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1. 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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2. Procceds of Crime Fund Proposal Template November 2025 [docx, 136 KB]

   ...experiencing or affected by drug and alcohol issues  ☐ Adults aged 24+  ☐ Refugee and migrant communities  ☐  Young people not in employment, education, or training  ☐ Older people 65+   ☐  Rural or remote communities  ☐ Disabled people  OR OR ☐ LGBTQIA+ communities  ☐  All age groups   ☐ All community groups  ☐ People affected by sexual violence  ☐  People affected by assault        ☐ People affected...

3. 4 New Zealand International Human Rights Guidelines part 4 Implementation and Follow up [pdf, 277 KB]

   ...who may not be aware that recommendations relate to them, for example local government or the courts. 21. Existing monitoring groups, such as the Independent Monitoring Mechanism under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities or the Children’s Monitoring Group under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, should be engaged with at this time. The Governance Group recommends that concluding observations be considered by Cabinet...

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. OIA-126066.pdf [pdf, 26 MB]

   ...skills to work effectively with survivors. We consider the Ministry of Justice and New Zealand Law Society should offer training to lawyers wishing to work on abuse in care cases, including training on how to ensure effective access to justice for disabled people. Survivors may need assistance to choose a suitably competent lawyer, and they should be able to be confident that the lawyer they have chosen is competent to work on their case. To help with this, we consider the Ministry of Jus...

9. [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...

10. 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...