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1. Apply for a rehearing

   On this page: How to apply for a rehearing Apply by paper Grounds for a rehearing – the reason you can give for applying What happens next? If you run out of time to apply You still need to follow an Order after you've applied for a rehearing Either party can apply to the Disputes Tribunal for a rehearing within 20 working days of the decision. It’s free to apply. How to apply for a rehearing It’s quickest and easiest to apply online. Because you can’t save your form once you start ma

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2. Care or Protection Order application process

   ...a lawyer for the child. The parent, guardian or caregiver is told about the application and court hearing (and family group conference if it didn't happen before the agency made the application). The parent, guardian or caregiver files and serves response papers within seven days, if they want to respond. A family group conference is held if needed. The coordinator writes down all decisions, recommendations and plans agreed at the conference and gives this informat...

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   2. Keeping children safe

3. Hunia v Skerrett-White - Kawerau A8D (2016) 146 Waiariki MB 281 (146 WAR 281) [pdf, 620 KB]

   ...In 2010, Kani Hunia, a trustee, concerned with how trust monies were being spent says he made a request to his fellow trustee, Colleen Skerrett-White, for the accounts of the trust. That information was not forthcoming and Mr Hunia subsequently filed proceedings seeking to restrain the trustees from any further dealings with trust property until the information requested had been supplied. [3] To date I have issued three decisions dealing with various matters that have come to ligh...

4. [2022] NZEmpC 145 Pilgrim v Attorney-General [pdf, 940 KB]

   ...plaintiffs’ assertion that they were, during their time at the Gloriavale Christian Community (Gloriavale), employees. [2] Their claims are strongly contested by senior leaders of Gloriavale, who are the second defendants. [3] After the plaintiffs filed some 20 briefs of evidence for the upcoming hearing, the second defendants raised multiple admissibility objections. They say 297 paragraphs of 16 of the briefs should not be read, either in whole or in part; and that there are...

5. Taueki v Horowhenua 11 Part Reservation Trust - Horowhenua 11 (Lake) Block (2016) 347 Aotea MB 269 (347 AOT 269) [pdf, 354 KB]

   ...not require a complete restart of the process. [5] The substantive hearing was then held on 18 January 2016. 1 During the hearing a number of issues arose concerning the conduct of the trustees. I directed that the trustees and their counsel file a schedule of all trustee meeting dates and individual trustees’ attendance, along with copies of all minutes and agenda notices for trustee meetings over the last 12 months, and a list of all nominees received for upcoming trustee elect...

6. INZ v Soni [2018] NZIACDT 6 (9 March 2018) [pdf, 315 KB]

   ...“rubber-stamping”. Typically, this has arisen where a licensed immigration adviser has used off-shore agents who recruit clients, prepare immigration applications, send them to the licensed immigration adviser to sign off, and then the adviser or agent files the applications with Immigration New Zealand (INZ). This Tribunal has made it clear the activity is unlawful, deprives potential migrants of the protections afforded by the Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007 (the Act)...

7. [2018] NZEnvC 027 Kumeu Property Limited v Auckland Council [pdf, 17 MB]

   ...forward its preferred plans and conditions to the Council and s 274 parties within thirty working days; (b) the Council and s 274 parties are to provide their preferred wording within a further twenty working days; (c) the Applicant is then to file its preferred consent provisions and commentary on each matter in dispute and the reasons therefor. The document will need to set out each consent granted, the terms and conditions that are common to all consents, and those which are sp...

8. Cooper v Standards Committee LCRO 280/2013, 281/2013, 324/2013, 325/2013, 34/2014, 118/2014 (17 April 2015) [pdf, 406 KB]

   ...DECISION Introduction [1] Mr Cooper applied for a review of six related Standards Committee [X] decisions on the basis that they were wrong, and the Committee had made the wrong orders. Over the course of time since those applications were filed, Mr Cooper’s views have changed. He seeks a review only of those parts of the determinations which ordered him to pay two fines of $5,000 each,1 and that his name be published in respect of both such decisions.2 Otherwise, he rai...

9. [2019] NZEnvC 033 Liu v Auckland Council [pdf, 457 KB]

   ...asphalt shingles tiles. This was processed on a non-notified basis and granted by an independent commissioner for the Council on 28 February 2018. [15] On 13 March 2018 the Council cancelled the abatement notice. [16] An amended notice of appeal was filed on 28 June 2018 seeking as relief an order quashing the abatement notice and the decision to issue the abatement notice. Auckland Unitary Plan Provisions [17] Under the AUP, the Property is zoned Residential - Single House Zone. It...

10. [2021] NZACC 135–NT v ACC (10 August 2021) [pdf, 285 KB]

    ...it was not her area of expertise. [20] On 5 December 2011, the Corporation issued a decision, suspending NT’s weekly entitlements, including weekly compensation, from 9 January 2012. NT lodged a review but was unsuccessful. An appeal was filed with the District Court which (in 2014) allowed the appeal, quashing the Corporation’s suspension decision. The Court determined that the evidence showed that NT was continuing to suffer the effects of her covered post-concessional sy...