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1. [2023] NZEmpC 134 Chain & Rigging Supplies Ltd v Nikorima [pdf, 145 KB]

   ...Amaranathan, counsel for applicant Judgment: 23 August 2023 JUDGMENT (NO 2) OF JUDGE B A CORKILL [1] Yesterday, I issued a judgment granting a search order,1 which included the authorisation of certain redactions to one of two affidavits which had been filed, that of Mr Lance Davis. [2] Today, Ms Amaranathan, counsel for the applicant, has sought further redactions to the second affidavit, that of Ms Jaqueline Edwards. The proposed further redactions relate to...

2. Edwards - Succession to Ngarangi Kanoa Babbington [2021] Chief Judge's MB 755 (2021 CJ 755) [pdf, 535 KB]

   ...discuss this so please make an appointment. c) Letter dated 26 July 2001 from Rishworth, Wall & Mathieson, Barristers and Solicitors of Gisborne relating to “Your Affairs” which states: Please find enclosed a draft of your mother’s affidavit. Could you please just go through it with her and discuss with her whether she wants to go ahead and have the affidavit signed and sworn. If she does go ahead, there is a possibility that if Kanoa's family opposes your ap...

3. LCRO 43/2021 CAT Ltd v ZEN Lawyers Ltd (28 October 2021) [pdf, 217 KB]

   ...provided a further response to Mr JM’s complaint. [28] Ms MD submitted that: (a) the complaint was misconceived; and (b) 3 of the ZEN lawyers who had involvement with the file considered that Mr JM had provided valid instructions; and (c) Affidavits sworn by Ms PQ and Ms MD confirm their understanding that Mr JM had provided instructions; and (d) Mr JM had ample time following receipt of the legal services agreement to confirm that he did not wish for work to proceed; and...

4. Cotter v Cotter - Tutaekuri B13 [2019] Chief Judge's MB 951 (2019 CJ 951) [pdf, 471 KB]

   ...of a total of .500000 shares in Tutaekuri B13, which are at present in the name of Huru Cotter, the transferor in this case. Huru Cotter resides in Melbourne, Australia and is unable to attend the Court sitting in New Zealand. In clause 3 of the affidavit it states that the transferees are blood related to the transferor, they are the nieces and nephews and children of Charles Manahi Cotter who is the brother of the transferor. Clause 9 states that the pito of the transferees are bu...

5. Auckland Standards Committee 4 v O'Boyle [2021] NZLCDT 15 (29 April 2021) [pdf, 381 KB]

   ...faced four charges in 2009 [laid on the same day, addressing four identical offences within a three-month period], he had no criminal convictions because he was discharged without conviction, and that he was granted permanent name suppression. An affidavit by a Court Registrar4 confirms these details. [13] In the course of responding to the Standards Committee investigation, Ms O’Boyle reiterated her version of the facts about Mr C’s alleged criminality. She bolstered her st...

6. General Affidavit (CoCA) [pdf, 212 KB]

   ...PAGE 1 For Registry use only: Date stamp Part 5A and r62A Family Court Rules 2002: FAM Number: In the Family Court at: (Court location) Applicant(s) Full name(s) v Respondent(s) Full name(s) In respect of: The application for Filed on My affidavit is in support of: (check one that applies) The Applicant The Respondent I am providing: (check as appropriate) Evidence in support Additional information A response This document is filed by: Name Address for service...

7. [2012] NZEmpC 83 George v Auckland Council [pdf, 95 KB]

   ...Court’s attention to an actual or apparent conflict of interest on the part of the Auckland Council’s (AC) solicitors and its counsel. He sought directions from the Court concerning this alleged conflict of interest. In support, he referred to an affidavit of Ms George, sworn on 30 March 2012, and an earlier affidavit sworn on 31 May 2010. He also annexed to his memorandum his exchange of letters with the AC’s solicitors concerning this matter. [2] The AC filed a notice of...

8. [2014] NZEmpC 33 Fox v Hereworth School Trust Board No 3 Interlocutory [pdf, 120 KB]

   ...C Within 21 days from the date of delivery of the Court’s further interlocutory judgment determining the relevance of documents relating to the plaintiff’s police complaints, Abraham Consultants Limited must make disclosure on affidavit filed with the Court and served on the plaintiff of documents in its possession, custody or power, by identifying and describing such documents. If any such documents have been, but are no longer, in Abraham Consultants Limited’s...

9. Shadforth (Appeal) [2019] NZIACDT 42 (20 June 2019) [pdf, 176 KB]

   ...against MBL, together with supporting documents. [22] The previous Tribunal chair (Mr Pearson) issued directions on 25 August 2017 setting out a timetable for providing submissions and evidence, together with a request that Ms Shadforth provide an affidavit indicating the circumstances in which the material on which she relied had come into her possession. [23] Ms Shadforth duly provided an affidavit sworn on 7 September 2017. In that affidavit, she withdraws all aspects of the...

10. McConnor v New Zealand Law Society [2024] NZLCDT 13 (16 May 2024) [pdf, 165 KB]

    ...reliably the triggers of previous wrongdoing and the mechanisms necessary to avoid its recurrence. [12] Various Tribunal, High Court and Court of Appeal decisions concerning Mr McConnor’s wrongdoing and strike-off were produced and analysed via an affidavit by a New Zealand Law Society regulator. Mr McConnor submits that, as evidence, these items are not permitted by s 50 Evidence Act 2006. (Section 50 prohibits using evidence of a finding of fact in a civil proceeding or by a tr...