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Property

Taylor Shaw specialises in all areas of property law in relation to land, real estate and construction and provides successful outcomes for land and property developers, owners, investors, contractors and occupiers and assists them to finance and structure their activities and business.

Areas of practice include:

  • Buying and selling property
  • Buying and selling businesses
  • Commercial property leasing
  • Subdivisions
  • Property finance and refinancing
  • Business structure including LAQCs
  • Rest Homes: purchase and occupation of units

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Civil Litigation

Taylor Shaw provides advice and support in all aspects of civil litigation including research, negotiation, mediation, arbitration, District Court, High Court and Court of Appeal appearances. We offer strategic advice to help our clients resolve disputes in an efficient and cost effective way.

Areas of practice include:

  • Contract disputes
  • Collection of outstanding debts
  • Property and Building disputes
  • Business and franchise disputes
  • Insolvency
  • Trust and Will disputes
  • Negligence claims
  • Breaches of privacy
  • Insurance matters
  • Judicial Review of administrative decisions


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Family

Taylor Shaw offers support for our clients who need assistance with family matters ranging from separation issues (including care of children, protection orders and property orders) to adoptions, family protection/testamentary promises claims and applications under the PPPR Act. We offer a full range of services from negotiation and mediation through to court litigation.

This includes:

  • Care arrangements for children (custody and access)
  • Relocation cases
  • Guardianship Applications (parental and grandparents rights eg: schooling)
  • Adoptions
  • Representation on CYFS matters
  • Relationship property division
  • Contracting out agreements (also known as Pre Nuptials)
  • Applications under the PPPR Act (Power of Attorney appointments)
  • Domestic Violence protection orders (Applications and Defence)
  • Dissolution of Marriage
  • Family Protection Claims/Testamentary Promises Claim

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Commercial

Taylor Shaw provides specialist advice for companies and other corporate entities including governance, directors' duties, shareholders' rights and liabilities, and shareholder disputes.

Areas of practice include:

  • Governance
  • Directors' duties
  • Shareholder arrangements
  • Shareholders' rights and liabilities
  • Shareholder disputes
  • Joint ventures
  • Insolvency
  • Restructures
  • Franchising
  • Financing

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Asset Protection and Succession Planning

Taylor Shaw recognises the importance of asset and income protection as well as succession planning by providing a specialist service in this area. We provide expertise in asset protection structures, succession planning (estate administration and distribution) and trusts.

Areas of practice include:

  • Family Trusts
  • Charitable trusts
  • Succession planning
  • Wills
  • Estates
  • Asset protection
  • Trusteeship
  • Gifting programmes

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Elder Law

Taylor Shaw provides advice and assistance for clients as they approach their "3rd age".

An important feature of this specialist service is that our staff will visit clients in their own homes if mobility is an issue.

Areas of practice include:

  • Estate planning
  • Wills
  • Enduring Powers of Attorney
  • Rest Home purchase and occupation
  • Retirement and succession planning
  • Rest Home subsidies

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Employment

With significant experience in all aspects of the employment relationship including research, negotiation, mediation, Employment Relations Authority and Employment Court appearances, Taylor Shaw gives our clients a high level of sound and practical advice in the following areas:

  • Pre-employment screening
  • Service Contracts
  • Individual Employment Agreement, Collective Employment Agreements, bargaining, strikes and lockouts
  • Work place policies
  • Employee benefits, including superannuation and Kiwisaver issues
  • Holiday and other leave entitlements
  • Minimum wage
  • Health and Safety
  • Personal injury: accident compensation
  • Information Technology
  • Harassment
  • Privacy
  • Performance procedures, misconduct, dismissals
  • Restructuring and redundancy
  • Retirement
  • Pre-purchase due diligence
  • Protection of confidential information and restraints of trade
  • Personal grievance claims and other employment related litigation


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Privacy

Taylor Shaw's privacy specialist has been providing seminars on behalf of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner since 1996, and is one of New Zealand's foremost lawyers in privacy. We offer privacy training and advice on:

  • Data management and privacy policies
  • Privacy impact assessment: new software and other technologies, website development
  • Privacy clauses
  • Privacy and Employment
  • Health Information Privacy
  • Credit Reporting Privacy Code
  • Telecommunications Information Privacy Code

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