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Sports Clubs Health and Safety Obligations
The Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (the Act) imposes legal obligations on everyone conducting business or undertakings to ensure a safe workplace. Sport or recreation organisations should be aware these obligations apply to you regardless of whether ...
Nov 30, 2023
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Are your company assets secure if you were to become liquidated? | Gibson Sheat Lawyers
Are Your Assets Secured Against Liquidation? Did you know that the liquidator of a company can sometimes lay claim to assets held by other companies in your group? This article will outline when a liquidator can do that and things you can do to increase ...
Mar 12, 2023
Construction: Can you de-risk inflation?
By the time you can finally make ends meet, they move the ends. We are not at the point – yet – where we will need a wheelbarrow of cash to buy a loaf of bread, but contractors may feel that way when it comes to purchasing materials. We hear every day ...
Feb 10, 2022
Brawling on and off-site – the costly effect of finger-pointing between trades
The judge said: “He seemed to me to be an old-fashioned builder who found the defendant – as a professional, assertive woman – rather difficult to deal with when things were not going well and, as a consequence, tended to avoid doing so.” The use of the ...
Nov 16, 2021
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Resource Management Changes and Intensified Development - Do you want a land covenant?
Recently we wrote about the proposed changes to the Resource Management Act: this is expected to permit intensified developments across much of New Zealand. Land covenants can act as a barrier to future development. If you are thinking of subdividing and ...
Oct 28, 2021
October 2021 Changes to Resource Management in Main Centres
New Zealand’s housing crisis is a well-worn topic of discussion and debate. In the most significant legislative move to date to address this issue, on the 19th of October 2021 the Government introduced the Resource Management (Enabling Housing Supply and ...
Oct 26, 2021
Rent disputes. Is there a cost-effective resolution?
You want me to discount your lease payments? Say again! A landlord might earn kudos and a devoted tenant by reducing your rent for a lockdown period but are you legally entitled to a reduction? Most leases are in the Auckland District Law Society (ADLS) ...
Sep 8, 2021
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Thinking of subdividing to pay off the mortgage?
For a number of my clients subdividing off part of their land is a successful formula for reducing their debt but there’s not one of them that steps back from the process and says “wow, that was easy…” It’s not that the process is difficult, it’s just ...
Sep 5, 2021
Lost your licence? DUI | Limited Licence | Gibson Sheat Lawyers Wellington
If you have been disqualified from driving because of a traffic conviction or excess demerit points, you may be eligible to apply for a special licence or work licence, otherwise known as a limited licence. Gibson Sheat has obtained limited licences for ...
May 27, 2021
Thinking of subleasing? What you need to know
COVID-19 has forced a rapid acceleration in the existing trends shaping how we work. Working from home is becoming normal and businesses are reconsidering how much office space they really need to be fully operational. For some businesses, reducing ...
Aug 16, 2020
Business Owner Conundrum – Considerations of succession and selling
Forty nine percent of our business owners are aged over 50, and half of them are aged over 60. The National Research Bureau recently recorded that 130,000 businesses will be for sale in the next 10 years. Locally in the Wairarapa, that would equate to ...
Oct 23, 2019
AML (anti money laundering) and Gibson Sheat Lawyers, Wellington
Anti-money laundering has recently been in the spotlight in New Zealand with the Ministry of Justice estimating that almost NZ$1.35 billion from fraud and illegal drugs is laundered through ordinary New Zealand businesses each year. To help combat this ...
Mar 1, 2018