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1. Induction guide for legal aid providers - v1.2 January 2017 [pdf, 659 KB]

   ...questions the best they can and provide the necessary documents. Before sending the application to your local legal aid office, must make sure it: • is fully completed including all financial details • includes any supporting information • is filed before the matter has been finally disposed of by a Court or tribunal. Incomplete applications If an application is incomplete or missing essential information, the grants officer will write to you and your client to request the info...

2. Family Legal Advice Service Operational Policy v1.7 July 2017 [pdf, 460 KB]

   ...Clients seeking funded legal assistance for just completing court entry forms may access the full Family Legal Advice Service, subject to them meeting financial eligibility requirements. If an application for a parenting or guardianship order is filed in the Family Court, the service is available to assist the respondent (if eligible) to prepare a notice of response. More detail as to the specific breakdown of tasks within each activity can be found in Appendix 5. Not included as par...

3. [2017] NZEmpC 33 NZ Meat Workers and Related Trades Union Inc and Anor v AFFCO NZ Ltd [pdf, 208 KB]

   ...indicated to counsel that the issue as to a correct date for the commencement of any assessment was one of some difficulty and that the Court needed to be provided with further submissions which referred to relevant authorities. An opportunity for the filing of supplementary submissions on this topic was accordingly given. [80] In his supplementary submissions, Mr Cranney emphasised that there were Union members who signed the company IEA, and returned; later, these persons wer...

4. [2019] NZEmpC 54 Hong v Auckland Transport [pdf, 437 KB]

   ...in s 120 of the Act; it seems the raising of the personal grievance and Mr Hong’s subsequent filing of a statement of problem in the Authority distracted AT from its usual processes. Reasons were included in AT’s amended statement in reply, filed in the Authority a month after reasons were sought. AT accepts dismissal was unjustifiable Although AT succeeded in the Authority, the Authority Member raised some concerns with the process that AT had followed.3 AT now accepts tha...

5. [2019] NZEmpC 73 Kazemi v Rightway Ltd [pdf, 446 KB]

   ...matter set out in Mr Drake’s letter had been addressed and satisfactorily responded to. [57] RightWay’s then solicitors responded to Mr Drake advising that RightWay’s preliminary position was that the claim made had no merit. Ms Kazemi filed a statement of problem in the Employment Relations Authority (the Authority) on 19 May 2017, to which RightWay responded. [58] By letter dated 14 July 2017 Ms Kazemi resigned from RightWay, effective 11 August 2017. [59] RightWay a...

6. [2019] NZEmpC 59 Kazemi v Rightway Ltd [pdf, 446 KB]

   ...matter set out in Mr Drake’s letter had been addressed and satisfactorily responded to. [57] RightWay’s then solicitors responded to Mr Drake advising that RightWay’s preliminary position was that the claim made had no merit. Ms Kazemi filed a statement of problem in the Employment Relations Authority (the Authority) on 19 May 2017, to which RightWay responded. [58] By letter dated 14 July 2017 Ms Kazemi resigned from RightWay, effective 11 August 2017. [59] RightWay a...

7. Gamble - Hopa Heremaia Trust [2021] Chief Judges MB 18 (2021 CJ 18) [pdf, 353 KB]

   ...dated 23 September 2019 sets out the background to the application. The Report is reproduced in full as follows: APPLICATION UNDER SECTION 45 OF TE TURE WHENUA MĀORI ACT1993 REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION Introduction 1. This application filed by Peggy Gamble (“the Applicant”), on behalf of the Teone Hopa Heremaia and Mere MacDonald Committee, under section 45 of Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993 (“the Act”) seeks to amend or cancel the following succession orders: a) 55...

8. LCRO 183/2020 DX v SQ (26 February 2021) [pdf, 260 KB]

   ...2 Mr MG, senior associate at [law firm B]. 3 YX v DX [XXXX] NZHC XXXX; DX v YX [XXXX] NZCA XXX. 4 Copies of Ms SQ's letters to the banks, the Public Trust, and State Insurance which display exhibit notes to Ms SQ's [date] affidavit filed in the proceedings, accompanied Mr DX’s complaint, and review application. Ms SQ's affidavit has not been produced. 4 [19] He explained YX and RX, who operated HX’s [bank] account, would already have told Ms SQ that HX ba

9. [2019] NZEnvC171 Tokonui Developments Limited [pdf, 1.2 MB]

   ...Tukorehe5• [7] No party to the proceedings disputed the proposition thats 310(d) RMA permits the making of a declaration of the kind sought by TDL. Background [8] The background to the application is found in two affidavits and related documents filed in support of the application. The first of these was from Mr D J Kilsby­ Halliday, a director of TDL and a member of the family which has owned the Farm since about 1933. The second affidavit was from Mr CG Gibson, who holds the l...

10. Supplementary Regulatory Impact Statement: Extending the duration limit of Police safety orders [pdf, 667 KB]

    ...o access to alternative accommodation. 4 Other ethnicities: Asian (6%), Pacific Peoples (11%), Unknown (12%), Middle Eastern/Latin American/African (1%). 5 http://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default/files/publications/pso-outcome-evaluation-report.pdf 6 These are operational factors that Police consider. http://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default/files/publications/pso-outcome-evaluation-report.pdf Extending the duration limit of Police sa...