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1. Ha v The Real Estate Agents Authority (CAC 412) and Griffiths [2018] NZREADT 57 [pdf, 369 KB]

   ...which the licensee would earn a commission, become unconditional. That is the minimum advice that the rule requires the licensee to give in that circumstance. No particular form of words is required by the rule. So long as the licensee makes a statement which substantially communicates the advice required under r 9.11, that will suffice. The intended meaning and effect of what is stated must be to convey that circumstances of this kind can give rise to jeopardy that a double commiss...

2. [2023] NZEmpC 99 Speed v Board of Trustees of Wellington Girls College [pdf, 254 KB]

   ...attempts to secure, or maintain, ongoing employment. The second application acknowledged five other judgments or decisions of New Zealand courts or tribunals where Mr Speed’s name was published. [11] The second application was supported by a statement that a request that his name not be published should have been made at the hearing that resulted in the June 2017 judgment but was not. 6 Teaching Council Aotearoa New Zealand is the legal successor to New Zealand Teachers Co...

3. Wilton TRI-2021-100-002 Procedural Order 26 [pdf, 182 KB]

   ...had sufficient information to determine the merits of its claim against the sixth respondent. In particular, the sixth respondent says the fourth respondent had received the sixth respondent’s response to the claim along with a ‘will say’ statement from Dr Jacobs. On 6 March 2023, the sixth respondent’s counsel invited the fourth respondent to withdraw its claim. However, on 7 March 2023, the fourth respondent’s counsel declined to withdraw the claim. [8] The sixth re...

4. OIA-Adoption Law Reform [pdf, 1019 KB]

   ...cross-agency approach to respond to issues arising in inter-country adoptions involving non-contracting States to the Hague Convention. 32. The group has several ongoing pieces of work, including 33. New Zealand and Samoa signed a Statement of Partnership in February of this year, building on an earlier Statement signed in February 2019. One of the points agreed to in the Statement is to develop joint processes and practices to identify and respond to challenges arising...

5. [2011] NZEmpC 63 Hally Labels Ltd v Powell [pdf, 232 KB]

   ...substantive proceedings and on 24 May counsel agreed to a fixture for the substantive restraint issue, commencing on Tuesday 7 June, and continuing on to Friday 10 June. [11] Initially it was contemplated that Hally would file and serve, by 27 May, a statement of claim including allegations of breaches of the employment agreement whether express or implied, in relation to confidentiality, competition or fidelity, in addition to the claim for enforcement of the restraint provisions...

6. [2016] NZEmpC 33 Lewis v JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A [pdf, 166 KB]

   ...Bluestar Print Group (NZ) Ltd v Mitchell [2010] ERNZ 446 (CA). 9 Rodkiss v Carter Holt Harvey Ltd [2015] NZEmpC 147. [13] The defendant says that the interlocutory and other preparations required for the case included: responding to five statements of claim; preparing two statements of defence; preparing three applications regarding interlocutory issues; responding to two applications by the plaintiff regarding interlocutory issues; and lengthy correspondence with the plai...

7. [2014] NZEmpC 224 Nisha v LSG Sky Chefs New Zealand Ltd [pdf, 167 KB]

   ...parties by reference to their pleadings and the determination of the Employment Relations Authority to which these proceedings are a challenge . [5] The plaintiff’s claim against the defendant(“LSG”) is now set out in its first amended statement of claim filed on 11 April 2014. It is a challenge by hearing de novo to a determination of the Authority dated 15 October 2013. 1 Ms Nisha (also known as Nisha Alim and to whom I will refer as Ms Alim) was employed from 10 Novemb...

8. Sansom v Department of Internal Affairs [2016] NZHRRT 17 [pdf, 100 KB]

   ...and notes of interviews about her complaints of harassment by National Library staff. [21] By subsequent letter dated 19 April 2013 the Department provided seven items of additional information requested by Ms Sansom. The letter concluded with a statement that together with copies of information previously provided to Ms Sansom, the enclosures comprised all the information requested by Ms Sansom. [22] On Ms Sansom complaining to the Privacy Commissioner the Department conducted a furt...

9. KL v WS LCRO 160/2013 (15 June 2016) [pdf, 89 KB]

   ...substandard and rushed, and says she should have applied to have his trial heard separately to that of his co-accused. [14] The three original drug dealing charges increased to some 15 charges before trial. However Mr KL misconceives the role of defence counsel when he says that Ms WS added the additional charges. It was not Ms WS that added the charges but the prosecution. It is reasonably common in large-scale trials for the number and type 5 of charges to alter between arrest a...

10. [2018] NZEnvC 207 Sustainable Otakiri Incorporated v Bay of Plenty Regional Council [pdf, 825 KB]

    ...Otakiri is against the whole of that decision, that is, against the grant of both the regional consents and the district consents. In response to criticism of the breadth of the grounds stated in its notice of appeal, Sustainable Otakiri lodged a statement of issues dated 10 August 2018 that lists 9 planning issues and gives particulars of each issue in some detail. In general terms for present purposes, I note that the issues include: (i) the effects of taking water on the aquifer;...