by AlexanderDorrington | Jul 22, 2010 | General property Law
No major policy changes are expected here. It’s more about modernising the Act to reflect how land transacstions are actually done now. There are 24 areas for change identified.
by AlexanderDorrington | May 24, 2010 | Business Law
Many new businesses are founded on great ideas. Often, they find an “edge” or niche in the market that others have not thought of yet. This is the role of entrepreneurs. They invariably need help creating a “ground up” legal structure. The structure will vary...
by AlexanderDorrington | Mar 29, 2010 | Subdivisions, Unit Titles
The Unit Titles Bill is slowly working its way through. Hopefully we see a new Unit Titles Act this year because it is definitely needed. The second reading of the bill was completed on 16 February 2010. The bill now goes to the Committee of the Whole House. We will...
by AlexanderDorrington | Mar 29, 2010 | Subdivisions
In October last year the promised streamlining of the Resource Management Act came into effect. Perhaps all of the property developers had already gone to ground, or perhaps it was because the need for change had been so long in the coming that the fanfare wasn’t...
by AlexanderDorrington | Mar 29, 2010 | Building
The 2009 amendment to the Building Act is (in the most part) now in force. It introduces a new regime “national multi-use approvals” (or MultiProof as the Department of Building and Housing are branding it). This is to enable volume builders of simple buildings to...
