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1. NZCVS 2024 Cycle 7 Perception of Safety [xlsx, 101 KB]

   ...represents the areas with the least deprived scores, and 10 (or 5) represents the areas with the most deprived scores. The analysis is based on the latest NZDep data available at the time - Cycles 1, 2 and 3 use NZDep2013 and Cycle 4 onwards uses NZDep2018. Disability In the report, disabled adults are defined using the Washington Group Short Set (WGSS) of disability questions. The questions ask if the respondent has experienced difficulties performing basic universal activities (walking, see...

2. Family Court Rewrite Submission - Youth Law [pdf, 453 KB]

   ...and the aspects of the family justice system that affect them. Other Community Law Centres such as Waitemata Community Law Centre will be focusing on parents’ rights and we support those submissions. We also support the submissions of Auckland Disability Law in relation to the issues with the family justice system for people with disabilities. 2.2 The structure of this submission generally follows the panel’s suggested topics. However, the first section of this submission will addre...

3. LCRO 97/2019 DH v MB (29 June 2020) [pdf, 273 KB]

   ...and enjoyment” of the property for 12 months following Mrs RS’s death, and (c) provided for the residue to be divided “among such of [Mrs RS’s] children as survive” Mrs RS. [10] Five years later on 7 May 2015, in order to qualify for a disability pension in [Country A], Ms DH asked (by email) Mrs RS to make a statutory declaration that Ms DH did not own the 71.1 per cent share of the property in Ms DH name. [11] Mr MB sent a letter of engagement to Mrs RS on 18 May 2015 co...

4. [2020] NZEmpC 46 JCE v The Department of Corrections [pdf, 321 KB]

   ...Processors Industrial Union of Workers.31 Both of those cases dealt with an unemployment benefit. [75] In Scissor Platforms, the Court referred to the English decision of Hopkins v Norcross plc which was about a pension scheme.32 Hopkins held that a disability pension payable to a police officer discharged from the police force for disability resulting from an accident, for which his employer was liable in tort, had to be ignored in assessing the financial loss for lost earning...

5. Adoption in Aotearoa New Zealand: Summary document [pdf, 325 KB]

   ...consistently ill-treated the child, or 2. the Court decides the parent or guardian is unfit to look after the child because of a physical or mental incapacity. Any physical or mental incapacity must also be likely to continue indefinitely. Disability rights advocates have criticised the second category as it can discriminate against people with disabilities and creates a presumption around the quality of parenting by people with disabilities. We want to hear your views on whe...

6. Stewart v Accident Compensation Corporation (Vocational Independence) [2022] NZACC 197 [pdf, 335 KB]

   ...was better to stop the trial. However, she said despite these other stressors, her pain was becoming uncontrolled. The main barrier to vocational independence is Ms Stewart’s persistent right knee pain and dysfunction. This causes significant disability in relation to standing and walking. In my opinion, this limitation is sufficient for her to be unfit for any employment for 30 hours or more per week. The difficulties in getting to and from work, and being able to sit for 6 h...

7. [2006] NZEmpC AC 72/06 Williams v Kimberleys Fashions Ltd [pdf, 85 KB]

   ...July 2002. She resigned her employment in June 2004. She then worked out one month’s notice. She claims to have been unjustifiably constructively dismissed. In addition she claims discrimination in her employment upon the grounds of sex and disability and unjustified disadvantage as a result of being victimised by the defendant. [2] One of the issues, which received some prominence during the hearing, was the plaintiff’s refusal to wear facial makeup while at work. Aspersio...

8. People found unfit to stand trial or not guilty by insanity December 2020 [xlsx, 87 KB]

   Contents People found unfit to stand trial or not guilty by reason of insanity A person can be found unfit to stand trial because of a current mental impairment (such as intellectual disability, or mental disorder or mental illness such as dementia). Whereas, a person can be found not guilty by reason of insanity based on their mental state at the time of the offence. Contents: Table 1: Number and percentage of charges where people were found unfit to stand trial, by offence type,...

9. People found unfit to stand trial or not guilty by insanity June 2019 [xlsx, 85 KB]

   Contents People found unfit to stand trial or not guilty by reason of insanity A person can be found unfit to stand trial because of a current mental impairment (such as intellectual disability, or mental disorder or mental illness such as dementia). Whereas, a person can be found not guilty by reason of insanity based on their mental state at the time of the offence. Contents: Table 1: Number and percentage of charges where people were found unfit to stand trial, by offence type,...

10. People found unfit to stand trial or not guilty by insanity December 2018 [xlsx, 85 KB]

    Contents People found unfit to stand trial or not guilty by reason of insanity A person can be found unfit to stand trial because of a current mental impairment (such as intellectual disability, or mental disorder or mental illness such as dementia). Whereas, a person can be found not guilty by reason of insanity based on their mental state at the time of the offence. Contents: Table 1: Number and percentage of charges where people were found unfit to stand trial, by offence type,...