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1. 2021-04-21 Minute - PC7 - Court questions for conferencing [pdf, 749 KB]

   ...including for the McArthur proposition? [8] Again, any planner not already participating in expert conferencing, is invited to participate on this limited topic. Agenda [9] Counsel, having conferred with their expert witnesses, are to confer and file a draft Agenda for the expert conference which, in addition to the court’s questions, may identify other issues arising in relation to provisions. That said, the court does not refer to expert conferencing other than restricted...

2. 2021-04-15 HortNZ - ORC PC7 - Opening Submissions [pdf, 111 KB]

   ...2020, Introduction. 2 Supplementary Evidence of Otago Regional Council, dated 14 March 2021. Statements were from Tom de Pelsemaeker, Alexandra King, Joanna Gilroy and Simon Wilson. 3 The Court directed that other parties who wished to filed supplementary evidence in response could do so. HortNZ chose not to at that point due to the expert witness conferencing that was scheduled. 4 HortNZ was represented at the Primary Sector conferencing on 24 and 25 March 2021 by Ian M...

3. MVDT Annual Report 2010-2011 (Auckland) [pdf, 238 KB]

   ...increased from 20% of total applications last year to 31% this year The Auckland Tribunal has continued to hear and issue written decisions promptly. In the past year 74 % of all applications heard had a decision issued within 2 months of the date of filing and 98 % of all applications were heard and a written decision given within 3 months of the date the application was filed. 1. National Summary of Applications dealt with during the year: Applications Applications Y/...

4. Auckland Standards Committee 4 v Kennelly [2021] NZLCDT 8 (23 March 2021) [pdf, 120 KB]

   ...failed to comply with an order of the Standards Committee that he pay compensation of $3,084 to a former client. The compensation was ordered because of his poor attention to her case. Not only did he fail to respond to her queries, he failed to file court documents in accordance with a timetable, resulting in criticism by a judge and incurring a costs order against his client. [2] Mr Kennelly applied to review the Standards Committee’s decision. The Legal Complaints Review Offi...

5. [2015] NZEmpC 108 Nisha v LSG Sky Chefs NZ Ltd [pdf, 102 KB]

   ...of this judgment, by later this week which will, in turn, generate the plaintiff’s ongoing obligation to disclose such documents to the defendant. [38] Finally, there will be an amendment to the directions made by the Court for the parties’ filing and exchange of briefs of evidence before the trial. The plaintiff may now have until two weeks before that date to file and serve briefs of the intended evidence-in-chief of her witnesses, with the defendant having until one week bef...

6. Trustees of Te Reti B and C Residue Trust - Te Reti B and C (2004) 76 Tauranga 259 (76 T 259) [pdf, 1.6 MB]

   ...Douglas Matthews as trustees of Te Reti B & C Residue Trust, and replacing them with Raymond Te Kura, Stan Urwin, Michael Kohu and Noreen Tata. An affidavit by Tawhia Matthews, chairperson of the trustees of the Trust, dated 24 September 2003 was filed in support of the application. Most unfortunately Mr Matthews died before the hearing of the application but, since the application was made on behalf of the truslees of the Trust, the Court proceeded in full reliance on his affidavi...

7. RX v KL LCRO 31/2014 [pdf, 137 KB]

   ...to depart from the Committee’s view that further action in relation to Mr KL’s complaints about Miss RX’s conduct, service or fees was not necessary. There is no reason to take further action on review. Other than the miscalculation of a filing date, which appears to have fallen within the timeframe the Law Practitioners Act 1982 (LPA) was in effect, there is no real substance to any of the issues raised. While it is undesirable for lawyers to make mistakes, and regrettable...

8. Mcleod - Part Harataunga 2B2 (2001) 103 Hauraki MB 117 (103 H 117) [pdf, 250 KB]

   Hauraki Minute Book Volume 103 Folio 117 In the Maori Land Court of New Zealand Waikato Maniapoto District File: A20000054328 IN THE MATTER of applications under Sections 86 and 88 of Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993 by Robert Arnold McLeod and Joanne Elizabeth Hodge to vary access across Part Harataunga 2B2 Block being 12.4430 hectares more or less as described in CT 20B/844 South Auckland Registry ApPEARANCES: DECISION: Mr Powell - for the Applicants Mr Matenga - for th...

9. [2019] NZEnvC 052 Tasman Distrct Council v Baigent [pdf, 628 KB]

   ...unable to agree on the form of draft orders. I have received memoranda regarding these matters from the Council (dated 18 October 2018), Mr Baigent (dated 5 November 2018) and further from the Council (dated 26 November 2018). [6] The memoranda filed raised a number of issues on which the parties are in dispute. I will address the matters of dispute by reference to the paragraphs as numbered in Mr Bennion's memorandum of 5 November for Mr Baigent. [7] The first of these relat...

10. [2019] NZEnvC 051 Ngati Whatua Orakei Whaia Maia Limited v Auckland Council [pdf, 3.7 MB]

    ...(Applicants) have made a joint application under s 116 of the Act for a determination in relation to commencement of the resource consent. [4] Section 116 gives the Court a broad discretion as to commencement of a consent, including where an appeal is filed. [5] The application is made on a cooperative basis as the s 274 parties support the grant of the consent. However, it must be noted that counsel for Ngati Te Ata has not signed the joint memorandum filed on 19 March 2019. Coun...