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1. Hoban v Attorney-General [2022] NZHRRT 16 [pdf, 161 KB]

   Reference No. HRRT 020/2020 UNDER THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT 1993 BETWEEN RUSSELL THOMAS HOBAN PLAINTIFF AND ATTORNEY-GENERAL DEFENDANT AT WELLINGTON BEFORE: Mr RPG Haines ONZM QC, Chairperson Ms GJ Goodwin, Deputy Chairperson Ms NJ Baird, Member Ms SB Isaacs, Member REPRESENTATION: Mr M Timmins and Ms J Sebastian for plaintiff Ms G Taylor and Ms C Wrightson for defendant Mr JS Hancock and Ms EC Vermunt for Human Rights Commission as intervener DATE OF HEAR...

2. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - summary record 5th report (continued) [pdf, 96 KB]

   ...limited. Racial profiling was not part of DNA collection. DNA was collected based on the offence charged. The reference to statistics had to do with the scientific method for processing the sample. 68. Electoral finance reform had been designed to be enduring precisely because it was unacceptable for electoral law to change each time a new Government came to power. All political parties in Parliament had been drawn into the process of developing the reform to guarantee that it lasted...

3. LCRO 74/2018 PG v EJ (29 November 2019) [pdf, 149 KB]

   ...(the Committee) to take no further action in respect of her complaint concerning the conduct of Ms EJ, at the relevant time a partner with [CCW] Law (the firm). [2] Ms EJ had acted for Ms PG’s mother, Mrs SC, on matters including preparing enduring powers of attorney (both property, and personal care and welfare), and a will. Following Mrs SC’s death, Ms EJ, as sole executor and trustee pursuant to Mrs SC’s will, applied for probate and acted in the administration of Mrs SC...

4. Impact of Treaty on Government Agencies report [pdf, 286 KB]

   THE IMPACT OF THE TREATY OF WAITANGI ON GOVERNMENT AGENCIES BROOKER & FRIEND LTD FOR THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES WELLINGTON 1990 Published by Brooker & Friend Ltd 21–23 College Street PO Box 43 Wellington © Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries 1990 ISBN 0-86472-054-8 Printed in New Zealand by Brooker & Friend Ltd, 21–23 College Street, Wellington Reissued 2023 in PDF format by Waitangi Tribunal, 141 The Terrace, Wellington iii FOREWO

5. A new adoption system for Aotearoa New Zealand Discussion document [pdf, 1.8 MB]

   ri A new adoption system for Aotearoa New Zealand Discussion Document Although all reasonable steps have been taken to ensure the accuracy of the information contained in this document, Te Tāhū o te Ture - Ministry of Justice disclaims any and all responsibility for any inaccuracy, error, omission, or any other kind of inadequacy, deficiency, or flaw in, or in relation to, the information; and fully excludes any and all liability of any kind

6. Proactive-release-Foreign-Interference-Bill_FINAL..pdf [pdf, 594 KB]

   ...their families, and their ability to exercise rights and freedoms in a manner consistent with New Zealand law. 20.3 Activities are knowingly, or ought to have been known to be, undertaken for, on behalf of, or in collaboration with a “foreign power”. This element of the offence will be cast widely to include a foreign state (including agencies, officials and branches of government), governing political parties, and entities and individuals that are subject to control or directio...

7. Legal Complaints Review Officer v Morrison [2018] NZLCDT 40 [pdf, 339 KB]

   ...NZLCDT 24. 11 (c) Allowing the name of another firm of solicitors to appear on the trust deed when he knew that the firm had not acted in relation to, and was not otherwise connected with, the preparation of the deed. (d) Allowing an attorney to sign two A&I forms for an electronic transaction without adequately verifying that the attorney was authorised to sign under an Enduring Power of Attorney. (e) Fabricating witness details on the two A&I forms. (f) Mislea...

8. BORA Criminal Record (Expungement of Convictions for Historical Homosexual Offences) Bill [pdf, 8.6 MB]

   Te Tari flue o to ftarauua Crown #b ~: 1, aw 31 May 2017 Attorney-General Criminal Records (Expungement of Convictions for Historical Homosexual Offences) Bill (PCO20373/1.17) — Consistency with the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 Our Ref: ATT395/268 1. We have considered the Criminal Records (Expungement of Convictions for Historical Homosexual Offences) Bill for consistency with the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 ("the Bill of Rights Act"), scheduled for con...

9. OIA-102050.pdf [pdf, 7.8 MB]

   Justice Centre | 19 Aitken Street DX SX10088 | Wellington T 04 918 8800 | F 04 918 8820 contactus@justice.govt.nz | www.justice.govt.nz Ref: OIA 102050 Tēnā kōrua Official Information Act request: Adoption Law Reform Thank you for your letter of 15 January 2023 to the Ministry of Justice (the Ministry), requesting under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act) information related to the adoption law reform. Specifically, you requested: Reports and memos/briefing

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

    ...strictly with the benefit of any doubt or ambiguity going to the member or members at risk of such consequences. That is a consistent approach to interpretation with that applied by courts to penal statutes. [21] In that connection, also, general powers allowed for in the Rules cannot trump express provisions where the exercise of the general power would be contrary to, or inconsistent with, the specific provision or provisions. That is especially important in the context of disci...