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1. [2021] NZACC 93 - Estate of Bryant v ACC (30 June 2021) [pdf, 338 KB]

   ...for a treatment injury are not met accordingly this claim for cover is declined. [25] The matter proceeded to review hearing on 2 March 2016. In a decision of 30 March 2016, the review application was dismissed. [26] A notice of appeal was filed with the District Court on 14 April 2016. The appeal was set down for hearing on 23 November 2016 before Powell DCJ. The hearing was adjourned at the corporation’s request so that further investigation could be undertaken. [2...

2. Rhodes v Accident Compensation Corporation (Personal Injury) [2022] NZACC 194 [pdf, 218 KB]

   ...2020, Dr Tracey Giddings, for Mr Brick, noted that Ms Rhodes had presented because things had deteriorated over the past twelve months and she described an ongoing ache in the left gluteal region. [14] On 22 June 2020, an ACC injury claim form was filed by Mr Brick for left ischiofemoral impingement. The claim form provided an accident date of March 2019 and referred to Ms Rhodes having suffered gradual onset left buttock’s pain. In a supporting letter, Mr Brick advised that an...

3. [2023] NZIACDT 5 - SM v KIM (15 February 2023) [pdf, 253 KB]

   ...February 2018 it had been purged. [16] An invoice (dated 19 February 2018) from Wealand International was addressed to the complainant. It was for [Currency]3,800, covering disbursements and an administration fee. Work visa application filed [17] On 23 February 2018, Mr Kim filed a work visa application for the complainant with Immigration NZ. It was approved on 9 April 2018 (valid for three years from first arrival). [18] The complainant texted BX on 18 April 2018 sta...

4. [2022] NZEmpC 120 Smiths City (Southern) Ltd (in receivership) v Claxton [pdf, 273 KB]

   ...in the scale and arrived at a total costs figure of $66,800.50. That calculation did not allow for a second representative at any of the interlocutory stages or during the hearing.22 But it included a minor adjustment relating to Smiths City filing a notice of opposition to the interlocutory application for a stay that resulted in the interlocutory judgment.23 [53] The proposed reduction was supported by an observation that my interlocutory judgment commented that the applicatio...

5. [2021] NZIACDT 22 – TC v Registrar of Immigration Advisers (3 September 2021) [pdf, 141 KB]

   ...employment with the organisation in about October 2017. He was issued with a work visa (described by the adviser as a Work to Residence – WTR – visa) by Immigration New Zealand (Immigration NZ) on 16 November 2017, valid until 16 February 2018. He filed an expression of interest on his own behalf in the skilled migrant category of residence, before arriving in New Zealand. It was declined by Immigration NZ in November 2017, as his employment was not considered fulltime. [7]...

6. [2021] NZEmpC 214 McDonnell v The Board of Trustees of Te Manawa O Tuhoe Trust [pdf, 273 KB]

   ...was a wide range given in describing the additional fees the accountants might charge for their work and no adequate explanation as to how the anticipated fees had been calculated. [45] Further, it was not until Mr Rangihau’s affidavit was filed in this proceeding that information was provided about how the secretarial services are being carried out and the associated costs. The service is now being provided at $30 per hour for a cost of $300 per week. The 8 April letter conta...

7. Aperahama v Anderson - Section 57 of the Ratana Pa [2022] Māori Appellate Court MB 424 (2022 APPEAL 424) [pdf, 275 KB]

   ...they differ as to reasoning). The Rātana Pā Reserves Trust (“the Trust”) participates as an interested party and abides our decision. Te horopaki me ngā meka Context and Background Facts [5] In the lower court, Judge Stone directed the filing of evidence, the most relevant parts of which we summarise briefly here. None of the evidence adduced was challenged.1 [6] Judge Stone quoted this passage from the submissions of counsel appearing before him on behalf of the applican...

8. [2024] NZEmpC 44 Maheta v Skybus New Zealand Ltd [pdf, 266 KB]

   ...convenience, attached and forming part of this decision is a schedule indicating whether a compliance order is to be made for each of the 19 categories of documents where an order was sought. Category 1 Via USB stick (pen drive) provide all original files of all photos taken of the Skybus bus 89 (LGK816…) on 07th August 2018 (or any other time) which identifies the damage you allege was caused to the bus by the plaintiff [30] Mr Greening submitted that what was previously provi...

9. [2024] NZEnvC 107 Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand Incorporated v Waipa District Council [pdf, 1.3 MB]

   ...provisions relating to long-tailed bats/pekapeka. The Director-General for Conservation and Waikato Regional Council made submissions (and the Director- General for Conservation also made further submissions, while Waikato Regional Airport Limited filed further submissions only). [7] On 22 June 2023, the Hearings Panel for the Respondent issued the Council Decision approving PC20, materially as sought by the Applicants. [8] On 4 August 2023, Forest and Bird filed an appeal against th...

10. Steele v Commissioner of Police (Jurisdiction) [2025] NZHRRT 21 [pdf, 220 KB]

    ...time limit from the completion of the Commissioner’s investigation, within which aggrieved individuals were required to bring their claims to Tribunal. [4] The time between the Commissioner completing the relevant investigations and Mr Steele filing these proceedings ranges in these proceedings from twenty-one months to over ten years. The issue has therefore arisen as to whether the Tribunal has jurisdiction to hear these proceedings, given they were filed more than six months a...