Some of the team scrubbing up pretty nicely for the 11th Annual LINKT Awards and Ball held at Classic Flyers NZ on Saturday evening. Sam Martin, Solicitor in our Tauranga office had the pleasure of presenting the Holland Beckett Law “Young Employee of the Year” award to Jamie-Lee Doherty of C2 Design. Award winners: Young …
The Westpac Business Excellence Awards were held on Saturday night in Rotorua. The Holland Beckett Law “Innovation Business Award” went to Pipi . Pipi is a business started by Kristin Ross and Hohepa Tuahine which produces the only 100% Maori language dolls for children. This was a particularly significant award as Rotorua has just become …
Justine Hennessy and Dan Broadhurst were invited to join the team at Carlsen Dodds Limited Chartered Accountants for morning tea in Opotiki today to raise money for The Hearing House and Southern Cochlear Implant Programme.
Holland Beckett Law hosted the Rotorua Chamber of Commerce BA5 event at our new offices at Haupapa House. We had a great turn out and attendees were interested to see the old RSA building in a new light.
New fees and forms are introduced with small changes to service requirements due to recent amendments to the Resource Management (Forms, Fees, and Procedure) Regulations 2003. The changes are brought about because of recent amendments to the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) introduced by the Resource Legislation Amendment Act 2017 (RLAA). The change with the …
Holland Beckett is a proud sponsor for the 2017 Season of the Mitre 10 Cup. The Bay of Plenty Steamers had an outstanding 46-17 victory over Hawkes Bay on Friday night and we’re looking forward to the game on Thursday when the Steamers will take on Wellington at the Rotorua International Stadium. Go the Bay.
The Supreme Court’s decision of David Browne Contractors Ltd v Petterson [2017] NZSC 116 was released this earlier week. Summary In summary, the Supreme Court has held that “due debts” in the voidable transactions regime (s292 of the Companies Act 1993) includes both present and contingent debts. In this case, the directors of a company …
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On 1 August 2017 the Tribunals Powers and Procedures Legislation Bill was introduced into Parliament and amongst other changes increases the jurisdiction of the Disputes Tribunal from $15,000 to $30,000. In practice this means many more claims will come within the jurisdiction of the Disputes Tribunal. A further significant change is that the Real Estate …
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Tourism Gateway The “Thermal Springs District” has always been a tourism hotspot. In the 1870’s the Government sought to gain access to land in the District. Its vision was to create a township that would be the gateway to a thermal wonderland including the world-renowned Pink and White Terraces. The Contract In 1880, 295 members …
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Minister for the Environment Nick Smith announced on 9 August 2017 that the National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management 2014 (NPSFM) would be amended and gazetted on 10 August 2017. This represents the third set of amendments to the NPSFM since it was first gazetted in 2011 and then replaced in 2014. Much of the …
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