The Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) is one of three Anti-Money Laundering regulators in New Zealand. Last month, the DIA’s 5th major High Court case moved towards a conclusion, and it confirms an increasing trend to keep individuals on the hook for compliance failings.
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Evidence Reform: Discussing the Royal Commission’s Recommendations
Following the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, the Council of Attorneys-General agreed that the Uniform Evidence Acts will be amended to facilitate greater admissibility of tendency and coincidence evidence and the conduct of joint trials in child sexual abuse cases.
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Lessons from Lockdown: Learning to Trust Legal Technology
Legal transformation is not only about managing the impacts of technology and the market within our workplaces. There is so much more to it than that, argues one Legal Editor.
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Court of Criminal Appeal Quashes Tax Crime Convictions After Crown’s Creative Accounting
Why did this tax criminal case ultimately fail? Find out – along with what the outcome of the case has revealed about tax intricate accounting practices – here.
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Untangling the Evictions Moratorium for NSW Residential and Commercial Tenancies
With record high underemployment rates during COVID-19, millions of Australians are having trouble affording their usual rent payments.
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A Lawyer’s Guide to the NSW Evictions Moratorium
Almost one million people lost their jobs while the underemployment rate increased to 13.7% when the Federal Government shut down non-essential services.
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Managing Your Legal Risk Portfolio: Two-Step Process to Upside Potential
It seems that everyone in the legal market has been hearing commentary on the negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Here’s how to manage the risks.
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How to Preserve D&I Progress During Economic Downturns
The public health crisis has resulted in unprecedented job loss since March, and organisations need to careful that their diversity and inclusion (D&I) progress doesn’t falter.
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Protecting Vulnerable Investors During the COVID-19 Pandemic & Beyond
Regulators have placed emphasis on the obligation to treat customers fairly, now and post-pandemic.
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Property Law NSW Update: Electronic Lodgment of Paper Documents
COVID-19 has presented logistical challenges which have impacted land transactions and presented impediments to the lodgment of paper land dealings at the land titles office. To overcome these challenges, the…
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