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1. [2019] NZEnvC 173 Summerset Villages (St Johns) Limited v Auckland Council [pdf, 9 MB]

   ...scenario view from the west is annexed hereto as E and this shows on viewpoint 11, a view on Rutherford Terrace around 400 metres from the Site. This shows the three storey buildings in the first instance with the higher buildings behind. This formed a focal point of the concern for Council witnesses suggesting that the height and bulk being compatible with the residential area and was not predominately three storeys. [15] The other worst-case scenario point was viewed from the road...

2. [2010] NZEMPC 144 Gilbert v Transfield Services (NZ) Ltd [pdf, 37 KB]

   ...on 14 May 2010.1 [3] Mr Yukich, in his affidavit, deposed that during a telephone conference call with the Authority Member, at which a preliminary investigation on the issue of interim reinstatement was set down for Monday 11 January 2010, he requested that all documents be served on both Mr Gilbert and himself by email. He explained that this was important as Mr Gilbert was the applicant in the proceedings and Mr Yukich was away from his office for periods of up to a month at a...

3. ENV-2016-AKL-000195 The Puhoi Community Forum Incorporated v Auckland Council [pdf, 3.8 MB]

   ...Council notifies its decisions in relation to the recommendations of the Hearings Panel under section 148(4)(a) of the LGATPA (i.e. by no later than 16 September 2016). You must pay the filing fee required by regulation 15 of the Resource Management (Forms, Fees, and Procedure for Auckland Combined Plan) Regulations 2013 at the time you lodge this notice with the Environment Court. If your appeal concerns a regional coastal plan provision / the coastal marine area, you must serve a copy of t...

4. Calder v Bharani [2017] NZIACDT 6 (6 April 2017) [pdf, 169 KB]

   ...statement of complaint put forward the following background as the basis for the complaint: [5.1] Immigration New Zealand received an application for a visitor’s visa from an applicant (the applicant). Mr Bharani was listed on the visa application form as the person who provided immigration advice; he had completed a declaration to that effect. [5.2] When Immigration New Zealand looked into the application, it conducted a telephone interview with the applicant. During that inter...

5. Guidelines for Parties to Review [pdf, 134 KB]

   General Information 1. The Legal Complaints Review Officer (LCRO) is an independent statutory officer created by section 190 of the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006 (the Act). 2. The Legal Complaints Review Officer is an office of review and can only review decisions by a Lawyers Standards Committee or a Conveyancers Standards Committee on complaints that are made. 3. The purposes of the complaints and discipline system under the Act includes processing and resolving co

6. AB v CD Ltd [2022] NZDT 87 (23 June 2022) [pdf, 109 KB]

   ...report carried out with reasonable care and skill and was it fit for purpose? c. Is AB entitled to $20,000 as claimed, or to any other sum? What was the agreed scope of the building report? 7. Under contract law, a legally binding contract is formed when both parties intend to contract on agreed terms and intend for those terms to be legally binding. The terms of a contract are formed at the beginning, not at the end, and what was agreed is looked at objectively, i.e., by looking a...

7. LCRO Guidelines for parties to review [pdf, 159 KB]

   General Information 1. The Legal Complaints Review Officer (LCRO) is an independent statutory officer created by section 190 of the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006 (the Act). 2. The Legal Complaints Review Officer is an office of review and can only review decisions by a Lawyers Standards Committee or a Conveyancers Standards Committee on complaints that are made. 3. The purposes of the complaints and discipline system under the Act includes processing and resolving complaints as ex

8. LCRO 126-2017 PC v The Committee [pdf, 281 KB]

   ...taken appropriate steps to ensure the accuracy of the certification [41] In essence, the prohibition in the rule requires that the lawyer concerned take positive steps to ensure that the truth of the matter in respect of which the lawyer has been requested, or proposes to provide a certificate is accurate.27 Only if the lawyer then “believes on reasonable grounds” that “the matter certified is true” may the lawyer provide the certificate concerned.

9. ENV-2016-AKL-000TBA Radiata Properties Limited v Auckland Council [pdf, 8.2 MB]

   ...one of the persons described in section 274(1) ofthe RMA. To become a party to the appeal, you must, within 15 working days after the period for lodging a notice of appeal ends, lodge a notice of your wish to be a party to the proceedings (in form 33 of the Resource Management (Forms, Fees, and Procedure) Regulations 2003) with the Environment Court by email (to unitaryplan.ecappeals@ justice.govt.nz) and serve copies of your notice by email on the Auckland Council (to unitaryplan...

10. LCRO 174/2017 DN v CI [pdf, 328 KB]

    ...made an error by not obtaining the School’s consent to the assignment of the Cleaning Contract before the conditions in the Agreement were satisfied; (b) did not give him clear information and advice; and (c) by not contacting the Broker to request the return of the deposit Ms CI did not protect his interests. Standards Committee decision [10] The Committee delivered its decision on 16 August 2017 and determined, pursuant to s 138(2) of the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006 (t...