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...no longer there. Dr Walls said he had seen no evidence. [42] I accept that the horizontal jointers have contributed to the dwelling leaking. This is in part due to the failure of the horizontal jointers and also because they have not been formed correctly. I accept both Mr Hadley and Mr O’Hagan’s evidence that the incorrect formation of the horizontal jointers was a contributing factor to the dwelling leaking. Building paper under head flashings [43] Mr O’...
Justice Centre | 19 Aitken Street DX SX10088 | Wellington T 04 918 8800 | F 04 918 8820 ContactUs@justice.govt.nz | www.justice.govt.nz 27 February 2025 Ref: OIA 119305 Tēnā koe Official Information Act request: Judicial Conduct Thank you for your email of 5 January 2025, to the Office of the Minister of Justice, Hon Paul Goldsmith requesting under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act), information about the Judicial Conduct Commissioner and the Judicial Conduct Panel...
...complaint against Ms Gong was lodged with the Immigration Advisers Authority (the Authority) by the complainant on 23 April 2017. [13] It alleged that there was no proper contract, that they were only given handwritten receipts despite having requested proper invoices and that they had also been asked to sign a blank application form which was filed with incorrect information. Various other criticisms were made of Ms Gong’s conduct. Only those allegations pursued by the Regist...
...complete steps one and two in the proceeding, including a 6 High Court filing fee of $1400. On 1 February 2006 LSA advised Ms Sisson that Ms H had been granted legal aid, with a maximum grant of $1730 in respect of steps one and two, the request for High Court filing fee grant was declined on the basis that the client could seek waiver from the High Court itself. Ms H’s contribution to the grant of $1730 was set at $1729. [9] Ms H’s evidence was that when she had cons...
...legal aid, by age group, 2010 - 2019 Table 5c: Number of people granted civil legal aid, by age group, 2010 - 2019 Table 5d: Number of people granted Waitangi Tribunal legal aid, by age group, 2010 - 2019 Definitions and data notes If this information does not answer your query you may wish to request specific information via an Official Information Act request. Information on this process is available on the Ministry website: https://www.justice.govt.nz/about/official-information-act...
...been changed. Introduction [1] QM has applied to review a determination of the [Area] Standards Committee [X] (the Committee) dated 17 May 2024, in which the Committee took no further action on her complaint about the professional conduct of her former lawyer, BY. [2] In simple terms QM’s complaint raised two issues: BY’s competence when acting for her, and the level of legal fees he charged her.1 [3] The Committee based its decision upon s 138(2) of the Lawyers and Conveyancers...
...claimed that it then had no funds with which to pay the compensation but would do so when it could. In the Authority’s investigation on 2 March Groganic was represented by counsel. Significantly for the purpose of arguments heard by me today, a request was made at the Authority to make payment of the compensation by instalments but the Adjudicator declined to do so and concluded: The respondent [Groganic] would not have been acting in good faith if it made the agreement knowing...
...action would be costly and would take money away from the Board’s core services. [5] Mr Sigglekow opposes the application. In his affidavit he traverses delays in the District Health Board bringing the application for stay, and the numerous requests made through his solicitor to the District Health Board for payment of the sums ordered by the Employment Relations Authority. He says that he is not impecunious, that he owns a house, and has an ability to repay the money if the c...
...the Authority recorded that it had a “lingering impression that Mr Willis has not been fully open with [the Authority], and his lawyers.” [5] I issued a minute on 21 July 2009 pursuant to s181(1) of the Employment Relations Act 2000 to request from the Authority a s181(1) “good faith” report about whether the parties involved in the investigation facilitated rather than obstructed the Authority’s investigation and whether they acted in good faith towards each other dur...
...earnings and have filed memoranda of counsel addressing these issues. Unfortunately the figures they have supplied are very difficult to reconcile. [3] Ms Kilkelly, counsel for the defendant, complained in her memorandum that in spite of repeated requests for time and wage records they had not been supplied. Instead the plaintiff, through counsel, had supplied a letter from Katherine Ritchie stating that the accountant for the plaintiff had furnished wage details for the defenda...