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1. LCRO 200/2020 SK and WP v AQ (27 October 2023) [pdf, 292 KB]

   ...The applicants did not appear to be informed of this exchange. [16] On 13 December 2018, one of the applicants became aware of the change of counsel when the respondent’s new lawyer contacted her. This resulted in an email to the respondent requesting instructions and a telephone call the following day. [17] In an email to the respondent a month later, the applicant made the following reference to some of the content of that conversation: You sent me a text to call you and I did,...

2. [2021] NZIACDT 18 - CL v Khetarpal (10 August 2021) [pdf, 242 KB]

   ...Zealand immediately. [12] Ms Khetarpal did not inform the complainant of the decline of her visa application. [13] On 21 August 2019, after Immigration NZ had declined the complainant’s student visa, Ms Khetarpal told her that the agency had requested further information, being bank statements showing she had sufficient funds to support herself in New Zealand. [14] Ms Khetarpal prepared a statement in English for the complainant’s husband to sign. However, the information...

3. Trustees of Maungatautari 4G Sec IV v Maungatautari Ecological Island Trust - Maungatautari No 4G Sec IV (2014) 86 Waikato Maniapoto MB 248 (86 TTK 248) [pdf, 217 KB]

   ...execution of the lease and easement instrument, little work was done on the question of land owner approval being sought for “authorised persons” to access the block. [98] This issue seems to have come to life in late 2013. WDC have responded to requests for personal information by requiring an explanation and assurances from the trustees that information acquired would only be used for the purposes of approval, that 86 Waikato Maniapoto MB 269 applicants would be infor...

4. Māori Trustee v Forde – Section 186 Block V Longwood Survey District (2013) 17 Te Waipounamu MB 152 (17 TWP 152) [pdf, 206 KB]

   ...respondents believed this roadway to be road reserve belonging to the Southland District Council (“SDC”). [3] In February 2009 a survey found Ouetota Road was entirely on the respondent’s land, with the legal access to Section 186 being an unformed paper road running along the beach parallel to Ouetota Road. I will refer to this road as the “beach road”. [4] The respondents have prevented use of Ouetota Road by the applicant and its lessees. They say the roadway is on...

5. 2021-05-18 Trustpower - ORC PC7 - opening submissions [pdf, 728 KB]

   Solicitor Acting: JR Welsh ChanceryGreen PO Box 47516, Ponsonby 1144 +64 9 357 0600 IN THE ENVIRONMENT COURT OF NEW ZEALAND CHRISTCHURCH REGISTRY I TE KŌTI TAIAO O AOTEAROA ŌTAUTAHI ROHE ENV-202-CHC-127 IN THE MATTER of the Resource Management Act 1991 (the ‘Act’) AND IN THE MATTER of a notice of motion under s149T(2) to decide proposed Plan Change 7 to the Regional Plan: Water for Otago (referred to the Environment Court by the Minister for the E

6. Tata v Katipa - Waiwhakaata 3E4C Lot 2A [2018] 170 Waikato Maniapoto MB 123 (170 WMN 123) [pdf, 692 KB]

   ...Applicants AND RENE DAWN KATIPA, RODNEY WHANGA, BOYD KATIPA, NGAITU KARA, ALBERT HOMAI WHANGA, CLAUDE HERBERT WALKER, DAVE (MANNY) TATA (JNR), EDWARD T WHANGA, ISAAC KATIPA (JNR), JOE TEPOURA ELLIOT AND SHARINA TE AROHA TAWHAI, FORMERLY TRUSTEES OF HIIONA MARAE First Respondents AND TANIA MARTIN Second Respondent Hearing: 1-2 May 2017 10-11 October 2017 (Heard at Hamilton) Appearances: A Hope for the applicants C Hockly for certain...

7. Deeming v Whangarei District Council (Discovery) [2015] NZHRRT 37 [pdf, 72 KB]

   ...See the Minute issued by the Chairperson on 22 April 2015. [3] By memorandum dated 18 August 2015 Ms Candy reported that in the discovery process both parties had sought additional information from the other. Each party had refused to provide the requested information. [4] Mr Deeming seeks from the WDC: [4.1] An unredacted version of an email chain in which some of the councillors, staff of the WDC and third parties discussed the events in relation to which Mr Deeming lodged his comp...

8. CN v AKSC1 LCRO 106 / 2010 (23 September 2010) [pdf, 116 KB]

   ...interviewing him but for reasons which need not be included in any detail, I observed that the Practitioner raised a number of objections to the assessor‟s procedures and in the event, they did not meet. However, the Practitioner did provide, at S‟s request, a printout of his MYOB fees reporting system. S interviewed the Complainant and another person who had acted as a junior lawyer for the Practitioner. On 27 August 2009 S wrote to the Practitioner and informed him that he...

9. LCRO 227/2016 YL and QR v TR [pdf, 243 KB]

   ...that the complaint or a ruling could adversely affect CCJ”; (d) “CCJ was not given fair opportunity to consider and respond to the alleged complaint or to be present and involved at the Review Hearing”; (e) Mr TT asserted that he “verbally requested the review officer for permission to be present at the hearing. This request was declined”; and (f) the LCRO had breached the rules of natural justice. [10] The conclusions drawn by Mr TT were: 3 In all the circumsta...

10. Legal Complaints Review Officer v Morrison [2018] NZLCDT 40 [pdf, 339 KB]

    ...complainant. (f) That while the misconduct involved four different steps, those steps were part of a standalone instance of falsification of a document and particularised in a single charge of misconduct. (g) The subsequent use of the document forms part of the misconduct finding and is not a separate aggravating feature. (h) The alleged deliberate uplifting of the Deed by Mr Morrison from the Bank of New Zealand (BNZ) was not subject to any findings by the Tribunal and adds not...