Recent Posts Tagged With 'law and order'

• Employment Fine Print

  Posted on Thursday October 22nd, 2009 at 21:37 in business, compensation, employment, law, ethics, law and order

  “Please do not waste both our time threatening me or proffering legal advice. Your threats are risible, and you are patently not qualified to give legal advice.” All I did was ask my ex-client to stop trying to poach my staff. Quite reaso...

• Kiwis tax debt soars to $4b – may double in five years

  Posted on Thursday June 25th, 2009 at 18:19 in politics, business, income, new zealand, compliance, tax, income tax, law and order, ird

  Tax. It’s a word that often instills emotion. Particularly if you are speaking to a small business owner. There are two distinct camps here in New Zealand. Well three if you include those that just don’t give a damn about anything. The f...

• NZ Budget 2009

  Posted on Thursday May 28th, 2009 at 00:05 in politics, budget, money, society, new zealand, tax, law and order, recession, national party, bill english, cullen fund

  The major points and funding allocations from the 2009 Budget delivered today follow: THE UNWASHED * Super Fund contributions suspended: The Government will suspend automatic contributions to the New Zealand Superannuation Fund. A contribution of $2...

• Statutory Minimum Redundancy Entitlements

  Posted on Monday May 25th, 2009 at 22:17 in politics, business, society, community, new zealand, labour, law and order, redundancy, workers rights, holiday pay, darien fenton

  Labour’s Darien Fenton wants employers to provide the following in the event of redundancy: four weeks pay for first twelve month’s service two weeks for every additional year up two a maximum of twenty six weeks four weeks notice There...

• Road deaths have dropped by 52%

  Posted on Monday May 25th, 2009 at 02:44 in society, observation, community, new zealand, attitude, transport, law and order, road toll, fatal accidents, vehicle crashes

  “Since 1990 the number of vehicles on the road has increased by 51% while Police reported injuries have dropped by 8%, road deaths have dropped by 52% and the number of days spent in hospital as a result of road crashes has dropped by 48%.̶...

• Dealer gone rogue - Ron Coles

  Posted on Sunday May 17th, 2009 at 00:42 in art, law and order

  An art dealer gone bad, with 30 million in artwork gone astray read more | digg story...

• Fiddle with a kid and get paid for it.

  Posted on Friday May 8th, 2009 at 01:39 in society, community, new zealand, civil rights, law and order, conviction, jail, probabtion, allan dean, sexual offenses

  “UN says NZ breached rights of child sex offender” Ok, 13 convictions later and the guy, Allan Dean, is sent away for preventative detention. Apparently 13 offences were insufficient to convince the UN that this individual was a danger to...

• Alcohol danger for teens

  Posted on Monday April 13th, 2009 at 16:42 in family, health, society, community, teenagers, new zealand, attitude, law and order, binge drinking, drinking age, legal sex, prohibitiion

  Yes, of course it is. Obviously any teenager who drinks alcohol is going to be a bad person and an alcoholic. Just look at the statistics and research. http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/2331496/Alcohol-danger-for-teen Now, the issue I have with this ...

• 10 years jail for a blog post

  Posted on Friday April 3rd, 2009 at 16:18 in politics, society, community, freedom of speech, thailand, law, law and order, monarch, lèse-majesté

  I really feel for Suwicha Thakhor. He made a comment about the monarch of Thailand, and now has ten long years in a Thai jail to look forward to. As I actually intend to visit Thailand one day, I guess I am going to have to be a little bit careful as...

• Lauren Kaney - the epitome of stupidity or something else?

  Posted on Saturday March 28th, 2009 at 14:51 in Culture, motivation, community, Fraud, new zealand, attitude, benefits, law and order, criminals, social welfare, winz, lauren kaney

  UPDATE: This post is likely to change a lot in the next few days.  There are inconsistencies in the reporting used as a basis for this post, an apparent breach of protocol by WINZ and somewhere a personal betrayal.  Stay posted, this could get very...

• Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is a plonker

  Posted on Saturday March 21st, 2009 at 20:17 in religion, life, Israel, Rant, community, history, Islam, attitude, muhammad, law and order, zealots, secular

  Today I read about two revelations. Firstly, the Rabbis within the Israeli army have said the last offensive into Gaza was to be considered a holy war, and the troops should consider it as such and fight as if it was. Secondly, United States’ p...

• Archbishop Jose Cardoso Sobrinho is a plonker

  Posted on Friday March 6th, 2009 at 03:28 in religion, family, Culture, catholic, christianity, society, community, abortion, Islam, rape, judaism, attitude

  “The law of God is higher than any human laws,” he said. “When a human law — that is, a law enacted by human legislators — is against the law of God, that law has no value. The adults who approved, who carried out this abortion ...

• This is what is wrong

  Posted on Tuesday March 3rd, 2009 at 20:17 in community, new zealand, crime, justice, attitude, law and order, social responsibility, benefit, muder, victoria stevens, hulio ataria

  It’s all about Victoria Stevens. Her son Hulio Ataria allegedly killed an innocent man, Mark McCutcheon. In court, she barked like a dog as a sign of support for her son.  She abused the judge verbally after being asked to respect the court an...

• David and Goliath - I Won.

  Posted on Thursday February 19th, 2009 at 05:06 in money, business, observation, new zealand, tax, IRS, law and order, ird

  I fought tooth and nail for tax justice back in 2004 (IRD ; The War Continues, Finally!, IRD - The Saga Continues, The Big Guns) I recently posted Moving To Spain Update I have some great news.  I got what was originally agreed to. Right up until 20...

• “Three Strikes” Law

  Posted on Wednesday February 18th, 2009 at 14:47 in politics, Culture, new zealand, rape, attitude, violence, law and order, criminals, justince

  New Zealand is in the process of revamping part of our legal system, particularly around repeat offenders. The “Sentencing and Parole Reform Bill”, currently being introduced for consideration, includes the Act party’s “three ...

• 5 On Monday

  Posted on Sunday February 15th, 2009 at 22:00 in spain, family, life, society, observation, australia, community, new zealand, drinking, time, justice, attitude

  Welcome to this week’s 5 on Monday. Another week has flown by, and the year is already 10% done. So, what was notable last week: family is precious, especially in the wake of events in Australia deadlines make me work more effectively I think I dr...

• The Road Toll and Drink Driving

  Posted on Friday February 13th, 2009 at 18:27 in Culture, health, society, motivation, community, new zealand, attitude, law and order, social responsibility, drink driving, legal limit, road toll

  The NZ Police are calling for a reduction in the legal alcohol limit. It’s currently 80 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood.  They want it reduced to 50 milligrams.They insist this will reduce the road toll by 14 per year and sa...

• Light therapist didn’t warn cancer patient

  Posted on Tuesday February 10th, 2009 at 17:20 in health, Cancer, therapy, attitude, alternative therapy, law and order, breat cancer, orthadox medicine, tretment

  I read an article titled “Light therapist didn’t warn cancer patient ” on www.stuff.co.nz today. It involved a woman with breast cancer who was trying out alternative therapy and then decided it was all the therapist’s fault t...

• IRD ; The War Continues.

  Posted on Sunday February 1st, 2009 at 18:01 in money, business, new zealand, law, compliance, tax, illegal, law and order, arrangement, ird, contract law, overdue tax

  I have had a long history with IRD, right back to when they stuffed up settlement of my Student Loan back in the early 90s.  (“No one pays their student loan that quickly, our system could not handle it.” “No, we won’t pay th...

• Legal Downloads Increase By 25%

  Posted on Sunday January 18th, 2009 at 23:24 in internet, technology, business, society, downloads, piracy, music industry, law and order, sunscription service

  EARLIER this month I wrote a piece on the music industry (Is The Music Industry Dead?) Today, I heard a soundbite on the radio that last year, 95% of all music downloaded was done so illegally. This was a scarey number! Then a few more “minor&#...

• Snails and Slugs, and oh yes, Israel

  Posted on Sunday January 18th, 2009 at 18:25 in politics, Culture, new zealand, law and order

  NEW Zealand has long been a country that stands for fairness in all international relations. We put sanctions against countries that persecute people based on race or religion, we put sanctions against those regimes that attack democracy. We don̵...

• It must be the sun…

  Posted on Sunday January 4th, 2009 at 20:24 in new zealand, attitude, law and order, criminals, theft, armed robbery

  Gunpoint robbery at streetside strawberry stall I seriously don’t understand certain elements of society sometimes. Often they take from people who are not much better off than they are.  It just stunns me the disregard for life and property ...

• Warning over kids’ holiday photos on internet

  Posted on Sunday January 4th, 2009 at 18:36 in family, life, internet, children, photos, society, community, safety, predators, law and order

  Experts are suggesting people keep photos of children private because of the few sexual predators out there. The internet is an amazing place, where friends and family can share with each other quickly and easily.  For people to have to watch what t...