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1. 1 Cab paper Repeal of three strikes law Redacted [pdf, 1.5 MB]

   ...Court decisions made under current legislation which have a distorting effect. This includes a Supreme Court hearing about three strikes offending that is currently underway. 47 Anticipation of the legislation is likely to cause an increase in requests for adjournments of three strike cases, particularly for those who are to be sentenced for second strike offences. This will increase the backlog of people on remand and negatively impact victims through delays in Court. 48 If transiti...

2. Kidd v Maori Owners - Whenuanui No 2B [2021] Chief Judges MB 1409 (2021 CJ 1409) [pdf, 356 KB]

   ...that the 2007 order should not be cancelled or amended. Te kōrero a te Kairēhita Tianara Whenua The Registrar-General of Land’s submissions [29] The Registrar-General of Land submits that that there is uncertainty as to whether a formal request to register the 2007 order was made, but acknowledges that it appears LINZ was notified of the order and did not register it. It is submitted that because the 2007 order was not registered, the certificate of title would have given no...

3. Scope of inquiry Minute October 2021 plus appendices [pdf, 720 KB]

   IN THE CORONER’S COURT AT AUCKLAND (IN-CHAMBERS) I TE KŌTI KAITIROTIRO MATEWHAWHATI KI TĀMAKI MAKAURAU [I TE TARI] CSU-2019-CCH-000165 CSU-2019-CCH-000166 CSU-2019-CCH-000167 CSU-2019-CCH-000168 CSU-2019-CCH-000169 CSU-2019-CCH-000170 CSU-2019-CCH-000171 CSU-2019-CCH-000172 CSU-2019-CCH-000173 CSU-2019-CCH-000174 CSU-2019-CCH-000175 CSU-2019-CCH-000176 CSU-2019-CCH-000177 CSU-2019

4. Response-to-Committee-against-Torture-Recommendations_FINAL.pdf [pdf, 682 KB]

   ...determination procedures and health treatment No action proposed Refugee and Protection Officers may consider whether the person is a victim, or at risk, of torture (per the definition under the Convention). Psychological and medical reports may be requested by the claimants or their legal representatives. Claimants, and people who have been found to meet the threshold for recognition as a refugee or as a protected person, can access New Zealand's health system on the same b...

5. CAC20005 v Peng [2015] NZREADT 4 [pdf, 227 KB]

   ...information about an identifiable individual from that which is not. Much will depend in any given case on the context in which the information is found. There may be particular factors in different settings that compel a conclusion that, although the requesting individual is not named in the information, nonetheless there is a sufficient connection between the information and the requester to justify a conclusion that the information is personal information "about" the request...

6. LCRO 211/2020 BU - Application for review of a prosecutorial decision (30 July 2021) [pdf, 233 KB]

   ...submissions his counsel had provided to the Standards Committee. 5 [21] Mr BU submitted that: (a) the Standards Committee had refused to allow him an extension of time for filing submissions in circumstances where he had made appropriate request of the Committee to provide further particulars; and (b) the Committee had taken insufficient time to consider the complaint; and (c) the Committee had failed to identify which elements of his correspondence had breached specific con...

7. BW v DJ LCRO 9 / 2013 (20 September 2013) [pdf, 117 KB]

   ...arrived by email to DJ the following day. [21] DJ says she was engaged on other matters, and emails referring to BW’s personal guarantee came to her attention after DM had signed the Agreement dated 3 April. On 12 April DJ emailed DM’s lawyer requesting confirmation that DM would arrange for BW to be released from her guarantees. On 18 April DJ confirmed to BW that she had received the original of the signed Agreement, and the firm would retain it for BW’s records. DJ th...

8. Trinder – Kopu – Mangati B2B (2024) 485 Aotea MB 55 (485 AOT 55) [pdf, 1023 KB]

   ...the processes in meeting face- to-face with Maweta Tawa (trustee of the Maweta James Tawa Whānau Trust) on 11 November 2023, and via telephone with Westown Agriculture (informal lessee) on 16 November 2023.13 (f) There are also owner consent forms filed from four owners and one trustee of a whānau trust. (g) A meeting of owners was held on 24 June 2023 at Muru Raupatu Marae. This meeting was notified by way of public notice in the Taranaki Daily News on 8 July 2023. Michael fil...

9. Gray v CAC 20008 & Anor [2014] NZREADT 12 [pdf, 140 KB]

   ...time that the hammer went down. After the licensee consulted with LJ Hooker’s head auctioneer, a Mr Ross Foreman (who was not present at the auction), and with the vendor, the auction was not re-opened. [10] According to the licensee, when he informed the appellant that the property would not be resubmitted for auction, the appellant said that he wanted to discuss 3 this with his solicitor. The licensee says that he offered the appellant the office telephone and the appell...

10. Auckland Standards Committee v Davidson [2012] NZLCDT 28 [pdf, 119 KB]

    ...financial gain. Immediately below that would be conduct that could be characterised as either reckless or grossly negligent. By gross negligence, I refer to conduct that involves a major departure from the standard of care expected when a director performs a statutory duty. Below that are cases involving innocent misrepresentation arising out of greater or lesser degrees of carelessness. For example, there may have been an error of judgment in respect of a particular issue that ended...