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1. [2016] NZSSAA 084 (29 August 2016) [pdf, 139 KB]

   ...Review Committee, to establish and recover overpayments as follows: Domestic Purposes Benefit 29/3/2013 to 14/7/2013 $4,556.37 Sole Parent Support 15/7/2013 to 22/3/2015 $26,200.05 Accommodation Supplement 29/3/2013 to 22/3/2015 $6,062.15 Disability Allowance 4/11/2013 to 4/5/2014 $130.95 Temporary Additional Support 29/3/2013 to 22/3/2015 $4,296.12 Total $41,245.64 2 [2] The overpayments of Domestic Purposes Benefit and Sole Parent Benefit were established...

2. [2018] NZEmpC 46 Evans-Walsh v Southern District Health Board [pdf, 367 KB]

   ...It is empowered to review and promote the competence of nurses,9 to recognise, accredit, and set programmes to ensure the ongoing competence of them10 and to receive and act on information from health practitioners, employers, and the Health and Disability Commissioner about the competence of nurses.11 Amongst those functions is: 12 To set standards of clinical competence, cultural competence, and ethical conduct to be observed by health practitioners of the profession. [33] Th...

3. [2021 NZACC 178 – Kirdy v ACC (8 November 2021) [pdf, 184 KB]

   ...of sudden onset of pain and reduced function including power to push off following the injury, no preceding problems, importantly no preceding features to suggest any Achilles tendonitis, the injury has clearly contributed to Daniel’s ongoing disability. The x-ray findings some 16 months later clouds the picture somewhat with more chronic findings. … It is entirely possible that the findings from the x-ray in November 2017 could represent a bony evulsion from the time of...

4. [2022] NZACC 167 — Peni v ACC (24 August 2022) [pdf, 287 KB]

   ...Bradley, Orthopaedic Surgeon, for review. [15] Mr Bradley saw the appellant and reported on 4 February 2021. He said: She presents with a severe handicap secondary to her injury. … This event has caused a complete rupture and major physical disability. He suggested tendon transfer surgery. [16] On 25 February 2021, Mr Bradley completed an Assessment Report and Treatment Plan, claiming surgery funding. Under the heading, Causal Medical Link between Proposed Treatment and...

5. [2006] NZEmpC AC 63/06 Whelan v Attorney-General for CE of the Children and Young Persons Service [pdf, 112 KB]

   ...taking anti-depressants. Professor Gorman was able to say that although she was suffering from a major depressive disorder, which is in the moderate to severe category without psychotic features, it was reasonable to conclude that she has a stable disability, has had a good response to treatment but that no further improvement or deterioration should be anticipated. He also recommended the earliest possible resolution of the current litigation so that the plaintiff could get on wi...

6. Teina Pora compensation claim quantum report [pdf, 9 MB]

   ...possible. She points out that Mr Pora was imprisoned at an age when his character was forming and he had his life ahead of him. She confirms that he suffered many years of low mood and despair in prison and was vulnerable and exploited because of his disability. 29. A further dimension to Mr Pora's loss is the effect of imprisonment on his personal relationships. In particular, it denied him any meaningful contact with his daughter from when she was two. 30. The consequences...

7. [2018] NZEmpC 128 Blue Water Hotel Ltd v VBS [pdf, 435 KB]

   ...action. Where Parliament considered it appropriate to allow for the possibility of an extension of a time limit, it did so. The absence of any express discretion to extend the longstop period in s 114(6) must be regarded as deliberate. Disability [50] Mr Govender strongly argued that the Court should adopt an interpretation which would, as he put it, allow for flexibility if for good and proper reasons an employee could not meet the three-year time limit. Not to do so, he...

8. [2021] NZEmpC 138 The 20 District Health Boards v New Zealand Nurses Organisation [pdf, 378 KB]

   ...life preserving services (LPS) activities can continue to be available during industrial action.1 The DHBs are required, as part of their contingency planning, to determine resourcing levels which will ensure there is no loss of life or permanent disability during the industrial action. Elective and non- urgent procedures are suspended, as are study leave, meetings, and other non-essential work. Each DHB is also required to maintain services for patients who have no other choice b...

9. Section 7 reports

   ...Legislation Bill Section 18(1), 21 and 26(2) Government Bill 2014 Parole (Extended Supervision Orders) Amendment Bill Section 26 Government Bill 2013 Land Transport Amendment Bill Section 25(c) Government Bill 2013 New Zealand Public Health and Disability Amendment Bill (No 2) Section 27(2) Government Bill 2012 Land Transport (Admissibility of Evidential Breath Tests) Amendment Bill Sections 25(c) Government Bill 2012 Lobbying Disclosure Bill Section 14 Non-Government Bill 2011...

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10. Proactive release - Second Interim Regulatory Impact Statement: Consultation options for adoption law reform [pdf, 1.6 MB]

    ...criterion has, until relatively recently, restricted same-sex couples from adopting. The rainbow community have a particular interest in ensuring that adoption law is consistent with New Zealand’s domestic and international human rights obligations. Disabled communities Disabled people have in the past experienced both direct and indirect discrimination in the adoption process. The communities have been concerned regarding the consent provision of the Adoption Act, which allows for a...