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1. OIA-126371.pdf [pdf, 855 KB]

   Justice Centre | 19 Aitken Street DX SX10088 | Wellington T 04 918 8800 | F 04 918 8820 ContactUs@justice.govt.nz | www.justice.govt.nz Our ref: OIA 126371 28 October 2025 Tēnā koe Official Information Act request: Driver licence statistics I refer to your email of 25 September 2025 to the NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA) requesting information under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act) relating to driver licence statistics. On 26 September 2025, the followin...

2. Hood v American Express International (NZ) Inc (Discovery) [2015] NZHRRT 1 [pdf, 61 KB]

   ...balance. AMEX understands Mr Hood has since been informed that payment is not being pursued. [2.5] Mr Hood does not currently have a credit card with AMEX and has not since January 2008. [2.6] On 28 May 2009 Mr Hood sent an email to AMEX in which he requested correction of personal information held about him by AMEX and requested a copy of an email he believed AMEX had received from the ARMS Group on 27 February 2008. [2.7] On or about 4 August 2009 Mr Hood made a complaint to the P...

3. Lim v Gu-Chang [2014] NZIACDT 77 (29 August 2014) [pdf, 103 KB]

   ...to determine: [6.1] Ms Gu-Chang acted unprofessionally and breached the complainant’s right to confidentiality through a publication on her website. [6.2] She overcharged the complainant by charging fees of $12,800 for making a discretionary request for a student visa. [7] The background for the complaint as set out in the Statement of Complaint is: [7.1] The complainant had been in New Zealand without a valid visa since 2007 and in late 2010 he approached Ms Gu-Chang’s practice...

4. BQ v C Ltd [2024] NZDT 902 (7 November 2024) [pdf, 215 KB]

   ...Further the landowner is required to ensure that the vehicle owner’s property is protected until the vehicle owner can regain possession. [21] A tow-truck operator cannot legally tow a vehicle without a tow authority.5 A tow authority must be in a form approved by the Agency and include such things as the name, address, and, where practicable, the signature of the person ordering the vehicle to be moved. There is no requirement that the tow authority must include proof the person askin...

5. Dotcom v Crown Law Office (Inherent Powers) [2018] NZHRRT 36 [pdf, 401 KB]

   ...Dotcom and [255.1] A declaration is made under s 85(1)(a) of the Privacy Act 1993 that there was an interference with the privacy of Mr Dotcom by: [255.1.1] The transfer, without legal authority, to the Attorney-General of the information privacy requests made by Mr Dotcom in July 2015. The Attorney- General had no lawful authority, as purported transferee under the Privacy Act 1993, s 39(b)(ii), to refuse the requests on the grounds that they were vexatious and there was no prop...

6. OIA-109795.pdf [pdf, 2.3 MB]

   ...20 March 2024 S9(2)(a) S9(2) S9(2)(a) Tena koe@IUIYtS Justice Cent re I 19 Aitken Street DX SX10088 I Wellington T 04 918 8800 I F 04 918 8820 ContactUs@justice.govt.nz I www.justice.govt.nz Ref: OIA 109795 Official Information Act request: Copy of Departmental Report Thank you for your email of 16 February to the Ministry of Justice, requesting the following information under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act): .. a copy of the departmental report prepared by th...

7. LCRO 250+251/2016 MJY and VYW v WLB, WLB v MJY and VYW (21 September 2018) [pdf, 281 KB]

   ...Introduction [1] Following complaints by Mr MJY and Mrs VYW, [Area] Standards Committee [X] made four findings of unsatisfactory conduct against Mr WLB and ordered him to: (a) reduce his fees; 2 (b) provide an Authority and Instruction form to enable the property owned by the Trust to be transferred to new trustees; (c) apologise to Mr MJY and Mrs VYW; (d) pay a fine of $3,000; and (e) pay costs in the sum of $2,000. [2] Mr MJY and Mrs VYW, and Mr WLB, have all applied...

8. Ref: LCRO 99/2019 SQ v LP (27 October 2020) [pdf, 235 KB]

   ...ecologist's September 2007 report which concluded Mr SQ's property was "significant". 2 Soon after Mr SQ was informed by the Council that the regenerating native forest on the property had “high rarity distinctiveness”. He requested a review of the Council valuations from 1 September 2007. 3 Annulled a year later on 27 July 2015. 3 sign of illegality by the Council, and “there did not appear to be strong arguments for judicial review at [that] stage”....

9. LCRO 7/2018 AB v CD (26 November 2019) [pdf, 165 KB]

   ...respect to complaint that Mr AB had failed to provide Mr CD with an itemised account or breakdown of his fees. Background [2] Mr CD instructed Mr AB to defend an application for a final protection order. [3] The application had been made by a former girlfriend of Mr CD’s. [4] The application did not proceed to hearing. [5] Mr AB negotiated a settlement which provided that the temporary protection order that was then in place would be discharged, and the application for a final o...

10. LCRO 251+250/2016 MJY and VYW v WLB, WLB v MJY and VYW (21 September 2018) [pdf, 281 KB]

    ...Introduction [1] Following complaints by Mr MJY and Mrs VYW, [Area] Standards Committee [X] made four findings of unsatisfactory conduct against Mr WLB and ordered him to: (a) reduce his fees; 2 (b) provide an Authority and Instruction form to enable the property owned by the Trust to be transferred to new trustees; (c) apologise to Mr MJY and Mrs VYW; (d) pay a fine of $3,000; and (e) pay costs in the sum of $2,000. [2] Mr MJY and Mrs VYW, and Mr WLB, have all applied...