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1. Legal Aid Practice note - November 2022 [pdf, 389 KB]

   ...irrelevant matter; or if it depends upon findings which are unsupported by the evidence”.2 8. A finding that a decision is ‘manifestly unreasonable’ requires “not only that the decision be found to be unreasonable, but that [the Tribunal] forms the view that the decision is so clearly unreasonable that the intervention of the [Tribunal] is called for”.3 9. The threshold for intervention by the Tribunal is a high one.4 10. The Tribunal may confirm, modify, or reverse the...

2. LAT - Practice note - 2022 [pdf, 270 KB]

   ...irrelevant matter; or if it depends upon findings which are unsupported by the evidence”.2 8. A finding that a decision is ‘manifestly unreasonable’ requires “not only that the decision be found to be unreasonable, but that [the Tribunal] forms the view that the decision is so clearly unreasonable that the intervention of the [Tribunal] is called for”.3 9. The threshold for intervention by the Tribunal is a high one.4 10. The Tribunal may confirm, modify, or reverse the...

3. Pomare v Rangihaeata - Hongoeka 7 (2009) 16 Whanganui Appellate Court MB 88 (16 WGAP 88) [pdf, 420 KB]

   ...made. Background [3] In 1964 the Court laid out a roadway over a number of Hongoeka blocks ("the legal roadway"). The legal roadway is the only legal access into Hongoeka Bay. The legal roadway crosses a beach area and has never been formed. [4] A roadway providing access to Hongoeka Bay was formed over Hongoeka 7, Lots 2 and 3 DP 42094 (land owned by Ian Harwood in general freehold title) and other blocks ("the formed roadway"). The formed roadway is currently...

4. [2019] NZEnvC 038 Hawke's Bay Fish & Game Council v Hawke's Bay Regional Council [pdf, 277 KB]

   ...reported in the JWS, on drafting matters. It attached jointly proposed drafting and a map of Lake Poukawa for inclusion in the RRMP. [7] The MTB Memorandum set out that party's position on any s293 direction concerning Lake Poukawa. It included requests to have further opportunity to comment Application for costs by MTB, dated 18 October 2018, at [5]. Invoices attached to application for costs. Hawke's Bay Fish and Game Council v Hawke's Bay Regional Council [2017] NZEn...

5. Anderson v Lowe - Succession to Moera Anderson [2021] Chief Judge's MB 728 (2021 CJ 728) [pdf, 499 KB]

   ...David and his son were buried in the hapū urupā and not in the same urupā as Moera Anderson. [21] She deposed that from 2011, the four surviving children of Moera Anderson participated in the meetings to discuss succession and to consider forming a whānau trust. They should have advised the children of their deceased siblings that an application for succession would be made. These four siblings were all children of Rene Jean Anderson. Rene was Moera Anderson’s second wife a...

6. [2017] NZEmpC 64 Prasad v LSG Sky Chefs New Zealand Ltd [pdf, 91 KB]

   ...disclosure of the documents relevant to this proceeding, as outlined in paragraph 1.1. [8] The grounds upon which the orders are sought are: 2.1. That the documents sought are relevant to the issue of employment status; 2.2. The defendant has requested that the documents be provided and, in the event the documents have ceased to be in the plaintiffs’ possession, custody or control, the date that occurred, but have received no satisfactory response to those requests; 2....

7. 2018 NZSSAA 005 (19 January 2018) [pdf, 155 KB]

   ...them. It is necessary to be mindful that where spouses are equally affected by decisions when one of them initiates an action, it can be on behalf of both spouses; unless, there is contrary information. Accordingly, we take the view the original request for review, the Benefits Review Committee; and now this appeal, were pursued by both appellants. The Benefits Review Committee’s decision [8] The Benefits Review Committee identified the key facts as: [8.1] The Ministry receive...

8. Ratahi v Parininihi Ki Waitotara Incorporation - Section 53 Block IX Opunake SD being part Ngati Kahumate Block comprised in CT D4/240 (2007) 195 Aotea MB 127 (195 AOT 127) [pdf, 4.2 MB]

   ...February 2006. Mr Lawrence counsel for a number of respondents wrote to Mr Bulfin on 9 November 2005 raising the issue of jurisdiction but received no reply he says. The matter was set down for hearing on 24 February 2006 but was adjourned at the request of Mrs Hughes QC, counsel for the applicants in the instant case (the respondents in the substantive proceeding) who said she needed time to prepare and to brief rebuttal evidence. The substantive hearing occurred on 16 June 2006 wh...

9. 2021-10-27 ORC - PC8 - Common Bundle - Volume 3(b) [pdf, 13 MB]

   ...Batchelor (Environment Southland) and Dyanna Jolly (Dyanna Jolly Consulting) were responsible for the compilation and editing. Their patience and perseverance surmounted the many obstacles encountered during the journey. The extraction of information from an advisory panel of representatives from the four Rūnanga Papatipu o Murihiku, who drew extensively from the collective rūnanga knowledge, was a valuable learning experience for all involved. Representatives from the four R...

10. Meulenbroek v Vision Antenna Systems Ltd [2014] NZHRRT 51 [pdf, 226 KB]

    1 IN THE HUMAN RIGHTS REVIEW TRIBUNAL [2014] NZHRRT [51] Reference No. HRRT 020/2013 UNDER THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT 1993 BETWEEN MARK CHRISTOPHER MEULENBROEK PLAINTIFF AND VISION ANTENNA SYSTEMS LIMITED DEFENDANT AT INVERCARGILL BEFORE: Mr RPG Haines QC, Chairperson Ms DL Hart, Member Mr BK Neeson, Member REPRESENTATION: Mr RW Kee and Ms JV Emerson for plaintiff Ms RK Brazil and Ms H Young for defendant DATE OF HEARING: