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1. Taueki - Horowhenua 11 (Lake) (2018) 386 Aotea MB 142 (386 AOT 142) [pdf, 256 KB]

   ...instruction. The Applicant’s approach to file proceedings against the Lake Trust’s private contractors is nothing more than a cynical attempt to undermine the Lake Trust’s ability to have essential works undertaken on our land in the future. We request that the Court remove Tatana Contracting Limited and Horowhenua Security from these proceedings. There is no injunction to be heard. All equipment, machinery and security fencing has been removed. All activity has ceased a...

2. [2022] NZACC 66 – Sankaran v ACC (27 April 2022) [pdf, 198 KB]

   ...On 24 July 2018, the Corporation wrote to Mr Sankaran Senior declining the claim for treatment injury and enclosing a Treatment Injury Report. [18] On 8 August 2018, Mr Motohiko Yasutomi, Transplant Surgeon, provided a specialist opinion at the request of the Corporation. The Corporation had sought answers to specific questions posed about the causal link between the “iliac blood vessel injury” suffered by Mr Sankaran and the kidney transplantation procedure. Mr Yasutomi noted...

3. [2024] NZEnvC 205 Rosemarke Investments Ltd v Auckland Council [pdf, 278 KB]

   ...complied with all timetabling directions, including preparing and filing physical bundles of documents as directed. 3 Mt Wellington Highway Limited v Auckland Council [2018] NZEnvC 12. 7 [27] It submitted it should not be penalised for requesting an in-person hearing. It observed that the Council’s costs in preparing for a hearing should not be substantially different from the costs incurred for a hearing on the papers in any event. The Council would still have had to spe...

4. Mikaere - Toto v Te Reti B and C Residue Trust - Te Reti B and Te Reti C [2014] Māori Appellate Court MB 249 (2014 APPEAL 249) [pdf, 295 KB]

   ...Tumatawha Piahana, Ranginui Winiata, Christopher Hauruia Nepia, Michelle Turner and Kīngi Junior Te Reohau Ranui. 3 [5] On 15 February 2013 the trustees filed a claim in the Māori Land Court per s 237 of the Act. They allege that three former trustees, Raymond Te Kura, Luke Stevenson Tamatukarere Matthews and Destiny Savita Mikaere-Toto, breached their obligations as trustees in relation to a land clearing contract. The pleadings seek alternative relief in the form of equitab...

5. Privacy Bill - Regulatory Impact Statement - additional policy decisions [pdf, 502 KB]

   ...Privacy Bill to: 1. amend the threshold for mandatory notification of a privacy breach, so that agencies must notify breaches where the breach is likely to cause serious harm 2. clarify the Bill’s application to agencies based overseas and information held overseas 3. expand the definition of “news activity” to include all forms of news media, so long as the news medium is subject to independent standards of conduct (including privacy standards) and a complaints procedu...

6. Baker v Samuels-Thomas - Matauri X Incorporation (2018) 178 Taitokerau MB 131 (178 TTK 131) [pdf, 260 KB]

   ...respondents to refrain from undertaking the work, and advised that the committee were putting a papakainga policy in place to regulate the use and occupation of the land. The committee also advised that if the respondents refused to comply with their request, the committee would take steps to protect their interests. The respondents refused to comply and instead proceeded with the build. The committee were then forced seek injunctive relief. [6] While these parties are related by...

7. [2016] NZEmpC 104 MUNZ v The China Navigation Co Pte Ltd [pdf, 128 KB]

   ...I understood from the parties that they were to be in mediation about these matters on Thursday 18 August 2016 and that if they wished to do so, they should contact the Registrar to cancel the need for a judgment or to postpone this. No such request has been made and I have, therefore, assumed that a judgment is required. [8] Each side has succeeded in part in this proceeding so that although I will reserve costs on the litigation, the parties should be on notice that this analysis...

8. [2018] NZEnvC 173 Panuku Development Auckland Limited [pdf, 139 KB]

   ...that such a late application to enter proceedings like these runs strongly counter to case law on the subject, he proposed to limit his client's participation in the forthcoming hearing; that is the Trust Board would call no evidence unless requested by the Court, and rely solely on submissions with particular reference to the Maori Land Court decision just referred to. [6] Of some significance, Mr Gardner-Hopkins also referred in positive fashion to 2 paragraphs of a Minute of...

9. Ratahi v CAC301 & Legge [2015] NZREADT 62 [pdf, 221 KB]

   ...negotiation, accepted an offer of $355,000. The Committee’s Decisions [7] The licensee accepted that the complainants had not signed a listing agreement with her new agency at the time the property was sold. However, she claims that a listing form was drafted by her and it was “an innocent and regrettable mistake” that it was not signed. We deal further with that aspect below. [8] The Committee found that the licensee did not have a signed listing agreement, nor had she p...

10. Parininihi Ki Waitotara Incorporation- Section 53 Block IX, Opunake Survey District (2005) 159 Aotea MB 146 (159 AOT 146) [pdf, 1.2 MB]

    ...PKW seeks a change of status to a block of land it owns from Maori freehold to General land. The purpose of the status change is to enable PKW to sell the land to a Mr Bryan and Mrs Christine Roach, the current lessees. The Roachs made a formal request to acquire the land froin the incorporation on 8 June 2002. Mr Roach says he has whakapapa connections to both the land and PKW. Minute Book: 159 AOT 147 [2] The 2002 annual general Ineeting of the incorporation endorsed the statu...