Website Terms of Use

These terms govern your use of the LexBridge Legal website. By using this website you accept them. If you do not accept them, please do not use the site.

These terms are about the website. They are not the terms on which we act for clients — those are our Standard Terms of Engagement.

1. This site is not legal advice

Everything on this website is general information only. It is not legal advice and must not be relied on as legal advice. The law changes, and how it applies depends entirely on the facts of a particular situation. You should obtain advice specific to your circumstances before acting or deciding not to act.

2. No lawyer–client relationship

Reading this website, sending us an enquiry, or speaking to us about a possible matter does not make you our client and does not create a lawyer–client relationship. We act for you only once we have checked for conflicts of interest, agreed to act, and sent you a letter of engagement. Until then, we owe you no duty to advise, to act, or to protect any deadline that may apply to you.

3. Enquiries sent through this site

Please keep your first enquiry brief. Until we have confirmed that we are able to act for you, information you send us:

• may not attract legal professional privilege;
• may need to be disclosed if we are already acting, or later act, for someone with an interest adverse to yours; and
• travels over the internet, which is not a wholly secure medium.

Do not send us anything time-critical through this website. If you are facing a deadline — a visa expiry, a settlement date, a limitation period, a court or tribunal filing date — telephone us on 09 215 9798. We cannot guarantee that a message sent through this site will be read in time, and we are not responsible for any deadline missed as a result.

We handle the information you send us in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

4. Accuracy and currency

We take care with what we publish here, but we do not warrant that it is accurate, complete or current. Material may become out of date, and we are under no obligation to update it. Any commentary on legislation, policy or case law reflects our understanding at the time of writing only.

5. Intellectual property

The content of this website — text, layout, graphics, the LexBridge Legal name and logo — is owned by us or licensed to us, and is protected by copyright and trade mark law. You may read it, and print or download extracts for your own personal or internal business use. You may not otherwise reproduce, republish, adapt or commercially exploit any part of it without our written permission.

6. Links to other websites

Where we link to another organisation's website, we do so for convenience. We do not control those sites, we do not endorse their content, and we are not responsible for them.

7. Availability and security

We do not guarantee that this website will be available without interruption or free of errors, viruses or other harmful components. You are responsible for your own protective measures.

8. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we exclude all liability for any loss or damage — direct, indirect or consequential — arising from your use of, or reliance on, this website or anything on it.

Nothing in these terms limits any right you may have under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 or the Fair Trading Act 1986 that cannot lawfully be excluded. Where you acquire services from us for the purposes of a business, sections 5C and 43 of the Fair Trading Act 1986 and the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 do not apply.

9. Governing law

These terms are governed by New Zealand law, and you submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the New Zealand courts.

10. Changes to these terms

We may change these terms at any time by publishing an updated version on this page. The version in force is the one published here when you use the site.