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1. MVDT Annual Report 2020-2021 [pdf, 360 KB]

   ...notices or documents by post or courier. One option would be to amend s 142(1)(b) of the MVS Act to allow the Tribunal to serve documents by sending those documents to an email address nominated by or on behalf of that person in response to a request by the Tribunal. That amendment would recognise that so much of business and legal correspondence now occurs by email rather than more traditional methods and would also bring the Tribunal’s service requirements in line with other jur...

2. [2022] NZACC 6 – Jones v ACC (19 January 2022) [pdf, 164 KB]

   ...the appeal. The Authority was not satisfied on the evidence before it that Mr Jones had shown that the Corporation’s calculation to be wrong. [10] In September 2018, Mr Jones filed application for leave to appeal to the High Court. Despite requests by the Authority for Mr Jones to file written submissions in support of his application, these were not forthcoming. On 18 June 2019, the Authority declined leave. [11] On 27 May 2021, Mr Jones filed an application to recall the Au...

3. [2022] NZACC 92 - Carey v ACC (18 May 2022) [pdf, 298 KB]

   ...This employment ended on 23 September 1993, following a knee injury. [6] On 5 July 2002, Mr Carey was declared vocationally independent, without weekly compensation, and this continued until to 23 November 2013. [7] On 23 August 2002, Mr Carey claimed medical misadventure arising from the ear surgery of 9 May 1978. On 6 May 2003, the claim was declined, on the basis that there was no evidence of medical error and the claimed injury did not meet the legal test of medical mishap....

4. 2014 Ministry of Justice Annual Report [pdf, 3 MB]

   ...programme of work to address cyber-bullying. The Harmful Digital Communications Bill, introduced in November 2013, is a world-leading response to this global problem. The changes proposed in the Bill will ensure criminal and civil laws cover all forms of harmful electronic communications, regardless of whether they are online or offline. If passed, the changes will make sure our laws keep pace with advances in technology and offenders will continue to be held to account. The Objection...

5. LCRO 175/2020 PM obo MNO Limited v FS and BL (22 April 2021) [pdf, 221 KB]

   ...Comment by Mr PM [29] In a letter to the Complaints Service dated 28 July 2020, Mr PM provided a response to Mr BW’s submissions, and articulated his complaint in the following terms: (a) The payment made in the reconciliation letter “included a request to confirm the amount paid/received as being correct”. (b) No response was received one way or the other. (c) [CAT]’s legal fees could not be paid because no invoice had been provided. (d) The Notice was served prematurel...

6. LCRO 80/2021 A LN and B LN v QG (9 November 2021) [pdf, 265 KB]

   ...spent on the case after mediation apart from two lengthy phone calls. Ms QG dominated both phone calls with discussion about her personal legal issues. (h) The Committee did not address the delay in sending the invoice (10 months after it was requested). (i) Ms QG did not act in a timely manner by sending the invoice 10 months after it had been requested. (j) It is not “professional” for a lawyer to lose electronic data. Ms QG told both Mr LN and his new lawyer that all of...

7. [2024] NZEmpC 109 LDJ v EZC [pdf, 249 KB]

   ...or defence brought in the alternative. This can be illustrated by the Oxford English Dictionary’s primary definition of “incidental”: “Occurring or liable to occur in fortuitous or subordinate conjunction with something else of which it forms no essential part”; thus the question must relate to some essential part of the pleadings for it to be not incidental.5 [12] It is not necessary for the applicant to prove that the question of law will fall for determination in the c...

8. AS v Secretary of Justice 3 September 2013 NZRA 00005 [pdf, 72 KB]

   ...Selection Committee’s first-hand knowledge of the Applicant, as to the suitability of the Applicant, whereby it expressed the opinion that the Applicant has a tendency to repeat evidence without providing legal analysis. 2.2.5. The accuracy of information provided by the Applicant leading to the concern that the Applicant was not credible or reliable when that information was considered alongside the verification of a lawyer employed in the Applicant’s firm. This may reflect on th...

9. Armfield v Naughton [2014] NZHRRT 48 [pdf, 167 KB]

   ...living spaces together with their children’s play area were now being watched and filmed by a neighbour who had not spoken to them about what he was doing and who seemed unconcerned if not pleased at their reaction to his actions. 4 The request for access to personal information [12] On observing the installation of the cameras Mr Armfield and Ms Halls on 31 March 2012 approached Mr Naughton and asked why he was pointing the cameras into their property. He replied that “t...

10. [2012] NZEmpC 94 Gini v Literacy Training Ltd [pdf, 93 KB]

    ...challenge to a determination, the Court can make an order encompassing costs in the Authority when the Authority itself has made no order but simply reserved the question of costs. The issue was raised, however, by the full Court in PBO Ltd (formally Rush Security Ltd) v Da Cruz. 3 In Goodfellow v Building Connexion Ltd trading as ITM Building Centre, 4 which was a case where costs had not been fixed by the Authority, Judge Couch, following Da Cruz, confirmed that this Court h...