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1. [2023] NZREADT 27 – Sharma v CAC 1901 & Brake (3 October 2023) [pdf, 122 KB]

   ...towards the purchasers’ costs is now inappropriate, taking into account that subsequent to the order, the purchasers have been unsuccessful in their appeal. That appeal was clearly hopeless at the outset. Ms Brake has had to incur substantial legal fees in the appeal. The ability to seek costs against the purchasers is available to Ms Brake, but counsel has been instructed not to do so. Ms Brake continues to have sympathy for their financial position. [31] It is, however, un...

2. Karaitiana v Seagar - Wharetoto 9 Part (2025) 509 Aotea MB 11 (509 AOT 11) [pdf, 240 KB]

   ...reconnect and upgrade the water reticulation system. (iii) repair and reinstate power to the Trust land. (iv) maintain the buildings, grounds including the lawns. (v) repair the front boundary fences. (d) Tokoahu was not to pay any rent or lease fee. (e) It was not certain whether Tokoahu was allowed to live on the Block as part of the lease terms. (f) There was to be no right of renewal, but rather a negotiation if Tokoahu had not completed the work above. (g) The Harvey repo...

3. Blayney v Taueki – Ihaia Taueki Trust (2013) 303 Aotea MB 81 (303 AOT 81) [pdf, 128 KB]

   ...lands put forward by the Māori Education Trust (‘MET’) in September 2012. Mr Taueki says that this proposal would have doubled the current rental income from the Trust lands. The Evidence [9] Letters of support for the application were filed from Mr Henry Williams, Mr Darryl Blayney and Ms Sheree Waho. Mr Greg Spicer has been accountant to the Trust since 2007. He wrote outlining his concerns about the deterioration of trust meetings over the past financial year. There were...

4. Hawkes Bay Standards Committee v Clarkson [2012] NZLCDT 37 [pdf, 73 KB]

   ...the parties were prepared to adopt. [9] As a consequence, at a telephone conference on 7 August 2012, the parties were directed to file a joint memorandum setting out their proposals for consideration by the Tribunal. That memorandum was duly filed on 7 September 2012, and the matter was set down for hearing in Wellington on 6 November 2012. 5 [10] At the hearing of 6 November 2012, the Standards Committee, in accordance with the provisions of the joint memorandum, soug...

5. Direct referral guide for submitters [pdf, 381 KB]

   ...submissions usually outline the evidence that will be called (if any), state the resource management issues of relevance, and state any legal principles that will be relied on. In most cases, the Court will have pre-read all the evidence that has been filed and expects all parties to also have read it. Generally, a witness will take the oath or affirmation, be asked to confirm qualifications (if relevant), and confirm the evidence is true, and then proceed straight to questions on it....

6. MfE-The direct referral process - for submitters [pdf, 389 KB]

   ...submissions usually outline the evidence that will be called (if any), state the resource management issues of relevance, and state any legal principles that will be relied on. In most cases, the Court will have pre-read all the evidence that has been filed and expects all parties to also have read it. Generally, a witness will take the oath or affirmation, be asked to confirm qualifications (if relevant), and confirm the evidence is true, and then proceed straight to questions on it....

7. Te Awe Awe v Te Awe Awe - Estate of Pipi Rakene or Pipi Te Awe Awe (2019) Chief Judge's MB 1414 (2019 CJ 1414) [pdf, 258 KB]

   ...for the gifting of shares (section 164 of the Act), in order to give effect to the outcome of the whānau hui held on 7 May 2016. It should seek to vest the affected interests in all the siblings equally, or those persons now entitled - The filing fee is to be waived, if the application is filed within 6 months. Procedural History [5] On 24 April 2019, the Registrar’s Preliminary Report and Recommendation was distributed to all affected parties, for whom addresses were known...

8. National Standards Committee v Poananga [2012] NZLCDT 12 [pdf, 292 KB]

   ...In effect this meant that after 1 September 2008, no Maori might submit a new claim to the Waitangi Tribunal. 9. This deadline created a significant workload for practitioners working in this area in order to ensure that claimants’ claims were filed in time. 10. In the chambers in which the practitioner practised, they went from 80 to 350 active claims in the 2008 year. 11. As part of arranging instructions and filing a claim, documents were signed by claimants, including: 11.1....

9. BM v YI LCRO 124 / 2010 (7 April 2011) [pdf, 96 KB]

   ...response to the Complaints Service, he advised that he had been in practice for 35 years and would never “betray” a client. He notes that if he considered the appeal had no merit, then he would have simply declined the brief unless a proper fee was to be paid. [25] The Applicant alleges ulterior motives which he can neither explain or provide evidence of. In his email to this Office on 26 September 2010, he suggests that “in 5 order to answer the question [as to why t...

10. Kettering v Biggleswade LCRO 212 / 2009 (19 March 2010) [pdf, 94 KB]

    ...otherwise directs, and further provides that a person may make written, but not oral, submissions. [7] The Applicant has not suggested that he was unaware of the complaint or that he did not have an opportunity to respond. The Standards Committee file shows that the Applicant had been given all of the information that was considered by the Committee, given a full opportunity to answer the complaint and that his responses were received and considered by the Committee. Having revi...