Workplace Relations and Safety Minister, the Honourable Brooke van Velden, has released a much-awaited statement outlining potential new criteria to determine whether a person is an employee or a contractor. The press release is the Government’s latest update in its proposed reform to provide greater certainty for contractors and businesses in New Zealand. Read about the proposed changes here: Increased certainty for contractors coming | https://lnkd.in/dNXmiK_X
About us
Hesketh Henry is a premium sector specialist law firm with the expertise to meet the needs of private and commercial clients. With a track record spanning back to 1865, our experienced and talented team provide high quality legal services both domestically and internationally. We are recognised for our expertise by international legal directories Legal 500, Chambers and Partners, Chambers HNW and Doyles Guide.
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- Law Practice
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- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- Auckland
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- Partnership
- Founded
- 1865
- Specialties
- Corporate Advisory, Mergers & Acquisitions, Foreign Investment, Trust, Wills, Estates, Property Law, Retirement Villages, Litigation & Dispute Resolution, Employment Law, Insurance Law, Construction Law, Intellectual Property, IT, Health & Safety law, Maritime Law, Trade and Transport, Forestry, insolvency & restructuring, and employment law
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Auckland, 1010, NZ
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Updates
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In our last article, we explained what protected disclosures are and the various legislative requirements of the Protected Disclosures (Protection of Whistleblowers) Act 2022. In part two of this article series, we discuss how these ideas may work in practice with reference to the recent Authority determination of Bowen v Bank of New Zealand. #whistleblower #protecteddisclosure #employment
Bowen case part 2 – the ins and outs of the determination | Hesketh Henry
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📢 Case Update: In Rawson v Prescott, the High Court addressed a dispute in which a trustee sought to evict the settlor's widow from a trust owned property. This case highlights the importance of careful drafting of relationship property agreements when dealing with trust property and the need for additional trust documentation. #LegalUpdate #Trusts #RelationshipProperty #Law #PrivateClient #PrivateWealth #NZLaw
Are trustees bound to relationship property agreements? | Hesketh Henry
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Protected disclosures have been in the spotlight following the recent Employment Relations Authority determination, Bowen v Bank of New Zealand. In part one of this series, we discuss what protected disclosures are. #Law #EmploymentLaw #ProtectedDisclosures
Bowen case part 1 - blowing the whistle | Hesketh Henry
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A recent High Court judgment is a cautionary tale for contractors that certain of their retentions clauses may be prohibited provisions under the Construction Contracts Act 2002 – risking their entire contractual retentions regime falling over and no retentions able to be held back. #constructionlaw
Contractors take note – are any of your retentions clauses prohibited provisions? | Hesketh Henry
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Beneficiary classes in trust deeds should be clearly defined to ensure the assets of the trust benefit the people who the settlor(s) of the trust originally intended. If they are not, then disputes can arise, and the Court may be required to step in to decide who is a beneficiary and who is not. Emma Tonkin and Esmé Johnson Johnson discuss an example of where the Court’s assistance was necessary. Read more about it here. #TrustLaw
Avoiding the Grey Area: Interpreting Trust Beneficiary Classes | Hesketh Henry
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Hesketh Henry’s Insurance Team have double cause to celebrate. #LexisNexis #PracticalGuidanceInsurance #NZILA2024Conference
Hesketh Henry’s Insurance Team author LexisNexis Practical Guidance Insurance | Hesketh Henry
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The increasing global frequency of extreme weather events and sanctions means parties may need to consider invoking force majeure clauses. The English Supreme Court in RTI Ltd v MUR Shipping BV [2024] UKSC 18 has clarified the parameters of such clauses requiring “reasonable endeavours” to overcome the event – and answered whether comparable but non-contractual performance is OK. Read our article for the answer and its practical implications. #tradeandtransport #forcemajeureevent #contractsofaffreightment
Is ‘close enough’ OK? Reasonable endeavours to overcome a force majeure event | Hesketh Henry
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The English Court of Appeal has recently confirmed the Mackay v Dick principle is part of English law, meaning a party cannot rely on the non-fulfilment of a condition precedent to its debt obligation where it has caused non-fulfilment by breach of contract. This has potentially significant benefit in pursuing certain claims as debts rather than damages. We consider the implications. #marinedisputes #commercialcontracts
The useful Mackay v Dick principle is part of English law – might it apply here? | Hesketh Henry
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The good faith obligation for employers to provide ‘all relevant information’ really means just that – potentially even confidential information in a commercial agreement, as the Court of Appeal affirmed earlier this year in Birthing Centre Limited v Matsas [2024] NZCA 139. We summarise the Appeal Court’s decision and reasoning here. #employmentlaw #confidentiality #disclosure #confidentialinformation #redundancy #consultation
Commercially sensitive information? Prove it | Hesketh Henry
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