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A judge accused of yelling at New Zealand First leader Winston Peters and calling him a liar at a function at Auckland’s Northern Club in 2024 will remain an acting district court judge until her warrant expires next February. Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith said a panel, which looked at Judge Ema Aitken’s conduct, has found that her removal as a judge was not justified. Goldsmith said the panel found her actions were a serious breach of 'comity', which requires each of the executive, the judiciary and the legislature to act with mutual restraint and respect towards the others. “However, the panel considered the judge’s conduct fell short of the high threshold of ‘misbehaviour’ necessary to warrant consideration of her removal,” he said.
NZX-listed software-as-a-service company PaySauce has reported a 6% year-on-year increase in annual recurring revenue at the end of March, as active customer numbers rose 5% to 8600. In a fourth-quarter update preceding its full-year results announcement in May, the company said revenue growth from new customer acquisition and service enhancements had more than offset a 23% year-on-year decline in interest income on client funds. Interest income had dropped as term deposits matured and were re-priced at lower yields, and now represented 18% of total recurring revenue, down 6 percentage points on the same quarter a year ago. The company disclosed a 12% year-on-year increase in processing fee revenue, totalling $1.8 million for the quarter. A key achievement in the quarter was onboarding the first commercial customers in Australia to its new Global Payroll Platform, following a successful pilot last year and a soft launch at the Australian Dairy Conference in February.