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1. [2025] NZEmpC 69  Bread of Life Christian Church in Auckland v Chen [pdf, 431 KB]

   ...and state, Courts must be reluctant to determine what are at heart ecclesiastical disputes where matters of faith or doctrine are at issue. But the Courts will intervene where civil or property rights are involved and can be expected to analyse carefully any argument that conventional incidents of a recognised relationship such as work do not give rise to contractual rights. [71] A similar distinction was made by Lady Hale in Percy v Board of National Mission of the Church of Sc...

2. Your guide to legal aid - Māori [pdf, 708 KB]

   ...whakamarutanga i raro i te Domestic Violence Act 1995, tētahi whakatau i raro i taua Ture. Mēnā he ‘tūroro marohi’ koe i roto i tētahi kōkiri whakawā i raro i te Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 1992, he ‘Proposed Care Patient’ rānei i roto i tētahi kōkiri whakawā i raro i te Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation) Act 2003, kāore e utua anō e koe ō āwhina ture. Ka utua taku āwhina ture ki a au, ki taku rōia rānei? Ka u...

3. Edwards v Capital and Coast DHB (Strike-Out Application) [2016] NZHRRT 20 [pdf, 144 KB]

   ...notify under principles 2, 3, 8 and 11 of the Privacy Act … [name of first plaintiff] has complained about the way information was collected about her at the DHB in June 2013. She says that at no point did any DHB staff indicate that they had any care and protection concerns, or that they would be using her information to make a report to Child Youth and Family … [name of first plaintiff] says the harm she suffered could have been avoided … [name of first plaintiff] says … [name o...

4. ENV-2016-AKL-000193 Kiwi Property Group Limited, Kiwi Property Holdings Limited & Sylvia Park Business Centre Limited v Auckland Council (Zoning and Precincts) [pdf, 2.6 MB]

   IN THE ENVIRONMENT COURT AUCKLAND REGISTRY IN THE MATTER AND IN THE MATTER AND IN THE MATTER BETWEEN AND ENV·2016·AKL· of the Local Government (Auckland Transitional Provisions) Act 2010 ("LGATPA") and the Resource Management Act 1991 ("RMA") of an appeal under section 156(1) of the LGATPA against a decision of the Auckland Council on a recommendation of the Auckland Unitary Plan Independent Hearing Panel ("Hearing Panel") on the propos

5. Wickliffe v Pearce - Paengaroa North B4B and K Aggregated (2005) 289 Rotorua MB 236 (289 ROT 236) [pdf, 5.9 MB]

   ...and must not profit fi-om their role: Peach v Jagger (1910) 30 NZLR 423. A seminal statement on the issue of investment of trust funds can be found in III re Whitely (1886) 33 Ch D 347. It was stated in that case that a trustee should take such care as an ordinary prudent person would take if minded to make an investment for the benefit of others whom the trustee felt morally bound to provide. This general proposition is of course now embodied in sections 13 Band 13 C of the Trustee Act...

6. ENV-2016-CHC-000047 Blueskin Energy Limited v Dunedin City Council - Evidence - Janet Stephenson [pdf, 2.1 MB]

   ...is now a significant body of evidence related to each to the main direct environmental impacts of wind energy projects including EMF (Israel et al., 2011, McCallum et al., 2014), shadow flicker (e.g. Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection and Massachusetts Department of Public Health 2012, UK Department of Energy and Climate Change 2011), low frequency noise (e.g. Moller and Pedersen 2011, Bolin et al. 2011) and infrasound (e.g. Turnbull et al, 2011, Bolin et al. 2...

7. Leadership of governments collective efforts to reduce family violence and sexual violence [pdf, 453 KB]

   ...sexual violence, including over 250,000 children. Over half of all homicides are the result of family violence and sexual violence – around 30 deaths every year. One in ten older people experience abuse or neglect from a family member or carer. 3 Family violence and sexual violence share patterns of coercive and controlling abusive behaviours intended to entrap and exert power over victims, often repeated across multiple victims, and often with an escalating spiral...

8. [2014] NZEmpC 231 Premier Events Group Ltd and Anor v Beattie and Ors [pdf, 685 KB]

   ...invective. In these circumstances it has been difficult to neatly delineate the employment related issues and evidence. This contributed significantly to the length of the hearing and its complexity. That has also contributed to the need to trawl carefully through the extensive evidence and voluminous documents put before the Court to try to ensure that this judgment deals only with employment related liabilities in contract, the Employment Relations Act 2000, or otherwise in jus...

9. [2015] NZEmpC 135 Fagotti v Acme & Co Ltd [pdf, 402 KB]

   ...reasonable settlement offers and required Mr Fagotti to proceed to an investigation and determination by the Authority. [88] Miss Buckett relies on the observations of the Chief Justice in the recent Supreme Court case of Helu v Immigration and Protection Tribunal. 39 Conscientious decision-makers commonly seek to organise their exercise of statutory powers of decision according to sequences, tests, and balances which they take from close analysis of the statutory text and scheme....

10. Pokere v Bodger - Ōuri 1A3 (2023) 466 Aotea MB 120 (466 AOT 120) [pdf, 356 KB]

    ...the ultimate goal of stopping the final demolition of the Whare, which had all failed to that point. That said, the tikanga arguments had some merit. [33] We do not accept the argument that clause 6 of the trust deed somehow provides a protective cloak against an award of costs. These proceedings were run akin to civil litigation. Applying for an injunction is one of the more serious applications that can be filed in this Court, and they must be filed with care and dil...