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1. LCRO 95/2023 JV v FA (8 October 2024) [pdf, 177 KB]

   ...complaint and the Standards Committee decision [11] Mr FA lodged a complaint with the New Zealand Law Society Complaints Service (NZLS) on 30 August 2022. [12] The initial concerns identified by Mr FA focused on the invoices rendered. He considered fees charged to have been unreasonable and made complaint that he had received a final invoice after the retainer had been terminated. [13] Subsequent to filing his initial complaint, Mr FA, in correspondence to the Complaints Service of...

2. Auckland Standards Committee 1 v Deliu [2016] NZLCDT 25 [pdf, 72 KB]

   ...one member felt intimidated by the practitioner.16 [53] The practitioner claims there has been an abuse of process. The prosecution is said to be pursued for ulterior motives, i.e. to shield the New Zealand Law Society from the practitioner’s civil actions such as for malicious prosecution. As an aside, this seems to us to make little sense in that if the prosecution is indeed malicious, surely pursuing it through the Tribunal would only bolster the merits of the practitioner’s...

3. Granting Aid for Waitangi Tribunal Matters Policy v3.pdf [pdf, 522 KB]

   ...section 4 of the Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975. Wai number means the administrative number allocated to a Treaty claim by the Tribunal. Relevant Statutory and Policy Framework Legal Services Act 2011 10. Waitangi legal aid is a specific subset of civil legal aid. The main provisions relating to legal aid for Waitangi Tribunal proceedings are set out in sections 47 to 50 of the Act. Key matters covered by those sections are set out below. Further detail about how these provisions operat...

4. LCRO 68/2024 GRA v ZTV (1 September 2025) [pdf, 245 KB]

   ...advancing the claim pursuant to the Family Protection Act. He also provided details of his family’s health difficulties, which affected his abilities to maintain contact with his clients. [26] He has not addressed Ms RA’s complaint about his fees in any detail but says that his fees have been rendered in accordance with the various factors provided in r 9.1 of the Conduct and Client Care Rules. The Standards Committee determination [27] The Committee initially directed the pa...

5. BORA Resource Management Amendment Bill [pdf, 332 KB]

   ...concurrently: • allows regional land use consents to be reviewed: • allows these reviews to be initiated as soon as the relevant rule is operative (even if other rules in the plan are, for example, still under appeal). Increasing maximum infringement fees under RMA The current maximum infringement fees able to be set in regulations under the RMA are $2,000 for stock exclusion infringement offences, and $1,000 for all other infringement offences. Specific infringement fees are set in the R...

6. Rohipa v Campbell - Estate of Te Maungarongo Wiremu or Morgan Kingi (2008) 184 Gisborne 294 (184 GIS 294) [pdf, 475 KB]

   ...to take through all degrees, according to their stocks, in equal shares jf more than one. ' [(2) Where the owner of a beneficial interest in any Maori fTeehold land dies intestate leaving a person who is the owner's surviving spouse or civil union partneI; that person is, subject to subsection (4), entitled as of right to an interest in that interest for lif~ or until he or she remarries or enters into a civil union or a de taeto relationship.) (J)Such a surviving spouse [or...

7. TG v Ma [2025] NZIACDT 27 (27 May 2025) [pdf, 332 KB]

   ...New Zealand and a previous client of Ms Ma’s. This person is understood to be Mr L. It was Ms Y who was in contact with Mr L. [6] There followed texts and voice discussions between Ms Ma and Ms Y. The communications concerned the agreed fee (RMB 80,000 for each of the father and son), the documents needed and the requirement for a medical check. At some point, Ms Ma sent her template questionnaire (‘Online application information details’) to them seeking 3 biogra...

8. INZ (Calder) v Cleland [2019] NZIACDT 38 (10 June 2019) [pdf, 158 KB]

   ...agreement was accepted by the client, all significant matters in the agreement had been explained. This was a breach of cl 18(b) of the Code. Nor did the agreement contain a full description of the services to be provided to each client and the fee to be charged, in breach of cl 19(e) and (f). Additionally, he had failed to advise 11 of the 12 clients when their applications were lodged, or of their outcome. This was a breach of cl 26(b) of the Code. SUBMISSIONS [10] Counsel...

9. [2020] NZIACDT 36 Y(O)R v Tian (7 August 2020) [pdf, 201 KB]

   ...providing for the regulation of persons who give immigration advice. [23] The focus of professional disciplinary proceedings is not punishment, but the protection of the public:3 …It is well established that professional disciplinary proceedings are civil and not criminal in nature. That is because the purpose of statutory disciplinary proceedings for various occupations is not to punish the practitioner for misbehaviour, although it may have that effect, but to ensure that appropr...

10. [2022] NZIACDT 11 - BU v McCarthy (18 May 2022) [pdf, 193 KB]

    ...request. [7] On 18 April 2018, Mr McCarthy wrote a letter to the complainant (which he described as an agreement) stating that he had been instructed to intervene with Immigration NZ and seek a s 61 visa (partnership category). He set out his fees and certain other matters related to his engagement. The complainant was asked to sign the 1 Immigration Act 2009, s 61 (discretionary visa for someone unlawfully in New Zealand). 3 agreement and return a copy to him. The Tribu...