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1. Proactive release of Cabinet papers and minutes relating to supporting the delivery of the 2020 election due to the change of election date and COVID-19 [pdf, 2.1 MB]

   ...change of election date and Covid-19 Date of issue: 22 February 2021 The following document have been proactively released in accordance with Cabinet Office Circular CO (18) 4. 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....

2. [2020] NZEnvC 213 Federated Farners of New Zealand Incorporated v Bay of Plenty Regional Council [pdf, 3.6 MB]

   ...forestry or bush and scrub to pastoral use would be likely to occur on economic grounds alone. We find that other types of land use including papakainga, tourism ventures, visitor accommodation and possibly short rotation carbon crops and various forms of horticulture including orcharding are or could be practicable in certain situations. 6 Council is directed to consider, in consultation with NCG, what might be an appropriate nitrogen allocation for such uses and make provision...

3. Environment Court Annual Review 2018 [pdf, 2.2 MB]

   ...but the Environment Court’s robust case management system now moves these along to prompt resolution by hearing, and sometimes settlement prior to a hearing being needed. It should be recorded that there are occasionally cases where delays are requested by parties for good cause. Cases are moved to the Hold Track when this occurs. Examples are given in the earlier section of this Review that describes the case management tracks. In its 2013 Final Report the Productivity Commission ex...

4. [2021] NZACC 126 - Botha v ACC (4 August 2021) [pdf, 534 KB]

   ...but the panel opined that there was little evidence of this during labour. It is not uncommon for hypoxia to be idiopathic.8 There was concern over the delay in a properly equipped ambulance arriving to transport Kevin to MMH and the panel requested that enquiries be made of St Johns about this. And to check if an MRI had been performed on Kevin. Letter of Dr Sonja Farthing (Registrar for Dr Colette Muir, Paediatrician) [26] This is dated 13th February 2018. This is a lette...

5. BSA 21 day text Final report [pdf, 893 KB]

   ...people who receive no text-message reminder. • Including MoJ's phone number in the text-message reminder significantly increases the rate of timely payment behaviour by 2.5 percentage points. • Including a link to an online payment platform in the text-message reminder has no additional effect on payment behaviour. This may be because the online payment platform requires users to retrieve and provide extra information, such as the amount they owe, to complete their online p...

6. David Bain appendices tabs A to E [pdf, 1.6 MB]

   ...Taieri School, where he noted Robin's depressed state of mind. Robin appeared to be increasingly disorganised and struggling to cope. Mr Wilden asked Robin whether he was receiving regular medical attention. Robin said that he was. Mr Wilden formed the view that Robin was clinically depressed with a form of reactive depression. When he learned of the killings he immediately assumed that Robin's mental state had deteriorated to the point where he was no longer able to cope and th...

7. [2009] NZEmpC AC 35/09 Hamon v Coromandel Independent Living Trust [pdf, 14 KB]

   ...her advocate) obstructed rather than facilitated its investigation. This conclusion was based on difficulties the Authority had in getting produced a USB drive and a tape recording of a meeting which it concluded were not given to it in usable form. The Authority appears to have attributed to Ms Hamon’s advocate a high standard of responsibility in relation to evidence because of his former occupations of solicitor and police officer. [5] Ms Hamon has elected to challenge the A...

8. [2009] NZEmpC WC 18/09 NZ Fire Service Commission v NZ Professional Firefighters Union and others [pdf, 13 KB]

   ...these proceedings and the first defendant’s directive of 5 August 2009, which action is said to have commenced at 8am on 6 August 2009; (b) an interim injunction will also issue requiring the first defendant to immediately contact its members requesting them to desist from continuing to participate in the allegedly unlawful strike action relating to the notice of strike the subject of these proceedings and the first defendant’s directive of 5 August 2009, which action is said t...

9. [2007] NZEmpC AC 58/07 A & Anor v C & Anor [pdf, 17 KB]

   ...[10] Costs are reserved. [11] The original of this interlocutory judgment with the names and other identifying particulars of persons will remain on the Court file. Copies of that original will go to, but should not be further distributed in that form by, counsel and the parties and E. The version of this judgment that will be posted on the Court’s website and otherwise available generally will be anonymised in accordance with the interim non-publication orders made....

10. [2015] NZEmpC 167 Mighty River Power Ltd v Halwala consent [pdf, 73 KB]

    ...must satisfy the Court that an appeal will be filed against the decision to decline an application. [4] An urgent telephone conference was convened to progress the plaintiff’s application for urgency and its challenge. The parties have now requested that a consent judgment, setting aside the Authority’s orders in so far as they relate to non- publication, be issued. I am satisfied that it is appropriate to do so. In particular, counsel for the defendant has advised that the...