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1. Elhassan v Webby [2022] NZHRRT 27 [pdf, 313 KB]

   ...to be credible witnesses and their evidence is accepted in full. [4] On 4 March 2017 Mr Elhassan, a Sudanese Muslim arrived in New Zealand on a work visa. He is a qualified and experienced telecommunication engineer and had also taught at a university in Sudan. His goal was to set up his life in New Zealand and then bring over his wife and children. [5] A few weeks after arriving Mr Elhassan found a room advertised on Trade Me in a four-bedroom house in Auckland placed by Judy...

2. [2016] NZEnvC 140 South Epsom Planning Group Inc & Three Kings United Group Inc v Auckland Council [pdf, 5.4 MB]

   BEFORE THE ENVIRONMENT COURT IN THE MATTER BETWEEN AND AND Decision No. [2016] NZEnvC \ the Resource Management Act 1991 and of appeals pursuant to Clause 14 of the First Schedule of the Act SOUTH EPSOM PLANNING GROUP INCORPORATED AND THREE KINGS UNITED GROUP INCORPORATED (ENV-2016-AKL -000001) NGATI TE ATA WAIOHUA AND NGATI TAMAOHO TRUST (ENV-2015-AKL -000158) Appellants AUCKLAND COUNCIL Respondent FLETCHER RESIDENTIAL LIMITED Applicant Hearing d

3. Waitangi Tribunal - District 13 Part 1 Northern South Island [pdf, 4.1 MB]

   ...Daamen, P Ramer, B Rigby District 7: The Volcanic Plateau, B J Bargh District 9: The Whanganui District, S Cross and B Bargh District IIA: Wairarapa, P Goldsmith THE AUTHOR My name is Grant Phillipson and I completed a B.A. Hons. in history at the University of Otago in 1986. As part of my degree, I wrote a short thesis on the missionary career of William Colenso. I completed a Ph. D. in New Zealand History in February 1992. My thesis explored issues about early Anglicanism in ni...

4. Women Living Without Violence: evaluation of programmes for adult protected persons under the Domestic Violence Act 1995 [pdf, 607 KB]

   Women living without violence An evaluation of programmes for adult protected persons under the Domestic Violence Act 1995. Gabrielle Maxwell Tracy Anderson Teresea Olsen February 2001 Women living without violence ii DOVE Hawkes Bay and VIPs Wellington believe that the programmes operated by them and which are evaluated in this report constitute intellectual property belonging to those organisations. They request that any person wishing to use information about those programmes co

5. Evaluation of Waitakere & Manukau Family Violence Courts [pdf, 345 KB]

   ...Background Two FV Courts existed in New Zealand at the time these evaluations commenced. The Waitakere Family Violence Court began in 2001 and the Manukau FV Court in 2005. Another four have recently been established in Lower Hutt, Porirua, Wairarapa and Auckland, and others are planned. FV Courts in this country are a judicial initiative. The Waitakere and Manukau FV Courts were established so that the court could respond more rapidly to offending, encourage offender accountability, and en...

6. Proactive release - Prohibiting conversion practices [pdf, 3.9 MB]

   Hon Kris Faafoi, Minister of Justice Options for prohibiting conversion practices Date 18 March 2021 File reference HUM-18-01 Action sought Timeframe Indicate your preferred policy options 22 March 2021 Contacts for telephone discussion (if required) Name Position Telephone First contact (work) (a/h) Caroline Greaney General Manager, Civil and Constitutional 04 918 858 Jenna Reid Policy Manager, Civil Law and Human Rights 04 9 8 86 9 Senior Policy Advisor Minist

7. Beattie v Official Assignee [2021] NZHRRT 21 [pdf, 280 KB]

   ...make reference to it being a request for access to personal information under IPP 6. See Armfield v 13 Naughton [2014] NZHRRT 48, (2014) 9 HRNZ 808 at [68]. Repetitive requests are, however, unhelpful as can be seen from the facts in Turner v University of Otago [2021] NZHRRT 18 at [112] to [117]. [53] Given their close proximity and the duplication of information sought, the requests of 22 and 23 September 2015 are for practical purposes to be merged, as is the Assignee’s re...

8. [2024] NZSSAA 10 (5 September 2024) [pdf, 340 KB]

   ...Ministry should have allocated ACC arrears so as to create an overpayment in relation to accommodation supplement and other support outside XXXX’s main benefit. Later we explain that adjusting supplementary assistance is not the Ministry’s universal practice, as the Authority has contemporaneously issued a decision where the Ministry only adjusted a main benefit and did not adjust supplementary assistance.1 [9] This decision, Re 50/21,2 Re 87/22,3 and Re 94/22,4 are four decis...

9. [2024] NZSSAA 12 (5 September 2024) [pdf, 405 KB]

   ...Act 2018. 2 Except that the main benefit is a dollar-for-dollar deduction, and other forms of assistance require analysis under the legislative requirements for payment, such as an income test. supplementary assistance is not the Ministry’s universal practice, as the Authority has contemporaneously issued a decision, Re 50/213 where the Ministry only adjusted a main benefit and did not adjust supplementary assistance. [10] This decision and Re 50/21 are among four decisions4...

10. NZCVS Cycle 3 (2020) Section 5 Sexual violence and offences by family members [xlsx, 414 KB]

    ...areas with the most deprived scores. Disability In the report, adults with disability are defined using the Washington Group Short Set (WGSS) of disability questions. The questions ask if the respondent has experienced difficulties performing basic universal activities (walking, seeing, hearing, cognition, self-care and communication). Someone who reports “a lot of difficulty” with at least one of the six basic activities covered is defined as a person with a disability using this classif...