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1. Downes v Accident Compensation Corporation (Personal Injury) [2023] NZACC 046 [pdf, 201 KB]

   ...Russell Meads. He summarised the history of her injury and treatment, including the following information from the appellant: She stated at the present time she has pain on the left side of her neck. She said this is severe. She feels it is a tight clamping pain, going from her spine down to her shoulder. The pain is worse with movement. The pain wakes her at night. She finds it difficult to lie on her left hand side. She stated that all of her left arm feels weak. She state...

2. [2021] NZACC 185 – Jurisich v ACC (22 November 2021) [pdf, 340 KB]

   ...bullet proof, I thought, until I lifted the wheel back onto – a back wheel back onto the tractor that was half full of water. … I turned up the wheels on the back of the tractor. … it had 10 nuts around it. These days, they just have to clamp it on with 10 nuts and the nuts fell off. The wheel fell off too and so I managed to get it up there. Once I got it above my head, I felt my back go because it was quite wet … on the paddock. The wheel dropped and I lay down for qu...

3. OIA-119507.pdf [pdf, 1 MB]

   ...negotiate sustainable payment arrangements where possible. At the decision of a Deputy Registrar, part 3 of the Summary Proceedings Act 1957 provides the legislative basis for providing enforcement options of overdue amounts which can include: • clamping vehicles, • seizing and selling property, • making compulsory deductions from a person’s income or bank account, • issuing warrants to arrest, • suspending drivers’ licences, and • preventing a person’s internat...

4. Young people & infringement fines: a qualitative study [pdf, 139 KB]

   Young People and Infringement Fines: A Qualitative Study Prepared for the Ministry of Justice by Litmus Limited October 2005 2 DISCLAIMER This research was commissioned by the Ministry of Justice. The report has been prepared by the research company and the views expressed in it are those of the research company and do not necessarily represent the views of the Ministry of Justice. First published in October 2005 by the Ministry of Justice PO Box 180 Wellington New Zealand ISBN 0-

5. [2021] NZACC 102 – Broad v ACC (16 November 2021) [pdf, 632 KB]

   ...interventions were available given the appellant’s history and at risk delivery. (e) She did not diagnose the tear appropriately and began to attempt to repair the tear in the maternity ward. (f) She failed to report and apply treatment when she hit clamps attached to blood vessels by the registrar to stop bleeding driving them directly into the birth tear wound, and causing unknown damage to the wound. [54] Ms Mason says the obstetric registrar diagnosed a third degree tear an...

6. [2021] NZACC 7 - Stryder v ACC (12 January 2021) [pdf, 210 KB]

   ...sessions with no improvement. Ivan has spent over $3,000 on treatments for his chronic lower back pain since 16.4.2014 accident. He has purchased back braces, lumbar supports TENS machine, massage machines, Unisom sleep gels, and ankle clamps (for hanging upside down to relieve the back pain). Since Ivan’s lower back injury on 16.4.2014 Ivan has told me he has been unable to run, mountainbike, snowboard, weight train, play soccer, play rugby with his 8 year old boy Be...

7. [2021] NZACC 7 - Stryder v ACC (12 January 2021) [pdf, 183 KB]

   ...sessions with no improvement. Ivan has spent over $3,000 on treatments for his chronic lower back pain since 16.4.2014 accident. He has purchased back braces, lumbar supports TENS machine, massage machines, Unisom sleep gels, and ankle clamps (for hanging upside down to relieve the back pain). Since Ivan’s lower back injury on 16.4.2014 Ivan has told me he has been unable to run, mountainbike, snowboard, weight train, play soccer, play rugby with his 8 year old boy Be...

8. Director of Proceedings v McMillan [2020] NZHRRT 18 [pdf, 379 KB]

   ...Manoeuvre, or “all fours” position. 18 shoulder dystocia before directing the aggrieved person to move onto her hands and knees. 97. The defendant applied some traction to Baby A’s head. Baby A was born at 10.20 pm. The cord was clamped. No cord gases were taken. 98. The core midwife took Baby A to the resuscitaire, where ventilation was commenced by ED doctors and an ED nurse. 99. Baby A’s birth weight was recorded as 4,870 grams.37 Her Apgar scores38 wer...

9. Starik v Auckland Council [2016] NZWHT Auckland 5 [pdf, 491 KB]

   ...then another strip of decking laid against the cladding. [92] The strip of cladding between the ribbon plate and the boundary joist was left unstopped, un-plastered and unpainted. Water ingress occurred through the unsealed cladding joints clamped between the ribbon plate and the boundary joist and through the membrane where it either failed to adhere to the substrate, was not adequately applied or was punctured by the cladding fixings into the bottom plate. [93] According...

10. Abraham v Auckland City Council [pdf, 111 KB]

    ...reproduce below: (i) Upper parapet flashings $17,475.16 (ii) Boundary parapet flashings $ 9,662.45 (iii) Rainwater outlets $ 7,315.63 (iv) Window flashings, including the large window and roof light $20,059.02 (v) Entrapment at the base or at clamping points, such as boundary joists $ 6,201.78 (vi) Failed junctions of balustrade flashings and wall cladding flashings $11,757.92 (vii) Failure of control joints $ 5,850.11 (viii) The lack of adequate ground clearance at th...