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April 2025 - Mortlock McCormack Law | Property and Commercial Law | Christchurch, New Zealand
April 2025 - Mortlock McCormack Law | Property and Commercial Law | Christchurch, New Zealand
April 2025 - Mortlock McCormack Law | Property and Commercial Law | Christchurch, New Zealand
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Month: April 2025

Staff News

April 2025 Welcome Brisha Gardner, Solicitor, joined the Family Law team in February.   Congratulations Maddy Hendren, Legal Secretary, on completing her NZ Diploma in Business.   Retirement Patricia White, Trust Account Administrator, retired in ...
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Customer Due Diligence – Why We Ask You Questions

April 2025 Since July 2018 we have been completing Customer Due Diligence on our clients to meet our Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) obligations. Most of you are now familiar with the need to provide us with identification ...
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Congratulations Ariana Kim

April 2025 Congratulations to Ariana Kim on her admission as a Barrister and Solicitor to the High Court of New Zealand in December! This incredible achievement marks the start of an exciting legal career for Ariana, who works alongside Jeff McCall, Principal. ...
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Congratulations Paige Causer

April 2025 Congratulations to Paige Causer, the 2024 recipient of the Hugh Cottrell Child and Family Law Prize for the University of Canterbury. In 2017 the partners of Mortlock McCormack Law established an annual prize in recognition of academic excellence ...
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Recent Supreme Court Decision Deems Artist’s Copyrights Relationship Property

April 2025

Sarah White

A long-running dispute between an artist from Marlborough, Sirpa Alalääkkölä, and her ex-husband, Paul Palmer, over whether he owned half of the rights to her artwork when their relationship ended has recently been determined by the Supreme ...
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Family Feuds and Wills – The High Court’s New Decision Might Affect Your Legacy

April 2025

Olivia Durston

New Zealand’s High Court has delivered a law-changing decision in Bradshaw v Barry concerning the will of a deceased father. The will left his estate, being a half share in his family home, to his wife (the children’s stepmother) and made no ...
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Contractor or Employee – The Proposed “Gateway Test”

April 2025

Ariana Kim

Over the years, the status of a worker as a contractor or an employee has been challenged through the Employment Court and Employment Relations Authority (Authority). The Employment Court’s recognition of four Uber drivers as employees rather ...
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