Leighton Associates

Employment law and AML research and reporting
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Demystifying employment law since 2019

An Auckland man owned several restaurants and cafés on the North Shore and Hibiscus Coast, and sold two of them.  A recent determination of the Employment Relations Authority, which allocated random three-letter pseudonyms to all parties, indicates that the buyer and seller later fell out.  We don’t yet know what they fell out over, but the new owner targeted the seller with a smear campaign, and the Authority Member Eleanor Robinson ordered penalties of $15,000 (following an

A dodgy employment advocate with several aliases has been exposed by Stuff this morning: Brent Edwards? Brent Tomich? Brent Willis? A fraudster’s ever-changing identities and his new business | Stuff   (Tony Wall, 31 October 2025) We asked around, and Auckland advocate Lawrence Anderson remembered picking up a client in 2021, who was making an otherwise unremarkable claim over a disputed 90 day trial.  The matter settled in mediation. The employee client, “Ms S”, had previous

Grab the popcorn, readers.  The Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) raised a beef with journalist Sean Plunket, founding editor of The Platform. New Zealand media is dominated by left-leaning outlets, but The Platform, along with NewstalkZB and NBR, leans right. The BSA was formed in 1989 and is a disciplinary body granted powers under the Broadcasting Act 1989.  There was no Internet to speak of in those days. A lot of broadcast media has migrated to online delivery, so i

Mandy is an ACC beneficiary and former office worker from Auckland.  Following a serious injury sustained during a visit to a...

Here’s the link: AI Hallucination Cases Database – Damien Charlotin We expect this database to grow quickly. There are three recorded...

ATO whistleblower Richard Boyle avoided a conviction, but let’s not forget why he blew the whistle in the first place.   The scam is how...