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1. RIS Regulatory Systems Justice Amendment Bill package [pdf, 1.1 MB]

   ...private security sector. This supports the PSPPI Act’s key policy objectives, ensuring people are suitably qualified to provide services and do not behave in ways contrary to the public interest. Efficiency: ++ The CIPU has a clear legal basis for requesting information, with appropriate limitations and safeguards. A statutory requirement to produce information reduces costs for third parties who may otherwise seek legal advice on a request by the CIPU for information under the Priva...

2. Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination – summary record 18th-20th reports [pdf, 148 KB]

   ...reports, comments and information submitted by States parties under article 9 of the Convention (continued) Eighteenth to twentieth periodic reports of New Zealand United Nations CERD/C/SR.2221 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination Distr.: General 26 February 2013 Original: English CERD/C/SR.2221 2 GE.13-41439 The meeting was called to order at 3.05 p.m. Consideration of reports, comments and information submitte...

3. Ryan v CAC 20002 & Skinner [2013] NZREADT 45 [pdf, 67 KB]

   ...have been more responsive”. [d] It seemed to the Committee that the licensee: “... had been active in following up leads, keeping in contact with the Andersons emailing the complainant with updates and seeking information that he had been requested by both the Andersons and other parties. He did produce two offers to purchase one from the Andersons and one from Suny Palwi (Mr Kaur) neither of which resulted in a sale. The reality was that the market for selling businesses in Que...

4. JK v OC LCRO 254/2013 (10 February 2015) [pdf, 93 KB]

   ...those documents become available, he will be in a position to provide the Legal Complaints Review Officer (LCRO) with a detailed application. He makes complaint that the [North Island] Standards Committee was provided with official information requests, and he had expectations that the Standards Committee would action those requests and obtain the information that Mr JK sought from various agencies. [33] It is not appropriate for applicants seeking a review of a Standards Committee...

5. Anderson v Anderson – Estate of Barlow Nathaniel Hahona Anderson (2018) 185 Waiariki MB 287 (185 WAR 287) [pdf, 332 KB]

   ...behalf of the whānau, by refusing to provide any account of his administration for the past six years. More particularly: (a) As executor, Adam has neglected or otherwise failed to account for the assets and income of Barlow’s estate despite requests from Charles Anderson as a beneficiary; and (b) As trustee for the Barlow Anderson Family Trust, Adam has neglected or otherwise failed to account for the assets and income of the trust, including rentals and proceeds of sale for...

6. ENV-2016-AKL-000197 Adams v Auckland Council [pdf, 4.2 MB]

   ...Council's decision to reject the Hearings Panel recommendation to amend the threshold for requiring resource consent from three or more dwellings to five or more dwellings in the Mixed Housing Suburban and Mixed Housing Urban Zones. This recommendation formed part of the Hearings Panel recommendations on topics 059 to 063 Residential Zones. In the notified version of the Proposed Plan up to three dwellings per site were allowed as a permitted activity in the Mixed Housing Subur...

7. [2018] NZEmpC 93 Jacks Hardware and Timber Ltd v First Union Inc [pdf, 360 KB]

   ...Jacks Hardware and Timber Ltd [2018] NZERA Christchurch 85. 2 At [3]. 3 At [6]. [10] The question of whether bargaining had been concluded in accordance with the statutory test for doing so came before this Court. On 17 December 2015, former Chief Judge Colgan issued a judgment finding that Jacks Hardware’s decision to end bargaining based on its view that a remuneration clause would not be included in the intended collective agreement was not a genuine reason for doin...

8. [2020] NZEmpC 51 O’Boyle v McCue [pdf, 298 KB]

   ...McCue v O’Boyle Law Ltd [2019] NZERA 648 (Member Arthur). shareholder and director. However Ms O’Boyle conceded this point during the Authority investigation. She accepted she employed Ms McCue in her personal capacity in 2014. No formalities were agreed and completed to transfer the employment relationship to the company after it was registered in 2016. Ms O’Boyle remained personally liable for obligations arising from her employment relationship with Ms McCue.

9. [2025] NZLCDT 2 Auckland Standards Committee 1 v Wintour (9 January 2025) [pdf, 193 KB]

   ...support his narrative, perhaps an early draft of a document. We cannot know when and in what circumstances it was written. It does not help us with any findings. We can accord this note no probative value. [37] By the end of the hearing, we had formed a sorry view of Mr Wintour’s credibility. It went beyond mistaken recollections. We find he has advanced deliberate falsehoods to cover his wrongdoing. On the essential matters we do not give his evidence any weight. Despite...

10. [2025] NZEmpC 44 Mutonhori v Wairoa District Council [pdf, 276 KB]

    ...use and if so, to confirm whether permission had been given by the Chief Executive in advance of any private trips so that she could complete the Council’s Fringe Benefit Tax return correctly. [7] Mr Mutonhori did not supply the information requested. At the hearing, he continued to maintain that he had not been required to fill in an FBT form before and there was nothing in his employment agreement that required him to do so. [8] After he had not answered the Senior Financial...