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1. [2023] NZIACDT 22 - OT v Ramos (27 June 2023) [pdf, 150 KB]

   ...there is no evidence these costs have been incurred. Equally problematic is that there is no sensible basis for two requests to the Minister. [49] The complainant has additionally sought $4,450 for legal representation and Immigration NZ’s fees for future temporary visa applications for him and his wife. It is 7 WS v Lawlor [2023] NZIACDT 16. 9 unclear whether these expenses will be incurred. The work is uncomplicated and may not justify legal fees. It is doubtful w...

2. [2025] NZIACDT 48 - INZ (Watson) v Santos - 15 September 2025 [pdf, 257 KB]

   ...as a self-employed contractor to Visa Hub Ltd, trading as Visahub, of Auckland and Manila (the agency). MN [6] On 16 June 2023, MN signed the agency’s terms of engagement. The agency would seek an accredited employer work visa for him. The fee was $3,995, including Immigration NZ’s fee of $750. Mr Santos was named as one of the advisers who might assist him. [7] On the same day, MN signed an employment agreement to work as a carpenter and joiner for F Ltd, of Auckland (the...

3. Smith v The Proprietors of Mangaroa and other blocks (2015) 113 Waiariki MB 1 (113 WAR 1) [pdf, 209 KB]

   ...be one approach to costs if the judge happens to be a recent appointment from the bar and another approach for judges who happen not to be. The approach must be uniform and cannot be based on a judge’s own assessment of the reasonableness of fees based on his or her recollection of what prevailed at the bar in his or her time. [30] If I was applying a scale approach then I would start with costs arrived at on applying a Scale 2 basis being $7,827.60. In the circumstances of this...

4. LCRO 65/2019 PT v [Area] Standards Committee [X] [pdf, 164 KB]

   ...application having been made to this Office for a review, so that appears to have exhausted the jurisdiction of the Act. [6] However, until the statutory limitation period passed, Ms PT says there remained a risk that the client might bring a civil claim against her and Ms ZM as partners in the firm. [7] At some point Ms PT decided she would leave the partnership and commence practice as a barrister. [8] By early 2018 Ms PT and Ms ZM had sought independent legal advice about...

5. [2024] NZREADT 46 - JX v CAC2201 Baker (22 November 2024) [pdf, 221 KB]

   ...proceedings is not punishment, but the protection of the public:4 4 Z v Dental Complaints Assessment Committee [2008] NZSC 55, [2009] 1 NZLR 1 at [97], [128] and [151]. 5 …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 appro...

6. [2025] NZIACDT 20 – EI v Liu (3 March 2025) [pdf, 119 KB]

   ...the payment of all or any of the costs or expenses of the investigation, inquiry, or hearing, or any related prosecution: (h) an order directing the licensed immigration adviser or former licensed immigration adviser to refund all or any part of fees or expenses paid by the complainant or another person to the licensed immigration adviser or former licensed immigration adviser: (i) an order directing the licensed immigration adviser or former licensed immigration adviser to pay re...

7. [2024] NZREADT 45 – Parmar v REAA, KB & LB (20 November 2024) [pdf, 121 KB]

   ...of unsatisfactory conduct in relation to a complaint brought by the second respondents (KB and LB). [2] On 27 May 2024, the Committee made a decision on orders (the penalty decision) censuring Mr Parmar and ordering him to refund the commission fees charged for work which was the subject of the complaint to the amount of $3,000 and pay a fine of $1,500 to the Real Estate Agents Authority (the Authority). [3] On 29 May 2024, Mr Parmar filed a notice of appeal in relation to the penal...

8. [2024] NZIACDT 15 – YT v CX (14 May 2024) [pdf, 290 KB]

   ...complainant and advised him how to sign it. He did so that day. The company agreed to seek a work visa for him (under the accredited employer instructions) and provide certain immigration and settlement services (set out in greater detail later). The fee was RMB 100,000 (approx. NZD 23,000). [6] On the same day, 29 September 2022, Ms R sent an employment contract to the complainant. He was to be employed as a fitter welder by an engineering company (the employer). He signed i...

9. Brownlie v Brown - Pipituangi A Trust [2011] Maori Appellate Court MB 271 (2011 APPEAL 271) [pdf, 182 KB]

   ...or control over the amount of legal expenses, which were excessive given the income of the trust. 2011 Maori Appellate Court MB 276 [15] The appellants also complained that the Judge misconstrued the application in saying that the legal fees were incurred in response to applications and actions taken by the appellants. Rather, the appellants, as beneficiaries of the trust, were entitled to ensure that the trustees were behaving in accordance with their trust obligations an...

10. [2015] NZEmpC 25 PRI Flight Catering Ltd v Saha [pdf, 117 KB]

    ...plaintiffs emphasise that they were required to file two statements in reply, to attend two telephone conferences, and to prepare a memorandum seeking to strike out the defendant’s claim. They seek an uplift of 50 per cent of a one day tariff fee, amounting to a total of $5,250. In addition, the plaintiffs seek what they describe as a “modest award” towards their costs of attendance at mediation, $3,345 (plus GST), being 66 per cent of what they say were their actual and rea...