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Principles of law for new zealand business students, 5, hubbard j. New essays cambridge university press, cambridge, 2001. It is a joint venture between the research centre for business law at the university of auckland and thomson reuters nz. It discusses the main areas of the law affecting business and includes case examples, references to legislation, links to the main government and other websites and flow charts and diagrams to. Watch this spaceearlier this year, in the space of 10 days, the new zealand courts delivered two quite differing outcomes. New zealand is one of the last major landmasses settled by humans. Radiocarbon dating, evidence of deforestation and mitochondrial dna variability within maori populations suggest that eastern polynesians first settled the new zealand archipelago between 1250 and 0, although newer archaeological and genetic research points to a date no earlier than about 1280, with at least the main.
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