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1. VP v Canterbury Westland LCRO 323 / 2012 (22 May 2013) [pdf, 121 KB]

   ...perspective, a client, specifically one who is emotionally or financially vulnerable, might seek to initiate an intimate relationship with her or his lawyer for the purpose of gaining the lawyer’s favour and to try to persuade the lawyer to take an appeal against conviction and/or sentence against earlier advice not to... D. Mr VP’s conduct [22] In considering this issue, the Committee made several comments relevant to its position:9 46. At all material times, Ms [AK] presented...

2. [2018] NZEnvC 023 Royal Forest Bird Protection Society of NZ Inc v Northland Regional Council [pdf, 4.2 MB]

   ...measure that might be discovered in the future, while nevertheless accepting that at the present time the outlook for infected trees is bleak. Use of the Biosecurity Act [20] Councils in the upper North Island are faced with this issue. There is an appeal .on the subject against the proposed Thames-Coromandel district plan, which is part heard before the Environment Court. Other councils, such as Auckland, appear to be taking alternative approaches. We commend the Northland Regional...

3. BORA Social Security Amendment Bill [pdf, 272 KB]

   ...child. The Ministry of Social Development (MSD) has advised that the DPB rate is equivalent to the widow’s benefit. 1 In applying section 5, we have had regard to the guidelines set out by the Court of Appeal in Ministry of Transport (MOT) v Noort [1993] 3 NZLR 260 Moonen v Film and Literature Board of Review [2000] 2 NZLR 9; and Moonen v Film and Literature Board of Review [2002] 2 NZLR 754 and Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in R v...

4. BORA Substance Addiction (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Bill [pdf, 325 KB]

   ...detention and treatment without a final determination of the court should be 14 days. [10] We raised this issue with officials from the Ministry of Health during the drafting of the Bill. 47. Turning to the question of arbitrariness, the Court of Appeal has stated that a detention is arbitrary when it is “capricious, unreasoned, without reasonable cause: if it is made without reference to an adequate determining principle or without following proper procedures.” [11] The length of de...

5. AB v WA & Ors LCRO 68/2015 (11 July 2016) [pdf, 67 KB]

   ...process will, if it gives proper consideration to the evidence they provide: 9 • Conclude that proofs of debt provided to the High Court and to the company liquidator were incorrect. • Arrive at conclusion that a decision of the Court of Appeal which upheld a statutory demand, should be overturned. • Arrive at a different view to that of the High Court when that Court, in a decision delivered on [Day Month Year], refused leave to Mr and Mrs AB to pursue their matters f...

6. BZ v FI LCRO 245/2013 (5 April 2016) [pdf, 67 KB]

   ...helpful guidance on the nature and scope of a LCRO review. She described the review framework in the Act as creating “a very particular statutory process”.1 [16] Her Honour noted that: 2 …the power of review is much broader than an appeal. It gives the Review Officer discretion as to the approach to be taken on any particular review as to the extent of the investigations necessary to conduct that review, and therefore clearly contemplates the Review Officer reaching his o...

7. FH v GJ LCRO 87/2014 (7 Aug 2015) [pdf, 77 KB]

   ...Ms FH’s unsatisfactory conduct warranted a rebuke from the Committee. It is immaterial whether this rebuke took the form of a reprimand or a censure. The meaning of the terms “reprimand” and “censure” were considered by the Court of Appeal in The New Zealand Law Society v B. [39] The Court decided that the two terms are synonymous:13 This is apparent from a range of definitions of the two words, including those in Black’s Law Dictionary, the Oxford English Dictionary, t...

8. Waitangi Tribunal - issue 59 of Te Manutukutuku [pdf, 669 KB]

   ...right-holders, and without compensation. Today, the 2 3 6 8 5 9 Tribunal Report on the foreshore and seabed cont inued on page 3 Crown wishes to restore that situation of effective Crown ownership, which had been challenged by the Court of Appeal. The Tribunal found that there is no over- whelming need for the Crown to do this in the national interest, or to set aside Treaty protections. It considered that, at the very least, the Crown must compensate those who will lose proper...

9. Harland v Prentice - Mana Ahuriri Incorporated Society (2017) 57 Takitimu MB 1 (57 Takitimu 1) [pdf, 356 KB]

   ...number of purposes. The purpose must relate to some matter of business that is pressing at the time. It must also be established that the question of 9 [2011] Māori Appellate Court MB 577 (2011 APPEAL 577) at [40] 10 Ibid at [43] see also Manuirirangi v Nga Hapu o Nga Ruahine Iwi Inc [2010] Chief Judge’s MB 355 (2015 CJ 355) at [33] 57 Tākitimu MB 9 representation for the particular purpose described has not and cannot b...

10. [2018] NZEmpC 59 Nel v ASB Bank Ltd [pdf, 329 KB]

    ...New Zealand Inc v Scott EmpC Auckland AC45/08, 8 August 2006 at [11]. 5 Pacific Plastic Recyclers Ltd v Foo [2002] 2 ERNZ 75 (EmpC). 6 At [24]. [25] The rationale for the provision of proper particulars was explained by the Court of Appeal in Price Waterhouse v Fortex Group Ltd in these terms:7 Pleadings which are properly drawn and particularised are, in the case of any complexity, if not in all cases, an essential roadmap for the Court and the parties. They are the doc...