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1. Youth Court - Playing to win: youth offenders out of court (and sometimes in) [pdf, 241 KB]

   ...the New Zealand context, references to a “welfare” response to youth offending refer to an historical approach that regarded offending by children or young people as necessarily symptomatic of problems or deficits with their personal, familial or environmental circumstances. A welfare approach would use the fact of criminal offending as an opportunity to address any and all welfare and care needs to a degree, and in ways, that were often disproportionate to the actual offending. 7 Mor...

2. Youth Court - 10 suggested characteristics of a good youth justice system [pdf, 188 KB]

   ...offender with care and protection issues is, the more they are seen as a product of their family and not fully culpable. Such young people present a difficult challenge to the criminal justice system. On the one hand their backgrounds of abuse and environmental dysfunction categorise them as vulnerable victims in need of help. Often it is this background that is causative of offending in the first place, and it needs to be addressed to prevent future offending. On the other hand, t...

3. ENV-2016-AKL-000194 Highgate Business Park Limited v Auckland Council [pdf, 2.3 MB]

   ...rating of industrial and commercial buildings over a certain scale. It is submitted that the PAUP is an inappropriate mechanism to introduce a Green Star Rating requirement. Such measures would be more appropriately introduced through a National Environmental Standard to ensure parity across regions. (b) Finally, it Is submitted that the PAUP zoning ofthe northern part ofthe Silverdale South block (between the Northern Motorway, Hibiscus Coast highway and East Coast Road) as 'F...

4. ENV-2016-AKL-000198 G M Welsford Family Trust v Auckland Council [pdf, 12 MB]

   ...Mixed Housing Suburban, Mixed Housing Urban and Terrace House and Apartment Building zones. The inclusion of objectives, policies and rules that enable sporadic and scattered rural subdivision , The inclusion of provisions that allow for minimal environmental benefits to be accepted in exchange for rural-residential subdivision Absence in recommending specific site sizes for Countryside Living subdivision in the Caldwells Road I area in Whitford Amendment to the definition of '...

5. Fehling v Ministry of Health [2017] NZHRRT 31 [pdf, 269 KB]

   ...fascistic control that the British monarch and its freemason fascism (the princes are freemasons and thus fascists by definition) is silently installing in order to perpetuate rule by its rich aristocrats and maintain their unrestricted socially and environmentally damaging excesses, glitter and power. [5] Equally his submissions are at times too abstract to be of meaningful assistance. We here refer by way of example to the “Improved Statement of Claim with Chronological Summary, Qu...

6. [2019] NZEmpC 54 Hong v Auckland Transport [pdf, 437 KB]

   ...There was no suggestion that his job was in jeopardy. On 24 and 25 January 2017, Mr Hong attended a training workshop facilitated by an external trainer. Mr Bidgood also attended that workshop. The workshop focussed on situational awareness, environmental awareness, self-leadership and basic communication. During the workshop, Mr Hong challenged the facilitator in what Mr Bidgood saw as an abrupt and hostile manner. Mr Bidgood recalls that Mr Hong expressed the view that he...

7. Te Manutukutuku 77 [pdf, 7.6 MB]

   ...stepped into the role of acting manager of the Claims and Registry Team, before leaving in 2019 to under- take a senior analyst role in the Treaty Settlement Team at the Ministry for the Environment. In early 2020, she worked on a programme at the Environmental Protection Authority to support decision-making commit- tees to better understand mātauranga Māori, before returning to the unit in October 2020 to join the Inquiry Facilitation team as a principal. Joanna was born and raise...

8. Coronial Services Annual Report 2015-2016 [pdf, 3.9 MB]

   ...uniquely flavoured by the proximity of such recreational attractions. With a background in criminal law and investigations, I enjoy the inquisitorial nature of the coroner role. A coroner has a unique and broad perspective of the medical, social and environmental facets and context of a death. While all cases have death as a starting point, the scope of the coroner’s jurisdiction provides for positive outcomes. The opportunity afforded to the coroner under legislation to assist thos...

9. WT Te Manutukutuku Issue 70 [pdf, 1.6 MB]

   ...the first few years the Tribunal ‘operated out of a billy can’. Sir Graham was involved in all of the Tribunal’s early landmark inquiries, not­ ably Motunui­Waitara, Kaituna River and Manukau. They focused strongly on the impact of the environmental degrada­ tion of waterways and harbours on Māori communities. They also reached deeply into the Māori experience of colonisation and land loss, demonstrating a context of historical grievance that helped lead in 1985 to the ex...

10. [2019] NZEnvC171 Tokonui Developments Limited [pdf, 1.2 MB]

    ...could be done lawfully on the balance Farm adjoining the subject land as an existing use. The certificate operates as a resource consent allowing the certified activity in the particular location on the conditions contained in any relevant national environmental standard or applicable plan. 19 It does not purport to extend beyond the certified location. [27] In an evidential sense the fact that the balance Farm has existing use rights to undertake quarrying greatly increases the lik...