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1. 2024 NZPSPLA 012 pdf [pdf, 95 KB]

   ...she performed an illegal bag search. Ms CD considers the matters complained about were about internal operational procedures and were more appropriately dealt with as an employment issue. [3] Mr PR was Ms CD’s security supervisor at the time he filed the complaint. He advises he had laid a complaint against Ms CD with his employer but did not feel they were taking the matter seriously. He therefore filed his complaint with the PSPLA around the time he tendered his resignation....

2. Auckland Standards Committee 2 v Devoy [2023] NZLCDT 45 (13 October 2023) [pdf, 77 KB]

   ...failed to respond. Understandably, the Standards Committee has escalated the matter to the Tribunal. Unless there is a good reason why not, we should stand behind the Standards Committee. [3] We must consider liability and penalty. Ms Devoy has filed no response, no affidavit, no submissions. Liability [4] Ms Devoy was a, or the, principal of City Law. A former conveyancing client asked, in October 2017, for his file to be sent to another lawyer. It has never, not even now,...

3. 2023-10-12-Proposed-Conditions-12-October-2023.pdf [pdf, 2.6 MB]

   ...document used to set out amendments to the draft conditions is the clean ‘Mediation Version’ dated 4 September 2023. Rebuttal version: The rebuttal version includes further amendments to the conditions that are made in response to the evidence filed by section 274 parties and the Councils, as detailed in the rebuttal evidence filed by Waka Kotahi. The rebuttal version amendments are presented as red underlined or red strikethrough in the left column. For convenience, this rebuttal...

4. Family justice: An administrative review of family justice system reforms [pdf, 967 KB]

   ...courts have reduced since the reforms have been in place. It appears likely that some of these cases have been resolved at Family Dispute Resolution as expected. However, there has been a noticeable increase in the proportion of applications that are filed without notice (urgently). An expected feature of the reforms was that, depending on the complexity and acrimony involved in a dispute, different levels of assistance would be needed for resolution. Some would only need PTS, some would...

5. LCRO 144/2016 QT v UF (24 August 2018) [pdf, 245 KB]

   ...November 2009 for the loan and security documents, that she pay his invoice relating to the preparation of those documents before he would release them to her. In the Committee’s view, because Mr QT “did not claim that the documents and file belonged” to [Company A] or Mr RP his “right to withhold the documents could only be on the basis that he was acting in the transaction for Ms UF”. [18] The Committee made the further finding that because Mr QT “could never have...

6. [2016] NZEmpC 129 Maharaj v Wesley Wellington Mission Inc [pdf, 155 KB]

   ...meeting, Mr Maharaj notified Wesley that he considered the termination of his contract to be unjustified and that he would be seeking legal redress. [7] Correspondence between Wesley’s lawyer and Mr Maharaj continued until eventually Mr Maharaj filed a statement of problem in the Authority on 21 August 2006. Mr Maharaj’s stated employment relationship problem was a personal grievance and he also sought to establish that he was employed by Wesley as a homeworker. The remed...

7. Anderson v Lowe - Succession to Moera Anderson [2021] Chief Judge's MB 728 (2021 CJ 728) [pdf, 499 KB]

   ...dated 28 August 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 ACT 1993 REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION Introduction 1. This application filed by Lorraine Anderson (the applicant), seeks to cancel the orders made at 339 Aotea MB 81-85 dated 14 July 2015 relating to the estate of Moera Anderson (the deceased). 2. The applicant claims that the orders were erroneous in fact or in...

8. LA-familyproceedings-steps.pdf [pdf, 513 KB]

   ...covered by Guideline Hours Pre-hearing matters up to 8 hours For • Receiving notice of defence and undertaking negotiations • Taking further instructions • Preparing amendment to grant (if expecting to exceed the guideline hours) • Filing affidavit(s) in reply • Attending Registrar’s List/Judges List/Roundtable conferences • Liaising with relevant parties – CYFS, Counsel for Child, witnesses, experts • Considering specialist reports, for example o s132 r...

9. Director of Human Rights Proceedings v Sensible Sentencing Group Trust [2014] NZHRRT 21 [pdf, 78 KB]

   ...PROHIBITING PUBLICATION OF NAME, ADDRESS OR IDENTIFYING PARTICULARS OF THE AGGRIEVED PERSON AND OF HIS PARTNER (2) ORDER PROHIBITING PUBLICATION OF NAME, ADDRESS OR IDENTIFYING PARTICULARS OF THE VICTIMS (3) ORDER PREVENTING SEARCH OF THE TRIBUNAL FILE WITHOUT LEAVE OF THE CHAIRPERSON IN THE HUMAN RIGHTS REVIEW TRIBUNAL [2014] NZHRRT 21 Reference No. HRRT 006/2013 UNDER THE PRIVACY ACT 1993 BETWEEN DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RIGHTS PROCEEDINGS...

10. LCDT Annual Report 2020 [pdf, 708 KB]

    ...--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 Executive summary -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 Summary of caseload activity in the reporting period ------------------------------------- 4 New cases filed ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5 Comparison number of new cases ---------------------------------------------------- 6 Cases disposed -------------...