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1. [2022] NZIACDT 28 - DD v Pabellon (15 November 2022) [pdf, 205 KB]

   ...skilled migrant category (as a university lecturer). The fee was 3 $5,750 (incl. GST), payable in instalments as the work progressed. The complainant duly paid the total fee in instalments as well as $530 to Immigration NZ. [8] Ms Pabellon filed the expression of interest (expression) on 16 May 2018 claiming 185 points. The breakdown of points is not apparent to the Tribunal, except as to 70 points being claimed for a PhD said to have been obtained on 16 May 2018. The exp...

2. [2024] NZEmpC 224 Kongbang v Lotus Touch Ltd [pdf, 192 KB]

   ...Donovan, counsel for second defendant Judgment: 22 November 2024 INTERLOCUTORY JUDGMENT OF JUDGE KATHRYN BECK (Application to set aside appearance under protest to jurisdiction) [1] The plaintiff, Rungwanwilai (One) Kongbang, has filed a challenge to a determination of the Employment Relations Authority.1 [2] The Authority found that the first defendant, Lotus Touch Ltd (Lotus Touch), breached various minimum employment standards and was liable to pay Ms 1 K...

3. Opai - Kohatutaka 6A10D2C (2014) 93 Taitokerau MB 6 (93 TTK 6) [pdf, 238 KB]

   ...Otaua approximately 7 kilometres south of Taheke on State Highway 12, around 20 kilometres south west of Kaikohe. It is reasonably remote, and situated in an area of scattered life style blocks. Application [2] Sadly, this is an application filed as long ago as 2002 pursuant to s 289 of Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993. It was filed by Louise Opai and Teresa Tolley. The applicants stated that the grounds for bringing the application were that: The whenua comes from our Tupuna. Wit...

4. Vailea v Hakaoro [2016] NZIACDT 8 (02 February 2016) [pdf, 127 KB]

   ...Mr Hakaoro has breached his professional obligations in the respects the Registrar identified. [4] Accordingly, the Tribunal has concluded it must uphold the complaint, on the grounds the Registrar identified. The complaint [5] The Registrar filed a statement of complaint, she put forward the following background as the basis for the complaint: [5.1] The complainant authorised Mr Hakaoro to act for her and her family on immigration issues, this occurred on 9 August 2011. At some poi...

5. [2016] NZEmpC 72 Eden Group Ltd v Jackson [pdf, 151 KB]

   ...lawyer on the execution of the search order and thanks her for her role. [5] Next, the Employment Relations Authority has removed to the Court, under s 178 of the Act, the substantive proceedings issued in that forum. 3 The plaintiff has today filed, and will shortly serve, its statement of claim. By consent, there is a direction that the defendants in that proceeding will file and serve their statement or statements of defence within the next 14 days. [6] I now turn to the ver...

6. JF v RT LCRO 148 / 2011 (16 February 2012) [pdf, 69 KB]

   ...decision. 2 Review application [5] The Applicant considered that the substantive elements of the complaint had been ignored and minimised by the Standards Committee, and that there had been no rigorous enquiry. [6] Prior review: The file came under the responsibility of Deputy Legal Complaints Review Officer Owen Vaughan who, having assessed the file and the review application, considered that the complaints against the Practitioner were the same as those earlier deal...

7. Singh v the Registrar of Immigration Advisers [2016] NZIACDT 25 (17 May 2016) [pdf, 140 KB]

   ...it was not likely to lead to a successful outcome. [18.3] The agreement for the provision of professional services was defective, in relation to its terms and the circumstances in which Mr Singh agreed to it. [18.4] The adviser did not keep his files in accordance with the correct professional standards; including the obligation to communicate in writing with Mr Singh. [18.5] The adviser attempted to mislead the Authority by providing a document altered from the original. [18.6] The...

8. [2018] NZEmpC 152 Watts & Hughes Construction Ltd v de Buyzer [pdf, 285 KB]

   ...challenge in respect of the findings made concerning the trial provision and as to WHCL’s counter-claim only. [10] She had inadvertently diarised the date of 23 November 2018 as the last day for filing such a challenge. The challenge was in fact filed one day late. Ms Mathieson immediately filed an application for leave to file the challenge out of time. That application was opposed by Mr de Buyzer. [11] The parties agreed that the application should be heard promptly; and th...

9. LCRO Annual report 2023-2024 [pdf, 351 KB]

   ...applications, has placed considerable pressure on the LCRO’s objective of providing an expeditious and streamlined overview of Standards Committee decisions. While the objective of the review process is to be efficient and timely, the volume of material filed continues to challenge these expectations. A positive consequence of the ongoing tendency for parties to file comprehensive submissions with their applications to the LCRO has been a noticeable increase in their willingness...

10. [2022] NZACC 204 — Foster v ACC (1 November 2022) [pdf, 115 KB]

    ...____________________________________________________________________ [1] In this appeal Ms Koloni has claimed costs in respect of what were termed review applications. This appeal therefore did not relate to any issue of entitlement under the Act affecting the Appellant. [2] The appeal was filed late. However a timetable for progressing it was agreed and signed by Ms Koloni on 20 May 2022 and incorporated in a Judicial Minute dated 24 July 2022. [3] The Minute directed that “any s...