Gary Hughes Barrister / Advocacy / Regulatory / Strategic Risk legal expert
Insurance Law Reform announced On 6 March 2018 the long-expected Insurance Contract Law review finally broke cover from the New Zealand Parliament. The review is going to take in a wide range of issues, some of which may attract controversy
In December 2014 I co-authored a media law article on minority party politicians using courts to shoehorn their way into TV leaders’ debates. Talking about the 3-year New Zealand term, we said: “Almost on the same three-year cycle, another case
One of the enjoyable aspects of working with technology clients and fin-tech firms is that it opens your eyes to new, more efficient, ways of doing business. The business of dispute resolution is no different: ripe for disruption, if not
Proposals to extend Anti-Money Laundering legislation, which would at least triple the number of reporting entities currently captured, have been moving at breakneck pace in New Zealand. The Law and Order Select Committee today reported back to Parliament, two weeks
Construction/Roading contractor relationships were corrupt New Zealand’s highest profile corruption case in recent times concluded in early 2017 with a 5-year prison sentence for the recipient of the lavish gifts and hospitality, a senior manager at local Council-owned Auckland Transport,
[An abridged version of this article is in LAWTALK Magazine, July 2017 – Download PDF or you can view the article here] Plenty has been written about looming Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism (AML) regulation for lawyers, some of
MAY 2016 published by Thomson Reuters Stronger enforcement looms, while New Zealand also presses on with further AML/CFT reforms The Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act 2009 (“AML/CFT Act”) introduced a broad risk-based framework that brought New Zealand’s
April 2016: First published in the International Bar Association, Anti-corruption journal. Gary Hughes, Barrister, IBA Anti-Corruption Division, NZ Country Officer. New Zealand is often held up internationally as a beacon of low corruption, with generally high standards of governance, public institutions,
Attempts to de-register overseas financial service providers run into confusion Two decisions of the High Court towards the end of 2015 delivered conflicting results on the ability of New Zealand’s main financial regulator, the Financial Markets Authority (“FMA”) to bring
Earthquake insurance appeal cases deal with problems of successive events and allocation of loss Published October 2015 In the International Law Office newsletter – New Zealand In 2010 and 2011, the Canterbury region of New Zealand suffered several major earthquakes,