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1. Legal-Aid-lawyer-Provider-Manual-Feb-2025.pdf [pdf, 380 KB]

   ...Providing legal aid Grants Handbook The Grants Handbook is a useful resource that sets out our policies relating to legal aid in detail. Use the grants handbook to learn more about legal aid applications, eligibility, assignments, reassignments, fees, payments and more. We encourage you to read the Grants Handbook before you begin providing legal aid services. Applying for legal aid People who meet the criteria in the Act and Legal Services Regulations 2011 can apply for a legal aid g...

2. TSO v Hassan [2013] NZIACDT 52 (16 August 2013) [pdf, 125 KB]

   ...complainant is somewhat distantly related to Mr Hassan. He accepts he did not comply with some of the formalities in the Code of Conduct thinking informality in a “family” context was acceptable. [4] However, the complainant says she paid substantial fees, which Mr Hassan denies. The complaint also alleges Mr Hassan did not process applications properly and that he dishonestly misled her in relation to the applications he was instructed to file. [5] Mr Hassam provided an explanation...

3. [2020] NZIACDT 24 - BV v Aiolupotea (12 June 2020) [pdf, 117 KB]

   ...[1] Mr Salesa (Charles) Aiolupotea, the adviser, acted for BV, the complainant. He undertook to seek a visitor visa and citizenship for the complainant. Mr Aiolupotea did seek a visitor visa, but not citizenship, despite taking a significant fee. In reality, the complainant was not eligible for citizenship. [2] A complaint against Mr Aiolupotea was made by the complainant to the Immigration Advisers Authority (the Authority). The Registrar of Immigration Advisers (the Registra...

4. [2022] NZIACDT 26 — DA v Ji (8 November 2022) [pdf, 121 KB]

   ...was to be employed as a chef. [6] On 28 August 2017, the complainant and Ryan & Samuel Ltd entered into an immigration services agreement. Mr Ji was named as one of the advisers. The advisers were to prepare a work visa application. The fee was $10,000. [7] The complainant paid the fee of $10,000 on about 31 August 2017. [8] On 16 December 2017 and 10 January 2018, the complainant made payments totalling RMB 100,000 to a person specified by Mr Ji. The Tribunal was unab...

5. LCRO 176/2022 SP v AQ (15 August 2023) [pdf, 313 KB]

   ...Paragraph 6 of the terms and conditions states: All expenses – disbursements incurred on your behalf will be charged to you. [7] It then identifies the expenses and disbursements which may be charged as a mix of third-party charges (e.g. courier fees, Court filing fees) as well as work that would be undertaken by Ms SP, such as reviewing LIM reports, bank requirements for loans/securities, and preparing agreements. [8] On 16 July, Ms AQ asked to see the draft Will before she at...

6. BORA Ngā Mana Whenua o Tāmaki Makaurau Collective Redress Bill [pdf, 290 KB]

   ...of these individual iwi or hapū settlements. 4. The Bill provides the Tūpuna Taonga o Tāmaki Makaurau Trust (the Taonga Trust), is the beneficiary of the cultural redress provided under the Bill. This includes the vesting of certain maunga in fee simple in the trustee of the Taonga Trust The Bill also provides for matters relating to the ownership, use, access, etc, of improvements attached to the maunga. 5. The Bill also provides (in Subpart 7) for the carrying out of authorise...

7. XN v Ji [2019] NZIACDT 67 (1 October 2019) Sanctions [pdf, 186 KB]

   ...date of the decline letter was altered and the complainant did not become aware of it until it was too late to appeal to the IPT. She lost the opportunity to have her application considered on appeal and accordingly seeks compensation for the fees paid in relation to the appeal. [18] At the request of the Tribunal, Mr Chen filed evidence supporting the claimed expenses on 10 September 2019. An additional expense was also claimed. [19] The following table identifies the items of...

8. [2025] NZIACDT 45 - NA v Wharekura (2 September 2025) [pdf, 234 KB]

   ...was entered into by the husband and Mr Wharekura. The latter would seek a partnership-based work visa for the complainant. [7] Mr Wharekura produced an invoice (6 March 2023) addressed to the husband. It was for $1,200, being $500 for his own fee and $700 for Immigration New Zealand (Immigration NZ). [8] The husband emailed relevant documents to Mr Wharekura from 19 March until 7 April 2023, including the signed immigration forms, a medical report and notification he had paid...

9. [2017] NZEnvC 101 D B Ellis v Porirua City Council Costs [pdf, 416 KB]

   ...totalling $3,789.25 • Total costs $17,065.21 3 . As is required the appellant submitted supporting invoices for these costs. [7] The reasons given by the appellant for an award of costs were that the Council in this case imposed too high a fee and did not fairly inform the appellant as to both what the actual costs were or what the future costs incurred were likely to be. The appellant was subject to costs which were clearly not commensurate with the scale and effects of the pro...

10. Green v De'Ath [2018] NZIACDT 50 (13 December 2018) [pdf, 214 KB]

    ...professional obligations. [2] The complaint arose out of Mr De’Ath’s representation of Mr S in relation to a work visa application. The prospective employer was Mrs Jenelle Green who, together with her husband, owns a dairy farm. They paid his fees. For reasons which are not relevant, the processing of the visa application by Immigration New Zealand was delayed, but it was ultimately successful. [3] The complaint against Mr De’Ath largely arose out of his misunderstandi...