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1. Directory of Official Information M-O [pdf, 564 KB]

   ...Zealand • two persons, being officers of the Ministry of Health, one of whom shall be appointment as chairman. Records The documents held are minutes of meetings, a file of correspondence and administrative matters, and files concerning the appeals and objections heard by the Committee. Documents relating to decision-making processes The Medicines Classification Committee uses the Members’ Handbook manuals for administrative purposes. 20 Contact The Secretary...

2. Directory of Official Information M-O [pdf, 564 KB]

   ...Zealand • two persons, being officers of the Ministry of Health, one of whom shall be appointment as chairman. Records The documents held are minutes of meetings, a file of correspondence and administrative matters, and files concerning the appeals and objections heard by the Committee. Documents relating to decision-making processes The Medicines Classification Committee uses the Members’ Handbook manuals for administrative purposes. 20 Contact The Secretary...

3. [2024] NZLVT 062 - Edwards v Minister for Land Information (29 November 2024) [pdf, 3.4 MB]

   ...for the Respondent, at [79]. 24 Synopsis of Submissions for the Respondent, at [80]. 25 Synopsis of Submissions for the Respondent, at [81]. 26 Green & McCahill Holdings Ltd v Auckland Council [2013] NZHC 507, at [55]. The decision was appealed to the Court of Appeal. In relation to general principles however, there was not a significant disagreement by the Court of Appeal with the decision of the High Court. 27 Russell v Minister of Lands (1898) 17 NZLR 241 (SC), at 253; and...

4. [2023] NZEnvC 277 Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Whātua v Auckland Council [pdf, 9.2 MB]

   IN THE ENVIRONMENT COURT AT AUCKLAND I TE KŌTI TAIAO O AOTEAROA KI TĀMAKI MAKAURAU Decision [2023] NZEnvC 277 IN THE MATTER of appeals under sections 120 and 121 of the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA/the Act) AND IN THE MATTER of an application by Waste Management NZ Ltd for resource consents to construct and operate a new landfill at 1232 State Highway 1, Wayby Valley, Wellsford BETWEEN TE RŪNANGA O NGĀTI WHĀTUA (ENV-2021-AKL-076) ROYAL FOREST AND BIRD PROTEC...

5. [2024] NZEnvC 025 Shundi Queenstown Limited v Queenstown Lakes District Council [pdf, 2.6 MB]

   ...the purposes of a further and final decision effecting grant of consent to the Modified Proposal. C. There will be no order as to costs, these are to lie where they fall. REASONS Introduction [1] Shundi Queenstown Limited ('Shundi')1 appealed against a decision of the Queenstown Lakes District Council ('QLDC') to decline land use consent for a hotel proposal at 53-65 Frankton Road, Queenstown ('Site').2 A number of submitters to the first instance heari...

6. [2011] NZEmpC 41 ABC Developmental Learning Centres v Plasmeyer [pdf, 54 KB]

   ...circumstances”. [10] The defendant submits that her proceedings were conducted responsibly and relatively efficiently. The hearing took less than a day. She emphasises the strict application of s 40(2) as illustrated by the judgment of the Court of Appeal in Laverty v Para Franchising Ltd. 2 The defendant says that her circumstances are not “quite out of the ordinary” following Awa v Independent News Auckland Ltd (No 2). 3 [11] Although I am prepared to, and do, make an...

7. [2010] NZEmpC 127 Brownie v Fuster [pdf, 17 KB]

   ...ordered Mr Brownie to pay Mr Fuster more than $9,000 in arrears of wages, interest and expenses. That determination was issued on 3 August 2010. [3] On 2 September 2010, the registrar received a letter from Mr Brownie saying that he wished to “appeal” the Authority’s determination. The letter did not meet the minimum requirements for a statement of claim and was not accompanied by the required filing fee. In any event, it was received by the Court outside the 28 day perio...

8. [2006] NZEmpC CC 9A/06 T & R Distributors Ltd v Grimes [pdf, 21 KB]

   ...should be ordered to pay two-thirds of the total costs incurred by the plaintiff in respect of the proceedings in both the Authority and the Court. There is an obvious difficulty with that submission. While the well known decisions of the Court of Appeal have suggested that two-thirds of actual and reasonable costs incurred is an appropriate starting point for fixing costs in the Court, that approach is not appropriate for fixing costs in the Authority: - see the decision of the f...

9. [2012] NZEmpC 178 Rimene v P J Doherty & Natusch Group Ltd [pdf, 56 KB]

   ...Doherty cannot now rely on his assertions that his situation should be treated any differently to any other represented person dealing with the Court. 7. The respondent submits that it would be inequitable and unjust to allow the applicants’ appeal to proceed without allowing its own application to proceed. Both parties have filed their elections out of time in error and both sought to correct the matter without delay. [6] As noted in my contemporaneous judgment in WRC 14/12,...

10. [2012] NZEmpC 2 Bourne and Ors v New Zealand Merchant Service Guild Industrial Union of workers Inc [pdf, 51 KB]

    ...there is a single issue or all issues in a case are decided in favour of one party, applying those principles is relatively straightforward. Where, as in this case, each party has had a measure of success, it can be problematic. As the Court of Appeal observed in Health Waikato Ltd v Elmsly 2 : [39] It is not usual in New Zealand for costs to be assessed on an issue by issue basis, albeit that it is common enough, where both parties had a measure of success at trial, for no order...