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1. [2024] NZEmpC 7 Amazonia Midco 1 Holdings Ltd v Harding [pdf, 222 KB]

   ...agreement. However, Amazonia then refused to sign the settlement agreement. Mr Harding applied in the Employment Relations Authority (the Authority) for a declaration that the settlement agreement was binding on Amazonia and ordered that Amazonia perform the agreed terms. Orders were made in the Authority against Amazonia in a substantive determination dated 1 August 2023 and a costs determination dated 16 October 2023.1 [2] Amazonia has filed a de novo challenge to the Authori...

2. Family Court review: case file sample [pdf, 373 KB]

   ...from: the information sheet accompanying any application any judgment issued any directions issued specialist reports Lawyer for Child reports. Information was not extracted from affidavits or memoranda. Sample size Each court was requested to sample 20 CoCA files (200 in total), 10 PRA files (100 in total) and all CoCA appeal files. The actual total sample sizes were 173 CoCA files, 88 PRA files, and 6 CoCA appeal files.

3. Hape v Smith - Part Te Pupuke K No 2 (Māori Reservation) (2015) 99 Taitokerau MB 174 (99 TTK 174) [pdf, 189 KB]

   ...Land as a Reservation” (18 November 1971) 90 New Zealand Gazette 2553 at 2567. 3 76 Taitokerau MB 179 - 184 (76 TTK 179-184). 4 Ibid. 99 Taitokerau MB 177 [11] The application came before me on 26 September 2014. 5 The applicant requested an adjournment by email as the trustees had met concerning the matter and were waiting for minutes to be finalised and filed with the Court. I granted that adjournment as sought. [12] The application then came back before me o...

4. OR v PL LCRO 88 / 2011 (20 August 2012) [pdf, 110 KB]

   ...September 2010 Ms PL was consulted by Mr OR’s partner (Ms PJ) concerning alleged acts of violence by Mr OR. At the time Ms PJ approached Ms PL, Mr OR was overseas. He was due to return to New Zealand on Saturday 2 October 2010. [3] Ms PL formed the view that Ms PJ should apply for a protection order and that it should be applied for ex parte. The application was lodged with the Court late on Thursday 30 September for consideration by the Court the following day. Ms PL had for...

5. Huata - Koparakore B2B 2C (2017) 62 Tākitimu MB 222 (62 TKT 222) [pdf, 377 KB]

   ...is academic, given that he has passed away. She argued that in any case the whānau now seek autonomy over those shares. Ms Bennett also rebuffed the suggestion that Tama Turanga Huata was in control of the financial accounts of the trust and requested that the Court direct the trustees to provide 62 Tākitimu MB 230 the accounts to any trust hui to be held, in order that the matter be addressed in an open forum. However, apart from these matters raised at the hearing, Ms Benne...

6. Albert v Hogg - Mangamuka East B3 (2020) 209 Taitokerau MB 162 (209 TTK 162) [pdf, 264 KB]

   ...father’s interests.6 Mr Joseph passed away 42 years ago, and Ms Donna says that his children have never been included on any matters concerning the whānau trust. She says that the trustees did not invite her to any meetings, and when she sent two requests for a meeting to the trust secretary, Arthur Albert, those requests were denied. [20] Her position is that the children of Joseph Albert have been left out for a long time and considered that there has been a loss of identity...

7. LCRO 224/2020 & LCRO 230/2020 EZ v MQ and MQ v EZ (19 May 2021) [pdf, 181 KB]

   ...advisers licence. [8] Mr EZ commenced working for PLD on 5 December 2019. [9] Unfortunately, problems developed in the employment relationship and on 5 January 2020 Mr EZ resigned, that resignation to take effect on 12 January 2020. Mr EZ made request of Ms MQ to refund the fees he had paid for immigration services she had rendered. [10] On 27 January 2020, Ms MQ wrote to Mr EZ to advise that she had been instructed by PLD in respect to the company’s employment dispute with Mr...

8. Final Env-Reg-Report-2023-24 [pdf, 448 KB]

   ...Involvement with community ................................................................................... 8 2.6 Judicial education ................................................................................................... 8 3.0 Court’s performance .........................................................................................................9 3.1 The roles of the Environment Court Judiciary and the Ministry ............................... 9 3.2 Case Management...

9. [2022] NZEnvC 176 Vortac New Zealand Limited v Western Bay of Plenty District Council [pdf, 317 KB]

   ...leave those unconsented structures in place. Timing [44] The alternative relief sought by Vortac in its application is that the time for compliance be extended to allow an application for consent to be lodged or a certificate of compliance to be requested. The affidavit of Mr Watt, the Council’s environmental consents manager sworn on 13 May 2022, states that 9 Ruddlesden v Kapiti Borough Council (1986) 11 NZTPA 301. 14 no application or request has been received. [45]...

10. [2025] NZREADT 15 – UJ v REAA (19 May 2025) [pdf, 164 KB]

    ...for all offers to be with MT by 2 pm on the following day, 15 November. The complainant duly presented an offer of $3.1M (subject to conditions) before the deadline. Both offers were sent by MT to the vendors. On 16 November, in response to a request that the complainant be able to present a second tender, MT advised the buyer’s agent that the vendors had accepted the tender from the listing agent’s purchaser, which was $100,000 more. Complaint to Agency [9] On 14 Februar...