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National Office, Postal address: DX SX10088 | WELLINGTON Physical address: Justice Centre | 19 Aitken Street | Thorndon| WELLINGTON 6011 W: www.pds.govt.nz 8 May 2025 Our ref: 120297 Dear Public Defence Service I refer to your email of 13 March 2025 to the Ministry of Justice (the Ministry) requesting, under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act) information relating to the Public Defence Service (PDS) expanding its capacity to take on more legal aid assignme
...needed to be commenced expired on 12 October 2020. Juyi’s own challenge was filed on 7 October 2020, but not served on Mr Pan until 31 October 2020. Initially, he had decided not to bring his own challenge. After he was served with Juyi’s statement of claim, he changed his mind. By then he was out of time. Further, as a migrant, he has difficulties with the English 3 At [26]. language. Consequently, he did not prepare the necessary documentation until 27 Nove...
...necessary had been done in the course of the proceedings before the Authority. That included most of the affidavits and much of the legal research. Further, as Mr Cranney observed, the plaintiffs elected hearings de novo and, as a result the statements of claim and statements of defence were not complex. Only one additional issue was before the Court which had not been before the Authority. [16] Having heard and decided the matter, I have a good understanding of the i...
...Christchurch earthquakes, while the cellular network did not fail, amateur radio operators from throughout New Zealand were called in to assist various relief teams. During severe flooding in Tauranga in 2005, members of the local branch manned the civil defence radio system for 72 hours and in emergencies involving search and rescue operations, amateur radio assistance was often utilised. [13] Mr Newman said that international studies had shown that an antenna height of 21 metres w...
...Human Rights Proceedings is the plaintiff, any costs awarded against him or her shall be paid by the Privacy Commissioner, and the Privacy Commissioner shall not be entitled to be indemnified by the aggrieved individual (if any). It shall not be a defence to proceedings under section 82 or section 83 that the interference was unintentional or without negligence on the part of the defendant, but the Tribunal shall take the conduct of the defendant into account in deciding what, if any,...
...comply with the statutory timeframe of 20 working days. This is a clear breach of s 40 of the Privacy Act 1993. [27] Mr Dean advanced explanations for why he was slow to respond to Mr Patel’s request. However, none of these reasons provide a legal defence to the mandatory requirements in s 40(1) of the Privacy Act 1993. In particular: [27.1] Mr Dean explained in his evidence to this Tribunal, to the NZLS and to the Privacy Commissioner that he was unwell for a period in 2018. Howe...
...distributed to assist the defendant, from Pak’nSave to Pak’nSlave in picketing material. In combination, these circumstances were said to amount to a breach of the duty of good faith and a declaration to that effect was sought. [9] The statement of defence in this proceeding is extensive. The pleading that the plaintiff had been prepared to enter into a collective agreement is denied by the defendant followed by extensive pleadings about general anti-union behaviour i...
...Authority (the Authority) dated 27 August 2012. It was agreed by the parties that the application could be dealt with on the papers. [2] The statutory 28-day limitation period prescribed by s 179 of the Employment Relations Act 2000 for filing a statement of claim challenging the Authority’s determination expired on 24 September 2012. The Court file shows that the statement of claim was received by the Court in electronic format on 26 September 2012. As it was then out of time...
...CLAIMS 8 Roof Parapets 9 Fascia Boards 10 Screen wall at Main Entry 11 Head Flashings 11 Column at Front Entry 12 6 REPAIR COSTS 12 7 INTEREST 18 8 NO LIABILITY DEFENCES 19 9 THE DESIGNER – Mr Dodds 24 10 THE DEVELOPER – Mr Lee 26 11 THE LABOUR-ONLY BUILDER – Mr Sunde 35 12 THE NORTH SHORE CITY COUNCIL 36 13 CONTRIBUTORY NEGLIGENCE 44 14 CONTRIBUTION...
...community that concluded in a report of July 2021 that there was no employment relationship between the community and its members. The pleadings [20] Against that background, it is necessary to consider the details contained in the plaintiffs’ statement of claim, and in the second defendants’ statement of defence. The pleadings define the issues for admissibility purposes.5 [21] In their statement of claim, the plaintiffs contend they were not volunteers, but employees,...