Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
Chair
Chris Linton, Consultant, Duncan Cotterill
Learning Objectives:
- Recognise key privacy law obligations and compliance risks relevant to legal practices and client organisations in 2025
- Develop practical approaches to managing privacy breaches and emerging challenges, including AI-related developments
Privacy Law in 2025: The ‘Need to Knows’ for Organisations in New Zealand
- Refresher on privacy law
- When is privacy relevant to your firm and your client’s business?
- Key compliance risks
- Managing and reporting privacy breaches
- AI and other changes to watch out for
Presented by Ashleigh Ooi, Senior Associate (Technology and Innovation), Dentons
Presenters
Chris Linton, Consultant, Duncan Cotterill
Chris is a senior corporate/commercial and technology specialist. She advises New Zealand and international corporates, and public sector clients, on their terrestrial and online businesses. This includes technology projects (from strategy, procurement and implementation through to dispute resolution), blockchain, crypto and fintech businesses (advising start-ups and investors); M&A, joint ventures, strategic alliances, venture capital, and gaming (and related regulatory advice). Before joining Duncan Cotterill, Chris was a partner at national law firm in Wellington and a specialist commercial law firm in Auckland. She also worked in London with leading global firm, Linklaters doing cross border M&A, joint ventures and financing. Chris is the Honorary Consul for Finland in Auckland, President of the New Zealand Scandinavia Business Association, and a member of Fintech NZ.
Ashleigh Ooi, Senior Associate (Technology and Innovation), Dentons
Ashleigh is a senior commercial lawyer with expertise in data protection and cybersecurity. She has experience both private practice and in-house, and in New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Ashleigh regularly advises clients on the application and enforcement of the Privacy Act 2020 and related privacy codes, including the Health Information Privacy Code. In particular, she advises on the privacy implications of new products services and commercial relationships, as well as more contentious matters such as data breaches, data subject access requests and complaints. Ashleigh’s wider practice captures a broad range of commercial matters with a focus on technology, including SaaS/XaaS, IT outsourcing, media and telecommunications, intellectual property and consumer protection, and she also advises clients on the application of privacy law to each of these areas. Ashleigh works with a wide range of local and global clients ranging from start-ups and SMEs, to listed companies and government agencies. Her clients span multiple industry sectors including IT and software, financial services, media, construction and manufacturing, health services and FMCG.
