COVID-19 – Claims for loss and expense due to slower working conditions?
24 April 2020 Working under the constraints of level 3 working conditions will likely slow the pace. That may mean that a further extension of time is required to the due date for completion. Although, I suspect if a project is near completion and ...
Apr 27, 2020
COVID-19 Hibernation and Safe Harbours – temporary relief from debts for companies but only if you can tick the right boxes
9 April 2020 Changes to the law are often a sleeping remedy for most readers, so, in what has become a time honoured tradition, meaningful soundbite phrases or words are used to make law changes more memorable. But the latest use of the evocative words ...
Apr 8, 2020
How does a body corporate react to covid-19? | Gibson Sheat Lawyers
This is the story of how Body Corporate Apartment X (BCAX) has responded to COVID-19. Other Bodies Corporate may find this useful in determining their own courses of action. My first experience of living in an apartment was in February 2020. Four weeks ...
Apr 7, 2020
The Trusts Act 2019 - how will the new law affect you?
The Trusts Act 2019 (‘the Act’) is the most significant change in New Zealand trust law in over 60 years. Replacing the Trustee Act 1956 and the Perpetuities Act 1964, it creates new obligations for trustees and makes a number of welcome changes to ...
Jan 29, 2020
Restraints of Trade & Non-Competition Clauses – Independent Contractors
It is common to see a restraint of trade clause in an employment agreement or an agreement for the sale and purchase of a business. But what about independent contractor agreements? Can an independent contractor be subject to a restraint of trade? ...
Dec 3, 2019
Legal considerations for multi-generation property ownership
Multi-generational households are becoming increasingly more common in New Zealand. The number of people living in multi-generational households increased by 49% from 1996 to 2013. The way New Zealanders own houses is changing, and it is becoming more ...
Nov 11, 2019
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
Covert recordings by employees
In this age of smartphones, practically everyone has a recording device in their pocket. As an employer, have you ever wondered where you stand with regard to a recording made by an employee without your knowledge? Would such a recording be admissible in ...
Jul 30, 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