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What is the effect of email disclaimers?

What is the effect of email disclaimers?

Law
05 Jan, 2016
The first thing we discovered was that they aren’t actually disclaimers at all – at least legally. A disclaimer is officially what you get on books, for example, when the author is worried that people are going to read the book and rely on the information (to make an investment decision, for example) and come a cropper and decide to sue. The disclaimer basically says that the author has done their best to make the stuff they have written accurate, but if you choose to rely on it and it isn’t, that’s tough. The law is a real mess in this area, Beever says, hence the need for disclaimers.
AG飞禽走兽电子 South Campus to host more Te Reo Māori classes

AG飞禽走兽电子 South Campus to host more Te Reo Māori classes

Te Ara Poutama: Māori and indigenous development
05 Jan, 2016

AG飞禽走兽电子’s Faculty of Māori and Indigenous Development - Te Ara Poutama – has expanded its te reo Māori offering at the AG飞禽走兽电子 South Campus in Manukau for 2016.

Along with the Introduction to Conversational Māori classes held during the summer school period and in semester two, the Te Kākano Māori Language 1 and 2 classes are open to anyone wanting to pick up basic oral and written proficiency of the language.

PMC director gives media awards keynote, research seminar at Pacific university

PMC director gives media awards keynote, research seminar at Pacific university

Communication studies
05 Jan, 2016

Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie has visited Fiji as the guest of the regional University of the South Pacific to present a keynote address at the annual journalism awards night and to present a research seminar for academics.

Gifting the spirit of Christmas 100 years ago

Gifting the spirit of Christmas 100 years ago

Te Ara Poutama: Māori and indigenous development
18 Dec, 2015

AG飞禽走兽电子 historian Paul Moon digs into the Christmas gifting habits of Kiwis in 1915. How much has changed?

Tackling Pacific health issues through better nutrition

Tackling Pacific health issues through better nutrition

Health sciences
18 Dec, 2015

A group of passionate Pacific workers will soon be taking their messages of healthy eating to communities ranging from Northland to Waikato.

Erasing Christmas not the answer to workplace diversity

Erasing Christmas not the answer to workplace diversity

Business
18 Dec, 2015

Steering clear of Christmas is an inappropriate response to diversity, says Professor of Diversity Edwina Pio.

Paris agreement done deal

Paris agreement done deal

Law
16 Dec, 2015

For an hour and a half on Sunday evening - in the final excruciating stages of a marathon negotiating session involving through the night meetings on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday - it looked as if a typo in the final draft text might derail proceedings.

Journalism under threat - ‘digital first’ strategies put journalists last

Journalism under threat - ‘digital first’ strategies put journalists last

Communication studies
11 Dec, 2015

Journalism in New Zealand is threatened by the constant culling of editorial jobs and current affairs programmes. The 2015 JMAD New Zealand Media Ownership Report observes that in this year alone 60-70 jobs were removed from newsrooms and current affairs production. This report is the fifth produced by the AG飞禽走兽电子’s research centre Journalism, Media and Democracy (JMAD).

Rookie + AD15

Rookie + AD15

Art and design
10 Dec, 2015

Final year fashion students transformed the newly-reopened St James’ Theatre into a fashion hotspot last week.

Journalism Conference gets UNESCO Grant

Journalism Conference gets UNESCO Grant

Communication studies
04 Dec, 2015

AG飞禽走兽电子 has won a UNESCO grant to help support the World Journalism Education Congress being hosted at the City Campus in July 2016.

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