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1. NE v Accident Compensation Corporation (Claims Process) [2025] NZACC 20 (31 January 2025) [pdf, 167 KB]

   ...claim. [18] The appellant also applied for a review of the Corporation’s decision of 25 July 2022 regarding the effect of the deemed review decision in her favour. However, in December 2022, she withdrew this application for review. She later filed a further application for review of the matter, but the Corporation declined to accept this as it did not consider that there were extenuating circumstances for the application having been lodged out of time. The Corporation’s deci...

2. Lewis v Accident Compensation Corporation (Claim for treatment injury) [2024] NZACC 159 [pdf, 176 KB]

   ...report. Dr Brown advised: Mr Lepine has methodically and objectively stepped through the questions asked of him. He has not identified evidence of likely actual tissue damage to either muscle or nerve tissue. In my opinion there is no evidence on file to support likely muscle tear/strain; or diagnostic evidence of a demonstrable nerve that satisfies established neurological diagnostic criteria. No physical injury can currently be identified. Mr Lepine is clear that causation to i...

3. BL v Accident Compensation Corporation (Overseas Personal Injury) [2023] NZACC 106 [pdf, 175 KB]

   ...sexual abuse being a material and substantive (but not only) cause. [13] On 19 November 2021, the Corporation declined the appellant’s claim as she was not ordinarily resident in New Zealand at the time the sexual abuse occurred. The appellant filed an application to review that decision. She claimed that she was ordinarily living in New Zealand at the time of the events, and also noted that the exchange had an end date and the plan was to return to live in New Zealand when th...

4. Briefing-Election-Access-Fund-Statutory-evaluation-after-the-first-use-of-the-Fund-Final-Redacted.pdf [pdf, 2.2 MB]

   Hon Paul Goldsmith, Minister of Justice Election Access Fund: Statutory evaluation after the first use of the Fund Date 8 October 2024 File reference ELP-17-11 Action sought Timeframe Note that the Election Access Fund Act 2020 requires a review of the Act and Fund after first use. By 25 October 2024 Note the attached evaluation report ‘Process evaluation of the Election Access Fund Act (2020): after the first use of the Fund’. By 25 October 2024 Present the evaluation rep...

5. Judicial-Appointments-Protocol-HC-February-2025 [docx, 86 KB]

   ...but no other details. Such papers as are required for judicial administrative purposes are transferred to the Chief Justice. All other paper records are transferred to the Solicitor-General, who is personally responsible for the safe keeping of the files. the attorney-general’s judicial appointments unit The Appointments Unit was set up specifically to handle expressions of interest in judicial appointments with the highest degree of confidentiality and security. The Appointments Unit i...

6. [2024] NZEmpC 116 Osborne v Callaghan Innovation [pdf, 203 KB]

   ...retaliatory action. He did not plead and gave no evidence to the effect that any retaliatory action took place. Outcome [44] The challenge is unsuccessful. [45] Callaghan Innovation is entitled to costs. If they cannot be agreed memoranda may be filed. K G Smith Judge Judgment signed at 11.30 am on 2 July 2024

7. P and R v EQC and MIS [2024] CEIT-2023-0014 [pdf, 331 KB]

   ...limitations defences. As a result the applicants have brought this application to the Tribunal. Limitations 13) MIS says that the limitations periods set out in the Limitation Act 1950, and the Limitation Act 2010 apply in this instance. There is on file, correspondence between Community Law, acting for the applicants, and MAS relating to this defence. 14) This defence, if made out, is a bar to these proceedings being taken any further against MIS. If that is the case, the a...

8. [2025] NZEmpC 42 Soundhomes NZ Ltd v Doughty [pdf, 245 KB]

   ...second respondent, the outstanding issue seems to be that Mr Doughty needs to confirm when the bank account was opened. [34] Accordingly, I do not accept that the respondents have been evasive with respect to disclosure. The refusal to file an affidavit, and to instead provide that information on a without prejudice basis, was as a result of a genuine and reasonably held belief in relation to the meaning of the orders. The practical workaround that has been adopted in th...

9. OIA-Tauranga Courthouse [pdf, 4.5 MB]

   ...room for more. 3. There is no provision for CM chambers. 1. Everything which was previously contained in level 3 is now being contained in an area one-third less, with nearly 100 square metres taken from the reduced footprint for “secure file storage” which was not present in the previous plan. Such a space is not RE LE A D UN DE R TH E OFF IC IA L IN FO RM AT IO N AC T 19 82 s6(d) s6(d) s6(d) s6(d) needed in a chambers area and ought not take up space in...

10. LCRO 1/2023 EL v OX (17 December 2024) [pdf, 176 KB]

    ...Credit Contracts Act Disclosure signed by EL whose signature was witnessed by him. • OX recalls that at the time he handed EL a bundle of the documents which included a copy of the Memorandum and that EL then asked if OX would hold them on the file for him. OX agreed. • OX considers he “complied with all fiduciary duties and responsibilities in the transacting [sic] to the purchase. [He is] not aware of any loss suffered by EL as a consequence of any act or omission on his...