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1. Wedgwood v Accident Compensation Corporation (Social rehabilitation) [2024] NZACC 205 [pdf, 356 KB]

   ....................................................................................................... [116] Introduction [1] Mr Wedgwood’s appeal challenges the correctness of the: (a) Corporation’s decision dated 10 October 2017 (“the Corporation’s Decision), declining Mr Wedgwood’s request to fund air conditioning equipment and voice-activated computer software. (b) Subsequent decision dated 2 September 2029 (“the Review Decision”) declining Mr Wedgwood’s applic...

2. 2021-10-27 ORC - PC8 - Common Bundle - Volume 2 [pdf, 13 MB]

   ...a separate volume) to be used in conjunction with the provisions of the Plan. 1.4 Process of Plan preparation A number of legal instruments, which were operative in Otago on 1 October 1991 (when the Resource Management Act came into force), formed rules in the Transitional Regional Plan, constituted by Section 368 of the Resource Management Act. Some of these rules related to water and water bodies, and comprised notices, authorisations, bylaws, determinations and resolutions. T...

3. [2014] NZEmpC 65 Tan v Yang and Zhang [pdf, 98 KB]

   ...work, filling in and printing relevant documents. In evidence-in-chief he asserted that he had filed Li Zhang’s application with the relevant immigration authorities but that is not so. Li Zhang did that herself, together with a sponsorship form filled in by her brother, Bin Zhang. [27] Mr Tan suggested that a request for payment of $14,000 for services of the kind he says he provided was reasonable having regard to charges being made at the relevant time by others, of around $2...

4. Chand v Shearer [2016] NZIACDT 57 (21 September 2016) [pdf, 279 KB]

   ...Tribunal upheld this complaint in a decision dated 18 March 2016: Chand v Shearer [2016] NZIACDT 12 (www.justice.govt.nz). The Tribunal found Ms Shearer breached her professional obligations. [2] The complaint was that Ms Shearer did not file a request for a visa for some three months after getting instructions to do so. She misled her client, and her client’s employer, saying she had filed the request when that was not true. The complaint was that Ms Shearer was negligent in the...

5. Tuitupou v Tangilanu [2014] NZIACDT 97 (01 October 2014) [pdf, 202 KB]

   ...Issued: 1 October 2014 2 DECISION This complaint [1] This decision imposes sanctions, following a decision upholding a complaint against Ms Tangilanu in [2014] NZIACDT 51. [2] The complainants engaged Ms Tangilanu to assist with a request for a visa. The complainant who required the visa was in New Zealand without a current visa, so the request had to address his unlawful status in New Zealand and request a visa be granted under a discretionary provision. [3] The gro...

6. [2011] NZEmpC 31 Ravnjak v Wellington International Airport Ltd [pdf, 262 KB]

   ...covered by s 52 as enacted in 1974 when, as a matter of judicial notice, I find such digital/electronic technologies were still to be invented or at least not yet in use. Mr Burton submitted that if Parliament had intended s 52 to extend to other forms of record gathering and record keeping, it would have used phrases of more general expression. Counsel pointed to s 4 of the PISG Act which uses the catch-all “or similar device[s]” in relation to cameras so that the use of digit...

7. Thompson - Hauai Ahu Whenua Trust (2014) 87 Taitokerau MB 258 (87 TTK 258) [pdf, 619 KB]

   ...returned the Māori land to the Trust and the Trust returned the general land it still owned to the Crown. [3] The Trust and its beneficial owners maintain that the Māori land returned to them in 1977 (Hauai 2D8) should have been returned in the form of the titles that existed prior to the 1977 orders, that is, as Hauai 2D1C, 2D2 and 2D3. Accordingly, the applicants have now applied under s 306 of Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993 (“the Act”) to cancel the 1977 title orders and i...

8. National Standards Committee 1 v Deliu [2016] NZLCDT 27 [pdf, 480 KB]

   ...not able to secure the cooperation of Mr Orlov, his previous employer. [53] Counsel for the Standards Committee submits the practitioner is not prejudiced in his defence. He submits: (a) The charges did not require him to access privileged information and adduce evidence of his instructions from former clients – the charges are about his conduct as an advocate appearing in court, preparing and presenting legal proceedings and arguments. To the degree that client 16 in...

9. [2011] NZEmpC 34 Martin v Northland Education Trust Inc [pdf, 219 KB]

   ...receptionist and cleaner for 12 to 15 hours per week earning $15 per hour. The significant drop in her income has required her to move in with her mother. Despite these circumstances, although understandably, she does not seek to be reinstated in her former position. Nor does she claim compensation for her significantly reduced income since she obtained this work. Her principal concern is for vindication of her good name as a teacher. The Employment Relations Authority’s deter...

10. [2018] NZEmpC 22 Kids Republic Playland Ltd v Lowe [pdf, 471 KB]

    ...Ms Lowe the previous evening, which concerned the removal of a particular child from a KRPL holiday programme. There was an issue as to whether that child had been bullying other children, particularly Mr Smith’s daughter. [20] Ms Lowe had requested a meeting to discuss these matters at 9.30 am on 2 October 2015. The Authority recorded that Mr Smith declined the request to meet on the grounds that he was busy at the time but would be available later in the day. Notwithstandi...