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1. [2022] NZEmpC 174 Ashby v NIWA Vessel Management Ltd [pdf, 279 KB]

   ...second swing shift about a possible swap, but as he was happy where he was and did not wish to move, no such move occurred. Ms Ashby continued to work with the Master. [15] On or about 6 August 2014, Ms Ashby was told by the Master that an email from Mr Foothead, the General Manager of NIWA Vessel, containing details of her 2009 complaint against him had been released by email to five NIWA scientists, two of whom would be onboard the RV Tangaroa. Ms Ashby understood from what t...

2. Nelson Standards Committee v Downing and Reith [2022] NZLCDT 7 (17 February 2022) [pdf, 241 KB]

   ...understood her financial position and inability to pay further fees until she recovered some funds from the estate. [24] Within days, on 13 December 2018, the executor confirmed that the net value of the estate was a little under $250,000. In an email to Ms L on 29 January 2019, Mr Downing recorded: Net assets of the Estate are significantly less than what I had imagined at the beginning of this process. [Brother’s] misconduct has devalued the assets of the Estate significan...

3. [2023] NZEmpC 45 Wiles v The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Auckland [pdf, 281 KB]

   ...Court and prevents undue expense or delay that would be caused if other people were required to be subpoenaed as witnesses. Allowed in. It is the witness’s own view. 28-30 (entirety) Hearsay Not hearsay; directly quoting and explaining email correspondence that is in evidence. Alternatively, admissible under s 18(1) of the Evidence Act. Objection allowed. Witness may simply refer to the email correspondence. 39 (part) Hearsay Advice was a matter within his own dir...

4. Canterbury Westland Standards Committee 2 v Mr U [2024] NZLCDT 4 (9 February 2024) [pdf, 173 KB]

   ...in March he was advised that the own motion investigation would not be commenced. [15] Regrettably this was not the end of these events. By early May Mr U’s frustration levels had bubbled over again, for much the same reasons. He sent an email to Mr K, the managing partner at X firm. In that email he verbally attacked two lawyers in the firm, counsel representing Mr U’s former wife, and her supervising partner, Mr J, accusing them of “suborning perjury”. He referred to...

5. Mauve v Oranga Tamariki [2024] NZHRRT 38 [pdf, 306 KB]

   ...caregiver”. While the release of this document would disclose the affairs of UUV, the actual content of the statement is such that it would not constitute an unwarranted disclosure. As such, the second limb of s 29(1)(a) is not met. 7 [33.2] An email dated 15 May 2018 from the Principal of UUV’s school to Oranga Tamariki had two sentences that refer to Ms Mauve redacted. The sentences relate directly to the Principal’s concerns expressed in the email about the circu...

6. 2025] NZEmpC 171 NZEI Te Tiu Roa Inc v Secretary for Education [pdf, 265 KB]

   ...not party to the partial strike, the existence of a partial strike cannot, and does not, authorise a wage deduction from the employee’s wages. [37] An advocate for NZEI provided an affidavit in support of restraining pay deductions. Some emails were annexed to the affidavit from employees about the assignment of new cases. One employee said that at the end of June she was assigned eight cases and another two cases by her manager in early July. She wrote that her instructions...

7. LCRO 46/2025 WP v HJ and NB (12 August 2025) [pdf, 204 KB]

   ...dispute, but those efforts were unsuccessful. [8] On 16 February 2023, the firm rendered its first invoice to Ms WP for services provided, that invoice rendered in the sum of $3,594 inclusive of GST and office expenses. [9] On 2 March 2023, Ms WP emailed [Law firm] to advise that she was seeking alternative legal representation. [10] A further invoice in the sum of $3,588 (inclusive of GST and office expenses) was issued to Ms WP on 7 March 2023. The complaint and the Standards C...

8. [2015] NZEmpC 133 Nisha v LSG Sky Chefs New Zealand Ltd [pdf, 89 KB]

   ...between Ms Alim and representatives of her former employers operating the business of Pacific Flight Catering through the companies of either Pacific Flight Catering Limited or PRI Flight Catering Limited including: (i) Any document, including emails, letters, file notes, memoranda, and other correspondence, whether in hard copy or electronic format, evidencing Ms Alim’s terms and conditions of employment or variations to those terms of employment which occurred up to the d...

9. FA & FAA v TZ & TZZ [2017] NZDT 1048 (18 July 2017) [pdf, 90 KB]

   ...whether written notice or a specific resignation form was essential. However, even if clear verbal notice would have sufficed, I find insufficient evidence that either applicant had given thirty days’ notice to terminate his membership before the emails they sent in January 2017. It is not necessary for me to decide whether those emails were sufficient to provide thirty days’ notice of termination due to my finding on the next issue. Was TZ1 entitled to suspend ac...

10. McDonald - Kai Iwi No.1C (2021) 440 Aotea MB 279 (440 AOT 279) [pdf, 217 KB]

    ...mediation I dismissed the application. I also appointed new trustees, nominated in accordance with the charter adopted as an outcome of the mediation process. 3. It has now been brought to my attention that Kirst[i]n McDonald had written by email to the case manager on Sunday 14th November 2021 attaching documents she intended to present at court on the 15th. She also advised that she was getting a Covid test. Ms McDonald then rang and left a message on the 15th advising...