Search Results

1. M v Accident Compensation Corporation (Treatment Injury) [2024] NZACC 88 [pdf, 366 KB]

   ...cognitive issues with depression/mental injury. [48] Dr McLeod conducted a file review and reported in April 2018, concluding the risks of unmodified ECT were orthopaedic, not cerebral, and it was unlikely that ECT resulted in any enduring cognitive disability. [49] Dr Knight conducted a file review (though he had received an email from M) and reported in January 2019 that administration of ECT, given within the normal dose range to a person with a structurally normal brain, is not...

2. Guide for Policy and Legal Advisors

   ...Freedom from discrimination This says that everyone has the right to freedom from discrimination on the grounds set out in the Human Rights Act. These grounds are: sex marital status religious belief ethical belief colour race ethnic or national origin disability age political opinion employment status family status sexual orientation Discrimination arises where an individual (or a group): is treated differently from others in an analogous or comparable position (known as a comparator group)...

   Located in:

   1. Justice sector & policy >
   2. Constitutional issues & human rights >
   3. The Bill of Rights Act

3. Recommendations recap - issue 3 [pdf, 1.2 MB]

   ...report identified methods to achieve the desired outcome of faster reporting. • The report was able to identify a previous case at Dunedin Hospital emergency Department where the patient later died from a leaking AAA. The previous Health and Disability Commissioner, who investigated the death, made recommendations. The coroner recommended that a copy of the finding, and the circumstances of the death it describes, be used by sDHB for education and training purposes. CAse Num...

4. Meulenbroek v Vision Antenna Systems Ltd [2014] NZHRRT 51 [pdf, 226 KB]

   1 IN THE HUMAN RIGHTS REVIEW TRIBUNAL [2014] NZHRRT [51] Reference No. HRRT 020/2013 UNDER THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT 1993 BETWEEN MARK CHRISTOPHER MEULENBROEK PLAINTIFF AND VISION ANTENNA SYSTEMS LIMITED DEFENDANT AT INVERCARGILL BEFORE: Mr RPG Haines QC, Chairperson Ms DL Hart, Member Mr BK Neeson, Member REPRESENTATION: Mr RW Kee and Ms JV Emerson for plaintiff Ms RK Brazil and Ms H Young for defendant DATE OF HEARING:

5. Teina Pora compensation claim innocence report [pdf, 9 MB]

   ..."waste her with a softball bat". 24 71. It is convenient to analyse Mr Pora's claim that his confession should be disregarded in four parts: (a) First, to consider expert psychological and medical evidence that Mr Pora has disabilities which help to explain why his confession should not be relied on. (b) Second, to examine those aspects of Mr Pora's statements that, on their face, call into question the accuracy of what he was saying. (c) Third, to review t...

6. [2023] NZEmpC 221 Cronin-Lampe v The Board of Trustees of Melville High School [pdf, 1 MB]

   KATHLEEN CRONIN-LAMPE v THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MELVILLE HIGH SCHOOL [2023] NZEmpC 221 [5 December 2023] IN THE EMPLOYMENT COURT OF NEW ZEALAND AUCKLAND I TE KŌTI TAKE MAHI O AOTEAROA TĀMAKI MAKAURAU [2023] NZEmpC 221 ARC 55/2013 ARC 79/2013 ARC 48/2014 ARC 25/2014 IN THE MATTER OF challenges to determinations of the Employment Relations Authority AND IN THE MATTER OF proceedings removed from the Employment Relations Authority AND

7. Self-represented litigants: an exploratory study of litigants in person in the New Zealand criminal & family jurisdictions [pdf, 1.2 MB]

   ...Table 26: Ethnicity of all represented litigants sampled 121 Table 27: Case types by gender of self-represented litigant 122 Table 28: Interview sample – Number of litigants born in New Zealand 124 Table 29: Interview sample – Litigants with disability or impairment 124 Table 30: Interview sample – Marital status 124 Table 31: Interview sample – Number of financially dependent children of litigants at start of case 125 Figures Figure 1: Proportion of self-represented an...

8. Your guide to legal aid - Māori [pdf, 708 KB]

   ...taua Ture. Mēnā he ‘tūroro marohi’ koe i roto i tētahi kōkiri whakawā i raro i te Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 1992, he ‘Proposed Care Patient’ rānei i roto i tētahi kōkiri whakawā i raro i te Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation) Act 2003, kāore e utua anō e koe ō āwhina ture. Ka utua taku āwhina ture ki a au, ki taku rōia rānei? Ka utua hāngai atu te āwhina ture ki tō rōia. He utu anō māku ki te rōia? Me...

9. Māori Trustee v Forde – Section 186 Block V Longwood Survey District (2013) 17 Te Waipounamu MB 152 (17 TWP 152) [pdf, 206 KB]

   ...their leases, and also for the whānau trust to be able to enjoy and utilise their tūrangawaewae. Many owners will not have four wheel drive vehicles. Pedestrian access would be unreasonable for those members who are kaumātua, tamariki or have disabilities. [81] It is submitted that the present case can be distinguished from the case of Murray v BC Group, which held that “the present access was reasonable and that vehicular access was primarily a matter of convenience for...

10. Recommendations Recap - Issue 13 [pdf, 988 KB]

    1 Recommendations recap A summary of coronial recommendations and comments made between 1 January 2017 and 30 June 2017 Issue 13 2 Coroners have a duty to identify any lessons learned from the deaths referred to them that might help prevent such deaths in the future. In order to publicise these lessons, the findings and recommendations of most cases are open to the public. Recommendations Recap identifies and summarises all coronial r