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1. [2025] NZLVT 006 - Cornille v Napier City Council (4 March 2025) [pdf, 190 KB]

   ...at 1 October 2023 is as follows: (a) Capital Value: $415,000; (b) Land Value: $190,000; (c) Value of Improvements: $225,000. B: There is no order as to costs. 2 REASONS Introduction This determination relates to an objection filed by Paul Cornille to the valuation adopted by Napier City Council in relation to the property at 7 Thompson Road, Bluff Hill, Napier under the Rating Valuations Act 1998. The parties have now resolved the objection by agreeing to a new ra...

2. LVT-Guide-to-lodging-an-objection2.pdf [pdf, 105 KB]

   ...objection has been reviewed by your local council and you have received from the council a written decision on conclusion of the review. To lodge an objection with the Tribunal, you must complete and submit an “Objection to Valuation” form, pay the filing fee and send to the council a copy of your “Objection to Valuation” form. Your objection must be lodged within 20 working days of receiving your review decision. The requirements are set out in the Rating Valuations Act 1998...

3. Do you need to pay back your legal aid?

   ...have to repay some or all of the aid spent so far. Overpayment of legal aid debt If you have overpaid your legal aid debt, we can refund the extra money by direct credit or it can be refunded back to source of payment. If there is another legal aid debt file, the overpayment will be transferred to that debt. If the payment is by automatic payment, we will request that the payment reference is changed to the other debt file. The refunds take up to 21 days to process. Usually, we will contact you...

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4. Addressing stalking

   The Government is introducing a new stalking and harassment offence to ensure the harm that victims experience is recognised and prosecuted effectively. Stalking is characterised by a perpetrator making unwanted, persistent, and repetitive intrusions into another person’s life, causing a range of serious emotional, psychological, social, and economic harm to that person. Stalking behaviours and scenarios vary but carry significant risk that the behaviour will escalate to physical violence, inc

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5. LCRO 236/2020 TB - Application for review of a prosecutorial decision (13 December 2021) [pdf, 580 KB]

   ...counsel Mr CK QC, Mr TB has applied to review the Committee’s prosecution determination. [6] The facts are relatively straightforward although they span five separate events over a three-year period. [7] The Committee’s own motion investigation file runs to some 2,900 pages. A lot of the material on that file is duplicated. Messrs CK and TB will be more familiar than most with all of that material. [8] Nevertheless, it is important for me to set out the factual and procedural b...

6. Dorbu v The Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal Anor [2011] NZLCDT CIV 2009 404 7381 [pdf, 288 KB]

   ...will give you an opportunity to see if you can find those other documents, Mr Dorbu. Hearing adjourned from 10 am until 10.15 am Mr Dorbu: Your Honour, I have not found the document and my assumption is I may have sighted it on the High Court file but when the staff were copying it for me, it has somehow got lost but I do not need that again in order to illustrate the point and I certainly didn‘t need it at any time. Chair: I am going to remind you, Mr Dorbu, as I think I...

7. 2019 Directory of Official Information J-L [pdf, 490 KB]

   ...statistics, and research. • Statistics (counts, averages, trends, etc) and performance measures (to assess achievement against operating targets, etc) about court processes and case outcomes. • The Ministry also maintains custodianship of legacy file sets from the Department of Justice, the Department for Courts and the old Ministry of Justice, all of which are being managed through to final disposition under the Public Records Act 2005. Many of these have been transferred to,...

8. Brunton v Accident Compensation Corporation (Treatment Injury) [2023] NZACC 187 [pdf, 382 KB]

   ...surgery/procedure/treatment and anaesthesia [26] Due to COVID-19 restrictions in early 2020, Ms Brunton did not have her appointment at the hospital until 1 July 2020. There is in evidence an informed consent form taken from the Bay of Plenty District Health Board file. It is headed “Consent to the Surgery/Procedure/ Treatment”. It is signed by Ms Brunton for the gastroscopy procedure and records that she had been able to discuss the form with an identified registered nurse,...

9. Regulatory Impact Statement increasing maximum claims level in disputes tribunals [pdf, 506 KB]

   ...way that was unfair and prejudicially affected the result of the case. These limits are set in the Act. 4. Going to the District Court is expensive compared with the Disputes Tribunal – see the table below. Disputes Tribunal District Court Filing fee Claims under $2000: $45 Claims $2000 to $5000: $90 Claims above $5000: $180 200 + other filing fees for other documents Hearing fee Nil $900 per half-day Cost of lawyer Nil, unless hire lawyer for advice befor...

10. [2010] NZEmpC 103 Coy v Commissioner of Police [pdf, 75 KB]

    ...combination, in his challenge to particular parts of the evidence. These categories can be listed under the following shorthand titles: • opinion evidence; • expert evidence; • advocacy; • hearsay evidence; • scope of evidence filed in reply [12] As to opinion evidence, Ms McKechnie argued, citing s 23 of the Evidence Act, that this is inadmissible, except to the extent that there may be exceptions as illustrated by ss 24 and 25. The former section (s 24) allows fo...