(By Maria Hook) The New Zealand Court of Appeal has allowed an appeal against a permanent anti-suit and anti-enforcement injunction in relation to a default judgment from Kentucky, which the plaintiff alleged had been obtained by fraud: Wikeley v Kea Investments Ltd [2024] NZCA 609. The Court upheld the findings of fraud. It also did not […]

(By Maria Hook and Jack Wass) Last week Parliament passed the Contracts of Insurance Act 2024, which includes some interesting provisions relating to the conflict of laws. The purpose of this note is to provide a brief discussion of these provisions. In the interests of full disclosure, we should point out that we made several […]