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1. Fruean v Knuckey - Waitara West 52D (2023) 475 Aotea MB 284 (475 AOT 284) [pdf, 371 KB]

   ...I see this situation as a difference in management styles and approach that I am happy to keep discussing and working to resolve. I do not accept that I’ve breached my obligations as trustee. My conduct has always been aimed at furthering the protection of these urupā which are in our care. Josephine Moore [46] Josephine Moore is not a trustee but was appointed secretary to the Trust in 2016. She provided a brief of evidence dated 12 September 2023. [47] Ms Moore describes her...

2. Lee v Auckland Council [2016] NZWHT Auckland 2 [pdf, 317 KB]

   THE WEATHERTIGHT HOMES TRIBUNAL TRI 2014-100-000026 [2016] NZWHT AUCKLAND 2 BETWEEN BU-RYE & JEOM-YOUL LEE Claimants AND AUCKLAND COUNCIL First Respondent AND GIL (2008) LIMITED (formerly Goodland Investments Limited) Second Respondent AND LAI FOOK CHOY (Not Served) Third Respondent Hearing: 28, 29, 30 October 2015 Closing submissions: 25 November 2015 Appearances: Ms Grant for the claimants Ms Knight and Mr Fellows for th

3. ENV-2016-AKL-000xxx Kuegler Family Trust & Others v Auckland Council [pdf, 2.4 MB]

   ...submissions prepared by persons without professional help. In such circumstances, to take a legalistic view that a council could only accept or reject the relief sought would be unreal. As observed in an oft-repeated dictum in Royal Forest & Bird Protection Society Inc v Southland District Council 12: … it is important that the assessment of whether any amendment was reasonably and fairly raised in the course of submissions, should be approached in a realistic workable fashion...

4. [2024] NZEnvC 225 Auckland International Airport Limited v Auckland Transport [pdf, 6 MB]

   ...Conditions Abbreviations and Definitions Acronym/Term Definition Activity sensitive to noise Any dwelling, visitor accommodation, boarding house, marae, papakainga, integrated residential development, retirement village, supported residential care, care centre, lecture theatre in a tertiary education facility, classroom in an education facility and healthcare facility with an overnight stay facility AUP Auckland Unitary Plan BPO or Best Practicable Has the same meaning as in secti...

5. Qualitative study on behalf of the Independent Panel examining the 2014 family justice system reforms [pdf, 943 KB]

   ...................................................................................................................................... 25 4.1 Top of mind experience ................................................................................................................. 25 4.2 Advice to other parents about to embark on parental ‘day-to-day care and contact’ arrangements ...................................................................................................................

6. [2017] NZEmpC 84 The Chief Executive of the Ministry of Social Development v Tuilaepa [pdf, 205 KB]

   ...Intervention, which is a technique the Ministry has used for about 17 years for handling potentially volatile situations. [26] Every youth worker is trained in NVCI. Part of this training is how to respond to complex situations that can materialise in caring for and detaining young persons who often have troubled backgrounds. This training emphasises techniques to avoid physical confrontation. While there is a strong emphasis on identifying behaviour that risks reaching an un...

7. Wang v Real Estate Agents Authority (CAC 409) v Sweetingham [2017] NZREADT 29 [pdf, 274 KB]

   ...the proposed cycleway until after the complaint was made. Substantive decision [13] In making the finding of unsatisfactory conduct, the Committee found that Ms Wang breached 5.1 of the Real Estate Agents Act (Professional Conduct and Client Care) Rules 2012 (“the Rules), which provides that “[a] licensee must exercise skill, care, competence, and diligence at all times when carrying out real estate agency work”. The Committee also found that Ms Wang breached r 6.4, which p...

8. Vosper and Vopser Ltd v CAC 402 & Biddle [2016] NZREADT 60 [pdf, 194 KB]

   ...September 2015 (the substantive decision), in which the Committee found pursuant to s 72(d) of the Real Estate Agents Act 2008 (“the Act”) that the appellants had breached provisions of the Real Estate Agents Act (Professional Conduct and Client Care) Rules 2012 (“the Rules”) and had therefore engaged in unsatisfactory conduct (“the substantive decision”). The appellants also appealed against the Committee’s decision issued on 9 November 2015, in which each of the ap...

9. Auckland Standards Committee 1 v Hart [2012] NZLCDT 26 [pdf, 177 KB]

   ...obedience to, institutions of that profession and that such was entirely lacking in Mr Hart. [14] In addressing Charge 4, Mr Collins submitted that the practitioner’s attitude “... to a distressed and vulnerable family was exploitative rather than protective and there was complete disregard for the Rules of Conduct and Client Care.” Mr Collins went on to refer to the “dismissive and superficial attitude to the intervention rule, the absence of any guidance or advice about f...

10. [2019] NZSAAA 1 (4 February 2019) [pdf, 417 KB]

    Decision No. [2019] NZSAAA 1 Reference No. SAA 2/18 IN THE MATTER of the Education Act 1989 and the Student Allowances Regulations 1998 AND IN THE MATTER of an appeal against a decision of the Chief Executive, Ministry of Social Development BEFORE THE STUDENT ALLOWANCE APPEAL AUTHORITY Neil Cameron HEARING on the papers DECISION The appeal is upheld REASONS Overview [1] This is an appeal against the decision of the Secreta