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1. [2011] NZEmpc 122 Chen v BancLogix Limited [pdf, 106 KB]

   ...Wei was described as the de facto team leader. [7] On 12 August 2008, Mr Wei found that Mr Cai’s e-mail account had been opened and this fact raised serious security concerns given that Mr Cai had left the company in May. Mr Wei immediately disabled the account and reported the incident to Mr Liu. The following day, Ms Booker, acting on Mr Wei’s instructions and another IT engineer, Mr Brian Cao, approached Mr Chen for his IP address to enable them to ascertain who had acce...

2. 2017 NZSSAA 026 (12 June 2017) [pdf, 155 KB]

   ...E. Rutherford. Counsel for the appellant: M Taylor–Cyphers. DECISION Background [1] XXXX appeals the decision of a Benefit Review Committee issued on 4 February 2016 to stop his supported living payment, accommodation supplement, disability allowance, and special benefit from 16 June 2014 due to excess income and to seek recovery of overpayment of benefits totalling $54,689.46 paid to him between 2 August 2010 and 29 July 2013 and the decision to impose a penalty of $4...

3. Harvey v Accident Compensation Corporation [2015] NZACA 9 [pdf, 241 KB]

   ...retrospective diagnosis of his multiple conditions. This is the primary reason I gave for declining the adjournment, on essentially the same ground. [51] It is correct that additional medical or health evidence as to the effect of his symptoms and disability on his functioning, and therefore on his care requirements and how this compared with a normal child, would have been relevant (whether arising from additional coverage or not). That would be particularly so, if Ms Borer...

4. Regulatory Impact Statement: Improving security so that people feel safer in courts [pdf, 411 KB]

   ...• Aggravated wounding or injury (section 191); • Aggravated assault (section 192); • Assault with intent to injure (section 193); • Assault on child or by male on female (section 194); • Common assault (section 196); • Disabling (section 197); • Discharging firearm or doing dangerous act with intent (section 198); • Using any firearm against law enforcement officer (section 198A); • Commission of a crime with a firearm (section 198B); • Acid...

5. BORA Public Safety (Public Protection Orders) Bill [pdf, 352 KB]

   ...behavioural characteristics, and both the Court and the subject of the application may seek further expert evidence.[4] The Court may also require the Chief Executive to consider whether the subject should instead be detained under the Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation) Act 2003 or the Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 1992.[5] Detention under the Bill 11. The Bill provides for the making of orders for effective periods of five years f...

6. Cooper v Hamilton Pharmacy 2011 Ltd (Application for Non-Publication Orders) [2017] NZHRRT 34 [pdf, 388 KB]

   ...required standard of competence, health practitioner A may give the Registrar of the authority that health practitioner B is registered with written notice of the reasons on which that belief is based. (2) If a person holding office as Health and Disability Commissioner or as Director of Proceedings under the Health and Disability Commissioner Act 1994 has reason to believe that a health practitioner may pose a risk of harm to the public by practising below the required standard of comp...

7. Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism - Cabinet Paper 2 - Sept 2016 [pdf, 126 KB]

   ...only setting out the framework for the more detailed decisions to be made in October 2016, the Ministry has decided to address the issues collectively in the wider RIS. Gender implications 67. The reforms will not have any gender implications. Disability perspective 68. The reforms will not have any disability implications. Publicity 69. No public announcement is planned at this stage. Recommendations The Minister of Justice recommends that the Committee: 1. Note that in Septembe...

8. BORA Enhancing Identity Verification and Border Processes Legislation Bill [pdf, 186 KB]

   ...care facility under the Criminal Procedure (Mentally Impaired Persons) Act 2003;21 (b) Special care recipients - persons charged with an offence who the Court has ordered are to be held in a hospital or secure care facility under the Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation) Act 2003; and and 20 Fn 2 p 1054 at [18.30.11]: Butler and Butler note that the prison context “is a field in which limits on the usual warran...

9. Nelson Standards Committee v Downing and Reith [2022] NZLCDT 21 (27 June 2022) [pdf, 192 KB]

   ...need to establish a causal connection between the unjustified actions of the employer and the injury to feelings, loss of dignity and/or humiliation suffered. • Actual cause need not be proved, as stated in Marks v The Director of Health and Disability Proceedings:12 8 Hong v Auckland Standards Committee No. 5 [2020] NZHC 1599; at [208]. 9 Commissioner of Police v Robert Craig Hawkins [2009] NZCA 209. 10 (See Hammond “Beyond Dignity” in Berryman and Bigwood (eds) The Law of Re...

10. [2023] NZSSAA 7 (30 March 2023) [pdf, 260 KB]

    ...Help Programme. [20.5] There is no basis that XXXX is entitled to further grants going forward. [20.6] The Ministry provided other forms of support that were permitted by law, and appropriate. This included support 7 from a disability allowance and “home help for domestic support”.4 The Law [21] As was said in the Indicative decision, the regulation of social security is somewhat more complex than some of New Zealand’s legislative regimes. It includes...