Recent Posts Tagged With 'law'

• 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...

• 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...

• 5 on Monday

  Posted on Sunday February 22nd, 2009 at 22:00 in politics, internet, technology, money, society, new zealand, copyright, law, tax, debian, s92a

  Welcome to this week’s 5 on Monday. February is nearly over, and there is only a few weeks left of day light savings. So, what was notable last week: not having a Tax debt is a wonderful feeling after so long section 92a brought people to fight fo...

• 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...