Litigation
News & Events
2007 Archive
Thursday 15 March 2007
New partner and senior associates in Bell Gully's latest promotions
A partner and seven new senior associates have been appointed in the latest promotions at Bell Gully.
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Thursday 12 April 2007
New senior associates for Bell Gully
Bell Gully has further strengthened its litigation and corporate/commercial teams with the appointment of three experienced senior associates.
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Thursday 7 June 2007
Bell Gully named New Zealand's Who's Who Legal Firm of the Year for the second consecutive year
Bell Gully has been named the Who's Who Legal Law Firm of the Year for New Zealand for the second consecutive year.
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Monday 18 June 2007
Discovery: is it necessary to describe every document?
The new rules appear to do away with the requirement for every document in the open part of the list to be described, instead making numbering of each document sufficient. However, the previous approach of fully describing every document in the open part of the list is still, for the most part, being followed.
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Wednesday 20 June 2007
Proposals for legal cooperation with Australia carry risks for New Zealanders
New proposals to extend Australian Commonwealth rules for court proceedings to New Zealand will increase the risk for New Zealand individuals and businesses of being sued in Australia, and vice versa.
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Tuesday 3 July 2007
A statement concerning the Trelise Cooper and Tamsin Cooper trade mark dispute
Cooper and Cooper reach agreement over trade mark dispute.
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Wednesday 4 July 2007
Received in confidence
During a 'dawn raid', how can a company's confidential and commercially sensitive information be protected? Roger Partridge, Partner, and Simon Ladd, Senior Associate, explain.
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Friday 6 July 2007
IT arch-rivals do battle over website documents
Oracle is in the process of suing its arch-rival SAP in the United States District Court of the Northern District of California over alleged copying of thousands of documents from the Oracle website.
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Thursday 19 July 2007
Bell Gully advises on fashion designer dispute
Bell Gully has advised on the successful resolution of a two-year intellectual property dispute between two New Zealand fashion designers.
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Monday 23 July 2007
Is Google responsible for everything ever said on the internet?
A new case in the UK is again raising the issue of who is responsible for information available on the internet - and its outcome could reach as far as New Zealand.
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Wednesday 8 August 2007
Serious hole in the new Evidence Act removes privilege in foreign legal advice
The Ministry of Justice's failure to use the machinery of the new Evidence Act means that legal advice from non-New Zealand and Australian lawyers will not be protected by legal privilege in New Zealand proceedings. The implications of this hole in the statutory regime are alarming.
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Monday 3 September 2007
Precedent-setting leaky building decision upheld
A construction company has been refused leave to appeal a High Court ruling which upheld an order that it must fix leaks in a large Auckland townhouse development.
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Friday 19 October 2007
Investor protection for shareholders might come at a cost
New Zealand's increasingly robust investor protection legislation may be good news for some aggrieved shareholders but could result in a slower, more complicated liquidation process and diluted returns for unsecured creditors, says Bell Gully senior associate Tim Clarke.
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Friday 26 October 2007
Top tips for negotiating
Negotiations can create real challenges but a systematic approach can help tackle these often difficult situations, says Bell Gully employment lawyer Anthony Drake.
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Wednesday 5 December 2007
Global research places Bell Gully as New Zealand leader
A guide to the world's leading business lawyers has again ranked Bell Gully a clear leader overall among Zealand law firms.
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