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1. Children adopted June 2020 [xlsx, 83 KB]

   ...active applications progressing through the court process. Therefore, this data may differ to data reported elsewhere with a different extraction date. These tables were extracted on 31 August 2020. Contents: Table 1: Number of adoption applications filed, by court, 2010/2011 - 2019/2020 Table 2a: Number of adoption applications granted, by court, 2010/2011 - 2019/2020 Table 2b: Number of adoption applications granted, by court, 2010/2011 - 2019/2020 Table 3: Number and percentage of ad...

2. [2024] NZIACDT 19 – SC v Murthy (21 June 2024) [pdf, 244 KB]

   ...conduct amounted to negligence and breached the Code in the following ways: 1. Failing to realise the complainant was ineligible for any type of visa, following the refusal of his refugee claim. 2. Failing to request the complainant’s complete file from Immigration NZ, the Immigration and Protection Tribunal or his previous solicitor, prior to filing the application. 3. Failing to recognise that the application was likely futile and to obtain the complainant’s written consen...

3. [2024] NZIACDT 23 - FM v Yang (03 September 2024) [pdf, 263 KB]

   ...Yang. It had purportedly been signed by the complainant on 24 March 2023. At the same time, the agent sent Mr Yang the employment agreement purportedly signed by the complainant and the employer on 27 March 2023. [12] On 29 March 2023, Mr Yang filed the application with Immigration New Zealand (Immigration NZ) online. He advised the agent. [13] On 1 April 2023, Mr Yang received the “medical check notification”. He sent it to the agent, asking him to forward it to the com...

4. [2007] NZEmpC WC 11/07 Smith v Nga Kairauhii Trust [pdf, 52 KB]

   ...a party/witness in that person’s absence and on assumptions rather than evidence, is not compliance with the principles of natural justice. [32] I grant leave to challenge the Authority’s determination out of time and extend the time for filing the challenge accordingly. The draft statement of claim filed with the application for leave will henceforth be treated as the plaintiff’s statement of claim and the defendant may have 30 days within which to file a statement of defenc...

5. Taueki v Horowhenua Sailing Club Ltd - Horowhenua Lake 11 (Lake) Māori Reservation (2015) 337 Aotea MB 68 (337 AOT 68) [pdf, 158 KB]

   ...jhardy@doc.govt.nz mailto:Tom@bennion.co.nz mailto:cooperslaw@xtra.co.nz mailto:sheree@whitehouse.co.nz mailto:jhardy@doc.govt.nz 337 Aotea MB 69 Introduction [1] Horowhenua District Council (“HDC”) sought a strike out or stay of proceedings filed by Philip Taueki for an injunction against HDC concerning the Levin Waste Water Treatment Plant (“WWTP”) and Lake Horowhenua. [2] On 23 July 2013 I dismissed the strike out application and confirmed that written reasons woul...

6. Goffe v ANZ Bank New Zealand Limited - Whirinaki 5K 6F (2015) 99 Taitokerau MB 248 (99 TTK 248) [pdf, 203 KB]

   ...on 4 March 2015 Mrs Goffe confirmed that she wished to withdraw her application. 4 As such, I dismissed her application by consent. Mr Fitzgerald advised that ANZ still sought an order for costs against Mrs Goffe. I issued directions for the filing of submissions on costs and those submissions were filed and served. The Law [15] Section 79(1) of the Act states: 79 Orders as to costs (1) In any proceedings, the court may make such order as it thinks just as to the payment o...

7. Walsall v Monmouth LCRO 100 / 2009 (8 October 2009) [pdf, 75 KB]

   ...proceedings in the Family Court was unsatisfactory. At the centre of the complaint was the allegation that Mr Monmouth had failed to act diligently in obtaining certain evidence from Maritime New Zealand and that consequently an affidavit could not be filed prior to the scheduled hearing of the matter. This led to the hearing being adjourned, further costs being incurred, and a costs order against Ms Walsall being made by the Court. The proceedings concerned a variation to parenting

8. SI v MO LCRO 241 / 2011 (7 November 2012) [pdf, 109 KB]

   ...registered against the title to the property to be sold which needed to be withdrawn to enable the sale of the house to proceed. [8] The Agreement for the sale of the property was forwarded to MO by the agent on 26 May 2009. On 29 May 2009 MO made a file note which I accept was a record of a telephone conversation with SI, rather than a face to face meeting. [9] The file note referred to the sums owed to the mortgagees and the caveators. Beside a figure “(4)” (referring to the...

9. BI v YP & Ors LCRO 115 / 2010 (4 April 2011) [pdf, 97 KB]

   ...firm. She eventually made the complaint to the New Zealand Law Society. [5] The Practitioners had acted for the Applicant from April until end of July 2009. The Applicant was dissatisfied with the outcome of her complaints to the firm and then filed similar complaints to the New Zealand Law Society. She identified four areas of grievance broadly covering the attitudes of the Practitioners towards her, duplication of costs, overcharging and that the Practitioners failed to promote h...

10. Dorward - Omahu 1A and 1B1A Section 1 (2009) 202 Napier MB 35 (202 NA 35) [pdf, 262 KB]

    ...by Mr Selwyn George Dorward (Mr Dorward) was for a change of status pursuant to section 135 of Te Ture Whenua Miiori Act 1993 (Act). 202 Napier MB 36 [4] At the hearing on 6 November 2008 I directed the case manager to provide me with the files relating to: a) the application for the purchase of the Omahu lA block by Mr Doward's mother, Mrs Mary Catherine Dorward, in the early 1980's; and b) the application for the status determination order made in May 1993 (198...