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1. [2020] NZEmpC 177 MacKenzie v Huntington’s Disease Association (Auckland) Inc [pdf, 242 KB]

   ...for any further leave taken. The proposal was that when she returned to work, sick leave and annual leave would be reinstated as they accrued due and returned to positive balances. As Ms Mackenzie was not working during the agreed leave, HDA requested return of the motor car she used as well as the work mobile phone and work credit card. Ms Mackenzie endeavoured to make some point about this in evidence but I regard the request as reasonable in the circumstances. [22] After t...

2. Proactive release - Restoration and modernisation of Ministry of Justice properties [pdf, 18 MB]

   ...Ministry of Justice properties Date of issue: 25 September 2020 The following documents 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....

3. Regulatory Impact Statement: Electoral Amendment Bill Advance Voting "Buffer Zones" and Prohibition on False Statements to Influence Voters [pdf, 200 KB]

   ...There is also some risk under the current law that parties, candidates and other political participants do not have sufficient certainty regarding:  where they can locate themselves when campaigning without being the subject of complaints or being requested to move by voting place staff,  what behaviour is permitted inside voting places, both during advance voting and on election day, and  how to avoid activity reaching the threshold of interfering with voters under section

4. Hoko – Papamoa 2A1 (2003) 20 Waikato Maniapoto Appellate MB 167 (20 APWM 167) [pdf, 718 KB]

   ...degree only. Decision of the Lower Court After reviewing the history of the land, the evidence, and the legislation the learned Judge at first instance gave judgment in the following terms: I accept the evidence of the objectors that the area of land formerly known as Papamoa Part No 2 Block is highly important to the owners of (now) Papamoa 28 Block and to Nga Potiki as a whole. The right of first refusal is also important as it gives to the Trust its only real opportunity of regaining tho...

5. Cowan - Estate of Hami Wharepouri Te Awa Waetford (2017) 371 Aotea MB 157 (371 AOT 157) [pdf, 333 KB]

   ...estate file and believed it 1 360 Aotea MB 254 (360 AOT 254). 371 Aotea MB 159 may have been destroyed as it was over 25 years old. They did however locate another file which contained information sent to the firm by Mereana Ratana in January 2002. In a letter dated 17 November 2015, the solicitors say: In November 2001 Mrs Ratana contacted Harkness Henry after the death of her brother, wanting to sort out their father’...

6. Reedy - Waitangi A1A1 (2003) 66 Ruatōria MB 48 (66 RUS 48) [pdf, 857 KB]

   ...However, Tuterangi said nothing that would suggest that Godfrey's expectation was erroneous. The implication suggested is that this is not consistent with Tuterangi having gifted the land to Robert. Under cross-examination he remembered that proxy forms had been signed by Tuterangi for the applicant to be able to speak on his behalf during meetings of the Reedy ahu whenua trust lands. (See 63 Rua 126) Martha Rose Akurangi-Reedy, Tuterangi's common-law wife of 35 years, gave evi...

7. Hakaraia - Part Raetihi 2B2C3C2A1 (2007) 183 Aotea MB 2 (183 AOT 2) [pdf, 3 MB]

   ...Herald and the local newspaper on 27 February and 6 March 2007 and a copy of same filed with the Court (tagged on file). Mr and Mrs Hakaraia have also indicated that they wish to partition out the area set aside as a Maori reservation, although no formal application has been filed in this regard. Mr and Mrs Hakaraia understood that reservation area had been legally separated from their block prior to their purchasing the land. Mr Takarangi has supplied a copy of correspondence from Pla...

8. [2017] NZEnvC 154 W Hansen Haupouri Partnership v Hastings District Council [pdf, 992 KB]

   ...the primary concerns about the integrity of the whole area as a habitat, and the ecological points that raises. [16] Mr Hansen does not consider the practices he uses on the Disputed Area and its surrounds to be feedlotting, or indeed any other form of intensive farming - properly so called. Further, he was very emphatic in his evidence that he has no intention of so using any of the Disputed Area in the future. That being so, we observe at this point that it is difficult to see how...

9. [2019] NZEnvC 095 View West Limited v Auckland Council [pdf, 5.2 MB]

   ...radio reports indicating that emergency works were required at the building; (b) Mr O'Connor advised the Court the reports were somewhat exaggerated but acknowledged that the matter had been in the Court for some six months at the parties request while they participated in mediation and undertook investigations; (c) There was discussion at the telephone conference as to what progress had been made, and Mr O'Connor for the Council advised that the Council was undertaking...

10. [2018] NZEnvC 225 Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society Incorporated v Canterbury Regional Council [pdf, 3.8 MB]

    ...in stock ratios and/or fodder crop areas in response to drought conditions) could still be caught by the rule so as to be classed as non-complying activities requiring resource consent. (d) the Interim Decision found that the Advice Note is a form of policy as to prosecutorial (or more precisely, 'compliance, monitoring and enforcement' ('CME')) discretion. It pertains to how the Regional Council fulfils its duty in s 84 of the Resource Management Act 1991 (�...