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1. 2018 to 2023 Ministry of Justice statement of intent [pdf, 1.2 MB]

   ...work will build on efforts taking place across the public service including leveraging the learning from other agencies. • Wellbeing - Our Wellbeing Education Programme will continue to be rolled out, including mental health, family violence, disability, addictions, and suicide prevention modules. We will also review our professional supervision needs and arrangements. Our success isn’t just about what we do; it’s how we do things that really make the difference. Everyone in...

2. Donaldson v Hemi - Whaanga 1D 1D Roadway (2019) 188 Waikato-Maniapoto MB 142 (188 WMN 142) [pdf, 959 KB]

   188 Waikato-Maniapoto MB 142 IN THE MĀORI LAND COURT OF NEW ZEALAND WAIKATO MANIAPOTO DISTRICT A20180006089 UNDER Section 19, Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993 IN THE MATTER OF Whaanga 1D 1D Roadway BETWEEN LUCY DONALDSON AND ELLIOT DONALDSON Applicants AND HOHU WARREN HEMI AS A TRUSTEE OF THE HEMI WHĀNAU TRUST Respondent Hearing: 26 September 2018, 171 Waikato Maniapoto MB 24 - 37 13 December 2018, 176 Waikato Maniap

3. [2021] NZACC 44 - Waite v ACC (17 March 2021) [pdf, 261 KB]

   ...[125] The appellant is to be commended for his initiative and determination in finding and maintaining that employment. It is also evidence of a wholly positive attitude towards achieving and maintaining full participation in society in spite of disability and injury, an attitude that is completely congruent with the social contract that underpins the accident compensation scheme. [126] Likewise, as Mr Light points out, Hucklebridge and other cases have decided that pain is not a...

4. Adoption in Aotearoa New Zealand: Summary document - Korean [pdf, 551 KB]

   ...https://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/crc.aspx https://www.hcch.net/en/instruments/conventions/specialised-sections/intercountry-adoption https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/declaration-on-the-rights-of-indigenous-peoples.html https://www.un.org/development/desa/disabilities/convention-on-the-rights-of-persons-with-disabilities.html 5 보다 폭넓은 시스템 입양은 아오테아로아에서 아동을 돌볼 수 있는 법적 조치의 한 유형입�...

5. Derham v Accident Compensation Corporation (Gradual Process Injury; Suspension of Entitlements) [2025] NZACC 026 (17 February 2025) [pdf, 246 KB]

   ...symptomatic that which previously was asymptomatic does not alter that basic principle. The accident did not cause the degenerative changes, it just caused the effects of those changes to become apparent and of course in many cases for them to become the disabling feature.8 (d) An appellant may not establish causation simply by showing that the injury triggered an underlying condition to which the appellant was already vulnerable (the “eggshell skull” principle) or that the inju...

6. OIA-116775 [pdf, 5.3 MB]

   ...Office, Ministry of Health, Office of the Privacy Commissioner, Chief Victims Advisor, Oranga Tamariki – Ministry for Children, Parliamentary Counsel Office, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Ministry for Women, Whaikaha – Ministry of Disabled People, Ministry for Regulation, Treasury, Reserve Bank of New Zealand, New Zealand Customs Service, Financial Markets Authority, Real Estate Authority and the Private Security Personnel Licensing Authority. 12. Some agencies, who...

7. Evaluation of the Te Hurihanga pilot [pdf, 1.5 MB]

   ...have committed sex offences, murder, or manslaughter pose such significant risk to self or others or threaten to undermine security and safety of the facility, young people, staff or community have an unstable medical condition, intellectual disability or psychiatric condition which prevents meaningful engagement and completion of the programme lack a designated caregiver/whaanau member (within the region) who has committed to acting in a parental/support role for duration of the p...

8. [2018] NZEnvC 027 Kumeu Property Limited v Auckland Council [pdf, 17 MB]

   ..."lifestyle". We did not understand him to go so far as to suggest that persons who lived in the Rural area had to be involved in an active, outdoors lifestyle. Our position is that there is no constraint, by virtue of a person's age or disability, on being able to live in the Rural area. That is clearly not the intent of the Plan provision. We conclude the reference to Rural Lifestyle Living is a reference to rural character and amenity, not to the involvement or activi...

9. [2017] NZEnvC 135 Save Wanaka Lakefront Reserve v Queenstown Lakes District Council [pdf, 7.6 MB]

   ...boardwalk ('boardwalk') that meets the following specifications to the reasonable specification of the General Manager, Planning and Development or delegate ('GMPD'): (a) it must comply with the minimum width for people with disabilities prescribed in D1/AS1 (Access Routes) of the New Zealand Building Code and in any case be not less than 1200mm in width at its narrowest point(s); (b) it must be repositioned from where it is shown in the plans in condition 1...

10. Chief Coroner 2019-20 Annual Report [pdf, 2 MB]

    ...May 2016 Mr Murray told his case manager that his condition had improved and a script for laxatives was provided to him. The Coroner noted, relying on a medical expert’s report, that clozapine, while being efficacious in reducing the disabling symptoms of schizophrenia, is known to have potential side effects, including fatal constipation/bowel obstruction. This is the leading cause of death related to clozapine in New Zealand. As such, it is a drug that requires a g...