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1. Legal aid fixed fee schedules for public safety public Protection Orders [pdf, 603 KB]

   ...lodging with Court  reporting to client  reporting to and invoicing Legal Aid Services Interlocutory Hearing(s) / Teleconference(s) – - Preparation * Estimate required by amendment For  preparing interlocutory submissions when requested by the Court or Review Panel during the course of proceedings  preparing application for amendment to grant  reporting to client  reporting to and invoicing Legal Aid Services. - Time $60 per half hour For ...

2. Legal aid civil public Protection Orders fixed fee schedule [pdf, 672 KB]

   ...Lodging with Court  Reporting to client  Reporting to and invoicing Legal Aid Services Interlocutory Hearing(s) / Teleconference(s) – - Preparation * Estimate required by amendment For  Preparing interlocutory submissions when requested by the Court or Review Panel during the course of proceedings  Preparing application for amendment to grant  Reporting to client  Reporting to and invoicing Legal Aid Services - Time $60 per half hour For ...

3. Auckland Standards Committee v Yee [2015] NZLCDT 22 [pdf, 86 KB]

   ...ZEALAND LAWYERS AND CONVEYANCERS DISCIPLINARY TRIBUNAL [2015] NZLCDT 22 LCDT 004/15 IN THE MATTER of the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006 BETWEEN AUCKLAND STANDARDS COMMITTEE No. 5 Applicant AND KENNETH YEE Former Practitioner CHAIR Judge D F Clarkson MEMBERS OF TRIBUNAL Mr G McKenzie Mr K Raureti Ms C Rowe Mr I Williams HELD at Specialist Courts and Tribunals Centre, Auckland DATE OF HEARING 16 June 2015 DA...

4. [2015] NZSSAA 89 (13 November 2015) [pdf, 34 KB]

   ...partner which is more than $100 a week but not more than $200 a week, and by $0.70 cents for every $100 that is income which is more than $200 a week. [22] The appellant received arrears of Supported Living Payment from July 2014 onwards. At the request of the Authority, the Ministry have provided details as to how the arrears payment was calculated. A letter dated 21 October 2015 sets out in some detail the way in which the arrears paid to the appellant were calculated, including th...

5. [2015] NZSSAA 101 (17 December 2015) [pdf, 39 KB]

   ...On 19 November 2013 the Ministry received an application for New Zealand Superannuation. The application was granted from 6 November 2013 at the proportional rate of $106.97 per week. Arrears of $212.56 were paid directly to Centrelink at their request. These arrears were subsequently returned by Centrelink to Work and Income New Zealand in February 2014 with an incorrect number. They were returned by Centrelink because the appellant’s Australian Age Pension had been cancelled from...

6. CAC 20004 v Whisker [2014] NZREADT 83 [pdf, 56 KB]

   ...proposition. On the one hand it is clearly arguable that as there was no requirement to hold the monies on trust Mr Whisker was free to use the advertising monies for any of the general trading purposes of the company and therefore is not guilty of any form of misconduct (in its widest sense) at all. In the alternative it is also quite possible to make an argument that while there was no requirement under the Act or the Rules to hold the money in a Trust Account Mr Whisker had nonethele...

7. Meulenbroek v Vision Antenna Systems Ltd (Costs) [2015] NZHRRT 3 [pdf, 52 KB]

   ...to this it is to be noted no pre-trial application was made by Vision that Mr Kulakov’s evidence be given otherwise than in person. Second, we accept the submission for the Director that Mr Kulakov was an important witness and that his evidence formed part of the central narrative in at least four ways. First, he spoke authoritatively about the tenets of the Seventh Day Adventist Church and the significance of the Sabbath. Second, he witnessed Mr Meulenbroek’s re-integration into t...

8. LV v VJ LCRO 81 / 2011 (6 September 2011) [pdf, 86 KB]

   ...the Applicant had arranged for the niece to be given a key and had expressed no concerns about her entry into the house unsupervised. The Practitioner had provided to the Applicant’s solicitor a copy of the chattels inventory in early August on request, and up to that time he was unaware of problems. The Applicant informed the Practitioner in October about the three missing chattels and subsequent unsuccessful enquires were made by the co-executor along with the Applicant writing...

9. KY v VZ LCRO 223 / 2010 (29 September 2011) [pdf, 83 KB]

   ...with undivided loyalties was based on the larger interests of the firm. It was suggested that this concern about upsetting or alienating an existing client would have been sufficient reason for the Practitioner to have not pursued the Applicant’s request that his former wife should give evidence at his trial. [19] KZ referred to Thurlow v Clements [20101] NZFLR, 767 where the court concluded that a solicitor was precluded, by reason of his current sexual relationship with his cli...

10. Jedburgh v Aberdeen LCRO 119 / 2009 (29 October 2009) [pdf, 84 KB]

    ...proposition he had put to the applicant‟s wife, and to explain why he had not sought to prove this in subsequent evidence. In response the practitioner said that on the morning of the hearing the applicant‟s wife had provided notes that had not formed part of the pleadings, adding (to some extent reiterating his response to the Standards Committee) that it was not necessarily unusual in employment tribunal proceedings that matters not pleaded were nevertheless raised. These no...