November 2025

A private member’s bill providing a stopgap measure which allows directors to use an alternative address, and not their home address, on the Companies Register was passed last night. The stopgap measure in the Companies (Address Information) Amendment Bill seems destined to be replaced by a (full) director identification number, similar to that used in […]

Last month, Radich J delivered a very long decision in what was obviously a keenly contested dispute affecting the Drylandcarbon joint venture. Ultimately, the judgment applies a number of well-known and long-established principles relating to the diversion (by a director) of a corporate opportunity for their own personal benefit.  But the background to this case