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1. Evidence-of-R-Schimpf.pdf [pdf, 154 KB]

   ...Club for the last 20 years and its President for the last 10. 7. I am a Life Member of both the Wellington Competitive Trail Riding Club and the Levin & Districts Horse Trekking Club as well as being an ardent supporter of Riding for the Disabled and past President of the Levin branch. CODE OF CONDUCT 8, I confirm that I have read the Expert Witness Code of Conduct set out in the Environment Court’s Practice Note 2023 and will comply with it. SCOPE OF EVIDENCE...

2. Monitoring procedures

   ...under the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment CAT October 2030 New Zealand Government to submit its combined 4th-6th periodic reports under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities CRPD Find out more about: New Zealand's common core document Compilation of Reporting Guidelines including the guidelines on common core document and treaty specific reports Back to top

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3. Frequently asked questions - Legal Needs Survey

   ...legal needs. Some of the key findings include: In the preceding year, a third of the population have experienced an issue which could be resolved through legal action. Certain groups were more likely to encounter legal issues. The most likely being disabled people, LGBT+ People, single parents, Māori, and those with low savings. Ten percent of the population experience 77 percent of the issues. Issues were often resolved via mutual agreement between the parties (35 percent being resolved this...

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4. Taukamo v ACC [2014] NZACA 12 [pdf, 163 KB]

   ...required in a home awaiting modification (eg requiring help with transferring on and off a toilet or into a bathroom), it is extremely unlikely that this would translate to the need for care 24 hours per day. In this absence of significant other disabilities, it is hard 10 conceive a situation where 24 hour care would be required for someone in this situation. Even with poorer transferring ability than Ms Taukamo had, once in bed, a requirement that someone be available to help overnight...

5. [2011] NZEmpC 137 Service and Food Workers Union Nga Ringa Tota Inc v PACT Group Charitable Trust [pdf, 61 KB]

   ...days’ notice as the unions contend was required. [6] The work of the employees includes supporting service users with mental health issues in residential facilities including those service users who have been detained under the Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation) Act 2003. The defendant operates such residential facilities throughout the southern region of the South Island. The unions and the employer have been engaged unsuccessfully for some months in...

6. [2015] NZSSAA 032, 8 May [pdf, 26 KB]

   ...two years while they are absent from New Zealand in circumstances where: (a) The person is receiving medical treatment overseas for which the Ministry of Health is granting assistance; or (b) The person is receiving vocational training or disability assistance dog training. [12] The appellant did not dispute that he had received Supported Living Payment while overseas for a total of four weeks in the previous 52 week period. The main thrust of his argument was that he had in...

7. 2017 NZSSAA 041 (21 July 2017) [pdf, 89 KB]

   ...the Ministry further considered the temporary additional support based on the February 2017 rent increase and Ms Siueva said that Ms XXXX is now being paid the maximum under temporary additional support. Ms XXXX is not currently paid the maximum disability allowance. [14] Ms XXXX provided her hospital discharge report dated 12 June 2017. In this report the doctor noted that the counsellor whom Ms XXXX had been seeing for four years through the public health system has worked priv...

8. Contract Compliance statement 7May2021 [pdf, 215 KB]

   ...know basis, and regularly reviewing who can access what information. Statement Acknowledgement Please indicate which most applies to your organisation Comments 13. Do you regularly review user and administrator accounts and disable accounts you no longer require? Yes No N/A 14. Are individual user accounts (not shared) used for logging onto systems and web services? Yes No N/A 15. Is all information stored and accessed through ser...

9. [2022] NZEmpC 239 Butt v Attorney-General [pdf, 205 KB]

   ...application was unnecessary and that the Crown did not need to take the approach it did. Further, they say that the Crown has substantial resources compared to them and that this is part of a larger vein of litigation being brought by the recipients of disability funding at the current time. [10] The defendants say that the high threshold for indemnity costs is not met. The Court did not criticise either the defendants or their counsel’s conduct in the proceedings. They say tha...

10. Working with victims and perpetrators of sexual violence and family violence [pdf, 117 KB]

    ...family violence or sexual violence Family violence and sexual violence can include: Physical: hitting, slapping, kicking, strangling, choking, suffocating, burning or use of weapon. Taking away things needed due to age, health condition, or disability. Sexual: pressuring a person to do something they don’t want to do sexually. Forcing sexual acts or forcing someone to watch pornography. Emotional and psychological: put downs, name calling, humiliation alone or in publ...