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1. LCRO 34/2018 GR v [Area] Standards Committee [X] [pdf, 199 KB]

   ...mistake based on information received from third parties (as he recalled he thought he had discussions about the matter with LINZ staff and, possibly, the surveyor); (e) He did not wilfully mislead anyone. Application for review [35] Mr GR filed an application for review on 27 February 2018. The outcome principally sought is reversal of the Standards Committee determination. [36] Mr GR provided his grounds for review the following day, on 28 February 2018. They are that: (a)...

2. Body Corporate 81738 v Wellington City Council [2010] NZWHT Wellington 15 [pdf, 205 KB]

   ...application under the Weathertight Homes Resolution Services Act 2002 was made on 3 December 2002. [3] Some evidence was heard in those proceedings, particularly from Mr Blundell before they were abandoned with the new applications being filed with this Tribunal between 1 August 2008 and 24 September 2008 under the WHRS Act 2006. [4] Both buildings leaked. The claimants proceeded to have repairs carried out to the two blocks. Tenders were sought and the remediation wa...

3. Deputy Registrar - Succession to Irihapeti Toria (2024) 88 Te Waipounamu MB 271 (88 TWP 271) [pdf, 425 KB]

   ...certificate was located from the Christchurch Archives, which recorded her adoptive mother as Mary Ann Russell (likely an alternative name for Merehana). The birth certificate was registered in 1984. The Christchurch Archives noted that their adoption files only reach back to 1963, and their adoption registers back to 1964. Older files are held in commercial storage by the Family Court. [20] As a result of this information, on 6 April 2023, I made an application to the Family Cou...

4. LCRO 88/2022 GX v EJ (2 April 2024) [pdf, 236 KB]

   ...adverse finding against Mr EJ. Information not provided to Ms GX as a client/trustee [109] Mr EJ did not act for Ms GX in her personal capacity. He acted for the Trust. [110] Ms GX complains that Mr EJ would not release copies of the Trust files relating to the retirement of Mr PE as a trustee, the appointment of herself as a trustee, and the addition of Mr OM as a beneficiary. She says that Mr EJ would not release these without the consent of Mr OM, notwithstanding that Mr OM’...

5. Chalecki v Accident Compensation Corporation [2015] NZACA 12 [pdf, 282 KB]

   ...being debt free to having a $20,000 loan from a bank and owing his parents $10,000. He also had a lot of ongoing costs associated with the farming venture which would not have been incurred if he had been 100 per cent physically able. [24] A file note from a rehabilitation officer dated 3 May 1993 stated that Mr Chalecki had been informed on 15 May 1992 that a grant in the region of $5,000 would be considered on receipt of “quotes and evidence of increased independence”. A...

6. ARC76/06 AC-37/07 Yong v Chin [pdf, 92 KB]

   ...Hearing: 18 and 20 April 2007 and 7 May 2007 (Heard at Auckland) Appearances: Evgeny Orlov, Counsel for Plaintiff Mark Nutsford, Advocate for Defendant Judgment: 20 June 2007 JUDGMENT OF JUDGE ME PERKINS Introduction [1] Mr Yong has filed a challenge against the determination of the Employment Relations Authority at Auckland dated 4 October 2006. Under the determination Mr Yong was ordered to pay his former employee, Ms Chin, the following: a. Reimbursement of th...

7. IPT 2021-22 Annual Report [pdf, 526 KB]

   ...Points of the 2021/2022 Court Year 1. On 30 July 2021, the Tribunal farewelled Judge Peter Spiller as Chair of the Tribunal, after a tenure of more than seven years. Under his leadership, the Tribunal disposed of the significant backlog of files on hand in 2014, when he became Chair, and reduced the average time for delivery of decisions to under five months from lodgement. Judge Spiller left the Tribunal in much better shape than he found it. His dedication and commitment t...

8. IPT-Annual-Report 2022 -2023 [pdf, 416 KB]

   ...progress in achieving its statutory objective of expeditious despatch of business. Over the 2022-2023 year, the average age of cases on hand as at 30 June 2023 was 187 days (down from 226 days the previous year). Deducting the deportation (resident) files which the Tribunal has had to ‘hold’ because deportation liability was suspended by the Minister, the age was 123 days (as against 145 days in 2021-2022). The average length of time to make a decision was 242 days and the aver...

9. Ratnam v Accident Compensation Corporation (Deemed cover) [2025] NZACC 53 (27 March 2025) [pdf, 260 KB]

   ...[3] On 3 November 2022, Ms Ratnam sustained an injury while exercising at a gym. She was doing an incline leg press but the weight was too heavy and it came down causing a hyperflexion of her hips. [4] On 14 December 2022, Dr Joanne Gao, GP, filed an ACC injury claim form for Ms Ratnam for a right hip/thigh sprain sustained on 3 November 2022, when Ms Ratnam was “deep squatting with weights, sudden onset right hip pain”. Ms Ratnam was certified unfit for 14 days from the date...

10. Otene – Tauhara Māori Reservation (1977) 58 Taupo MB 168 (58 TPO 168) [pdf, 1.7 MB]

    ...July 1976 that the matter first came be~ore me for a full hearing and determination. To some extent it is a continuation of earlier proceedings that have not been finally determined, but counsel for the applicant concedes that the application now filed is not an amended pleading but a fresh application whereby the earlier application (No.14120) is consequentially abandoned. Nonetheless, to expedite matters and avoid some tedious repetition, and because the proceedings on the earlier app...