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Zoe Lawton's #Metoo blog handed over to NZ Law Society
Sixty per cent of women who contributed to the #Metoo blog were aged 18 to 35.
Sixty per cent of women who contributed to the #Metoo blog were aged 18 to 35.
It comes in the wake of other firms caught up in allegations of bad behaviour.
A former lawyer is disappointed with the punishment a senior barrister received.
New service set up for New Zealand legal professionals to discuss harassment.
Olivia Wensley has inspired hundreds to share their sexual harassment stories.
Almost 90 per cent of lawyers have either experienced or witnessed harassment at work.
Ministerial inquiry likely if Law Society's harassment probe is deemed inadequate.
Controversial Otago University law camp cancelled following a review.
"The fact that the dean of the school was there made it seem like it was sanctioned."
Former law student said there were 'inappropriate conversations, caresses and carry-ons.'
Her raw account of harassment stunned. Olivia Wensley is still fighting for change.
"Girls dramatising things" was the attitude to warnings about behaviour, ex-staffer says..
The fee was not fair or reasonable, a Law Society committee said.
Barrister Warren Forster says ACC needs to focus on helping more people recuperate.
Anthony Banbrook has been struck off as a lawyer for doing legal work while suspended.
Families left in New Zealand illegally after immigration advice from unlicensed woman.
"I had an interview with the Law Society. The content of that interview is private."
Victim advocates say authorities are 'not open' to issues around the Family Court system.
Valentine's Day is a chance to celebrate love but amorous punters are warned to err on the side of caution when it comes to the workplace.
Court staff across NZ have been issued a reminder to adhere to a long-forgotten protocol designed to prevent lawyers from "judge shopping".
A lawyer has been ordered to pay more than $250,000 for a raft of misconduct charges.
A now struck-off lawyer who gave false documents to his bank has been sentenced to 11 months home detention.
Raising two kids and battling cancer - Juliet Mawley had to rely on Legal Aid in a recent hearing. But she feels shortchanged because of tightening budgets for legal aid across the country. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Law Society says any 19-year-old with no previous convictions would not have been jailed on the same charges.
Edward Johnston pleaded guilty at the Auckland District Court today to three counts of Dishonestly taking or using document laid by the Serious Fraud Office.
COMMENT: The biggest problem facing the insolvency industry isn't unaccredited and unregulated professionals, it is passive liquidators.
On one of the documents he claimed witnessing a husband had forged his wife's signature.
Former New Zealand Law Society president John Marshall has died, age 68.