Auckland.
ipba.org
News
COUNCIL BRIEF, NOVEMBER 2015
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Underbelly of migration
Where there’s a will, there could be a way round it
By Kamil Lakshman
By Caroline Sawyer for the Trusts and Estates Committee
THERE is the power of
intention, thoughts,
words and actions
which could then
translate into belief, if a
breeding ground exists.
These words seem
clichés, like titles of
best seller books. However, it is universal
truth. Many wars have
been waged on this premise.
The likes of Hitler have led others to commit atrocities. The
likes of Gandhi have led others
to the path of freedom.
Your thoughts have the power to influence another’s
thought process which can then
have a snowball effect. Fashion
is another good example; one
way of dressing/appearance
grabs the imagination of another. With appropriate positioning, it very quickly becomes the
norm with an opening for a lucrative business venture.
Culture and social norms
adapt and change in this way.
Some idea is introduced that has
the power to influence. It brings
about a change and a way of being that moves from a spectrum
of unacceptability to acceptability. In other words, ‘it catches
fire.’
Exploitation process
One such thought that is fast
taking hold is exploitation. Examples of it have recently been
seen in the migrant community
– one migrant exploiting another for financial gain.
In some cases, the exploited
migrant is not only, but also
complicit, while in other cases,
the exploited migrant has no
choice.
Sometimes the one that has
been exploited, in turn has the
potential of becoming the exploiter once he or she gets that
ability.
What is being taught is that
this becomes a potential way of
engaging.
Breeding ground
In New Zealand the breeding
ground has been cultivated.
How so?
It is because of our current
model of international student
recruitment and immigration
policies. The model may achieve
the educational outcome; that
is, to give educational qualifications. It may even achieve the
immigration objective which
includes economic and settlement outcomes but has the potential of a dubious social
outcome.
What is meant by
dubious social outcome is that some migrants pay for jobs,
work without pay and
provide fictitious documentation to gain New
Zealand residence.
This is how competitive advantage is
gained in some cases; it
is said that for some companies,
such dubious methods are critical for survival.
Related outcome
The stakeholders may insist
that the educational outcome is
distinct from the immigration
outcome but in reality there is no
distinction. The two are interrelated and go as a package. That is
what is being bought. If the education pathway does not lead to
a resident visa, then for some,
the purpose for gaining that
qualification is in vain.
Education is not being seen as
an end in itself. It is being viewed
as a means to this end. Why? The
policy framework settings enable the package to be sold in this
manner. It gives the the ability to
dangle a carrot of potential residency.
Thus far we have been attempting to seek solutions by
addressing the symptoms. However, there has been no real incentive to tinker with the golden
egg in case it stops being golden.
Considered holistically, we have
bigger problems to deal with
than has been apparent, so tackling the golden egg is now becoming imperative.
If we are really serious about
addressing this issue of migrant
exploitation, which in my opinion has the potential of snowballing into the mainstream
workplace practices, then the
root of the problem has to be addressed and addressed fast.
Otherwise New Zealand will
be seeing a very different work
place ethos and a developing underworld which may be out of
reach for police to monitor and
shut down despite the penalties
in place.
The power of thought is manifested because the breeding
ground exists.
Kamil Lakshman is Principal of
Wellington based law firm Idesi
Legal Limited. The opinions expressed in her article above are her
own and not that of Idesi Legal
Limited or the New Zealand Law
Society, or its Wellington Branch.
❑ This article was first published
in Indian Newslink
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THE Trusts and Estates
Committee recently held an
informal discussion on the
implementation and effects of
s 14 Wills Act 2007.
Section 14 differs from the
old s 9 Wills Act 1837, which
had strict formalities for the
execution of a valid will, and
provides instead that the High
Court may make an order declaring a document valid as a
will if it is satisfied that it expresses the deceased’s testamentary intentions. The
committee members mostly
felt that the amendment and
its implementation was appropriate. Any new legal process
will, however, present questions.
The committee considered,
for example, the position of a
lawyer instructed to obtain a
grant of probate for a will, who
then hears of a later, “invalid
will” that the High Court
might, if asked, declare valid.
The committee was sure that a
lawyer has no duty to make
proactive enquiries where they
have no knowledge of such a
document. However, some
members were particularly
concerned that it was unclear
how a lawyer’s overriding duty
to the court would operate if
they knew a later “invalid will”
existed or might well exist, but
the client’s instructions were
strictly to obtain probate of an
earlier, fully-executed will.
The committee also considered whether best practice
would now require alerting clients to the new situation.
Whilst the new rule is used
where a client has not understood that a formal-looking
draft their lawyer has sent
them still requires execution,
other clients may be aware of
the pre-2007 rules as to the requirements of formality, and
not understand that if they
change their mind they need to
take positive action to ensure
the draft is not subsequently
admitted to probate. This
might happen where, for example, full instructions for a
fresh will are given by telephone after a family row and
the draft is received after relations are patched up – and is
put in a drawer, to be found by
a beneficiary under it after the
deceased’s death (and perhaps
after probate of the earlier
will).
Deadline
December Council
Brief – Tuesday
24 November
The meeting considered
ways of forestalling such problems, including following up
clients who did not respond to
letters containing draft documents and eventually telling
them that the draft would be
withdrawn. The actual status
of the draft after that would,
however, be unclear. The committee considered the balance
between the advantages of
flexibility in unexecuted documents being potentially admissible to probate, as opposed to
the disadvantages of opening
the field to uncertainty and litigation.
The committee also considered the High Court Rules
where a possibly invalid will
exists. These provide at R 27.5
a process by which an application for probate of an earlier
fully-executed will may be deferred whilst an application for
an order that a subsequent,
“invalid”, will is valid instead is
considered under s 53 Administration Act 1969. They do not,
however, fully cover the situation where the lawyer instructed to apply for probate of the
earlier will – who may indeed
be the executor of the will – has
some indication that there
may be a later, potentially valid document – particularly as
the Rules envisage only later
documents which appoint executors. It is not necessary for
a document to appoint an executor in order for it to be a
valid will, and indeed the High
Court has ordered recognition
of client-made documents
such as suicide notes, which
are likely to consist only of dispositions.
The discussion confirmed to
all present that probate practice is an exciting and potentially contentious field, and
that the committee is at its cutting edge.
Guidance towards achieving best ethical
standards is concern of Branch committee
THE Wellington Branch of the Law Society has a range of
resources for practitioners to use to resolve difficult issues. One
of them is the Ethics Committee, whose principal objective is to
give guidance on the highest ethical standards of practice – and a
view on when those standards might not have been achieved.
The standards apply in relation to clients, other lawyers, the
court and society generally.
Lawyers are of course also bound to follow the statutory
requirements of the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006, the
Rules of Conduct made under that Act and the guidance issued
from time to time by the Law Society, such as the rules on
e-dealing. But the subject of lawyers’ ethics is discussed in
articles and has also been the subject of case law.
Lawyers should however be aware that the views of the Ethics
Committee have no particular standing. The Committee is there
only to provide guidance and views on issues or behaviour that is
referred to it. A lawyer who would like to refer a matter to the
Committee should contact the Committee Convener, Paul Barnett, email: [email protected] phone: 04 498 4932
Fax:04 471 0239. Paul will consult with the committee and a distillation of the committee members’ views will be passed back to
the enquirer.
The committee also holds seminars where questions of ethics
are considered live. The next one is planned for the first half of
2016, and the committee invites practitioners to suggest issues
they would like to see discussed. Please send your suggestions to
[email protected] from where they will be sent on to the
Committee.
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Annual Bar Dinner
COUNCIL BRIEF, NOVEMBER 2015
Peter Dengate Thrush, Peter McKnight and
Matthew Sherwood King.
Gavin Adlam, Ken Johnston and Frank Handy.
Kezia Tuohy, Judge Chris Tuohy and Donna Llewell.
James Gallagher, Rebecca Garden and Seamus Woods.
Kim Murray and Stephanie Winson.
Christina Billing, Britanny Peck and Kerrin Eckersley.
David Dunbar, Amanda Courtney, Cathy Rodgers, Nerissa Barber and Catherine Harris.
Paul Morten, Hayden Wilson and Paul Radich QC.
These pictures were taken at the
Wellington Bar Dinner held at the
Wellington Club early in October.
Mike Lennard and Amanda Courtney were
surprised to find they matched!
Robert Lithgow QC, Rowland Woods and Justice Simon France.
John Dean, Dan Parker and Greg Thomas.
Frances Gush, Chris O’Connor and Steph Dyhrberg.
Mary More, Elizabeth Bransgrove and Anna Kokje.
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Sally Parker and Stuart Dalzell.
James Gallagher had been looking for an
occasion to wear his grandfather’s suit and
found the annual dinner was it!
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Karun Lakshman, Dan Parker, Kamil Lakshman and John Evans.
Bea Woodhouse and Matthew Brown.
Emily Bruce and Jessie Nelson.
Judge Ian Mill and Mark Wilton.
Sandra North and Charlotte Hollingsworth.
Sir Bruce Robertson, Gary Turkington and Felix Geiringer.
Life on the bench
Anna Bloomfield, Helen Tyree, Julia Robertson, Emma Manohar and Lisa Bazalo.
Retired judge Paul von Dadelszen QSO, Janine Bonifant, Simon Martin, Jacinda Rennie and Charlotte von Dadelszen.
Bill Bevan and Jeremy Upson.
Lili-Marina Stanley, Justice Winkelmann and Toli Sagaga.
Tara Hauraki and Sarah Gwynn.
Kathryn Beck is new NZLS President
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New books
Property taxation legislation
Wellington : New Zealand Law
Society 2015 KM336.36.L1 NEW
Tax conference, September 2015
Wellington : New Zealand Law
Society 2015 KM335.L1 NEW
The Native Land Court. Volume 2,
1888-1909 : a historical study,
cases
and
commentary.
Wellington : Thomson Reuters
2015 KM208.433.L1 BOA
The New Zealand Bill of Rights Act :
a commentary Wellington :
LexisNexis NZ Ltd 2nd ed 2015
KM201.2.L1 BUT Closed Reserve
The law of real
KN60.A1 MEG
Youth advocates
2015 Wellington
Law Society 2015
property, 2012
conference July
: New Zealand
KN176.L1 NEW
Chris O’Connor, Ken Ah Kuoi and Peter Knyvett.
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KATHRYN BECK from
Auckland
has
been
confirmed as the new NZ
Law Society President, to
take effect at the NZLS
council meeting in March
2016.
Kathryn is a partner at
SBM Legal, a boutique employment law firm based in Auckland and working throughout New
Zealand. She is a member of the
NZLS Auckland Branch Council
and the Vice President for Auckland
of the New Zealand Law Society.
She has a BCom (Labour Relations) and LLB from the University
of Auckland and more than 20 years
of practical legal experience.
Kathryn practises predominately in employment law with a diverse
client base. She is experienced in
alternative dispute resolution and
regularly acts as mediator and facil-
itator as well as conducting independent investigations.
Her practice has generally had a litigation focus.
She previously worked at
Haigh Lyon for over 11
years and led the litigation
team there.
She has been active within the
legal community, and is a member
of the Board of the Auckland Community Law Centre and has been
on the ADLS Council. She was
Convener of the NZLS Employment Law Committee for a time
and has been a submitter for the
Law Society to Select Committees
on legislative change.
Among many issues, Kathryn
sees three areas of likely future focus: access to justice, promotion
and retention of women in the legal profession and practising well.
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COUNCIL BRIEF, NOVEMBER 2015
Parenting through separation – Community Law and Family Works
By Ione Gill and Geoffrey Roberts
COMMUNITY Law Wellington
and Hutt Valley (CLWHV)
maintains relationships with
a variety of organisations
to provide services and
programmes throughout the
Wellington region. We believe
that by doing this we can share
expertise and draw on each
other’s strengths to better meet
the complex needs of our
community.
One of our latest initiatives is
partnering with Presbyterian
Support Central (Family Works)
to provide the Parenting
Through Separation (PTS) programme in Wellington, Kapiti,
Hutt Valley and Wairarapa.
CLWHV has built up a significant amount of experience delivering legal education and is
often a first port of call for family
legal issues. Community Lawyers and education workers cofacilitate with social workers
from Family Works to deliver
this free four-hour programme,
over one or two days, to parents
who are at various stages of ending their relationship and want
to learn how best to deal with the
care of their children during this
difficult time.
PTS aims to educate parents
on the effects of separation on
children and to encourage parents to put the needs of their
children first. PTS also has an
emphasis on minimising and reducing children’s exposure to
parental conflict and on giving
parents tools to reach postseparation care arrangements
that are in the children’s best interests and without recourse to
the Family Court.
Research has shown that children whose parents separate are
more likely to have negative outcomes, but parents have the
ability to minimise the impact of
Proposed repeal of redundant laws
A DRAFT bill intended to repeal a range of redundant laws has been
released for comment.
The Statutes Repeal Bill will remove 120 pieces of superfluous
legislation, and parts of eight other acts. It is being consulted on
before it is introduced to Parliament.
Regulatory reform minister Steven Joyce said feedback was sought
from any party who thinks that they may be affected by the repeal of
any legislation proposed for inclusion in the Bill, and from the legal
community.
Earlier this year the Government accepted a Productivity Commission recommendation to increase the use of exposure drafts to improve New Zealand’s regulatory system.
The Statutes Repeal Bill currently proposes to repeal or partially
repeal 120 Acts. It will reduce the total number of public Acts in force
by 113, and the number of private Acts by seven.
The draft bill and information on how to make a submission is
available at http://www.pco.parliament.govt.nz/consultation-srb
Submissions close on 4 December 2015.
Law graduate
CV scheme
THE scheme to assist law
graduates into work is still
being operated by the
Wellington Branch.
Law graduates seeking work
leave their CVs at the Society.
These are available to potential
employers needing staff who
can refer to the CVs and choose
appropriate graduates.
The work offered need not
be permanent. Any work in a
law office will give graduates
experience that may be helpful
next time they make job applications.
separation on their children.1
PTS has a focus on practical advice to help separating parents
and their children deal with separation.
Participants are encouraged
to see their separation from their
children’s perspective and come
up with practical ways to keep
their children away from conflict
and to help them make a stable
transition to their new situation.
PTS offers participants the opportunity to learn valuable information by getting involved in
discussions, contributing their
own experiences, collaborating
on activities and watching clips
of children talking about what it
was like for them when their parents separated.
PTS also aims to enable
grandparents and the wider
whanau
to get involved to support the children involved and to
help parents minimise conflict.
As a rule, ex-partners to the same
Book early for Law
Society events!
Wellington lawyers are very keen
to attend events presented by the
Wellington Branch office.
For several recent events demand
has outstripped the number of
places and long waiting lists have
resulted.
The answer is to please book
early or you risk being
disappointed.
there is the opportunity for a
connection where both participants are given a window into
what it could be like for their expartner.
If you need to refer a client or
friend to this programme then
please check out the Family
Works website with details of
our programme:
www.psc.org.nz/family-works/
services-2/parenting/
parenting-through-separation .
Footnotes
1
www.justice.govt.nz/publications/
publications-archived/2009/
evaluation-of-the-parenting-throughseparation-programme
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All our Counsellors are qualified to Masters level and are members of the NZ
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For New Zealand Law Society members and families we are offering a
discounted rate:
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Please contact Lifeline Counselling on
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relationship do not attend the
same PTS course.
Parents attend the course at
different stages of their journey
through separation, from being
separated for one week to being
separated for ten plus years. The
parents are also at hugely varied
stages in the legal process; some
have only a verbal parenting
agreement, others are going on
to Family Dispute Resolution
and some have protection orders
against them.
It is often reassuring for parents to realise that they are not
the only one going through separation. Further, when someone
recovering from addiction sits
beside a participant whose expartner has addiction issues,
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Contributory mortgages
New requirements for law firms providing
contributory mortgage lending services
Torts law
museum
-
CONSUMER advocate and
former
US
presidential
candidate Ralph Nader has
opened an ‘American Museum
of Tort Law’ in Winsted,
Connecticut, reports NPR.
The museum is filled with
items like defective toys and unsafe machines tied together under a unifying theme: tort law.
Many of the items on display
were exhibits used in court
cases.
Nader came to prominence
with the publication of his 1965
book Unsafe at Any Speed, a critique of the safety record of
American car manufactuurers,
particularly the first-generation
Chevrolet Corvair.
A bright-red Corvair is the
museum’s centrepiece. Nader’s
book helped establish car safetly
features such as seat belts and
airbags.
By Beatrix Chin
LAWYERS offering contributory
mortgages under the current
Securities Act (Contributory
Mortgage – Solicitors and
Incorporated Law Firms)
Exemption Notice 2013 will be
subject to new requirements
rolling in on 30 September 2016
when the lawyer Exemption
Notice expires. All affected law
firms should by now be
registered as a Financial Service
Provider and be a member of an
approved Financial Dispute
Resolution Scheme in order to
be Securities Act compliant.
Upon expiry of the lawyer Exemption Notice, the NZLS,
which provides lawyers with a
separate compliance regime,
will cease to regulate lawyers operating contributory mortgage
lending services and the Financial Markets Authority (FMA)
will take over the supervision of
all contributory mortgage providers under its new Financial
Market Conduct Act 2013
(FMCA) regime.
Transitional provisions
Under clauses 7 and 53 of
Schedule 4 FMCA, new offers
and existing contributory mortgage investments can, before
the Exemption Notice expires on
30 September 2016, continue to
be governed by the former NZLS
regime – unless the law firm
elects to come under the new
FMCA regime earlier. However
from 1 October 2016 to 30 November 2016, all contributory
mortgages must be offered and
managed under the Securities
Act (Contributory Mortgage)
Regulations 1988 (SA Regulations) (which apply to brokers
who are not lawyers), unless the
investments are already being
managed under the new FMCA.
From 1 October 2016, regardless of whether lending services
are offered under the Securities
Act Regulations or under the
new FMCA regime, the FMA will
supervise all contributory mortgage providers.
The new FMCA regime
Finally, from 1 December
2016, all new offers of contributory mortgages must be compliant with the new FMCA regime.
New FMCA ongoing obligations
such as disclosure and governance requirements need to be
complied with.
Note however notwithstanding the commencement of the
new FMCA regime, existing contributory mortgages issued before 1 December 2016 can
continue to be managed under
the SA Regulations until they are
cancelled, redeemed, forfeited
or the obligations under them
are discharged.
Peer-to-Peer Lending (P2P)
and Managed Investment
Schemes (MIS)
Under the FMCA, there are no
specific provisions relating to
contributory mortgages and a
law firm offering contributory
mortgage services will be treated
as a financial broker, required to
proffer financial market services
under an FMCA category. They
will likely be seen to be operating
either under the FMCA’s “Managed Investment Schemes”
(MIS) category or the Peer-toPeer Lending (P2P Lending) category.
Briefly, MIS are schemes
whereby the MIS Manager pools
money contributed to the
scheme by investors as consideration to acquire interests (financial benefits) produced under
the scheme. “Regulated offers”
under MIS will require disclosure and governance as prescribed for MIS and a licensed
fund manager as well as an independent licensed supervisor.
P2P Lending involves the facilitator acting as an intermediary
between borrowers and lenders.
Under this scheme, a licence is
required if you want to match
borrowers wishing to offer debt
securities without supplying a
product disclosure statement
(PDS) with lenders wishing to
loan money. Borrowers can then
rely on an FMCA exemption
which does not mandate a PDS.
To obtain a P2P Lending licence,
minimum standards need to be
met. Once granted, there are numerous ongoing obligations
such as complying with fair dealing policies, having a written
agreement with clients, providing disclosure statements and
monitoring ongoing compliance. Further, the applicant will
have to demonstrate that it is
able to meet the standard conditions that are attached to the P2P
licence. Similar obligations apply to licensed MIS managers.
and comply with the obligations
imposed by the SA Regulations.
Law firms that do not wish to
wind down their lawyers nominee companies and instead intend to operate under the new
FMCA regime should be vigilant
about the amount of preparation
and time involved in transitioning and organising the firm’s
procedures to ensure compliance with the new regime and
adherence to the professional fiduciary duty and duty of care to
the lender.
The NZLS may provide further specific guidance to law
firms once more detailed requirements about ongoing transitional arrangements are
received from the FMA. In the
meantime any enquiries or requests for updates should be directed to the FMA at
www.fma.govt.nz.
Council Brief
December issue
deadline 24 November
❑ This article was first published in
Canterbury Tales
Options going forward
Post 30 September 2016, law
firms can:
• Operate under the SA Regulations;
• Re-offer contributory mortgages under the new FMCA
regime; or
• Cease contributory mortgage
lending operations completely.
In considering the way forward, note that if a law firm
chooses to manage existing contributory mortgages under the SA
Regulations instead of opting to
operate straight under the new
FMCA, then it would have to
comply with two separate compliance regimes come 1 December 2016 when all new financial
services are required to be offered under the FMCA. Further,
until the firm ceased to operate
under the SA Regulations, the law
firm would need to register as a
contributory mortgage broker
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submissions on an exposure draft
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Law Bill.
Eleven contract and commercial statutes, some dating back to
1908, have been revised and consolidated into a single Bill without
changing the substantive effect of
the law.
Attorney-General Christopher
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revision Bill of the government’s
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aimed at producing an accessible,
clear and up-to-date statute book
for New Zealand.
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submission are available at
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consultation-srb
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Council
Brief
The Young
Lawyers
Committee and Government Legal Network
held a networking event last week to reflect on how practising well
supports the achievement of professional goals. Speakers were Saar
Cohen-Ronen (Crown Counsel Public Prosecutions Unit) and Una
Jagose (Deputy Solicitor-General and Acting Director GCSB).
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Members of the Wellington Branch Immigration Committee with Minister Hon Michael Woodhouse recently: Richard Small,
Fraser Richards, Mahinarangi Tangaere, David Dunbar, the Minister, Kar-Yen Pardington, Kamil Lakshman (Convenor),
Rowland Woods, John Petris and Rhyn Visser.
The NZLS Wellington Branch Immigration and Refugee Committee Dinner with the Minister of Immigration at the
Wellington Club has become an annual event. The committee has become familiar with Minister Woodhouse as he has
attended annual dinners on three occasions during his tenure as Minister of Immigration. The President of the Wellington
Branch Council is normally present. This year we had David Dunbar, the Vice President to grace the occasion.
These dinners are very useful, both for the Minister and the Committee members as it provides a relaxed and enjoyable
forum to delve deeper into the emerging and pertinent issues of the day in the New Zealand immigration and refugee field.
Georgina Dickson, Ved Prasad,
Genevieve Rainey and Rebecca Garden.
Ved Prasad, James Gallagher,
Nathan Hollis and Amada Wilson.
The Solicitors’ Benevolent
Fund – ways to donate
Donations to the Solicitors Benevolent Fund can be made through:
Landmarks: Entick v Carrington—250 years on
It’s ��� years since John Entick won his case in trespass against four of the King’s messengers, despatched
by the Secretary of State under a warrant to seize “seditious papers”. Join us to hear a panel discuss the
significance—then and now—of this famous case and the principles of the rule of law it stands for.
Professor Richard Boast QC, Victoria University of Wellington
Anthea Williams, Ministry for Primary Industries
David Goddard QC, Thorndon Chambers
Douglas Ewen, Brandon Street Chambers
When: �.��–�pm, Thursday � November ����
Where: Lecture Theatre �, Government Buildings, �� Lambton Quay, Wellington
RSVP: http://nzcpl-entick.eventbrite.com
This event is part of the New Zealand Centre for Public Law’s Landmarks
series that commemorates a number of significant legal anniversaries:
Magna Carta (��� years) New Zealand Bill of Rights Act (�� years); the
Treaty of Waitangi Act ���� (�� years) and Entick v Carrington (��� years).
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