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1. [2015] NZEmpC 209 Ale v Kids At Home Ltd [pdf, 145 KB]

   ...[11] Ms Lovegrove wrote to Ms Ale on 20 November 2013 advising that she was being dismissed for serious misconduct, with effect from 6 November 2013. [12] The parties attended mediation on 11 February 2014, prior to a grievance being filed with the Authority. Matters were not resolved in that forum. [13] On 13 February 2014 Mr Hope wrote to Ms Lovegrove, formally raising a grievance for unjustified dismissal, which had been foreshadowed in his earlier email of 12 Nove...

2. [2015] NZEmpC 107 Zespri International Ltd v Yu interlocutory [pdf, 146 KB]

   ...(Report) that: (i) Lists all email correspondence on the laptop (details to include date of email, sender and all recipients of the email (including blind carbon copied recipients), and the subject line of the email); (ii) Describes all other files on the computer by file name; (iii) Flags those emails or documents that have been identified by the Key Word Search as potentially being subject to a privilege claim by a party or as being personal information of defendant that i...

3. AJ v BJ LCRO 258 / 2011 (18 July 2013) [pdf, 121 KB]

   ...AND BJ Respondent DECISION [1] Mr AJ (the Practitioner) was found guilty of unsatisfactory conduct for failing to have provided a Letter of Engagement to his client, the Respondent company, in circumstances where the client eventually filed a complaint alleging overcharging by the Practitioner. The Committee also ordered the Practitioner to reduce his fees, imposed a censure, a fine and costs Order. The Practitioner sought a review of that decision. Background [2] T...

4. LCRO 159/2017 YB v WD [pdf, 147 KB]

   ...their concerns with Mr YB. [19] The Committee did not consider that Mr YB’s response time of three months to Mr WD’s complaint raised any issue of a professional nature that warranted further inquiry. Application for review [20] Mr WD filed an application for review on 23 August 2017. In support of his application he: (a) reiterates that neither Mr YB nor Ms UF, on whom the WDs relied for advice concerning the purchase, informed them about the Heat Smart loan;...

5. RH v LV LCRO 189 / 2011 (25 September 2012) [pdf, 126 KB]

   ...events) the Practitioner had practiced as a solicitor. The Applicant had been a client of the Practitioner for about 25 years. [8] The Practitioner sold his practice to law firm R (which was located nearby) and transferred to that firm all files of consenting clients (which included the Applicant’s file). The transfer of his business involved a cross referral arrangement whereby the Practitioner would not go into competition with that firm in relation to general matters, and...

6. [2017] NZEmpC 23 Domingo v Suon and Heng (t-a Town and Country Food) [pdf, 178 KB]

   ...food. He was not paid holiday pay or public holiday pay. 1 Domingo v Suon [2016] NZERA Auckland 170. [3] Mr Domingo considered that he had not been paid his minimum entitlements and filed a claim in the Authority. It found that he had been underpaid and ordered that the defendant pay Mr Domingo $2,464.00 gross by way of unpaid wages; $2,560.00 by way of unpaid holiday pay; $1,920.00 gross by way of unpaid public holi...

7. Cooper v Hamilton Pharmacy 2011 Ltd (Application for Non-Publication Orders) [2017] NZHRRT 34 [pdf, 388 KB]

   ...in the interests of justice to preserve the position of the parties pending a final determination of the proceedings. The related proceedings [11] Mr Cooper currently has three sets of proceedings in train. [12] First in time are proceedings filed in the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) on 23 October 2014 in which Mr Cooper seeks penalties against Hamilton Pharmacy for its alleged breach of the Record of Settlement. It is alleged that the disclosures referred to were in breach o...

8. Naera v Fenwick - Whakapoungakau 24 (2019) 205 Waiāriki MB 96 (205 WAR 96) [pdf, 330 KB]

   ...to file a report with the Registrar setting out their activities to date concerning the Tikitere Geothermal Power project from the issue of the Supreme Court’s judgment on 15 May 2015 up to and include 20 December 2016. Their report should be filed with the Registrar on or before 4pm Thursday 2 February 2017. (Emphasis added) [8] It is also said that, contrary to the above injunction, some steps may have been taken since the issue of that decision toward progressing the reso...

9. [2019] NZEmpC 157 Van Kleef v Alliance Group Ltd [pdf, 475 KB]

   ...of the documents sought on the same day on the basis that the information existed or was reasonably available. No notice in Form 7, under the Employment Court Regulations 2000 (the Regulations), was served. [8] On 4 April 2019, Ms Van Kleef filed and served an interlocutory application for disclosure alleging that there remained for discovery six categories of documents which should be disclosed. Annexed to this judgment is a schedule of the six categories of documentation con...

10. LCRO 166/2020 GM - Application for review of a prosecutorial decision (18 December 2020) [pdf, 174 KB]

    ...[11] The Committee determined, pursuant to s 152(2)(a) of the Act that the matter and all issues involved in the matter should be considered by the New Zealand Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal. Application for review [12] Mr GM filed an application for review on 18 August 2020. [13] He submits that: (a) errors made were inadvertent; and (b) errors made were rectified as soon as they came to his attention; and (c) the Standards Committee was the appropriate forum to...