Landowners commonly want to place restrictions on the use of land when they decide to sell it, particularly if they are retaining some neighbouring land. This article explains how this can be done by arranging a land covenant and what it entails.
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Two recent Employment Court cases have clarified the law on casual employees. Generally, a casual employee is one who has no expectation of on-going employment and their employment terminates at the end of each engagement.
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From 12 January to 12 April 2012 businesses will be able to apply to register generic domain names meaning businesses could have a generic top-level domain (gTLD) that incorporates the name of the company, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) board has announced.
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While we have many protected trees in New Zealand, we also have laws that protect people or things against trees. Under those laws, you could potentially be held liable for something that your trees do. Learn how you may be able to protect yourself from your trees. Read more…

This year Christmas Day and New Year’s Day fall on a Sunday. This means that for employees who do not normally work on weekends the holiday is transferred to the following Monday or Tuesday so that your employee still gets a paid day off.
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