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1. Appendix-12_Sarah-Newall_s87F_198D-Report_Site-Contamination_28-April-2023.pdf [pdf, 313 KB]

   ...Report – Ōtaki to north of Levin Highway Project (Ō2NL Project) Prepared by Sarah Newall – Site Contamination 4 range of industries and disciplines, including but not limited to the oil industry, local and central government, defence, horizontal infrastructure and private developers. 7. Most relevant to the Ō2NL Project, I was the contaminated land advisor to the construction joint venture for the Transmission Gully (TG) project from 2013 to 2016, and one of th...

2. Miller-Hard v Stewart [pdf, 277 KB]

   CLAIM FILE NO: 00765 UNDER The Weathertight Homes Resolution Services Act 2002 IN THE MATTER of an adjudication BETWEEN NICOLE ODETTE MILLER-HARD Claimant AND MELANIE GAIL STEWART First Respondent AND ROBIN LAWRENCE FORD Second Respondent AND BAY BUILDING CERTIFIERS LIMITED Third Respondent AND No Fourth Respondent, the TAURANGA DISTRICT COUNCIL having been struck out. AND No Fifth Respondent, GEOFFREY MORRISON having been struck out

3. [2014] NZLCDT 80 Wellington Standards Committee v CLS [pdf, 412 KB]

   ...records 45. Pursuant to Rule 3.2 of the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act (Lawyers: Conduct and Client Care) Rules 2009, a lawyer is required to ‘respond to inquiries from the client in a timely manner”. 46. T made numerous requests for copies of bank statements and other records for the company. 47. In responding as he did, CLS breached Rule 3.2 by failing to respond to his client in a timely manner. Continuing to operate the company and continuing to attempt to sell it 48. CLS...

4. Privacy Bill - additional policy decisions [pdf, 304 KB]

   ...Commissioner new tools to identify and respond to privacy breaches. It also contains some offence provisions, such as for failure to notify a privacy breach, failure to comply with a compliance notice or access order, or for giving a false 9 statement. Offences are punishable by a fine of up to $10,000. There is no penalty for breaches of the Information Privacy Principles themselves, even if they are serious. 51. Forty-four submitters commented on the compliance and pena...

5. Hunia v New Zealand Police [2021] NZHRRT 12 [pdf, 164 KB]

   ...applies just as much to a frontline constable as it does to a call-taker in a Police Communications Centre. Pre-employment vetting can provide additional levels of assurance around these expected characteristics. It is 7 also a 'first line of defence' to stop ill-suited people gaining employment with Police. On all these counts, there is a case to strengthen Police's current vetting practices. However, there is nothing in this document which suggests that the same valu...

6. [2023] NZREADT 15 – Wilson v CAC 2102 & EE [pdf, 230 KB]

   ...therefore correct to conclude that Ms Wilson’s use of the words “rental property” and the downstairs area being “self-contained” were references to traditional rent, as opposed to business rent or income. It correctly concluded that her statements relating to whether the property could be a “rental property” were misleading and a breach of rr 5.1, 6.2, 6.4 and 10.7 of the Rules. [47] As for Ms Wilson’s communications with the purchaser and the Authority/ Committee a...

7. [2024] NZEnvC 102 Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand Inc v West Coast Regional Council [pdf, 273 KB]

   ...evidence that F&B had to respond to, although that was unmeritorious and of no assistance to the court; (c) Stevenson should have reassessed its case and realised it was highly unlikely that consent could be granted once the National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management (NPS-FM)2 and West Coast Regional Policy Statement (RPS) provisions had become operative; (d) failure to reassess the application meant that Stevenson advanced arguments in relation to the interpretation...

8. Philpott v Zderich [2011] NZWHT Auckland 16 [pdf, 176 KB]

   ...impression that he could recall far more about what happened in 1996, than he was prepared to admit. I accept that the various criticisms made of his testimony in the claimant’s closing submissions have some merit. This includes the fact that his defence was to some extent an evolving and changing one. [77] On the other hand, the evidence of Mr Gates, a genuine and sincere witness, was far more reliable and plausible. Having said that, however, Mr Gates’ evidence nee...

9. E13 Stephen Priestley - Infrastructure and Coastal Processes - EIC - Applicant [pdf, 1.3 MB]

   ...Arbitrations, the Environment Court, the EPA Board of Enquiry, and the High Court. 0796 3 1.6 I attended the Coastal, Stormwater, Geotech and Engineering conferencing on 31 July 2018 and was involved in the development of the Joint Witness Statement (JWS) prepared and agreed at this conference. There were no matters of disagreement between the experts. 1.7 I advise that I have read the Code of Conduct for Expert Witnesses contained in the Environment Court Practice Note 20...

10. Evidential Overview for Christchurch Masjid attacks [pdf, 1.7 MB]

    ...of those were active in Christchurch that day (five others).44 A short time later this was amended to state there “could be nine shooters” and then a short time after that he said, “there are nine shooters, I’m the tenth”. 4.24 These statements required Police to react to several reports around Christchurch at that time concerning suspicious behavior until it was identified through investigation of the individual’s home address and online activity sometime later that he w...