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1. Watson v Accident Compensation Corporation (Work Related Gradual Process Injury) [2024] NZACC 172 (30 October 2024) [pdf, 208 KB]

   IN THE DISTRICT COURT AT WELLINGTON I TE KŌTI-Ā-ROHE KI TE WHANGANUI-A-TARA [2024] NZACC 172 ACAR 135/24 UNDER THE ACCIDENT COMPENSATION ACT 2001 IN THE MATTER OF AN APPEAL UNDER SECTION 149 OF THE ACT BETWEEN STEWART WATSON Appellant AND ACCIDENT COMPENSATION CORPORATION Respondent Hearing: On the papers Held at: Wellington/Whanganui-a-Tara by AVL Appearances: H Menneer for the Appellant B Marten and S Stewart for the A...

2. LCRO 147/2024 YK v XH (4 September 2025) [pdf, 184 KB]

   ...ordered to him pay some reparation. [9] As part of that sentence Mr YK was judicially monitored by Judge TQ. [10] In [date], Mr YK was remanded in custody as a result of a threatening [Social Media] post he had made. [11] On [date], following an appeal against bail refusal, the High Court released Mr YK on bail. [12] During [date], Mr YK was arrested and charged with further offences, including five domestic violence charges. Bail was refused in the District Court. 3 [13] On [...

3. 2025-April-External-Site-Main-Te-Au-Reka-page.pdf [pdf, 149 KB]

   ...phase of development for the Civil and Criminal jurisdictions of both the High Court and District Court, is set to begin later this year and expected to rollout in the second half of 2027. A third and final phase of development will focus on the appeals processes, including the Court of Appeal, and Supreme Court. It will also include rollout for Environment Court, Coroners Court, and the Disputes Tribunal. The third phase is set to begin in 2026 and rollout in late 2028. Slide 1:...

4. Interpreter Services Quality Framework [pdf, 1 MB]

   ............................................................................................................... 51 4.6 TIMESHEETS ............................................................................................................................. 51 4.7 APPEALS .................................................................................................................................. 51 PERFORMANCE MONITORING AND ONGOING QUALITY IMPROVEMENT ................................. 53...

5. OIA-109795.pdf [pdf, 2.3 MB]

   ...disclosure of relevant information held by non-parties to a prosecution. The Bill also provides that disclosure is an on-going obligation on the prosecution applicable on a pre-trial basis as well as during trial and up to exhaustion of all appeals. With minor amendments (the list of recommendations follows), Part 2 of the Bill should be enacted. R EL EA SE D UN DE R TH E OFF IC IA L IN FO RM AT IO N AC T 19 82 2 LIST OF RECOMMENDATION...

6. [2025] NZEmpC 208 Soapi and Others v Pick Hawkes Bay Inc [pdf, 412 KB]

   ...of the Wages Protection Act, which provides that it is subject to the provisions of any other Act. The only exceptions to s 15 are in ss 6(2) and 16. [87] The plaintiffs relied on Sandhu v Gate Gourmet New Zealand Ltd where the Court of Appeal affirmed the minority judgment of Chief Judge Inglis in the case under appeal, where she described the combined effect of ss 6 and 7 of the Minimum Wage Act as “a floor with carefully defined trap doors which an employer must go through...

7. [2025] NZEmpC [2025] NZEmpc 241 Jenner v Corrections Assoc of New Zealand Inc (No 2) [pdf, 468 KB]

   ...process pending the resolution of the judicial review proceedings.5 Those proceedings were scheduled to be heard on 30 September and 1 October 2025 in Wellington.6 However, they are currently adjourned pending an application by CANZ for leave to appeal an interlocutory judgment. The days were utilised to hear these proceedings. [18] At the time of those proceedings, Mr Jenner had a tense relationship with Mr du Plessis, the president of CANZ, and took issue with various decisions...

8. [2007] NZEmpC WC 13/07 NZ Fire Service Commission v NZ Professional Firefighters Union [pdf, 85 KB]

   ...contracts. The predecessor to s162 was a virtually identical provision: s104(1)(h) of the Employment Contracts Act 1991. Whether that section conferred jurisdiction on this Court under the Declaratory Judgments Act 1908 was considered by the Court of Appeal and the Employment Court1. [9] In Sears v Attorney-General, the Court of Appeal held2 that section 104(1)(h) was: … directed and limited to the orders available in proceedings founded on or relating to an employment contract...

9. [2012] NZEmpC 186 Walker v Procure Health Ltd [pdf, 153 KB]

   ...discretion conferred on the Court under that provision is to be exercised judicially and in accordance with recognised principles. [6] The principles relating to costs awards in this Court are well established. They are based on the Court of Appeal judgments in Victoria University of Wellington v Alton-Lee; 3 Binnie v Pacific Health Ltd 4 and Health Waikato Ltd v Elmsly. 5 The usual approach is to determine whether the costs actually incurred by the successful party were reas...

10. [2015] NZEmpC 24 Lowe v Director-General of Health, Ministry of Health & Ors [pdf, 194 KB]

    ...provision of services. It was also submitted that the substance of the arrangement was a “sale by labour by the caregiver”, thus qualifying under the statutory definition of homeworker according to the principles identified by the Court of Appeal in Cashman v Central Regional Health Authority. 4 [10] Counsel for the Ministry and the C&CDHB emphasised that those entities had no role in selecting the support worker, and that there was no legal relationship