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   This is the What's new for legal aid lawyers archive for news items from 2024. For current news items, please see the main  What's new for legal aid lawyers  section. Urgent CPIP assignments over Christmas & New Year period Message from the Legal Services Commissioner Reminder – The PDLA holiday roster starts tomorrow nationwide. Legal Aid Applications for Repeat Criminal Parole proceedings Legal Aid Applications for Mental Health proceedings Legal aid payments to firms publishe

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2. Guidelines on common core documents [pdf, 528 KB]

   GE.09-42829 (E) 230609 UNITED NATIONS HRI International Human Rights Instruments Distr. GENERAL HRI/GEN/2/Rev.6 3 June 2009 Original: ENGLISH COMPILATION OF GUIDELINES ON THE FORM AND CONTENT OF REPORTS TO BE SUBMITTED BY STATES PARTIES TO THE INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS TREATIES Report of the Secretary-General In its resolutions 52/118 and 53/138, the General Assembly requested the Secretary-General to compile in a single volume the guidelines

3. [2023] NZEnvC 004 KiwiRail Holdings Limited v Whangarei District Council [pdf, 29 MB]

   ...resolved through this determination and that in relation PC150 issued contemporaneously, except as to the issue of internal roading covered by the appeal on PC 150. B: Under section 285 of the Resource Management Act 1991, there is no order as to costs. 3 C: I commend the Whangārei District Council on the prompt and reasonable resolution of the appeals and direct the amendments are incorporated into the plan Change. I understand the Change can then be made fully operati...

4. Rec-Recap-2023-Q1-FINAL.pdf [pdf, 889 KB]

   Recommendations Recap A summary of coronial recommendations and comments made between 1 January and 31 March 2023 Office of the Chief Coroner | 2023 (1) i Coroners’ recommendations and comments Coroners perform essential functions within our society. They inquire into a range of unexpected deaths to establish the identity of the person who has died and the cause and circumstances of their death. While inquiring into a deat

5. ENV-2016-AKL-000206 Cato Bolam Consultants Limited v Auckland Council [pdf, 10 MB]

   ...identified; (b) Direct the Council to amend the Proposed Plan to include the Hearing Panel's recommendations in relation to the specific provisions identified; (c) Such further or other relief as may be required to give effect to this appeal; (d) Costs against Council. 9. An electronic copy of this notice is being served today by email on the Auckland Council at unitarvplan@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz. Waivers and directions are sought in PART B of this notice in relation to the usu...

6. CVA Issues paper on implementation of the Victims Rights Act PDF [pdf, 1.7 MB]

   ...Minister of Justice h. to make recommendations to the Minister of Justice, as it sees fit, on any matters relating to victims. 19. Under the Victims of Offences Act, the Secretary for Justice was required to establish a fund to meet the operating costs of the Victims Task Force. The funding model provided that one percent of all money received by the Crown from the payment of fines was redirected into the fund. 20. In 1993 the Task Force published a final report on its five-year...

7. [2021] NZEnvC 124 Upper Clutha Environmental Society Incorporated v Queenstown Lakes District Council [pdf, 1.7 MB]

   ...accordance with Annexure 2 within ten (10) working days; and (ii) include in the Plan the updated planning maps for the Mt Alpha ONL and Pisa/Criffel Range ONL boundaries as included in Annexure 3 and report to the court once this is completed. C: Costs are reserved. A timetable will be set in due course. REASONS Introduction [1] As is reflected in A – C, this decision largely brings to an end our substantive determinations on Topic 2. As we discuss later in this decision...

8. [2023] NZEnvC 058 Upper Clutha Environmental Society Incorporated v Queenstown Lakes District Council [pdf, 2.1 MB]

   ...(a) amend Ch 21 and the relevant planning maps of the PDP as set out in Appendix A of this decision; and (b) make any consequential amendments to the numbering of provisions; and (c) file a reporting memorandum as to that once completed. [9] Costs are reserved, subject to the court’s preliminary indication that costs’ awards are not likely to be justified. Any costs’ application must propose a timetable for reply and be filed within 20 working days For the court __...

9. [2023] NZEnvC 067 Marsden City Limited Partnership v Whangarei District Council [pdf, 7.3 MB]

   ...Marsden City Limited Partnership (through its general partner Marsden City Development Limited), Bream Bay Village Limited and GNLC Limited are resolved in full. B: Under section 285 of the Resource Management Act 1991, there is no order as to costs. REASONS Introduction [1] This consent order relates to the following appeals against the decision of the Whangārei District Council (Decision) on Private Plan Change 150 (PC150) to the Whangārei District Plan (WDP): (a)...

10. [2023] NZEnvC 190 Donaldson v Queenstown Lakes District Council [pdf, 913 KB]

    ...other provisions in Chs 24 and 27 (and associated change to Sch 24.8). B: Directions are made for QLDC to confer with parties and file an updated final recommended set of provisions for the court’s endorsement for inclusion in the PDP. C: Costs are reserved but applications are not encouraged given our findings. REASONS Introduction [1] This proceeding concerns ‘Topic 31’ in the staged determination of appeals in the review of the Queenstown Lakes District Plan (‘PDP...