From Dreaming to Buying a Home: Your Fast-Track Guide with our Quick Checklist

Make your home-buying journey smoother, smarter, and stress-free with our concise and easy-to-follow guide. 1. Know Your Budget Just like planning a road trip, you need to know how far your fuel (in this case, money) can take you. Crunch some numbers, see what you can afford monthly, and don’t forget to factor in ongoing […]

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Welcome to the team Emily Barns

Emily Barns is the newest superstar in our Queenstown office. She has been working at AWS Legal since the beginning of the year, after graduating from the University of Canterbury. She recently finished her professional studies and works alongside Partner Haydon Cunninghame and Associate Rachel Buckley on property matters. Emily is one of our Queenstown […]

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Changes made to First Home Grant 2022

As of 19 May 2022, the Government introduced changes to the First Home Grant (administered by Kāinga Ora) as part of the 2022 Budget, in the hope of enabling more New Zealanders to purchase their first home. Kāinga Ora’s First Home Grant programme assists eligible first-home buyers from their deposit through a government contribution. Eligible […]

Congratulations Rachel Buckley, Jayne Lambie, Chantal Ryan and Georgia Johnston!

We are proud to announce congratulations on the promotion of four talented lawyers: Rachel Buckley, Jayne Lambie, Chantal Ryan and Georgia Johnston. Rachel Buckley, Associate Rachel Buckley is an Associate at the AWS Legal Queenstown office. Rachel has been part of the AWS Legal team since July 2018 and is a member of the New Zealand […]

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What’s new in immigration?

Have you been wondering what is new in the immigration space? The answer is, a lot! There has been quite a bit of movement in the immigration space recently with the ever changing border restrictions, varying commencement dates for new frameworks and introductions of one-off resident visas. For ease, it’s helpful to have a little […]

AWS Legal Partner Cameron Murphy gains national acclaim

AWS Legal partner Cameron Murphy has been named one of NZ Lawyers 2022’s Rising Stars. The Industry awards recognise the best upand-coming stars of the nations legal profession. AWS Legal Chair of Partners Rachel Lindsay said the partnership is extremely proud that Cameron’s efforts and achievements are being acknowledged on the national stage. Rachel believes […]

Upcoming changes to rural drinking water supply and how this will affect you

There is significant change affecting the rural sector in relation to potable/domestic water supplies. The Water Services Act 2021 requires all drinking water suppliers other than domestic self suppliers to register with the new national water administration entity Taumata Arowai and provide a source water risk management plan. Any supply that services more than one […]

Recent changes to Property Law Act and how they might affect you.

Parliament has recently passed the COVID-19 Response (Management Measures) Legislation Bill. Upon receiving Royal Assent, which is likely to be later this month, the Bill will come into force as an Act (Act). The Act is temporary and will amend numerous pieces of legislation including the Property Law Act 2007 (PLA). The Act will take […]

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Trudy Conway and Haydon Cunninghame welcomed into Partnership

We are pleased to welcome Trudy Conway and Haydon Cunninghame into Partnership Trudy Conway Trudy Conway has over 10 years’ experience in commercial and property law. She runs the Property and Projects team together with Cameron Murphy and Norman Elder. Trudy graduated from Otago University with an LLB and BA (Hons). She is a member […]

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