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1. LCRO 139/2018 KB v LD (21 November 2018) [pdf, 101 KB]

   ...complaint, but he wrote to Ms LD on 29 May 2018 saying “I will now withdraw my complaint to the Law Society if you will now undertake to continue to represent me”. [9] Over the preceding months Ms LD had accepted other commitments. Further, Ms LD formed the view that Mr KB was trying to bend her to his will by offering to withdraw his complaint if she would give an undertaking to act for him. Whether or not that view was accurate, Ms LD had accepted other commitments, leaving...

2. OJ v KH [2020] NZDT 1534 (4 May 2020) [pdf, 190 KB]

   ...TRIBUNAL District Court [2020] NZDT 1534 APPLICANT OJ RESPONDENT KH The Tribunal hereby orders: 1. The claim is dismissed. 2. All evidence in this proceeding is suppressed unless it is published in anonymized form and not in association with other information that would be likely to personally identify the parties. Reasons: 1. OJ is the owner and operator of EB Escort Agency in [location]. On 2 July 2018, KH joined the agency as one of its es...

3. [2021] NZEnvC 130 City Rail Link Limited [pdf, 304 KB]

   ...any substantive predetermination. b) Construction timeframes are extremely tight. In order to achieve these, and the benefits of the alteration, a decision on the alteration is required by December 2021. c) Background: i) CRLL lodged a request with Council under section 198B of the RMA to allow the requirement to be directly referred to the Environment Court for determination on 25 June 2021 (i.e. contemporaneously with the NoR). Council approved that request under secti...

4. Keston v Redwood Corporation Ltd (Extension of Time to Commence Proceedings) [2022] NZHRRT 50 [pdf, 141 KB]

   ...THE HUMAN RIGHTS REVIEW TRIBUNAL [2022] NZHRRT 50 I TE TARAIPIUNARA MANA TANGATA 2 BACKGROUND [1] In May 2021 Mr Keston made an IPP6 request to the Redwood Corporation Limited trading as Pelican Club (Pelican Club) to access his personal information. [2] Pelican Club did not respond to the request within the statutory timeframe and Mr Keston complained to the Privacy Commissioner that his right to access his personal information under IPP 6 had been breached. [3] The Commiss...

5. [2023] NZEnvC 018 Aokautere Land Holdings v Manawatu-Wanganui Regional Council [pdf, 208 KB]

   ...against abatement notices to be lodged within 15 working days of service of same. In this case that date was about 29 January 2020. [2] In July and August 2020 the following process occurred: • On 25 July, Mr L Fugle (a director of Aokautere) requested that the abatement notices be cancelled on the basis that the Council had not demonstrated a breach of either the resource consents allowing the Woodgate Heights Subdivision Development or any Regional Plan rules. A Council office...

6. Legal Aid Practice note - November 2022 [pdf, 389 KB]

   ...irrelevant matter; or if it depends upon findings which are unsupported by the evidence”.2 8. A finding that a decision is ‘manifestly unreasonable’ requires “not only that the decision be found to be unreasonable, but that [the Tribunal] forms the view that the decision is so clearly unreasonable that the intervention of the [Tribunal] is called for”.3 9. The threshold for intervention by the Tribunal is a high one.4 10. The Tribunal may confirm, modify, or reverse the...

7. Criminal-Legal-Aid-Application-Form3.pdf [pdf, 1.3 MB]

   ...Legal owner of property Estimated value $ Mortgage balance $ What is your share of ownership of it? (eg 50%) % Is it in a trust? Yes No Is it on/or Māori land? Yes No If you and/or your partner have more than one property please provide this information on another page. 21 Do you and/or your partner have any money or investments? (excluding KiwiSaver) Yes No You $ Your partner $ Cash, savings and term deposits Shares and bonds Retirement funds Other (eg money owed to you) 22 Do yo...

8. [2022] NZEnvC 020 ERP Group Limited v Canterbury Regional Council [pdf, 200 KB]

   ...stormwater discharge. The sampling is to measure the impact on downstream water quality of discharges from the site from driveway runoff and from water in the site laterals; and (d) other relevant matters, such as whether ERP Group Limited has requested approval to discharge under the Christchurch City Council Comprehensive Stormwater Network Discharge Consent and the status of that request. B: Leave is reserved for any party to return this matter to the court for further di...

9. Transferring Maori Land Shares.pdf [pdf, 78 KB]

   TRANSFERRING MĀORI LAND SHARES Te Kooti Whenua Māori – Māori Land Court For more information, go to maorilandcourt.govt.nz People entitled to receive Māori land shares or interests Māori land shares can only be sold or gifted to certain people who belong to a group defined in the Act as the preferred classes of alienees. The Act recognises that blocks of Māori land are generally owned by people connected to each other and to the land through kin groups, such as iwi7 and hapū8. I

10. LAT - Practice note - 2022 [pdf, 270 KB]

    ...irrelevant matter; or if it depends upon findings which are unsupported by the evidence”.2 8. A finding that a decision is ‘manifestly unreasonable’ requires “not only that the decision be found to be unreasonable, but that [the Tribunal] forms the view that the decision is so clearly unreasonable that the intervention of the [Tribunal] is called for”.3 9. The threshold for intervention by the Tribunal is a high one.4 10. The Tribunal may confirm, modify, or reverse the...