LawNews- Issue 30

NEWS Sep 2, 2022 Issue 30

Inside ■ ENVIRONMENT

Students fail to block petroleum permit P04

■ CIVICS

The public ownership of the law P06

Why lawyers face overwhelm with incorporated societies adls.org.nz

REGIME

Contents 03 CONSTITUTION LEGISLATION RISK

Incorporated Societies Act: too few lawyers, too much work

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Student body fails to block exploration permit

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Former Chief Justice and her son on stage at Auckland Writers’ Festival

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Scouts’ motto to “Be Prepared” should be borne in mind. It appears that existing societies will probably have from about October 2023 to April 2026 to re-register with constitutions complying with the 2022 Act. But law firms need to be proactive and be prepared for this work. Most should have a lawyer or work group assigned to deal with inquiries about the new Act and those who will be doing this work need to start up-skilling themselves now.

If this is not done, I believe the legal profession will struggle to cope with the challenges associated with the Incorporated Societies Act 2022.

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Lawyers at risk of overwhelm when new incorporated societies regime kicks in Most law firms should have a lawyer or work group assigned to deal with inquiries about the new Act and those who will be doing this work need to start up-skilling themselves now Mark von Dadelszen

Mark von Dadelszen

Some 30,000 societies incorporated under the Incorporated Societies Act 1908 and the Charitable Trusts Act 1957 are likely to be transferred to the new incorporated societies regime within the next few years.

When drafting new society constitutions that comply with the Incorporated Societies Act 2022, lawyers will be fair game if they are associated with an incorporated society. They are often asked to join committees and people assume they know the law, including law they were not told about at law school and may have never looked at.

Be prepared The 1908 Act is still in force and s 256 of the 2022 Act provides for the making of orders-in-council and regulations to bring most of the new legislation into play and to facilitate its orderly implementation.

In simple terms, there is no immediate change affecting existing and newly-formed incorporated societies but the Boy

Some concerns There are somewhere between 9,200 and 9,500 lawyers in private practice (excluding barristers) in New Zealand. If you look only at those in law firms, potentially three or four societies per lawyer will be seeking advice now the new legislation has been enacted.

However, if you assume practitioners who spend more than 50% of their time on conveyancing, company and commercial work are most likely to be asked for assistance in revising incorporated societies’ constitutions, then those lawyers might each have between six and eight societies looking for help.

Are lawyers adequately equipped to provide that advice? Can they rise to the challenge of helping societies review their constitutions in the transitional period under the new Act? There are several concerns: ■ New Zealand lawyers are given no academic training in incorporated societies law; ■ Relatively few lawyers specialise in advising incorporated societies; ■ Most lawyers who are “honorary solicitors” for not-forprofit societies do not charge for their services. But the burden of coming up to speed with the changed statute and then reviewing and revising incorporated society constitutions for compliance with the new Act is significant, so doing the work at no cost is probably unrealistic; ■ Whether or not lawyers charge for their advice to incorporated societies, if they provide incorrect advice they can be sued for negligence; and ■ The potential flood of incorporated societies that will seek advice could overwhelm many lawyers who will, as a result, be tempted to place that work at the back of the queue simply because they will not know where to start and what needs to be done, thus compounding the professional indemnity risks. ■ Mark von Dadelszen is a Hastings barrister ■ Register here for a CPD event on the new incorporated societies legislation 03

CASE NOTE

Student body fails to block petroleum permits Sacha Jugum Judicial Review Procedure Act 2016 – Crown Minerals Act 1991 – application for judicial review of decision to grant petroleum exploration permits – whether substantive consideration of climate change implications – public policy – scope of review – exercise of discretionary power – reasonableness – Treaty of Waitangi principles – precedent and academic commentary – application for judicial review dismissed

This decision may interest lawyers practising in public law, international law, energy law, legal policy and/or environmental law. It includes significant discussion and analysis of “legal” questions versus “policy” and social considerations.

The Ministry of Energy and Resources (MER), through the operation of delegated power, granted two entities petroleum exploration permits. Students for Climate Solutions (SCS) now applies for judicial review of that decision, arguing that MER failed to substantively consider the implications of climate change, that the decision to grant the permits was unreasonable and that there was a failure to have proper regard to the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi.

Applicable principles – discussion of procedure for the granting of these types of permits - consideration of the proper role of the court in these types of 04

wider policy decisions, where the legal questions are relatively narrow – acknowledgement of public importance of climate change as an environmental issue – extensive discussion of climate change and New Zealand’s obligations under national and, in particular, international law, with a focus on the development and history of law relating to this subject – discussion of the specific decision at issue – consideration of environmental goal and targets and the ways these are represented (or not) in legislation and initiatives – discussion of the concept of “heightened scrutiny” and any need for that in these types of circumstances – exercise of discretion to

grant relief – analysis of the scope of the questions that the court can consider – reference to expert evidence, including analysis of the role of the Treaty of Waitangi and compliance expectations with these types of permit applications – extensive reference to precedent and academic commentary, particularly in relation to climate change (from a legal perspective) and New Zealand’s international obligations Held: SCS’s application for judicial review is dismissed; the court is satisfied that the challenged decisions were lawfully made. ■ Sacha Jugum is a solicitor at Brookfields and editor of The Bulletin ■

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Students for Climate Solutions Incorporated v The Minister of Energy and Resources [2022] NZHC 2116 (Cooke J)

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AVIATION

LawNews writer crashes light plane onto Thames highway I am relatively unscathed, apart from damage to my pride

Jenni McManus Freelance journalist and regular LawNews writer Rod Vaughan had a lucky escape on Sunday afternoon after crashing a light plane on the main highway into Thames.

Vaughan says he was preparing to land at Thames airfield when he was hit by sunstrike and momentarily lost sight of a high-voltage power line on the threshold of the runway.

He collided with the power line and crashed 30 metres onto the busy highway below. “Fortunately, I didn’t land on any vehicles and managed to clamber out,” he says. “I am relatively unscathed, apart from damage to my pride.”

It’s the second time that Vaughan, who learned to fly as a teenager, has been involved in a serious light plane crash.

Four years ago, he was flying over Waihi with his son on board when the windscreen of the aircraft exploded.

Unbeknown to Vaughan, the windscreen had a hairline crack, causing catastrophic failure in mid-air.

“It was like being in a wind tunnel,” he recalls. “The doors blew off but I managed to set it down in a paddock.”

Sunday’s accident caused a huge traffic jam on the Ngati Maru highway – the major gateway to the Coromandel.

Vaughan understands his aircraft also narrowly missed colliding with a motorcyclist.

However, he says this was an accident waiting to happen.

For years, the Hauraki Aero Club, of which Vaughan is a member, has been lobbying the Thames-Coromandel District Council to have the high-voltage cables put underground but

Rod Vaughan in happier times

the council, which owns the airfield, claims it’s too expensive.

“If the lines had snapped [on Sunday] and caused electrical arcing it might have been a totally different story but somehow they remained intact,” Vaughan said. He overheard a councillor at the scene saying she “suppose[d] the council would need to do something now”. She ignored Vaughan’s request to put that in writing.

Will he fly again? Vaughan says he’s reluctant to give it up but in the interests of marital harmony he might need to rethink. His wife Lois was visiting friends in Thames at the time of the accident and has, not surprisingly, “advised me to take up another hobby”.

“When the power suddenly went off and there was a sound of many sirens, they realised there must have been an accident of some description,” he says.

“Minutes later, I managed to send a text message to them to let them know what had happened. We were all pretty shaken up at the time, knowing that it could have been much worse, but God must have been smiling on me for once.”

Vaughan says powerlines have caused a number of fatal light plane and helicopter crashes in New Zealand, including an accident in 1985 when eight people, including four from one family, were killed when their Cessna hit high-tension wires in the Marlborough Sounds.

He says despite the focus on health and safety in this country, “you can still have high-voltage powerlines on the threshold of a runway. Where’s the logic in that?” ■

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CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

Dame Sian Elias and son on democracy, the treaty and why law is too important to be left to lawyers Law permeates all aspects of human endeavour so you can’t function very well in society unless you have some idea of the principles of law

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Jenni McManus Former Chief Justice Dame Sian Elias and her son, historian and lawyer Ned Fletcher, took the stage at the Auckland Writers’ festival last weekend for a discussion about why the law is too important to be left to lawyers and Fletcher’s justpublished book on the Treaty of Waitangi.

Chaired by former High Court Judge Kit Toogood QC, the session covered a lot of ground, ranging from Dame Sian’s early difficulties in finding a job when she graduated as one of only a handful of women studying law in the late 1960s to the influence of colonial case law on present-day issues.

Dame Sian retired in March 2019, after 20 years as Chief Justice – the first woman to hold that position in this country – and oversaw the formation of the Supreme Court as New Zealand’s highest court in 2014.

There were no lawyers in her family, Dame Sian told the audience, and she had no idea what to expect when she headed off to law school just before her 17th birthday.

It was a pragmatic choice: because she was leaving school a year early, it seemed easier to pick subjects where her fellow students hadn’t had the benefit of another year’s schooling. “So, I gravitate towards the law,” she says. “My teachers thought that it might suit me. I’d probably been a bit argumentative.

“I really hadn’t expected that it would be so unusual for a woman in those days to take law. It was quite a daunting experience in some respects and after I graduated it was quite hard to get a job.”

So, she went to Stanford with new husband Hugh Fletcher and did a post-graduate degree. On returning to New Zealand, she eventually found a job and became “even more hooked on law”. It was a fun time to practise, she says, in part because of the large number of protests in the 1970s.

When she had children, she went to the bar. “It wasn’t a brave choice – there really wasn’t any other choice,” Dame

Sian says. In those days, nobody expected women to carry on working once they had a family.

Those years threw up a lot of experience in criminal, family and environment law. And through her connections within the protest movement, she met Nganeko Minhinnick who was involved in one of the first cases before the Waitangi Tribunal, Huakina Development Trust v Waikato Valley Authority [1978] 23 NZLR 188 (HC).

Being appointed to the Law Commission in 1986 gave her exposure to Wellington and the public service. “And Hugh was doing very well so I was meeting an entirely different crowd through him,” she says. “I never had any career plan – it’s all accidental – but my life was enriched by the variety of experiences I had.”

In 1988 Dame Sian – along with Dame Lowell Goddard – became the first female QCs appointed in New Zealand.

In 1995 she became a High Court judge and four years later became New Zealand’s 12th Chief Justice.

Looking back, Dame Sian says she thinks we’ve lost our sense of public ownership of the law. “We’ve tended to leave it as a matter for specialist interests and I think that’s quite dangerous.

“Ordinary” New Zealanders, not trained in the law, need some degree of understanding of the justice system, the criminal justice system and legal principles in the absence of a formal written constitution, she says.

“Law permeates all aspects of human endeavour so you can’t function very well in society unless you have some idea of the principles of law. The constitutional principles are particularly important because they underlie our democratic system.

“It’s difficult to participate in a democracy if you don’t also have a sense of the basic principles that all the actors

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observe or try to observe…. As a friend of mine says, ‘we need people to relish law as much as they relish democracy’. That might be a little bit hard to hope for but there is a real truth in it.”

On the recent court scrutiny of the government’s response to covid-19, Dame Sian said: “I think it is the function of the courts to run the rule over things and I think we should all be very glad to have that sort of a check in our system.”

And on whether the Crown had a legal obligation to protect people and the environment from climate change, she said: “I did a couple of dissenting judgments in the Supreme Court indicating that in fact we’ve got some laws we could be making more use of. I certainly don’t doubt that it’s the pressing problem of our time.”

New book Ned Fletcher, Dame Sian’s eldest son, is a director and Crown prosecutor at Kayes Fletcher Walker, a law firm he co-founded in 2014.

Rather than following his father and grandfather into the Fletcher empire, he took a different route. His upbringing was “exciting”, he says, and he and his brother were encouraged to take part in family arguments and debates, many of which involved the cases his mother was working on.

“I never really had any doubt growing up that I think it is the what [my parents] were doing in law and in business was important work. I could see that they were function of completely absorbed in it,” he says. the courts to “From my father, Hugh, I had picked up to some run the rule small degree his passion that New Zealand business over things could be a force for good in society. And from Mum, and I think we her very strong, profound sense that law can be used to right injustices. I certainly still have that should all be sense myself and it’s why I love my job as the role is very glad to essentially to assist the court to achieve justice and have that sort to represent the community interest in the widest possible sense.” of a check in His father, he says, was a great ‘bush’ lawyer “and our system could probably have been a better lawyer than us all”.

Fletcher’s book The English Text of the Treaty of Waitangi has just been published. Central to this work is the drafting process and the fact that we don’t have a final English draft of the treaty. But, he says, the instructions received by Governor William Hobson and his fellow drafter James Busby were important to the framing of the treaty. “There is very little in the treaty that can’t be traced to those instructions.”

They included negotiations with Māori for the cessation of sovereignty, the Crown’s pre-emptive rights to purchase land from Māori and various assurances about what the British government was trying to achieve.

In Fletcher’s view, British sovereignty wasn’t seen as incompatible with plurality in government. “What Britain acquired by sovereignty were powers in relation to foreign affairs, trade and some matters of justice. It had full authority over Europeans and British justice was to regulate inter-racial conflict, civil and criminal, although custom might be able to be taken into account.”

In terms of dealing with crimes between Māori, only the most serious would be subject to British justice and only in areas of British settlement or where tribes were prepared to hand over the perpetrator. ■

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Briefs Legal professional privilege at risk in Fiji The Fijian Parliament is discussing under urgency an electoral bill that the country’s law society describes as an unnecessary attack on citizens’ right to privacy, including legal professional privilege.

If passed in its current form, the proposed Electoral Act Amendment Bill no 49 will give the Supervisor of Elections the power to compel any Fijian citizen to hand over documents and give up other information on virtually any pretext. Citizens must comply, regardless of any confidentiality or privilege considerations, and there is no right of appeal.

The Fiji Law Society has called on the government to withdraw the bill so adequate time can be given to considering its legal and civil rights ramifications. It says the attack on legal professional privilege is particularly serious.

Nine political parties are registered in Fiji and a 10th is in the process of registration.

The Law Council of Australia is backing the Fijian Law Society, saying more time is needed to consider and consult on the bill to ensure it does not unnecessarily erode citizens’ rights. It says that coercive informationgathering powers such as these must be seen as exceptional, particularly when used in executive rather than judicial processes, given their intrusive impact on individual rights, including the right to privacy. ■

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INTERMEDIATE SOLICITORS (2) We are looking for 2 solicitors, ideally with 2 to 3 years’ legal office experience. The positions will mainly involve work in residential, commercial and farm conveyancing.

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Events Hawke’s Bay lawyers’ lunch Thank you to those who attended the Hawke’s Bay lawyers’ lunch at the East Pier Hotel.

Julia Trautvtter, Erin Mogford, Marie-Terese Parker and Tara Huckle

Emma Sye, Tim Rabone and Jono LLoyd

Simon Scannell and Richard Cross

Georgia Stafford and Emma Roberts

Barristers Chambers Available Vulcan Lane

SOLICITOR – LITIGATION

We are a boutique law firm specialising in unit titles advice and dispute resolution looking for a full-time junior solicitor to work in our litigation team.

The successful applicant will be a motivated and energetic person with a positive attitude who is able to use initiative and multi-task, with excellent written English, and will be confident and well spoken.

The applicant should preferably have 1 to 3 years’ experience.

Please apply to Price Baker Berridge by email to zbinns@pbb.co.nz for the attention of Clinton Baker.

PRICE BAKER BERRIDGE, SOLICITORS

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Tracey Truman and Carolyn Faulknor

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Sunny,70.56 square metres plus shared kitchen.

Gross rent approximately $2,000 per calendar month.

Suit two practitioners plus secretary. Recently vacated by two barristers retiring.

Adjacent to building owner’s office on the top floor.

Most of the other office tenancies in the building are barristers.

For further details or to arrange an inspection, please phone 09 304-0730 or email inquiries@msa.co.nz www.msa.co.nz

Sep 2, 2022 Issue 30

Featured events

Connecting New Zealand lawyers

Takapuna lawyers’ lunch Wednesday 28 September 12pm – 2pm Fantail & Turtle, Goodside, The Avenue, Smales Farm, Takapuna, Auckland Sponsored by MAS

Upcoming Soon to be added:

November | Immigration dinner with the Minister of Immigration November | New Plymouth Sundowner November | East Auckland lawyers’ lunch November | Tauranga Sundowner December | Northland lawyers’ lunch

Learn more

Wellington express lawyers’ lunch Wednesday 19 October 12.30pm – 2pm Flamingo Joe’s Bar & Eatery, 1/10 Waterloo Quay, Pipitea, Wellington

Photo: 10’000 Hours / Getty Images

Learn more

Arthur Young’s Retirement Dinner Save the date!

Thursday 20 October The Northern Club, 19 Princes Street, Auckland CBD

Book Here

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