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1. Foster v Accident Compensation Corporation (Cover) [2025] NZACC 145 (4 September 2025) [pdf, 500 KB]

   FIN THE DISTRICT COURT AT WELLINGTON I TE KŌTI-Ā-ROHE KI TE WHANGANUI-A-TARA [2025] NZACC 145 ACAR 190/24 UNDER THE ACCIDENT COMPENSATION ACT 2001 IN THE MATTER OF AN APPEAL UNDER SECTION 149 OF THE ACT BETWEEN KANCHAN FOSTER Appellant AND ACCIDENT COMPENSATION CORPORATION Respondent Hearings: 24 June 2025 and 30 July 2025 Held at: Auckland/Tāmaki Makaurau Appearances: B Cunningham for the appellant F Becroft for the respondent

2. BORA Public Health Bill [pdf, 617 KB]

   ...disclosure regime. A medical practitioner or specified person must report matters that constitute a health risk. Under the Bill, a health risk is defined quite broadly. The information to be provided includes an individual's medical history, disabilities, health services provided, test information and any information collected before or in the course of health services provided to the individual. 35. A medical practitioner or specified person and laboratories must also notify the...

3. Restorative justice: Practice standards for family violence cases 2019 [pdf, 1.5 MB]

   ...ways that practitioners work with men who perpetrate family violence. Equally, there’s a need to understand the many other factors that further disenfranchise people caught up in family violence such as racism, historical trauma, homophobia, and disability discrimination. People sit at the intersection of multiple hierarchies of disadvantage and privilege. The combination of gender, race and socio-economic status influences people’s experiences of family violence in different way...

4. OIA-119799.pdf [pdf, 4.2 MB]

   Justice Centre | 19 Aitken Street DX SX10088 | Wellington T 04 918 8800 | F 04 918 8820 ContactUs@justice.govt.nz | www.justice.govt.nz 7 April 2025 Ref: OIA 119799 Tēnā koe Official Information Act request: Crimes Act reform and citizen’s arrest Thank you for your email of 26 February 2025, requesting, under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act), information regarding proposed reforms to the Crimes Act to allow greater citizen arrest powers. Specifically, y

5. OIA-120238.pdf [pdf, 4.2 MB]

   Justice Centre | 19 Aitken Street DX SX10088 | Wellington T 04 918 8800 | F 04 918 8820 ContactUs@justice.govt.nz | www.justice.govt.nz 28 April 2025 Ref: OIA 120238 Tēnā koe Official Information Act request: Crimes Act reform and citizen’s arrest Thank you for your email of 12 March 2025 requesting, under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act), information regarding proposed reforms to the Crimes Act to allow greater citizen arrest powers. Specifically, you re

6. [2012] NZEmpC 84 New Zealand Educational Institute (Inc) v Secretary for Education [pdf, 159 KB]

   ...demand notice that section 225(4) provides may be enforced by compliance order; or (v) sections 56, 58, 77A, and 77D of the State Sector Act 1988; or (vi) Parts 6 and 7 of the State Sector Act 1988; or (vii) section 11(3)(c) of the Health and Disability Services Act 1993; or (viii) clauses 5 and 6 of Schedule 1 of the Broadcasting Act 1989; or (ix) sections 83, 83A, and 83B of the Fire Service Act 1975; or (x) clauses 18, 19, and 21 of Schedule 5 of the Accident Compen...

7. [2009] NZEmpC AC 19/09 Gilbert v The Attorney-General in respect of the CE of Department of Corrections [pdf, 59 KB]

   ...of circumstances. Although I accept, as was the plaintiff’s case, that these included death and early retirement, such contingencies must also include redundancy (a minimal consideration in the circumstances of this case) and total permanent disablement. Except for the redundancy contingency that is really negligible in the circumstances of these parties, the likelihood of all other contingencies would have increased with age. [12] A deduction for contingencies using this incr...

8. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - government report back 5th report [pdf, 242 KB]

   ...ethnic communities. The modules for this training course cover intercultural awareness and communication, Māori, Pacific peoples, ethnic communities, gender equity, sexual orientation and gender identity, generation mix (including elderly), and Disability. 37. The Department of Corrections does not have any specific Human Rights training. The Initial Training Course (Induction training) is being revised at present and specific Human Rights training is under analysis. The Induction...

9. Baigent v ACC [2014] NZACA 10 [pdf, 55 KB]

   ...out in the letter dated 2 June 2006. [39] Nor can I see why the established common law principles of accord and satisfaction should not apply, as Mr Baigent had competent legal advice throughout and cannot be said to have been under any form of disability or duress when he instructed Mr Miller to agree to the rates that were put to him and as Mr Greene properly found, ACC was equally bound when it tried to pay a lesser sum. Procedural matters and directions [40] When preparing th...

10. Brown v Otago Polytechnic and Progressive Enterprises (Recusal Application) [2014] NZHRRT 5 [pdf, 82 KB]

    ...teleconferences convened for the purpose of giving pre-trial management directions. HRRT003/2013 – OTAGO POLYTECHNIC – THE CURRENT POSITION [5] In these proceedings Mr Brown alleges that Otago Polytechnic discriminated against him because of his disability (learning difficulties and dyslexia) and that it victimised him because he sought to rely on his rights under the Human Rights Act 1993 (HR Act). [6] The Chairperson held teleconferences on 23 May 2013, 4 July 2013 and 5 Septemb...