New Zealand's limitation legislation was overhauled with the enacting of the Limitation Act 2010. Despite this comprehensive reform, the way in which trust claims are best to be addressed appears to have been largely overlooked in the reform process. Consequently, the multitude of historic...

In 2014, the Court of Appeal considered if pay equity was also protected under the Act. In this paper I analyse and critique that decision. It seeks to answer two fundamental questions about the case and wider issues surrounding pay equity. First, it asks whether a mandate does exist under the...

The majority of commentary in the wake of Prest v Petrodel Resources Ltd has focused on the Supreme Court's discussion of a court's jurisdiction to pierce the corporate veil. This has overshadowed the Court's decision to recognise a resulting trust, which achieved the same result as if the Court...

The crowd funding exclusion in the Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013 allows issuers, often innovative start-up businesses, to raise up to $2,000,000 in a 12 month period from retail investors through an internet platform provided by a licensed intermediary service, without the need for the...

This paper argues that District Health Boards (DHBs) should be abolished. This argument comprises the first half of the paper. The argument has two broad steps. The first focuses on the elections themselves. It shows that most voters are uninterested in and uninformed about DHB elections. The...

Those who seek settled property rights in Equity will find little comfort in this paper. With legal realism in mind the author asks what are the courts of Equity doing to property when recognising an institutional constructive trust? The author concludes that there is little distinction between...