If you have fully comprehensive vehicle insurance, you are insured for accidental physical loss of, or damage to, your car.

This Act regulates space launches from New Zealand and by New Zealand nationals overseas, both of rockets and satellites.

The government has extended consultation timeframes for various national regulations and policy documents currently open.

Higher levies and stronger compliance measures are key features in the new Fire and Emergency New Zealand (FENZ) Bill.

A wide range of changes are being considered for the civil aviation sector and airports.

Accessible Streets rule package seeks to improve the safety and efficiency of multiple types of transport.

A cooperative but cautious approach to your dealings with the NZ Transport Agency may often yield more positive results.

New Zealand (NZ) is a relatively small nation by traditional measures.

Lenders on certain aircraft and aircraft equipment now have the protection of a specialist international registry after legislation was passed last year to bring the Cape Town Convention and Protocol into effect in New Zealand. The convention, which also provides for remedies if a debtor defaults, is intended to reduce the risk to financiers and therefore to reduce the cost of aircraft funding.

Most changes to the Commerce Act should make the new cartel regime more predictable, except for international shipping.

Marine insurance policies can either specify an agreed value or specify that a value be determined when a claim is made.

The Brief Counsel looks at summary offences in the new CM amendment bill and at the High Court's findings about the MTA.

Trade competitors should tread carefully when considering judicial review of resource management decisions.

This service is a fortnightly news update providing succinct commentary on topical issues, analysis of recent cases, updates on legislative changes as well as issues for the transport industry. Where cases from outside Australia and New Zealand are discussed, we aim to explain the differences in approach in our jurisdictions.

Concerns have been raised regarding violations of privacy and dangers that flying objects pose to people and property.

The decision is the first, and only NZ case on the relationship between Admiralty and the Insolvency (Cross-Border) Act.

Article discusses the draft GPS on Land Transport including the strategic direction & investment in land transport.

The strict liability / package limitation regime for domestic carriage in New Zealand which limits liability to $1,500 per 'unit of goods' has come under question in a recent New Zealand Court of Appeal case.

The case provides clarity on the application of the Act's limitation fund provisions after the Tasman Pioneer decision.

The strict liability/package limitation regime for domestic carriage in New Zealand limits liability to NZ$1,500 per ‘unit of goods’.