March 2022
Sarah Wenborn (nee Carr) has returned once again from parental leave as our HR Manager, after having her second daughter Poppy, whom big sister Winnie adores.
The week Sarah returned, she also celebrated 20 years will MML.
Sarah started as a ...
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The Ross Class Action has settled with Southern Response and all affected policyholders short-changed in their original settlements are now entitled to compensation. This class action claimed that, during insurance settlements prior to October 2014, ...
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March 2022
In 2017 the partners of Mortlock McCormack Law established an annual prize in recognition of academic excellence in Child and Family Law at the University of Canterbury. This prize is in honour of Hugh Crispe Cottrell, a Partner at Mortlock ...
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March 2022
What is a Testamentary Guardian?
The Care of Children Act 2004 allows parents to appoint a person in their Will to “step into their shoes” as guardian for their child or children in the event that they die. These people are known as ...
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March 2022
In the recent case of PAUL v MEAD [2021] NZCA 649 the Court of Appeal was asked to determine whether the Family Court has jurisdiction under the Property (Relationships) Act 1976 (the PRA) to determine the property rights of three persons in a ...
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The 2016 Supreme Court case of Clayton v Clayton found that a person’s “bundle of rights” in a trust (e.g. being a trustee, appointor, beneficiary and having powers to say remove other beneficiaries) could be considered an asset in that ...
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March 2022
Principal Sarah Manning and fiancé Clinton welcomed their second daughter, Lucy in February.
Associate Tash McClure and Principal Jaxon welcomed their son, Harrison in December.
Legal Executive Michaela Topping and husband Hugo welcomed their ...
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