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1. 2021 October - Family Violence Provider Update [pdf, 152 KB]

   ...government response. In response to your questions, we have asked for further detailed guidance on mask use in social service settings – watch this space. We encourage you all to subscribe to the COVID-19 updates from MSD, this can be done by emailing Community_Information@msd.govt.nz and requesting to be added to the email distribution list. Quarterly reporting update and timeframes The quarterly reports for quarter 1 (July – September 2021) are due on 20 October 2021. Given...

2. Jury service forms

   ...Jury summons response form To fill out and send the response form, you have three options: Online form PDF form Paper form 1. Fill in the online form You can now accept your summons online: I will attend jury service form 2. Fill in a PDF form and email it to the court Fill in one of these forms: Response to jury summons Fill in this form if you haven’t put off (deferred) your jury service in the last year. Or Response to jury summons – previously deferred Fill in this form if you have pu...

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3. [2018] NZEmpC 106 X v The Chief Executive of the Department of Corrections [pdf, 683 KB]

   ...employee of the Chief Executive of the Department of Corrections was dismissed summarily for his behaviour towards two female employees. The offending behaviour occurred between October and December 2014 and involved telephone calls, text messages, emails, “face-to-face contact”, the content of a Facebook post, being issued with a trespass notice and harassment warning letter in respect of one female employee, a police safety order in respect of the other female employee and be...

4. LCRO 3/2024 RP v TG (21 May 2024) [pdf, 262 KB]

   ...Apart from the obligation to make such payment, neither party will have any right or claim against the other as a result of such cancellation. 4 [16] On 11 January 2021, Ms NJ obtained an extension of the finance condition to 25 January 2021 and emailed the firm’s client care information and terms of engagement to the applicant. The firm quoted a modest fixed sum for acting on the purchase, subject to various exceptions, and hourly rates for work falling outside “the summary abo...

5. 2024 archive

   ...Mileage rate increasing to $1.04 per km for invoices received from 12 August 2024. Mileage rate increasing to $1.04 per km for invoices received from 12 August 2024 Increasing access to safety programmes in the Family Court Legal Aid Services will start emailing participants from 3 August 2024 FLAS Audit Results 2023-2024 Limited Audit Results 2023-2024 Updates to the Word template package Registrar Led Teleconferences – Judge Alone Trials Increase in legal aid thresholds New contact campaig...

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6. Eppanapally v Zhou [2014] NZIACDT 118 (28 November 2014) [pdf, 229 KB]

   ...further letter that blamed the delay on Mr Martin for not passing on mail. [5] Ms Zhou says she did not know about the letter from Immigration New Zealand telling her Mr Eppanapally’s application failed. She blames Mr Martin for interfering with her email and intercepting correspondence. She says no rational decision-maker could find she was party to Mr Martin treating clients unprofessionally (as she says he was). She says, she maintained proper professional standards, and the Tribun...

7. Martelli v The Real Estate Agents Authority CAC (409) NZREADT 23 [pdf, 240 KB]

   ...had no entitlement to commission. The last contention reflected the fact that there had been no authority agreement in effect and therefore section 126 of the Act disallowing commission was applicable. [8] The licensee forwarded a copy of this email on to RWT. However she deleted from the copy of the email which she forwarded, the assertions that the solicitor made that there had been no agency agreement in effect. [9] We interpolate that RWT did not have access to, or a copy of...

8. [2025] NZIACDT 21 – KA v Wen (5 March 2025) [pdf, 197 KB]

   ...purportedly sent to him by Ms Wen on 21 March 2023,1 and allegedly signed by him on the same day (though it was not signed by Ms Wen).2 It provided for Ms Wen to apply on the client’s behalf for a recovery visa. The fee was NZD 2,000. 1 Email (21 March 2023) from Ms Wen to the client; BoD at 51. 2 Written Agreement for Immigration Advice Services (21 March 2023); BoD at 29–33. 3 [8] On that day, 21 March 2023, Ms Wen lodged a specific purpose or event work visa app...

9. BG v YQ LCRO 161 / 2010 (4 April 2011) [pdf, 94 KB]

   ...her husband. That alone is insufficient to support a complaint in the absence of clear evidence of some wrong doing. [33] The Applicant raised further objects to the Practitioner having made a reference to the break-up of the marriage in an emails communication. She characterised this as the lawyer acting as a marriage guidance counsellor. I have read the email in question and while it may not have been necessary for the Practitioner to have made a reference in the manner th...

10. [2021] NZREADT 40 – Beath (29 July 2021) [pdf, 389 KB]

    ...licensees were “aware of the issue, despite you denying any knowledge when we asked you specifically about it”. The licensees responded that this was “news to us”. [14] Mr Beath wrote to the Agency on 6 October 2016, enclosing copies of the emails between himself and Mr Kemp concerning disclosure of the party wall issue and Dux 2021 NZREADT 40 - Beath Quest piping. Ms Cannon (the Agency’s then Compliance Officer and Legal Executive) responded on behalf of the Agency...