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1. 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...

2. OIA-121693.pdf [pdf, 5.5 MB]

   ...diversity is associated with culture, race, and ethnicity, but an examination of family violence shows that diversity is a much broader concept than this (for example, the particular vulnerability to family violence in which older people or people with a disability are placed). Certain factors might also make some protected people/victims/survivors more vulnerable to continued family violence. The same, or different factors, may result in providers needing to adjust programme desig...

3. [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...

4. [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...

5. 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...

6. [2021] NZACC 69 - Auva'a v ACC (28 April 2021) [pdf, 312 KB]

   ...for Mr Auva’a and unsustainable. This position was also likely to involve more or less constant driving. • Mr Auva’a currently works in sheltered employment with a long-term employer providing supervision, training and allowances for his disability. If Mr Auva’a was obliged to give up this work and attempt any of the suggested five vocations, it was more likely than not that he would be unable to manage due to his injuries. [38] Mr Auva’a’s manager, Terry Brown, provi...

7. Te-Manutukutuku-Issue-79.pdf [pdf, 11 MB]

   ...Tribunal received an application from claim­ ants on behalf of the New Zealand Māori Council. They requested that an upcoming hearing within the health services and outcomes inquiry (Wai 2575) of claims concerning Māori with lived experience of disability be deferred in order to enable a priority inquiry into claims on the Crown’s vaccine rollout and planned transi­ tion to the COVID­19 Protection Framework (known as the ‘traffic light system’). The Tribunal agreed to gran...

8. OTAGO REGIONAL COUNCIL v NGA RUNANGA & Ors NOE ENV 20210628 [pdf, 481 KB]

   ...father’s eyesight was so 10 impaired that he was blind in 50% of both eyes and he was unable to read those documents, and that’s unfortunate, but we did inform the Otago Regional Council, and it had very little patience or consideration of the disability. Under time pressure, that permit or that consent was renewed, but in the 15 process of that renewal of that consent, now referred to as 94655, it resulted in a change in the locations that we were allowed to take water from,...

9. [2021] NZACC 135–NT v ACC (10 August 2021) [pdf, 285 KB]

   ...instead, to an unidentified drug taken unknowingly that escaped detection. In my view, this is not a case in which a clear inference of spiking can be made. I would let cover stand, for acute ethanol toxicity. It would track entitlement for its disabling effects for as long as they persisted. Assessment at hospital on the morning after the party showed no evidence of bodily harm or tissue damage, only an elevated blood ethanol. The absence of injury has been confirmed by a neu...

10. [2023] NZEmpC 20 Henry v South Waikato Achievement Trust [pdf, 385 KB]

    ...for defendant Judgment: 22 February 2023 JUDGMENT OF JUDGE K G SMITH [1] Virginia Henry began working for South Waikato Achievement Trust (the Trust) in 2000. The Trust is a community residential service for people with disabilities. By August 2017, Ms Henry had been promoted to a managerial position as “2IC Residential Co-ordinator”, one of two positions reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer, Russell Ensor. [2] Ms Henry was summarily dismis...