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1. EZ & UC v HQ & LQ [2024] NZDT 424 (15 May 2024) [pdf, 171 KB]

   ...statements of EZ, the reporting from tradespeople, and the other documents provided. 12. When considering the allegation of nondisclosure, I am faced with two irreconcilable statements regarding HQ and LQ’s knowledge of the leak. The Tribunal is a civil forum, that means that to be proven, a contention needs to be shown to be more likely than not to have occurred. This is known as the balance of probabilities and is often expressed probabilistically as needing to be 51% likely or...

2. Cooper v Hurunui - Estate of Derek Heemi Hurunui (2018) 394 Aotea MB 14 (394 AOT 14) [pdf, 256 KB]

   ...issue to take through all degrees, according to their stocks, in equal shares if more than one. (2) Where the owner of a beneficial interest in any Maori freehold land dies intestate leaving a person who is the owner's surviving spouse or civil union partner, that person is, subject to subsection (4), entitled as of right to an interest in that interest for life, or until he or she remarries or enters into a civil union or a de facto relationship. (3) Such a surviving spous...

3. MFAT report Human Rights in NZ 2010 [pdf, 4.7 MB]

   Human Rights in New Zealand Ngä Tika Tangata O Aotearoa 2010 The plain English version of Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has been translated into the heritage languages of the five major population groups in New Zealand. They are Pakeha/European, Mäori, Samoan, Chinese, Indian. All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. I te whänautanga mai ö te tangata, kähore he here, e örite ana töna tapu, töna mana, me

4. Trustees of the Speirs Family Trust [pdf, 20 KB]

   1 UNDER the Weathertight Homes Resolution Services Act 2006 IN THE MATTER of a reconsideration of the Chief Executive’s decision under section 49 CLAIM NO. 05928: DAVID AND REBECCA SPEIRS AS TRUSTEES OF THE SPEIRS FAMILY TRUST ELIGIBILITY DECISION OF THE CHAIR OF THE WEATHERTIGHT HOMES TRIBUNAL Background [1] Rebecca Speirs on behalf of the Speirs Family Trust has filed an application for reconsideration of the Chief Executive’s decision m...

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

   ...Bodger - Ōuri 1A3 (“the decision”).1 In the decision, counsel were invited to file submissions on costs. [2] The respondents have sought an award of costs, which is opposed by Ms Pokere Phillips (“the applicant”). [3] There is no dispute that the applicant was unsuccessful in all applications before the Court. Therefore, the Court is required to determine: (a) Whether an award of costs should be made; (b) What amount of costs should be awarded; and (c) Whe...

6. LCRO 160/2024 XT v YQ (27 June 2025) [pdf, 219 KB]

   ...legal fees of defending the proceedings on a solicitor-client basis; (j) the sister’s proceedings to sustain the notice of claim would be discontinued.2 [13] Unbeknownst to anyone but the applicant,3 he had filed proceedings against Mr X in the Family Court but not yet served them. The applicant represented himself in those proceedings. [14] As remedy, the applicant sought the retrospective revocation of various decisions Mr X had made as enduring attorney for Mrs X. As relief,...

7. Director of Proceedings v Smith (Application for Final Non-Publication Orders) [2019] NZHRRT 32 [pdf, 695 KB]

   1 (1) ORDER PROHIBITING PUBLICATION OF NAME, ADDRESS AND ANY OTHER IDENTIFYING PARTICULARS OF THE DEFENDANT. (2) ORDER PREVENTING SEARCH OF THE TRIBUNAL FILE WITHOUT LEAVE OF THE CHAIRPERSON OR OF THE TRIBUNAL. IN THE HUMAN RIGHTS REVIEW TRIBUNAL [2019] NZHRRT 32 Reference No. HRRT 092/2016 UNDER SECTION 50 OF THE HEALTH AND DISABILITY COMMISSIONER ACT 1994 BETWEEN DIRECTOR OF PROCEEDINGS PLAINTIFF AND MRS SMITH DEFENDANT AT

8. Goode v CAC 20002 & Ors [2014] NZREADT 64 [pdf, 135 KB]

   ...the appellant's lawyer could not protect them from "this kind of fraud" as he put it. He added that real estate agents in Christchurch were desperate for sales at that time and knew that he was then desperate for good housing for his family. [46] The appellant referred to the vendor's offer to allow the appellant to cancel the purchase contract for Bretts Road but only if the purchasers agreed to take no civil action against the vendor and the licensee in terms of...

9. Employment Court Judge Expression of Interest [docx, 27 KB]

   ...____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Please indicate, by ticking the boxes, the extent of your experience in the following: Court Civil Criminal Details, including number of appearances Supreme Court |_| |_| ___...

10. IHC New Zealand v Attorney-General (Strike-Out Application) [2020] NZHRRT 47 [pdf, 248 KB]

    ...failure to make its allegations against the proper defendants. The complaint procedure in HRA, Part 3 does not permit the scope of a claim to expand over time. [12] This submission attaches particular significance to the role of HRA, s 81(4) in the dispute resolution procedures set out in Part 3 of the Act. This section provides that before gathering information about a complaint the Commission must inform the person against whom the complaint is made of the details of the complaint....