LawTalk 860 · 13 March 2015
Our Profession Our People Dunedin lawyer B F has been appointed an acting District Court Judge with a jury warrant and as a Family Court Judge to serve in the Invercargill District Court. Judge Farnan will be sworn in on 16 April Bernadette Farnan in Dunedin. Dunedin lawyer T B has been appointed an acting District Court Judge with a Family Court warrant to serve in the Palmerston North District Court. Judge Black will be sworn in on 17 April in Dunedin. Tim Black
Christchurch barrister G C has been appointed an acting District Court Judge with a Family Court warrant to serve in the Hamilton District Court. Judge Collin will be sworn in on 21 April in Garry Collin Christchurch. Christchurch barrister M C has been appointed an acting District Court Judge with a jury warrant and as a Family Court Judge to serve in the Invercargill District Court. Judge Callaghan will be sworn in Mark Callaghan on 29 April in Christchurch. Deputy Solicitor-General U J has been appointed Acting Director of the Government Communications Security Bureau from 28 February. Ms Jagose takes over on an interim basis from Ian Fletcher, who finished as Director on 27 February. Ms Jagose has been the
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$77,323 This is the amount that had been raised by crowd funding for an upcoming litigation by 27 February (see Gallavin on Litigation – “Crowdfunding and public interest litigation”, LawTalk 858, 13 February 2015). Aktarer Zaman, who started the Skiplagged. com website that offers cheap airfares through “hidden city” ticketing, was sued by United Airlines and Orbitz. However a settlement has meant United Airlines was alone in the suit on 27 February. United Airlines is arguing that Mr Zaman is engaging in unfair competition.
At that point, 3,634 people had donated $77,323 to Mr Zaman’s legal fund. Many of these were $5 donations. "Hidden city" ticketing is a method for getting a cheap airfare by booking a one-way ticket from one city to another, with a layover in a third. The passenger then gets off at the layover city, abandoning the rest of the trip. Because of the way airlines price different routes, the longer trip can be cheaper than the shorter one. The Skiplagged.com website exploits this.
Deputy-Solicitor, Crown Legal Risk for the last two years, following a decade in a variety of other roles at Crown Law and working as Chief Legal Advisor at the Ministry of Fisheries.
girls’ secondary school in Samoa. She maintained her links to the region when representing the Solicitor-General on the Pacific Island Law Officers Network.
Wellington lawyer M L has been appointed Director of the Public Defence Service. She has acted in the role with the Ministry of Justice since April last year and has been on secondment from Crown Madeleine Laracy Law. Madeleine had worked at Crown Law since 1998 and before rising to the Acting Deputy Solicitor-General (Criminal) role, she was manager of the Criminal Team. For a decade, on behalf of the Attorney-General, she also managed New Zealand’s international criminal co-operation requests for mutual assistance. A er finishing secondary school Madeline worked as a volunteer teacher for a year at a
A D has been appointed chair of the Advisory Committee on Assisted Reproductive Technology (ACART). ACART was established under the Human Assisted Reproductive Technology Act 2004. Its Alison Douglass roles include advising the Minister of Health on any matters in regard to assisted human reproduction and human reproductive research, and issuing guidelines to the Ethics Committee on Assisted Reproductive Technology (ECART) to enable ECART to decide applications to undertake assisted reproductive procedures, human reproductive research, and extending the storage Continued on page 15...
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