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	<title>Davenports Harbour Lawyers Blog</title>
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		<title>Trial Periods Are Here to Stay</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 22:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Trial Periods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Your Fired]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You’re fired! For all NZ employers those are words that can now be uttered without dread of reprisal. The ‘Trial Periods’ legislation introduced in 2009 has been extended indefinitely and for all employers. Previously only those employers with fewer than 20 staff could axe employees without risking wrongful dismissal charges. That has now changed with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Law, One Door</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Davenports Harbour</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Franchise Law]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Information about New Zealand government lawyers draft to amalgamate franchise law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[relevant for Franchisees and Franchisors]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Franchisors be warned! Franchisors will be justifiably concerned about the Ministry of Consumer Affairs discussion paper released in June this year (2010). The paper called ‘One Door, One Law’ seeks to reform current consumer laws (and by extension franchise laws). Not all franchisors and franchisees see the changes as beneficial to either the industry or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legal Eagles Examine &#8220;Status Symbol&#8221; Family Trusts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 20:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Davenports Harbour</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Trust Law]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Law Commission released on 21 December 2010 a discussion paper looking at the use of family trusts in New Zealand, where there is one for every 18 people. The use of trusts in New Zealand has shot up in recent years, from 145,900 active for tax purposes in 2001 to at least 237,500 in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Trial Periods” to be extended</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Davenports Harbour</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commercial Law]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember the controversy that surrounded the implementation of the “trial periods” which allowed employers to dismiss an employee within 90 days of that employee starting work for the employer? Well, it looks as though that provision is here to stay, with the passing of the Employment Relations Amendment Bill 2010 (“the Bill”) this year. Back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abolition of Gift Duty</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 19:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Davenports Harbour</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Trust Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abolition of Gift Duty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gift Duty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trust]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Trust Law: Abolition of Gift Duty Greater trust scrutiny is on the horizon if the government abolishes gift duties next year. The proposed change will have far reaching ramifications in trust law and asset protection. On 1 November 2010, the New Zealand Minister of Revenue, Peter Dunne, announced the government’s intention to abolish gift duty [...]]]></description>
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