This paper presents the results of a study undertaken by Victoria University of Wellington in association with the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment over the period December 2018 to August 2019, to assess whether businesses that are offering goods or services to consumers in New...

This article considers the issue of whether company directors owe a duty of care to retail investors in relation to misstatements made in offer documents. A recent New Zealand High Court decision said the answer was no. This article suggests that the reasons given by the High Court for its...

Two recent cases, one from New Zealand and the other from the UK, highlight issues relating to the intersection between company law and securities law. In one, the directors attempted to defend alleged breaches of the statutory duty to make full prospectus disclosure by asserting that they were...

This article looks at New Zealand's conduct of business rules for financial advisers. It compares New Zealand's rules to conduct of business rules applicable in the United Kingdom and Australia. There are major respects in which New Zealand's conduct of business rules fall behind best practice,...

This paper sets out how the law (being the law as at April 2019) relating to high-cost lending, is enforced. It identifies the current problems with enforcement that have been recognised in the policy papers to date, and outlines the reforms proposed in the 10 October 2018 reform package. It...

This report sets out the results of research by Victoria University of Wellington on certain key issues around debt collection in the context of lending under consumer credit contracts in New Zealand, as at date of writing (August 2019). The proposed changes to the law (in the October 2018...

This paper is the report of a research project undertaken over the summer of 2022-2023 by Victoria University of Wellington Te Herenga Waka in conjunction with FinCap. It looks in particular into the issues that prisoners face around access to bank accounts, and more generally the issues that...