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1. Harland v ACC [2014] NZACA 13 [pdf, 166 KB]

   ...was in no different position than the Deportation Review Tribunal in Browne v Minister of Immigration [1990] NZAR 67, 69 – 70. This case did not, however, concern an appeal to which the wrong file number was allocated by a Registrar, but what Eichelbaum CJ described as a complete re-hearing of a case that had been properly decided and in which it was not a matter only of “the procedure of the Tribunal”, but a significant aspect of jurisdiction. [16] Mr McBride also relied upon...

2. Auckland Standards Committee 4 v O'Boyle [2021] NZLCDT 15 (29 April 2021) [pdf, 381 KB]

   ...qualities, the public may lack confidence in the profession as a whole.73 A candidate in Australia was refused admission because of a lack of “appropriate professional judgement and discretion.”74 In New Zealand, in a case regarding a valuer, “Eichelbaum CJ reviewed the concept of professional misconduct generally and noted that across all professions the key element is whether the practitioner’s conduct has shown some degree of unfitness to practise.”75 [83] Considerin...

3. Miscarriage of justice - Scott Watson - K McDonald's final report March 2011 [pdf, 2 MB]

   ...proved not to have been at either crime scene and a purpose of that Inquiry was to explain how the match was obtained. The report dated 30 November 1999 (Report on DNA Anomalies For Hon Tony Ryall, then Minister of Justice by Rt Hon Sir Thomas Eichelbaum, former Chief Justice of New Zealand, and Professor Sir John Scott, 4 1 President of the Royal Society), concluded that on the balance of probabilities there had been accidental contamination of the DNA extracted from the scene...

4. Proactive-release-OIA-review-Aug22.pdf [pdf, 30 MB]

   Hon Kris Faafoi Minister of Justice Proactive release – Briefing: Official Information Act 1982 – report back on targeted engagement and next steps Released: 7 December 2021 Initially released: 22 August 2020 The following documents have been proactively released by the Ministry of Justice. The initial release of this information in March 2020 included the Briefing and Attachment to the Briefing (documents 1& 2). The subsequent release in December 2021 included the Submis