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1. McDonald v Accident Compensation Corporation [2015] NZACA 14 [pdf, 207 KB]

   ...amputation and to stump pain was obvious and Mr McDonald’s pre-operative psychological status suggested this was going to be a difficult process, particularly if the pain proved to be chronic. [54] Dr MacLeod’s opinion was that the suffering endured by Mr McDonald with his stump pain was not a consequence of medical misadventure or error. Sadly, it was an occasionally expected outcome of limb amputation. Mr McDonald’s pre- amputation mental status would appear to have been...

2. QW v RH LCRO 166/2012 (18 October 2016) [pdf, 126 KB]

   ...removing his mother’s financial autonomy simply because she had elected to support Mr QW was “unbecoming, deeming [sic demeaning], and unacceptable” and an act of cowardice that requires immediate correction. [10] Mr QW says that his mother had to endure more than two years of “pain, stress, and humiliation” at Mr RH’s hands. He says she lost a substantial amount of income, self-esteem, financial freedom, lifestyle, and her stress levels have increased. Mr QW says Mr RH has...

3. E31A Urban Design and Landscape Architecture JWS [pdf, 4.6 MB]

   ...Iwi/hapū narratives are captured and expressed creatively and appropriately. f. Tohu: The wider cultural landscape Mana whenua significant sites and cultural landmarks are acknowledged. g. Ahi Kā: The living presence Iwi/hapū have a living and enduring presence and are secure and valued within their rohe. Section 2 GENERIC BUILDING AND YARD DESIGN REQUIREMENTS These generic requirements apply to the design of all buildings for Bases B- G, and yards for Bases A-G. Building ed...

4. Richards - Karaka Huarua A and B (2004) 98 Whangārei 273 (98 WH 273) [pdf, 4.7 MB]

   ...involves consideration of a wide range of relevant matters and not simply one's entitlement based on shares. While partition may properly be seen as a remedy for owners whose individual aspirations compel a severance of the unity of possession endured by the group of owners as a whole, it is still incumbent upon the Court to balance the conflicting interests of the individual and the group to the fullest extent practicable and not to limit its broad overview to a consideration of whe...

5. [2022] NZACC 132 - GG v ACC (11 July 2022) [pdf, 314 KB]

   ...to my knowledge undertaken very sensitive testing of serial attention with the Paced Auditory Serial Addiction Test or the Computerised Test of Information Processing. If one or the other of these were to be administered and proved indicative of enduring features of brain injury then a Mild Neurocognitive Disorder (in relation to the following symptoms) could be considered present, but otherwise her severe fatigue and other incapacitating symptoms cannot in my opinion be attributed...

6. [2021] NZACC 135–NT v ACC (10 August 2021) [pdf, 285 KB]

   ...traumatic brain injury, when she fell and struck her head on 7 December 2004. She has a set of symptoms which are consistent with traumatic brain injury, which have continued to the present. These features of post concussional syndrome constitute an enduring mental injury, resulting from her physical injuries. They are not a reaction to the circumstances in which the injuring event occurred, but are a direct consequence of physical injury. [12] On 15 August 2007, Dr Rudi Kritzi...

7. Hipango v Ngaurukehu Section 3 and Other Blocks Inc. - Rangiwaea 4F14A2C (2023) 473 Aotea MB 25 (473 AOT 25) [pdf, 465 KB]

   ...“whanaunga of the alienating owner” and “descendants of any former owner” show that Parliament intended members of a hapū to be able to re-acquire a connection with ancestral lands. This would, in his mind, reflect an interpretation of a PCA and enduring connections through tikanga Māori, rather than linear and fixed entitlements based on specific parcels and legal titles.69 [98] Ms McLay, counsel for Mr Hipango, makes similar arguments as advanced by Mr Koning. 65 T...

8. Auckland Standards Committee v Johnston [2011] NZLCDT 14 [pdf, 207 KB]

   ...Power of Attorney places upon a practitioner a duty to act in the best interests of the donor of the power, placing the practitioner’s fiduciary duty to the donor client as paramount. This is particularly so when the power is granted under an enduring power of attorney and the donor no longer has the mental capacity to oversee or understand what is happening with their affairs. 21. Absolute power as the attorney for a donor who is no longer in a position of overseeing the actions...

9. AMLCFT_Release_Pack_FINAL.pdf [pdf, 7.5 MB]

   Hon Nicole McKee Associate Minister of Justice Proactive release - AMU CFT Reform Date of issue: 05 February 2025 The following documents have been proactively released in accordance with Cabinet Office Circu lar CO (23) 4. Some information has been withheld on the basis that it would not, if requested under the Official Information Act 1982 (OIA), be released . Where that is the case, the relevant section of the OIA has been noted and no public interest has been identified that wou

10. [2011] NZEmpC 75 Talbot v NZ Airline Pilots Association Industrial Union of Workers Inc [pdf, 127 KB]

    ...rules of natural justice appropriate in such circumstances. [23] Next, the Rules recognise that some such complaints may be unworthy of more than preliminary investigation and assessment and that a member so complained against should not have to endure either ongoing prosecution of such a complaint or repetition of that complaint. Complaints which survive that preliminary sifting or filtering mechanism are the subject of more prescriptive procedures which are not at issue in this c...