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1. Caveats & Statutory Land Charges

   ...undertaking depending on the situation. To check the debt balance or to confirm which form you require, contact the Legal Aid Debt Management Group on 0800 600 090. What happens once the documents are executed? Your executed documents will be posted and/or emailed to you and you will need to register them with Land Information New Zealand (LINZ), which should be done through e-dealing. Your client will need to pay any fees incurred with releasing the Statutory Land Charge or withdrawing the Cav...

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2. OIA-124938.pdf [pdf, 726 KB]

   ...Centre I 19 Aitken Street I DX SX10125 I Wellington T 04 918 8800 I F 04 918 8820 lsc@justice.govt.nz Our ref: OIA 124938 12 September 2025 Tēnā koe Official Information Act request: Legal aid grants and legal aid debt Thank you for your emails of 14 August 2025, requesting information on the amount of approved legal aid paid to Cooper Legal and the amount of legal aid debt paid by clients who received services from Cooper Legal. Specifically, you requested: Am I going to...

3. OIA-123942.pdf [pdf, 779 KB]

   ...DX SX10088 | Wellington T 04 918 8800 | F 04 918 8820 ContactUs@justice.govt.nz | www.justice.govt.nz 25 August 2025 Our ref: OIA 123942 Tēnā koe Official Information Act request: Amicus Curiae and Standby Counsel Thank you for your email of 18 July 2025 to the Ministry of Justice (the Ministry) requesting information, under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act), on Amicus Curiae and Standby Counsel. Specifically, you requested: 1. Please provide how much money was...

4. MLC 2017 01 National Panui [pdf, 242 KB]

   ...applications and wish to make representations concerning the application, you must notify the Court in the District in which the application is being heard in writing by 4pm on the 4th of January 2017, providing your name and address, telephone number, and email address, if any, and setting out your connections with the applications and brief details of your concerns. The Court may, on considering your notifi cation, arrange for the application to be set down for a formal hearing if the...

5. Director of Human Rights Proceedings v Crampton [2015] NZHRRT 35 [pdf, 151 KB]

   ...towards her became worse and worse. He telephoned her repeatedly and emailed her to the point of what Ms Chapman described as “extreme harassment”, often using profanities or making threats. Ms Chapman and her staff received an average of 150 emails a week from Mr Crampton. He also harassed her at home in the evenings and weekends, forcing her to change her telephone numbers twice that year. [14] In addition, Mr Crampton would daily write to and telephone a number of people at th...

6. [2018] NZEmpC 14 Hayashi v SkyCity Management Ltd [pdf, 422 KB]

   ...believed to be reduced. In any event Mrs A, upon learning of the error, exploited the chance to claim compensation even though she was probably not entitled to any under the strict playing rules. 2 Email dated 18 April 2016, Employee Relations Manager to counsel for Mr Hayashi. Some factual issues arising [13] What transpired following Mrs A being informed of the reduction in her betting limits and subsequently that the r...

7. Nelson Lawyers Standards Committee v Stevenson [2020] NZLCDT 42 (15 December 2020) [pdf, 380 KB]

   ...in the Nelson District Court for a Judge-alone trial. The Practitioner had previously indicated to the Police prosecutor that his client might plead guilty to the charges he faced. 10. In the days leading up to 1 December, the Police prosecutor emailed the Practitioner to ask whether he had confirmed his instructions. The Practitioner did not reply to this email. 11. On 1 December, the Practitioner failed to appear when the matter was called, nor was there any explanation for his no...

8. CD and Anor v GH LCRO 98/2013 (3 August 2016) [pdf, 102 KB]

   ...undertakings on a daily and weekly basis and knows their importance. He accepts, however, that he paid money out without a joint instruction from the [CDs]. [17] The Committee considered Mr [GH]’s correspondence with Mr [EF], and in particular his emails to Mr [EF] of 7, 14 and 30 March 2012 and concluded Mr [GH] had given an undertaking to retain settlement proceeds pending receipt of joint instructions. On that basis the Committee concluded Mr [GH] had contravened rule 10.3.2 by...

9. INZ (Calder) v Ji [2019] NZIACDT 50 (19 July 2019) [pdf, 246 KB]

   ...claiming to be written by a New Zealand based company filed in support of her application was fraudulent. Her comments were invited. [10] In response to the letter of 14 March 2016, which had been sent to two other clients as well, Mr Ji sent an email to Immigration New Zealand on 29 March 2016 advising that it was highly likely the letters were forged. He added that the clients were innocent. [11] Mr Ji also wrote an undated letter to Immigration New Zealand in relation to...

10. Canterbury Westland Standards Committee 1 v Allan [2019] NZLCDT 25 [pdf, 351 KB]

    ...the requirements noted at paragraph 22. CHARGE 3 – Z Complaint Background 24 In or around 2017, Mr Allan was assigned by Legal Aid to act for P D (Mr D). In November 2017 Mr D’s was reassigned to M Z (Mr Z). 25 On 20 November 2017 Mr Z emailed Mr Allan requesting a copy of the disclosure and formal statements Mr Allan had for Mr D’s jury trial matter (the requested documents). 26 Mr Allan responded to Mr Z’s email on 21 November 2017 stating the requested documents wou...