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1. MOJ0607-Stopping-a-child-being-taken-overseas-Tongan.pdf [pdf, 290 KB]

   ...kotoa ‘o Aotearoa Nu‘u Silá. Ko e ngaahi sēvesi ko ‘ení ‘oku kamata pē meí he nofo‘angá ‘o a‘u ki he talatalaifalé (counselling). • Telefoni ta‘etotongi ki he 0800 211 211 • Vakai ki he familyservices.govt.nz/directory/ CCS Disability Action ‘Oku nau ‘oatu ha fakamatala mo ha tokoni ki he kakai ‘oku ‘i ai hanau faingata‘a‘ia fakaesino, pea mo honau kāingá (fāmilí mo e ngaahi kaungāme‘á). Fetu‘utakí: • Telefoni ta‘etotongi ki he 0800...

2. NZCVS 2023 Key Results (Cycle 6) [pdf, 5.9 MB]

   ................................................................................................................... 5 2.1 Demographic groups ............................................................................................................. 10 2.2 Disability status ..................................................................................................................... 13 2.3 Highly victimised ............................................................................

3. Appellate judgments 2016

   ...indemnity costs. [2016] NZCA 369 Director-General of Health v Lowe Homeworker" (s 5) L, who undertook support care under a Government programme, the Carer Support Scheme (providing respite to persons providing unpaid full time care to a person with a disability) CA overturning a full EC decision that L was a homeworker and so deemed to be an employee to whom obligations were owed under the ERA and other employee L neither employed nor contracted by the Ministry or DHB but directly by and at t...

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4. [2020] NZEmpC 139 KiwiRail Ltd v Mobbs [pdf, 450 KB]

   ...day’s pay for the purposes of payments under this clause shall be calculated as annual salary divided by 365. 37.6.3 The employer may at any time review the continuing employment of an employee where the extent of that employee’s ill health or disability is such that a return to work is unlikely or absence is likely to be prolonged. A review under this sub-clause will take into account medical opinions from both the employee’s doctor and a doctor nominated by the employer....

5. Traumatic Brain Injury and people in the justice system: Research paper [pdf, 847 KB]

   ...association between having a mental illness and being a victim of crime33. A 2012 meta-analysis found that the odds of a person with mental illness experiencing physical, sexual, or domestic violence were 3.86 times higher than among adults with no disabilities34. 30 (Parsonage, 2016) 31 (Woolhouse, McKinlay, & Grace, 2017) 32 (Woolhouse, McKinlay, & Grace, 2017) 33 (Hart, de Vet, Moran, Hatch, & Dean, 2012) 34 (Hu...

6. [2021] NZACC 74 - Brown v ACC (17 May 2021) [pdf, 350 KB]

   ...14 December 2006 was most likely a disc disruption at the lumbosacral level. Lifting a weight of some 35 kg to 45 kg and injuring her back sufficiently to visit her general Practitioner and a subsequent x-ray, indicates a degree of pain and disability. Whilst I am unable to be absolutely certain that there was a lumbar disc disruption at the time, the subsequent deterioration of the disc over the next 10 years would be in keeping with an event that caused a disruption of the ann...

7. Cycle-5-Impact-of-COVID-report-v1.0-FINAL.pdf [pdf, 1020 KB]

   Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on crime and victimisation Descriptive statistics June 2023 Results drawn from Cycles 1 to 5 (2018-22) of the New Zealand Crime and Victims Survey 2 ISBN 978-0-473-68320-7 Disclaimer While all care and diligence has been taken to process, analyse and extract data and information for this publication, the Ministry of Justice gives no warranty that it is error f

8. [2012] NZEmpC 19 Warmington & ONeill v AFFCO NZ Ltd [pdf, 214 KB]

   ...or entering into the agreement,— (a) is unable to understand adequately the provisions or implications of the agreement by reason of diminished capacity due (for example) to— (i) age; or (ii) sickness; or (iii) mental or educational disability; or (iv) a disability relating to communication; or (v) emotional distress; or (b) reasonably relies on the skill, care, or advice of person B or a person acting on person B's behalf; or (c) is induced to enter into the ag...

9. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - summary record 4th report [pdf, 51 KB]

   ...field of human rights protection in New Zealand during the current year: the establishment of effective and vigorous national human rights institutions, including primarily the Human Rights Commission, but also the privacy commissioner, the health and disability commissioner, and the commissioner for children; the further development of jurisprudence concerning human rights and matters covered by the BORA; the emergence of a holistic approach to human rights issues that would be further d...

10. Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination – summary record 10th-11th reports [pdf, 44 KB]

    ...there had been a noticeable improvement in protection of human rights since the Race Relations Act of 1971 and the Human Rights Commission Act of 1977 had been amalgamated in the Human Rights Act of 1993. New grounds of prohibited discrimination included disability, age, political opinion, employment status, family status and sexual orientation. The functions and powers of the Human Rights Commission and the Race Relations Conciliator had been enhanced in section 5 of the Human Rights Act, whic...