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...charges subject to the third strike final warning? No Yes 24. If you are charged with domestic violence matters is the alleged victim your partner? No Yes Are you currently subject to the Mental Health Act or the Intellectual Disability Compulsory Care & Rehabilitation Act orders? No Yes Has anyone else been charged with you for these offences? No Go to question 29 on next page Name(s) Yes 25. If your charge...
...charges subject to the third strike final warning? No Yes 24. If you are charged with domestic violence matters is the alleged victim your partner? No Yes Are you currently subject to the Mental Health Act or the Intellectual Disability Compulsory Care & Rehabilitation Act orders? No Yes Has anyone else been charged with you for these offences? No Go to question 29 on next page Name(s) Yes 25. If your charge...
...language therapist) can help witnesses understand what is being asked of them and give better quality evidence. Currently, witnesses are entitled to communication assistance only if they have insufficient proficiency in English or a ‘communication disability’. The Bill allows communication assistance to be given to any witness who requires assistance (that is, not just witnesses in sexual cases) to understand court proceedings or give evidence, for whatever reason. Requiring jud...
...letter from his GP from 1999: This man has been a patient of mine since 1987. He has always impressed me as a hard working person who is keen to get ahead in life … there is no doubt in my mind that injury to this man’s back is the cause of his disability. [8] It appears that the original injury description changed and on 6 August 1999 it was described by ACC as a pathological fracture of the vertebra of the lower back/spine. It is ACC’s position that the cover for sprain/...
...coded 66 Distribution of offence codes 66 Double coding 67 8. Data processing 68 Datasets 68 Formatting 69 Automatic skip cleaning 69 Data quality assurance 69 9. Classifications, coding and groupings 71 Introduction 71 Classifications 71 Disability and psychological distress derivation 75 Disability 75 Psychological distress 75 Demographic coding 75 Ethnicity 75 Household composition 76 ‘Other – Specify’ responses 77 Geographic derivations 77 The New Zealand Index...
...immigration act in 2009. She also wondered how the State party intended to prevent unjustified detention of asylum-seekers and refugees under the new act. In addition, further clarification was requested on the reluctance to grant permanent residence to disabled persons thought likely to be a burden on the health care system. How did the Citizenship Amendment Act of 2005, which deprived children born to non-residents of their citizenship rights, comply with the prohibition against dis...
...provision. The qualifying thresholds still would have to be met, including that the employee was “retiring” from WDHB. [85] Mr Harrison also referred to the “good employer” obligations on WDHB contained in the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act 2000 and the Crown Entities Act 2004, the latter including the requirement for an Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) programme. He said these affected the settled interpretation of the MECA provision.32 [86] The fi...
...internationally recognised privacy obligations and standards in relation to the privacy of personal information, including the OECD Guidelines and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966 (ICCPR). The Long Title to the Health and Disability Commissioner Act 1994 (HDCA) also opens with a reference to the promotion 4 and protection of rights, namely the rights of health consumers and disability services consumers. The relevance of this human rights context to the...
...orthopaedic surgeon, had been made. Cover was accepted for that injury. [7] Mr Howie noted that Mr McBryde had gradually increased his activity and was back at work, managing six hours a day. Mr McBryde rated his pain at the time at 7/10. He had a disability score of 33 per cent (moderately disabled). Radiographs of 1 June 1994 show that the previous fracture had healed “with 10% of wedging. The superior endplate appears intact and the disc height is preserved”. [8] M...
...December 2022) - proven but not criminally responsible on account of insanity (introduced in December 2022 to replace 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, findings of insanity are based on a person's mental state at the time of the offence. Contents: Table 1: Number and percentage of finalised charges where pe...