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1. Napier v Registrar of the Real Estate Agents Authority [2019] NZREADT 7 (25 Feb 2019) [pdf, 264 KB]

   ...the right of the media to report proceedings fairly and accurately as surrogates of the public. They also accepted, as a starting point, the need to take into account and recognise and apply the purposes of the Act, including the promotion and protection of the interests of consumers. [7] Mr McAnally submitted for Mr Napier that publication of the Tribunal’s substantive decision would give life to matters that are increasingly historical, would add nothing to what is already k...

2. LCRO 146/2019 AC v CJ (12 March 2020) [pdf, 146 KB]

   ...cover. Had Ms CJ been aware of the amount of legal fees that would be incurred as a result of her own actions, and which were ultimately being paid by her, matters would have been resolved a lot earlier. The express purposes of [the Act] include protection of the consumers of legal services and maintaining public confidence in the provision of 2 Standards Committee determination at [28]–[37]. 3 LCRO 272/2012 at [35]. 6 legal ser...

3. MacGregor v Craig (Rescission of Confidentiality Orders) [2016] NZHRRT 23 [pdf, 225 KB]

   ...circumstances which had led her to abandon her original “no publication” position in favour of the full publication for which she now argued were related to the four proceedings to which Mr Craig, not Ms MacGregor, is a party. In her view the protection afforded by the Tribunal’s interim orders has been overtaken by those proceedings because in them Mr Craig is once more publishing confidential and private information about her for the purpose of attempting to repair his own reputa...

4. [2023] NZEnvC 188 Wakatipu Equities Ltd v Queenstown Lakes District Council [pdf, 414 KB]

   ...instruments sufficiently clear without the need to draw from such extraneous sources. Overview of the NPS-HPL Objective and policies as to highly productive land [10] The NPS-HPL has a single objective (in cl 2.1): Highly productive land is protected for use in land-based primary production, both now and for future generations. [11] The NPS-HPL specifies several associated policies (cl 2.2), including: Policy 1: Highly productive land is recognised as a resource with finite...

5. [2022] NZEmpC 5 VMR v Civil Aviation Authority [pdf, 519 KB]

   VMR v CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY [2022] NZEmpC 5 [24 January 2022] IN THE EMPLOYMENT COURT OF NEW ZEALAND CHRISTCHURCH I TE KŌTI TAKE MAHI O AOTEAROA ŌTAUTAHI [2022] NZEmpC 5 EMPC 386/2021 IN THE MATTER OF a challenge to a determination of the Employment Relations Authority BETWEEN VMR First Plaintiff AND KRR Second Plaintiff AND WEN Third Plaintiff AND XDD Fourth Plaintiff AND CIVIL AVIATION AU

6. Professor Simon Francis Thrush - Evidence in Chief [pdf, 2.7 MB]

   BEFORE THE ENVIRONMENT COURT Auckland Registry ENV 2015 AKL 0000134 IN THE MATTER AND BETWEEN AND of the Resource Management Act 1991 of an appeal under Clause 14 of the First Schedule of the Act TRUSTEES OF MOTITI ROHE MOANATRUST Appellant BAY OF PLENTY REGIONAL COUNCIL Respondent STATEMENT OF EVIDENCE OF PROFESSOR SIMON FRANCIS THRUSH ON BEHALF OF MOTITI ROHE MOANA TRUST 25th October 2017 Counsel Acting RB Enright Barrister Level 1, Stanbeth House 28 C

7. [2015] NZEmpC 216 Roy v Tamaki College Board of Trustees no 3 interlocutory [pdf, 151 KB]

   ...concerning both the evidence given by witnesses and statements made by the Court, have been the subject of subsequent consideration and have been established in cross- examination of Mr Roy to be false. That means that the Court must examine very carefully and critically the other very serious allegations that the plaintiff has made, particularly about the school’s Principal and its then Board’s Deputy Chair. Some of those allegations may be described as sensational and they ar...

8. ENVC Hearing 6Oct14 DM local Judith Pemberton [pdf, 107 KB]

   ...Conservation, Auckland Council and the contracting firm attended to rescue any penguins still present in the burrows. I observed as my son indicated to those representatives where the penguin burrows were located. A digger driver would then carefully prise the rocks away to reveal any remaining penguins. Although it was day time and most of the penguins would ordinarily be at sea, two penguins were rescued and relocated to a different island by Department of Conservation staff....

9. Canterbury Standards Committee v a practitioner [2015] NZLCDT 44 [pdf, 41 KB]

   ...context he submitted that ‘fraudulent’ had a wider meaning than fraud in a criminal sense. He queried why otherwise would the word ‘criminal’ be used in the rule. He argued that narrowing the interpretation of the word would reduce the protection of the public and would undermine the purpose of the legislation as provided for in ss 3 and 4 of the Act for the maintenance of public confidence. 7 [27] The Tribunal has determined that it is not necessary to resolve the ar...

10. WC v AU LCRO 218 / 2012 (6 June 2013) [pdf, 94 KB]

    ...not the role of the Standards Committee to enforce standards of mere etiquette, it would seem usual to raise these matters with the other counsel not only as a matter of courtesy, but also to ensure that the interests of the client are properly protected and there is no duplication (such as the two Legal Aid applications) or confusion. [35] It is clear that there is no property in a client and that a client may change lawyers should they choose to do so. It was therefore not inapp...