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1. [2015] NZSAAA 02, (30 January 2015) [pdf, 37 KB]

   ...appellant’s mother phoned StudyLink to query the non payment of the Student Allowance. She said that she had phoned early in 2006 and had been advised that the allowance had been approved. No record of any such contact or advice appears on the StudyLink file, and, because the appellant’s mother was not her authorised agent at the time, it would have been most unlikely that any StudyLink staff member would have given her any such information. At the end of October 2007 she submitted...

2. Cameron & Ors as Trustees of the Normac Trust v Stevenson [2011] NZWHT Auckland 17 [pdf, 87 KB]

   ...[22] I have calculated the costs based on half a day of extra hearing time and one and a half day preparation for hearing on the 2B District Court scale which amounts to $3600.00 as a contribution towards costs. I do not award any experts fees as these were not increased to any great extent by meritless defences raised by Mr Stevenson. [23] I accordingly make the following orders: I. David Lindsay Cameron and Brenda Muriel Cameron and Geoffrey Hewitt Myles are to pay BM...

3. Paenga - Wharekahika A18 (2017) 68 Tairawhiti MB 150 (68 TRW 150) [pdf, 268 KB]

   ...Tairāwhit MB 115-118 (Heard at Ruatōria) Judgment: 13 June 2017 PRELIMINARY DECISION OF DEPUTY CHIEF JUDGE C L FOX 68 Tairāwhiti MB 151 Introduction [1] This is an application filed under ss 158 and 164 of Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993 (“The Act”) by Mr Eru Paenga. He seeks to obtain an exemption from the need to file a special valuation and an order for the transfer of shares to his son and grandson. The share...

4. [2021] NZIACDT 24 - HT v Shaikh – Sanctions (7 October 2021) [pdf, 195 KB]

   ...of the adviser [12] There are submissions (30 September 2021) from Mr Moses, counsel for Mr Shaikh. [13] Mr Moses says that Mr Shaikh accepts the Tribunal’s finding of a breach of the Code. He regrets his professional error in missing the filing deadline and apologises to the complainant. As the Tribunal had acknowledged in the earlier decision, Mr Shaikh had been forthright with the complainant and Immigration New Zealand. He had correctly and promptly assessed the complai...

5. Savage v Accident Compensation Corporation (Leave to appeal to the High Court) [2024] NZACC 083 [pdf, 273 KB]

   ...submits that: (a) The Corporation has refused/failed to identify the name of the person who sent him the 4 April 2022 decision letter, which was not signed. He says an unsigned letter is unenforceable. (b) The Corporation destroyed the physical file and evidence of a review hearing relating to the laceration injury for an ulterior purpose of circumventing the 1972 Act and denying him entitlements he otherwise 3 Savage v Accident Compensation Corporation. FN [2022] NZACC 227...

6. [2025] NZEmpC 128 Isher Enterprises Ltd v Arushi [pdf, 243 KB]

   ...sums. [7] In total, the plaintiffs have been ordered to pay the defendant $148,299.02 (including costs). The first and third plaintiffs have also been ordered to each pay a penalty of $5,600 into the Crown bank account.5 [8] The plaintiffs have filed a de novo challenge to the Authority’s determinations and also seek a stay over the sums ordered to be paid. Legal framework [9] A challenge does not operate as a stay of proceedings on a determination of the Authority.6 That...

7. Kaka v Ruapehu District Council - Ohura South N2E1B (2014) 328 Aotea MB 176 (328 AOT 176) [pdf, 195 KB]

   ...hectares in area located on Whanganui River Road in Taumarunui. The block was created by partition order dated 8 February 1923. 1 There are seven owners holding one share without a management structure over the block. [4] An application was filed by the Ruapehu District Council (“RDC”) on 14 May 2013 seeking a charging order for outstanding rates in the amount of $100,397.83. 2 The grounds for the application were that the rates had remained unpaid for a period of six months...

8. LCRO 9/2024 & 12/2024 QB v WF and SY & WF and SY v QB (27 June 2024) [pdf, 1.3 MB]

   ...at fault in not raising the personal grievances in time and in not seeking an extension of time to raise them. The respondents proceeded to mediation with the employer. The mediation was unsuccessful. [36] The applicant issued an invoice for her fees (for all her work over a 23-month period). The respondents did not pay it. The applicant lodged a claim in the Disputes Tribunal for recovery of her fees. The respondents commenced District Court proceedings against the applicant allegi...

9. [2015] NZEmpC 62 Dynamic Meats 2014 v Hodges Allen [pdf, 91 KB]

   ...3) $6,000 compensation for hurt and humiliation. b. Tui Allen 1) $6,000 compensation for hurt and humiliation. [19] In addition, Dynamic Meats was required to reimburse the applicants the total sum of $3000 for costs and $71.56 each for filing fees. Good faith report [20] As it appeared from the Authority's determination that Dynamic Meats had not participated in the investigation in a manner designed to resolve the issues involved, the Court requested a good faith re...

10. Otago Standards Committee v Mawhinney [2012] NZLCDT 19 [pdf, 123 KB]

    ...may have been part of its decision directly to Mr Mawhinney. Background [3] The charge arose out of Mr Mawhinney’s conduct regarding a former client of his who had made a complaint about Mr Mawhinney’s continuing failure to supply her files to her, despite repeated requests that he do so. [4] That complaint had been made in November 2010, and as a consequence an enquiry had been made of Mr Mawhinney at that time by the Complaints and Standards Officer as to when the...