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1. KT & NT v N Ltd [2024] NZDT 374 (31 May 2024) [pdf, 178 KB]

   ...with its frame and motor. I find that to be reasonable and I further find that N Ltd should meet the entire replacement cost of the panels because the door was new. Referee: G R Meyer Date: 31st May 2024 Page 3 of 3 Information for Parties Rehearings You can apply for a rehearing if you believe that something prevented the proper decision from being made: for example, the relevant information was not available at the time. If you wish to apply for a r...

2. Harawira v New Zealand Management Academies Limited & McAuley (Strike Out) [2024] NZHRRT 59 [pdf, 249 KB]

   ...Member Dr M Koloamatangi, Member REPRESENTATION: Mr H Harawira (Puriri) in person Mr A Shankar for the defendants DATE OF HEARING: On the papers DATE OF DECISION: 13 November 2024 2 [1] Hone Puriri William Harawira, who has requested to be referred to as Puriri, filed this claim against New Zealand Management Academies Limited (NZMA) and Nigel McAuley on 12 February 2024. [2] Puriri claims both defendants discriminated against him on the grounds of his age...

3. [2023] NZEmpC 221 Cronin-Lampe v The Board of Trustees of Melville High School [pdf, 1 MB]

   ...required the Board to make decisions for good and safe working conditions; and 6 However, I note that this section only applies if the Board employed 30 or more employees or, if it employed fewer than 30 employees, if one or more of those employees requested the development of a system for employee participation: Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992, s 19C(1). 7 Cronin-Lampe (No 1), above n 1, at [75] and [83]. (c) clause 12.1.3 which required the Board, where a t...

4. J Ltd v XY [2025] NZDT 31 (16 January 2025) [pdf, 98 KB]

   ...$2,500.00 plus GST. 2. Two weeks later, KC contacted ST, the sole director and shareholder of G Ltd, a business that had been sold to ST through KC’s agency in 2006. ST signed an expression of interest in XU’s business and met with XU. However, ST informed KC by email that XU preferred a cash buyer to a deferred settlement, and ST would not be in a suitable financial position for a couple of years, so “I think you should go and look for a cash buyer for XU and keep me as a Plan B o...

5. [2015] NZEmpC 34 Rodkiss v Carter Holt Harvey Ltd [pdf, 349 KB]

   ...production of a considerable amount of documentation and transcript. The complexity, to a large extent, resulted from a sharp divergence of views over the relevance and application in practice of key parts of the defendant's disciplinary and performance management policies. The hearing was hard-fought throughout and the respective contentions of both parties were well presented. Background [4] Mr Rodkiss is 58 years of age. He qualified in production and mechanical enginee...

6. HI v TN [2022] NZDT 53 (11 January 2022) [pdf, 200 KB]

   ...claims, was found after the sale to have substantial defects. HI alleges that TN misrepresented the condition of the vehicle, and claims compensation for repairs and resulting expenses. [2] HI, a motor vehicle trader of some 30 years experience, was informed in August 2021 by a person he knew that TN had a 2004 Ford Falcon for sale. HI, who was based in [City 1], phoned TN, who was in [City 2], to discuss the car. They agreed on a price of $18,000.00, and the car was delivered to [City...

7. NI v QQ Ltd [2023] NZDT 577 (26 November 2023) [pdf, 187 KB]

   ...NZDT 577 APPLICANT NI RESPONDENT QQ Ltd The Tribunal orders: QQ Ltd is to pay $873.83 to NI by the 18th December 2023. Reasons 1. In January 2021 NI and [his wife] entered into a contract with QQ Ltd in the form of an Agreement for Sale and Purchase to buy a section and a building contract for a completed building on the land. The contract provided for a completion date to be “16-20 weeks after the floor is laid.” Settlement was to be upon the...

8. [2013] NZEmpC 76 George v Auckland City Council and vice versa [pdf, 126 KB]

   ...by its solicitor, at a mediation conference held on 26 April 2010, at which time the plaintiff threatened to make the accusation against the defendant in a legal action unless the defendant agreed to withdraw and abandon her personal grievance claims against the plaintiff. [3] Paragraph 57 (set out above) is part of Ms George’s defence to the Council’s counterclaim for damages for breach of her employment contract. That defence seeks to dismiss the Council’s claim against her...

9. Symes v Wairau - Mahanga 2Y (2005) 161 Gisborne MB 19 (161 GIS 19) [pdf, 567 KB]

   ...$12,000.00. She took over all the burdens of the lease. A draft transfer of lease and deed of covenant was in fact drawn up and handed to the respondent. It V',fas the evidence of Mr Wairau that he never saw a formal transfer document. Mrs Symes requested assistance from Mr MacGregor to get the transfer of shares completed. Mr MacGregor efforts to this end were successful and an order of the Maori Land Court (See 104 WR 176-177) was made in 2002 vesting those shares in Mrs Symes aft...

10. [2019] NZEmpC 41 Renaissance Assets Management Ltd v Ge [pdf, 350 KB]

    ...to Mr Li, and that he threatened to damage its business. Mr Ge denies having done so. [25] The Authority held that the company had required a premium to be paid. To reach that conclusion it heard from Mr Ge, and his father, about the alleged request and what steps were taken to pay money into a bank account in China. In the Authority the company denied requesting a premium. It maintained having no knowledge of the bank account into which the money was deposited or, for that ma...