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1. [2021] NZEmpC 99 Juyi International Ltd v Pan [pdf, 177 KB]

   ...arisen on 29 June 2021, through the resignation of Juyi’s previous counsel, Mr Moss. [3] She said there was a lot of evidence and documents to read and consider, in anticipation of the hearing set to commence on 6 July 2021. [4] She accordingly requested that the matter be adjourned for two weeks. [5] Mr Pan opposes the application to adjourn the hearing on the basis of the short notice, and that a Mandarin-speaking interpreter had been arranged by the Court. He claims disadvan...

2. Auckland Standards Committee 4 v Holdaway [2022] NZLCDT 34 (22 September 2022) [pdf, 96 KB]

   ...faces three sets of charges. The first set relates to two clients. All three sets charge her with misconduct or negligence under s 241(c) of the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006 (the Act) or unsatisfactory conduct, and by refusing to comply with requests by the Standards Committee for information (in one set, relating to two clients, under s 147(2) of the Act). [3] A striking theme running through all these charges is Ms Holdaway’s lack of engagement with her governing body....

3. DE v WV Ltd [2015] NZDT 840 (4 September 2015) [pdf, 132 KB]

   ...that could not have been predicted and allowed for in allocating the hours originally. These include the need to move the footings and rebate boards again following Council inspections, and the substantial change to the stairs at the client’s request. None of these additions was a result of poor workmanship on the part of DE. [14] BB disputes that the first two items were substantial changes and adds that there was no handrail built so that should have saved some t...

4. [2014] NZEmpC 137 Pollard Contracting Ltd v Donald [pdf, 130 KB]

   ...employment relationship problems may be resolved, consistent with section 65 (2) (vi) of the Employment Relations Act 2000. This clause was taken from the Department of Labour website, and is the clause referred to on that website as ‘Short Form’. 4. The Plaintiff sent the Defendant a new individual employment agreement in November 2011. This agreement also contained a plain language explanation of how employment relationship problems may be resolved. 5 The Plainti...

5. [2017] NZEmpC 144 CE of Social Development v Tuilaepa [pdf, 482 KB]

   ...[4] On 1 September 2015 Mr Tuilaepa became involved in a violent scuffle with a young person. That scuffle occurred in the time-out room at the facility where the young person had been sent following his failure, or refusal, to respond to requests made of him by another residential social worker. [5] Mr Tuilaepa prevented the young person from leaving the time-out room. The young person was pushed with sufficient force to move him into the middle of the time-out room. A seco...

6. [2018] NZEmpC 113 Richora Group Ltd v Cheng [pdf, 396 KB]

   ...step they plainly regarded as egregious. [25] In the early hours of the morning on 9 March 2017 Ms Cheng suffered an acute stress reaction and made a suicide attempt. [26] I have already rejected Mr and Mrs Li’s suggestion that they had not formed a concluded view as to Ms Cheng’s involvement in the IRD complaint, and that they wanted her to sign the draft employment agreement and engage with them further. Indeed Mr Li’s subsequent actions strongly point in the other dir...

7. [2025] NZEmpC 48 Brown v The Clinician Holdings Ltd [pdf, 287 KB]

   ...prepared by Ms Nguyen and used for staff payments. After he began his full-time position on 1 June 2022, the spreadsheet was changed, with Mr Brown now being recorded as working “Full-time” as an “Employee”. [35] On 13 October 2022 Ms Nguyen requested Mr Brown’s personal information for TCHL’s employee records. [36] Mr Brown was presented as TCHL’s CFO and part of the senior management team in IRD documents, banking documents, documents to staff, pitch deck...

8. LCRO 131/2017 GR v [Area] Standards Committee [pdf, 168 KB]

   ...acknowledges that was a mistake. [15] Mr GR also confirmed that he would pay Ms DS her share in accordance with the undertaking. [16] Mr GR attached copies of various documents, including correspondence: (a) from Mr DH’s lawyer, dated 6 October 2015, requesting the release of $72,500 from the trust account in accordance with an agreement between the owners; and (b) to Mr DH’s lawyer, in which Mr GR requested repayment of the money paid to Mr DH. [17] Mr GR confirmed that...

9. [2021] NZEmpC 165 Bowen v Bank of New Zealand [pdf, 190 KB]

   ...proceedings. It says it is using the process as intended – to recoup its own costs which are in excess of those claimed. [15] BNZ says it succeeded entirely on the application dated 18 September 2020. It withdrew from the application its request that the communications be removed from the affidavit once the applicant had filed a new affidavit. It also noted that the Court was satisfied that there was still a justiciable issue to be decided. The Court’s discretion [16] U...

10. Waitangi Tribunal - Part II Te Urewera [pdf, 6.9 MB]

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