Manufacturers, importers and distributors of natural health products will be subject to much tighter regulations.

The new Insurance (Prudential Supervision) Act 2012 contains new risks and liabilities for insurers and their directors.

The Government is considering inserting a new public interest test into New Zealand's anti-dumping regime.

The telecommunications contract review is a first look at the implementation approach to the unfair contract terms regime.

An effective security interest needs a valid financing statement registered on the Personal Property Securities Register.

The challenges of establishing improper behaviour in the thin and therefore highly responsive New Zealand share market.

Discussion of the Supreme Court's decision to set aside the home detention sentences against the "Lombard Four".

Commercial, contract and civil liability law are intended for modification and amendment in this Revision Bill programme.

This decision confirms that a DoCA approved by creditors cannot be stymied by unwilling directors or a board's consent.

Providing information to a liquidator under oath in a section 261 examination may be safer and protect you from suit.

Few parts of New Zealand can claim to be safe from threat, whether from earthquakes, floods or volcanic eruptions and, in many ways, it is not so much the source of the devastation which matters but the scale of it. Hurricanes Katrina and Rita generated around 600,000 insurance claims, making them the world’s costliest insurance event until the recent Japanese disaster. The Canterbury earthquakes also rank as world-scale disasters, with the number of claims received by EQC alone now topping 300

These cases reiterate that causation is an intensely factual inquiry, in which simplifications are unlikely to succeed.

Lenders can have more certainty around their obligations under the Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act (CCCFA) after the Supreme Court today found by unanimous decision that GE Custodians (GE) had no culpability in the ‘Bartles - Blue Chip’ case.

The final report is proposing radical change for the reform of New Zealand's planning and resource management framework.

The Financial Markets Authority issued a consultation paper on how to prepare prospectuses and investment statements.

This changed accounting standard has a broad range of impacts on lessees' reported financial position and performance.

The Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects) Bill was altered by select committee.

This is Part 5 of a detailed submission by Chapman Tripp in relation to the draft Financial Markets Conduct Bill.

This High Court ruling provides important guidance on the operation of New Zealand's voluntary administration regime.

The new fee structure for the OIO screening regime was only part of the solution to lifting performance and turnaround.