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1. Sec-274-N-Shoebridge-16.6.20-Redacted.pdf [pdf, 110 KB]

   ...for service of person wishing to be a party: Note to person wishing to be a party You must lodge the original and 1 copy of this notice with the Environment Court within 15 working days after— ● the period for lodging a notice of appeal ends, if the proceedings are an appeal; or ● the decision to hold an inquiry, if the proceedings are an inquiry; or ● the proceedings are commenced, in any other case. Your right to be a party to the proceedings in the Court may be...

2. [2022] NZEnvC 120 Director-General of Conservation v Whangarei District Council [pdf, 264 KB]

   ...have been filed. Accordingly, there is no issue as to costs and the Court makes no orders. 2 REASONS Introduction On 16 June 2022 the Court issued its second interim decision in relation to the District Wide – Kauri dieback topic of appeals on the Urban and Services plan changes to the Operative Whangārei District Plan.1 The parties were directed to prepare a final of the plan provisions for approval by the Court. The Council has prepared and filed the final provision...

3. [2023] NZEmpC 98 Caisteal An Ime Ltd v Faithfull [pdf, 209 KB]

   ...so that the successful party is entitled to an award of them. [20] In this case Mr Hobcraft relied on the Calderbank offer and Bluestar Print Group (NZ) Ltd v Mitchell to explain why Ms Faithfull is entitled to costs.8 In Bluestar, the Court of Appeal considered a Calderbank offer relating to a claim before the Authority. The Court took reg 68(1) as its starting point and was satisfied that the Calderbank offer fell squarely within the regulation.9 It then considered the High Cou...

4. Smith - Pekapeka 2A1D2B (2023) 103 Tākitimu MB 287 (103 TKT 287) [pdf, 231 KB]

   ...97) at [30]. 7 Reid v Trustees of Kaiwaitau 1 Trust – Kaiwaitau 1 (2006) 34 Gisborne Appellate MB 168 (34 APGS 168) at [17]. 8 See, for example, Whaanga v Trustees of the Anewa Trust – Anewa Block [2013] Māori Appellate Court MB 45 (2013 APPEAL 45); upheld by Whaanga v Niania – Anewa Trust [2011] Māori Appellate Court MB 428 (2011 APPEAL 428); 103 Tākitimu MB 293 to be able to be established on the block unless a portion of it is partitioned. This will give the...

5. [2025] NZREADT 18 - Dong v REA (09 June 2025) [pdf, 218 KB]

   ...Specifically, the evidence should be considered “cogent” only if it is capable of showing that the Registrar erred in one of the fundamental ways that would justify upholding the application for review.5 The threshold is higher than a full merits appeal. [33] Ms Maslin submits that the new evidence the Applicant wishes to adduce is not cogent, because it does not show that the Registrar erred in a way that would justify upholding the application for a review. She submits that th...

6. [2025] NZEmpC 166 Berryman v Fonterra Cooperative Group Ltd [pdf, 183 KB]

   ...another court which is above it in the same hierarchy of courts. However, a court will never be obliged to follow a decision of a court which is lower in the same hierarchy.4 This Court is a senior court. It sits alongside the High Court with an appeal pathway (by leave) to the Court of Appeal and then Supreme Court.5 As such, it is not obliged to follow the decisions of the District Court. [16] Although the doctrine of precedent does not apply in this case, I will consider wh...

7. KU v REAA [2025] NZREADT 40 (8 September 2025) [pdf, 280 KB]

   ...[2011] 2 NZLR 1 at [32]. 6 [19] It was submitted by the Registrar that, subject to these limitations, the Registrar’s decision must be confirmed, even if the Tribunal might come to a different decision on the merits if it was a general appeal. [20] We accept counsel’s submissions as to the nature of this review. We will, in deciding whether these limited grounds of review have been made out, need to make some assessment of the merits, without reaching any conclusion on th...

8. LCRO 132/2025 GL and OC v UT and VH (8 October 2025) [pdf, 211 KB]

   ...2013) at [4]. 3 For an example of a provision in an enactment empowering a judge to extend a time limit, see s 281(1)(a)(ii) of the Resource Management Act 1991. In short, in proceedings under that enactment a judge may waive the time within which an appeal may be lodged. 4 See Jindal v LCRO and A Law Firm [2025] NZHC 2369. 4 provision gives the Employment Relations Authority the discretion to allow an employee to raise a personal grievance after the required 12 month or 90 day peri...

9. [2011] NZEmpC 150 Parker v Silver Fern Farms Ltd [pdf, 41 KB]

   ...Hearing: By memorandum filed on 16 November 2011 Appearances: BA Corkill QC, counsel for plaintiff TP Cleary, counsel for defendant Judgment: 21 November 2011 SUPPLEMENTARY JUDGMENT OF CHIEF JUDGE GL COLGAN [1] The Court of Appeal, in its judgment in Parker v Silver Fern Farms Limited and the Employment Court, 1 remitted to this Court the question of what was to become of the Court’s interim order prohibiting publication of the name of, or otherwise identifyin...

10. Request for an interpreter [pdf, 161 KB]

    ...(cell)………………………………….... Language to be interpreted: ……………………………………………. Date of next hearing: ……………………..…….. Court of hearing: (Please tick the appropriate box.) Supreme Court Court of Appeal High Court Criminal Civil District Court Criminal Civil Family Youth Disputes Tribunal Tenancy Tribunal Māori Land Court Māori Appellate Court Environment Court Wai...