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1. [2018] NZEnvC 218 Aratiatia Livestock Limited v Southland Regional Council [pdf, 9 MB]

   ...OF CERTAIN PERSONS TO JOIN APPEALS UNDER SECTION 274 A: Waiau Rivercare Group has standing as a s274 party to this appeal. B: Waiau River Liaison Committee has no standing as a s274 party to this appeal and its s274 notice is struck out. C: Costs are reserved. REASONS Introduction [1] This decision concerns a preliminary legal issue as to whether two entities are entitled to join appeals on the proposed Southland Water and Land Plan ('pSWLP'). I commence with an apo...

2. 2021-03-18 Fish & Game opening subs [pdf, 298 KB]

   ...activity status found in a superseded plan that has become inoperative and having no ongoing relevance to the assessment of the application. We add that we can see no basis upon which Parliament could have intended that an applicant be put to the cost of bringing an entirely new, but identical, application, simply to overcome such hurdle. Such a pointless and expensive "workaround" should hardly be needed to serve the purpose of the Act. 24 This approach was confirmed in t...

3. Justice Sector Projections 2020 report [pdf, 1 MB]

   ...reduce the number of people entering (or remaining in) custody. • Increased judicial capacity from Budget 19: To help with the increased workload in the District Court the 2019 Wellbeing Budget allocated $54 million over four years to cover the cost for an additional ten judges and corresponding court resources. These extra District Court judges were in place by mid-2020. • Increased judicial capacity to address COVID-19 backlogs: As part of the COVID-19 Budget, the Governmen...

4. [2021] NZIACDT 4 - SL v Mackintosh (4 March 2021) [pdf, 271 KB]

   ...pursuant to s 51 of the Act. [122] A timetable is set out below. Any request that Ms Mackintosh undertake training should specify the precise course suggested and its start/completion dates. Any request for the repayment of fees or the payment of costs or expenses or for compensation must be accompanied by a schedule particularising the amounts and basis of the claim. Timetable [123] The timetable for submissions will be as follows: (1) The Registrar, the complainant and Ms...

5. {2017] NZEmpC 15 Spotless Facility Services NZ Ltd v Mackay [pdf, 143 KB]

   ...Flexible?” (paper presented to the New Zealand Law Society Employment Law Conference, Auckland, October 2016) 369 at 416. grievance, and that the company should pay Ms Mackay the sum of $2,000 under s 123(1)(c)(i) of the Act. [73] Costs are reserved. Those should be discussed in the first instance between the parties. If agreement cannot be reached, application may be made, supported by memorandum and evidence, if appropriate, within 21 days; any response should be...

6. Responsiveness to Resource Management Issues - a New Zealand perspective a paper by Commissioner K Edmonds [pdf, 244 KB]

   ...time noise that ought to be allowed, similarly the current NZ Standard for construction noise17 which has some discretion relating to Sunday and night time operations. There is another problem with NZ Standards and that is with copyright and the cost of purchase which is well beyond the means of most people. NZ Standards forbid photocopying at public libraries. It is better to include the specific provisions in conditions so they are known and accessible to all.

7. Li & Gao v Real Estate Agents Authority (CAC 408) & Ors [2017] NZREADT 9 [pdf, 259 KB]

   ...appellants were not told that Ms Riley had not inspected it. [24] The appellants did not get a building inspector’s report for the property. Their reasons were, first, that when a purchaser is interested in three or four properties, it is costly to obtain reports for every property. Secondly, they had been assured that the vendors were warranting that CCC and COA issues would be resolved before settlement. Thirdly, they had not been made aware of any other issues, or potential...

8. Complaints Assessment Comittee 404 v Hawkins [2017] NZREADT 16 [pdf, 214 KB]

   ...discussions with Ms Fletcher and her mother as to the possibility of building two houses on the larger block. In order to assist Peetom with the subdivision he arranged for a company he controlled, Family Farm Trustees Ltd (“FFT”), to meet some costs relating to the subdivision. The small lots were listed with Tremains. Ms Fletcher and her mother were by now looking at purchasing two of the small lots. Tremains’ signage (containing Mr Hawkins’ contact details) was put u...

9. Final name suppression June 2019 [xlsx, 100 KB]

   ...vehicle'), Final Protection Order (Sentencing Act), and 'committed to a facility on conviction') - no sentence recorded (includes where a person has been 'convicted and discharged' and where a person has been ordered to pay court costs). Values of - and 0 Where information is not existing for a measure (eg Balclutha Court from 2014 onwards when it was closed) a dash (-) is used in the tables. A count of zero is represented by a numerical 0. Where a percentage value is...

10. D-G Conservation - EiC - N R Dunn - Freshwater Ecology (5 Feb 2021) [pdf, 1.2 MB]

    ...water, there are varying degrees of physiological adaptation in terms of gill structure and metabolic waste excretion pathways limiting the length of time they can survive out of water (O’Brien & Dunn 2007). Moreover, emersion tolerance is a costly survival mechanism, potentially limiting to local populations, and therefore is best avoided by maintaining an adequate instream hydrological environment. 33. I concur with Dr Allibone that where interactions between non-diadromous...