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1. 2023-09-26-SOE_Stuart-Farrant_Stormwater.pdf [pdf, 237 KB]

   ...requirements for reporting to the Regional Councils. [11] I address these issues in turn below. Stormwater Design [12] Through the design review which informed my s87F Report, including information requirements set out as part of the section 92 request from the Regional Councils, it was noted on multiple occasions that the proposed design of operational stormwater elements was very conceptual and lacked the level of detail to provide certainty of function and outcomes. [13] Thro...

2. Update-on-the-political-lobbying-project [pdf, 144 KB]

   ...Countering Foreign Interference Work Programme, which includes a focus on promoting the transparency of other States' activities in New Zealand. • The Department of Internal Affairs is consulting on ways to regulate harmful use of media platforms in New Zealand. • Mechanisms like the Cabinet Manual and government agency codes of practice guide people who are lobbied on ways to deal with lobbying and management of conflicts of interest. • Laws are in place around bribery, co...

3. LCRO Annual report 2022-23 [pdf, 338 KB]

   ...reinforce the importance for lawyers of recognising the extent to which conduct that is perceived to embrace the personal rather than the professional, may intersect when examined through a disciplinary lens. Fee related complaints continue to form a substantial component of the Review Officers’ workload. A noticeable feature underlying a number of fee related complaints, is concern that lawyers have neglected to communicate the precise basis of fee arrangements to their cli...

4. Wainui v Wainui - Part 1 Deposited Plan 3413 (2024) 127 Tairawhiti MB 150 (127 TRW 150) [pdf, 283 KB]

   ...insurance matters and disclaiming any interest in the Whanau Home. See also a letter from Burnard Bull, dated 20 December 1983, to Mangatu Incorporation referring to conditional agreement for sale and purchase of Whanau Homested to Bessie Wainui and request transfer of the leasehold interest to Bessie Wainui. 127 Tairāwhiti MB 153 Niria Wainui-Teepa Peetikuia Wainui-Hape [12] According to Court records there has been no change to the trustees of the Tipene and Sarah...

5. LCRO 19/2024 MT v DB (31 January 2025) [pdf, 156 KB]

   ...response to the complaint; (b) the Committee wrongly concluded that it could not resolve a factual dispute; and (c) the Committee had “… failed to conduct a due [i]nquiry …” by reason of not exercising its powers to obtain evidence and information under ss 141(b) and (c), 142(3), 147(1)(a) and (b), 147(2)(a) (i) to (vii) inclusive, 151(1) and 151(2) of the Act. Review on the papers [14] After undertaking a preliminary, procedural appraisal of the file and noting the applica...

6. [2025] NZLCDT 21 Auckland Standards Committee 3 v Woodroffe (9 April 2025) [pdf, 147 KB]

   ...to issue, or continue, court proceedings in Samoa, he was hampered in assessing his strategic position. This left him exposed, financially and strategically. [11] Mrs Woodroffe delayed approximately five months before actioning her client’s request to discontinue proceedings. This was discourteous. 4 The Deputy Chair presided over a Family Court case of at least two day’s duration in which Mrs Woodroffe was counsel, acting for Samoan clients, and the issue was not raised ther...

7. [2025] NZLCDT 26 Auckland Standards Committee 1 v Jindal (8 May 2025) [pdf, 136 KB]

   ...Y’s private home for seemingly no purpose other than to harm him and to retain the website even after on notice of the complaint to the Law Society. We do consider that given the period of which Mr Jindal’s conduct continued, and the number of forms it has taken; which amounted to a veritable crusade against another practitioner, that at the time of this conduct Mr Jindal was not a fit and proper person to be a lawyer. We find the misconduct to be at the more serious end of the spe...

8. Mahanga v Mahanga - Taiharuru 2C (2025) 286 Taitokerau MB 172 (286 TTK 172) [pdf, 237 KB]

   ...application seeking to transfer shares held by him in Taiharuru 2C by way of gift to his nephew, Benjamin Joseph Mahanga (“Ben”). [2] Haki now seeks a rehearing, rescinding the transfer of shares on the basis that there was a failure by Ben to perform an underlying agreement between them in return for the gift of the shares by Haki. Kōrero Whānui Background [3] The Taiharuru 2C block is an area of 8.1163 hectares more or less in which there were 55 owners holding a tot...

9. [2024] NZEnvC 252 Beachlands South Limited Partnership v Auckland Council [pdf, 391 KB]

   ...Court to hear and decide any outstanding issues in relation to the PC88 appeals, the PC80 appeal and the PC88 strike out application including any consent documentation. Judicial Conference [7] To ascertain the position of other parties to this request, the Court convened a Judicial Conference (via Microsoft Teams) to discuss the Joint Memorandum and consider hearing time for the PC80 and PC88 appeals. [8] During the Judicial Conference, all parties confirmed that they felt posi...

10. Chadwick v Guardian Trust and Executors Co Ltd - Ngatarawa 2E1 (1964) 3 Ikaroa Appellate Court MB 32 (3 APT 32) [pdf, 269 KB]

    ...have bad the advantage of reading the ~ ' ' •, ' ., judgment of' Judges Davis and Scott and I can go w1 th them in the ;:·,greater !)art of their conclusions but not all the way. I agree that before the Court can proceed to form an .. opinion whether any relief ahould be granted or not, the -,s.1plicant must establish that the building ,oas erected where it ns because ot a mistake as to boundary. I agree also that there was an absence of evidence that any cons;d...