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1. Statutes-Amendment-Bill_FINAL.pdf [pdf, 1.4 MB]

   ...release: Statutes Amendment Bill Date of issue: 4 November 2024 The following documents have been proactively released in accordance with Cabinet Office Circular CO (23) 04. Some information has been withheld on the basis that it would not, if requested under the Official Information Act 1982 (OIA), be released. Where that is the case, the relevant section of the OIA has been noted and no public interest has been identified that would outweigh the reasons for withholding it. No. Doc...

2. Wild v Ministry for Primary Industries (Strike Out) [2024] NZHRRT 69 [pdf, 252 KB]

   ...accusing MPI of “intentionally obstructing justice”. This was followed by a further email dated 16 August 2024, in which Ms Wild repeated her accusations against the senior public official named in earlier email correspondence. Ms Wild also requested that the Tribunal remove counsel for MPI from the case and accused her of being “a crooked lawyer” who “has been aiding and abetting her clients to continue stalking me for close to four years” and “belongs in prison”....

3. Campbell - Jacobs River 100 Block XXV Section 80 and others (2025) 95 Te Waipounamu MB 235 (95 TWP 235) [pdf, 241 KB]

   ...the Trust. At the meeting, beneficiaries also discussed whether and how they would vary the Trust order if the Trust were partially terminated. That included changing the named tūpuna and redefining the beneficiaries. The applicants discussed forming their own trust and the possibility of including their brothers’ children in that new trust. [14] On 11 April 2025, the court sent a draft submission and meeting report to all affected parties. Several non-attending beneficiaries res...

4. [2025] NZEmpC185 Lanigan v Fonterra Brands (NZ) Ltd [pdf, 201 KB]

   ...(emphasis original) [12] Conventional grounds were relied on to support the application; that the documents sought are relevant, Fonterra believed on reasonable grounds that they exist and are in the union’s possession or control, they were requested and there has been no satisfactory answer from the union. It further relied on reg 52(1) and directions issued by Judge King in a minute dated 17 December 2024. [13] The application was supported by an affidavit from Fonterra’s...

5. [2025] NZSSAA 06 (12 February 2025) [pdf, 197 KB]

   ...and her husband. Background 3. XXXX receives a disability allowance and an Australian disability support pension (DSP). She and her husband both receive NZS payments. 2 4. Since April 2012, XXXX has lived in a Kāinga Ora (formerly Housing New Zealand) house in Auckland. 5. The Ministry policy is to review IRR at least once annually and at every change in circumstances. 6. This is XXXX's second appeal regarding an IRR increase. In her previous appeal SS...

6. Wellington Standards Committee 1 v Mason [2025] NZLCDT 19 (2 April 2025) [pdf, 143 KB]

   ...herself as a very hard-working lawyer engaged in very important work. This lawyer has acted in a way that we found showed disregard for her professional obligations. Consideration of penalty has been affected by what appears to have been an informed decision for her to be appointed counsel assisting an Inquiry in another jurisdiction, which had not been completed at the time of the penalty hearing. [5] We determined that a short period of suspension was the least restrictive i...

7. Auckland Standards Committee v RDM [2015] NZLCDT 26 [pdf, 100 KB]

   ...charges. [9] The Tribunal heard the charges on 6 and 7 July 2015. At the conclusion of the hearing and after hearing submissions from counsel for the applicant and the practitioner, the Tribunal retired to consider the matter. It returned and informed the parties that it had decided to dismiss charges one and two. It found the practitioner guilty of unsatisfactory conduct in respect of charge three. [10] It then heard further submissions in respect of penalty and then imposed...

8. Auckland Standards Committee v Clews [2014] NZLCDT 19 [pdf, 91 KB]

   ...a pardon. The practitioner had with him an authority to uplift files and waiver of privilege already completed, indeed he had these forms with him on both visits, and Mr E signed both authorities. [12] These were forwarded to Mr Pyke with a request that the files be forwarded to the practitioner. In the second communication the practitioner suggested that Mr Pyke and Mr E ought to speak directly about this. His evidence was that he simply wanted to help Mr E with his pardon app...

9. GY & KS v Accident Compensation Corporation (Leave to appeal to the High Court) [2025] NZACC 185 [pdf, 210 KB]

   ...2001 Introduction [1] This is an application for leave to appeal against a judgment of Her Honour, Judge Sinclair, delivered on 27 June 2025.1 The issue in this appeal is whether cover is available for a treatment injury suffered by GY (in the form of the continuation of her pregnancy) and KS (in the form of being born with Trisomy 21 (Down Syndrome)). The Court allowed the appeal, for the reasons outlined below. 1 GY and KS v Accident Compensation Corporation [2025] NZAC...

10. [2008] NZEmpC WC 15/08 Weston v Fraser [pdf, 59 KB]

    ...by Mr Weston through Sportscar World. There were later discussions about commissions on sales and the possibility of a raise. He was approached by Ms Allen just before his first raise, and, together with another staff member, he filled out tax forms. [12] An issue later arose between the parties as to the registration of a Nissan vehicle. In view of the proper concession on behalf of Mr Weston that the subsequent dismissal was unjustifiable, there is no need to canvass this mat...