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Can you cancel a contract due to coronavirus?
Law firm Bell Gully is advising clients to check their contracts for force majeure clauses as companies at the big end of town start feeling uncertainty from the effects of covid-19. Litigation head David Friar told BusinessDesk while he hasn’t yet had any clients attempt to can...
UPDATED: Supermarkets win another round in booze rules battle
(Updated with Foodstuffs' comment in 21 paragraph onwards). Auckland Council’s plans to introduce a local alcohol policy have been thwarted again by the major supermarkets, which have won a judicial review. The supermarkets have successfully argued that a previous ruling...
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Landmark hearing ahead on corporate climate change responsibility
A High Court judge has allowed a climate activist’s case against seven corporates and relating to responsibility for climate change to proceed to trial.While striking out two out of three claims made by Climate Change Iwi Leaders Group chair Mike Smith, Justice Edwin Wylie has op...
Supermarkets win another round in booze rules battle
Auckland Council’s plans to introduce a local alcohol policy have been thwarted again by the major supermarkets, which have won a judicial review. The major supermarkets have successfully argued a previous ruling on the council’s restrictions around hours of sale and future licen...
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With a professional career spanning New Zealand, Singapore, and London, Victoria Young has been with BusinessDesk since 2019, initially as a senior reporter before taking on the role of investigations editor in 2022, then editor in 2024.
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She was the 2023 recipient of a Brian Gaynor initiative grant.
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She has been instrumental in growing BusinessDesk as this country’s premium business news brand.
She was the 2023 recipient of a Brian Gaynor initiative grant.
Victoria holds law and arts degrees from Victoria University of Wellington.
You can follow her on Twitter @victoriayoung03 or connect with her on LinkedIn here.
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