Litigation, Societies and Charities Team
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Litigation, Societies and Charities Team
The following legal services are primarily provided by our Litigation, Societies and Charities Team:
Societies and Charitable Trusts
- Formation and amendment of constitutions
- Incorporation of societies and trusts
- Registration of charities with the Charities Commission
- Constitutional problems and disputes
- Meeting procedure
- Independent Chairmanship of meetings
Litigation
- Advice and representation in all fields including debt recovery, contractual disputes, societies and charities, negligence, defamation, insolvency, liquor licences, leases, nuisance, trespass, companies, partnerships, neighbours, and insurance
- Advising and representing applicants, submitters and Councils on resource consent applications, subdivisions and development control, plans, enforcement, hearings and appeals, and as Commissioners for hearings
- Alternative Dispute Resolution, mediation, arbitration, negotiation
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My articles generate a number of enquiries and responses, but few are more difficult to answer than the type of enquiry set out below…
Resolving deadlocks in Societies and Charities
At a recent mediation, a mediator observed that those who go to Court should be seeing a psychiatrist rather than a lawyer. That is doubly true where society deadlocks cannot be resolved
Responsibilities of those in Governance
Judging from email correspondence I have received, my last article (“Liability of Charitable Trustees”) appears to have hit some raw nerves, as I have received illustrations of (allegedly) inappropriate behaviour by those governing community organisations.