March 2023 If you have ever sold a house or been to an open home, you will appreciate the importance of the house being made sale-ready. That usually means tidying up the garden, washing the windows, reducing clutter and attending to some of those matters of deferred maintenance. Essentially, it is about making the house… Read More.

March 2023 It’s all yours until it’s not! How does the Insurance ad go … one day you want it all, the next you have it all? It’s not such a bad truism for asset planning, except we’d want to add ‘… and then you don’t!’ Asset planning is a lifetime’s work for most of… Read More.

March 2023 There are numerous legislative changes on the horizon and employers are in for a busy year adjusting to new employment law developments. Minimum Wage Increase The minimum wage increase to $22.70 per hour will come into effect from 1 April 2023. The increase is in line with recent increases in inflation and the… Read More.

March 2023 Discrimination is a reality for disabled people. The Human Rights Act 1993 and the Employment Relations Act 2000 are two key statutes which cover discrimination in employment. The Human Rights Act does not define discrimination, but rather it lists prohibited grounds of discrimination, for example disability, which means physical disability or impairments, physical… Read More.

March 2023 The planet hitting a recent population milestone of over 8 billion people is certainly good timing for New Zealand's updated resource management framework, with the introduction of the Spatial Planning Bill and the Natural and Built Environment Bill (NBE).[1] These Bills are currently open for submissions. Main changes The new Acts will create… Read More.