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1. LCRO 76/2024 QM v BY (13 December 2024) [pdf, 240 KB]

   ...Adding the following words (or similar) after the suggestion to a complainant to contact the Complaints Service, could suffice: “A Standards Committee may require further information from you before it can consider invoices in this category.” [101] In the present case, it is clear that QM was complaining about BY’s fees, yet she did not attach any invoice despite the form recommending complainants to do so. [102] I appreciate that there is a point at which complainants must take re...

2. [2025] NZEmpC 186 Menzies v Corrigan [pdf, 309 KB]

   ...been entitled to it. There is no evidence that Mr Anderson ever attempted to obtain the documents from the Authority. His assertion that he could not have done so because the company was in liquidation is unsustainable and inexplicable. [101] The same can be said of the documents relating to the liquidator. [102] Issues have been raised subsequently about the liquidator and her conduct but there is no evidence before the Court of any effort by Mr Menzies, or Mr Anderson on his...

3. LCRO 137/2023 FK v QT (10 June 2025) [pdf, 222 KB]

   ...[100] It may well be that other elements of her affidavit evidence were unreliable, that she was caught out under cross-examination and questioning from the Judge and that she sought to blame her lawyers. Regrettably, none of this is uncommon. [101] I can make no findings about any such matters, and it is unnecessary for me to do so. The complaint is that the respondent knew that affidavit evidence given by the wife was false. This is an extremely serious allegation for anyone, let...

4. [2025] NZREADT 26 - EC & KN v CAC 2204 & ST (18 July 2025) [pdf, 308 KB]

   ...account or that she put pressure on the vendor to change his will so that she became a beneficiary of his estate. Despite the appellants’ reliance on their complaints to police, these are not evidence of misconduct by the second respondent. [101] Furthermore, there is no evidence from the geriatrician, Dr IC or from NJ that the vendor was unable to make decisions on his own behalf. There is nothing to suggest that the Committee misapplied rr 6.1 or 6.3 or was wrong in not referr...

5. LCRO 7/2024 SO v EJ and QJ (30 July 2025) [pdf, 272 KB]

   ...procedures established by the Act. [100] Lawyers are often appointed by clients as an executor of their will because of the lawyer’s long association with the client, and the client’s trust and confidence in the skill and integrity of the lawyer. [101] It would, no doubt, come as something of a surprise to the client placing that trust in the lawyer, to find that a lawyer fulfilling that role, could escape the jurisdiction of the complaints and disciplinary processes by taking advan...

6. LCRO 112/2024 BA obo DO and YW v NC (30 May 2025) [pdf, 266 KB]

   ...“completely and utterly incorrect, unwarranted, and abhorrent”. [100] It is commonplace, conventional and entirely understandable, that lawyers specialising in a specific field of litigation, frequently encounter each other as opposing counsel. [101] Whilst these interactions do not always result in the opposing lawyers acquiring confidence in the professionalism and reliability of the other, they frequently do. [102] When lawyers have confidence that their opposing counsel can...

7. 2013 Ministry of Justice Annual Report [pdf, 2.6 MB]

   Annual Report 1 July 2012–30 June 2013 E.64 (2013) http://www.justice.govt.nz/ http://www.justice.govt.nz/ Table of contents 2012/13 Highlights 2 Chief Executive’s report 4 What we do 6 The Ministry of Justice 6 Sector leadership 7 Our focus 11 What we have achieved 12 Building a customer focused Ministry 12 Making communities safer 17 Maintaining the integrity and improving the responsiveness of the justice system 22 Maintaining the civil and democratic rights of New

8. Willowridge Developments Ltd & Remarkables Park Ltd - Claire Hunter - EIC - 25 February 2022 [pdf, 11 MB]

   Solicitor acting G M Todd / B B Gresson PO Box 124 Queenstown 9348 P: 03 441 2743 graeme@toddandwalker.com ben@toddandwalker.com Counsel instructed B J Matheson Richmond Chambers 33 Shortland Street Auckland 1140 matheson@richmondchambers.co.nz IN THE ENVIRONMENT COURT AT CHRISTCHURCH ENV-2020-CHC-128 I TE KŌTI TAIAO KI ŌTAUTAHI UNDER the Resource Management Act 1991 IN THE MATTER of a notice of motion under section 149T(2) of the Act

9. Evaluation of the Te Hurihanga pilot [pdf, 1.5 MB]

   ...abuse 92 5.3.4 Peer relations 93 5.3.5 Leisure and recreation 94 5.3.6 Personality and behaviour 96 5.3.7 Attitude and orientation 98 5.3.8 Cultural outcomes 99 5.3.9 Identity development 100 5.3.10 Mental health/safety and physical health 101 5.3.11 Life skills 102 5.3.12 Summary 102 Te Hurihanga Pilot: Evaluation Report 7 Centre for Research, Evaluation and Social Assessment (CRESA) Ltd 5.4 Ultimate outcomes – offending frequency and severity 103 5.4.1 Preintake...

10. Waitangi Tribunal theme Q - Inland waterways - lakes [pdf, 2.3 MB]

    ...The Rotorua fisheries and other resources 91; The nature and extent of Maori rights in the Rotorua lakes 93; Early Pakeha visitors to the district 97; The Thermal Springs District Act 1881 98; The status of lands abutting the Rotorua lakes around 1918 101; Challenges to Te Arawa’s rights and authority in respect of the lakes 103; Te Arawa apply to the Native Land Court 107; 1918 Native Land Court inquiry 112; Negotiations for settlement 117; The Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Ad...