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Attempt to de-Platform the BSA fails
The BSA has ruled that it has jurisdiction to receive complaints against the online media company, The Platform. “Using an unduly technical interpretation to exclude online broadcasters would create a significant gap in the protections available to New Zealanders”, it wrote. “We consider the standards regime logically, and appropriately, includes online broadcasters such as The...
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Batchelor losing party
Julian Batchelor has lost his defamation lawsuit against TVNZ and former Disinformation Project director of research Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa. They’d accused him in an online article of racist rhetoric, inciting hate and real-world harm. Batchelor says this struck at his character and integrity, and that he didn’t believe or claim that Maaori are racially inferior....
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Major Changes to New Zealand’s Employment Relations Framework
New Zealand’s employment law framework is undergoing its most significant transformation in decades. The Employment Relations Amendment Bill will reshape how dismissal risks, remedies, and contractor classification operate in practice. While these reforms aim to provide employers with greater flexibility, they also introduce legal gray areas that will require clarification through future litigation. Below are...
- Re-registering under the Incorporated Societies Act 2022: what you need to know
- Should I Operate as a Company or Sole Trader in New Zealand?
- New year, new law ' employment relations amendment bill passes parliament
- High Court clarifies councils' stormwater powers and private drain duties
- Cross-Border Business Structures: Doing Business in New Zealand and Australia
- Zuru vs. Lego: A Matter Of Compatibility
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Talley’s source of contention
An overlooked part of Talley’s Group’s defamation case against TVNZ is its attempt to get TVNZ to disclose its confidential sources. It applied to court to make TVNZ give them up. This was a real test of our journalist source protection regime. In the two leading cases up to now, the courts had (effectively) refused...