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1. OIA-124127.pdf [pdf, 1.5 MB]

   Legal Services Commissioner Justice Centre I 19 Aitken Street I DX SX10125 I Wellington T 04 918 8800 I F 04 918 8820 lsc@justice.govt.nz 5 September 2025 Our ref: OIA 124127 Tēnā koe Official Information Act request: Removal of funding for section 27 reports Thank you for your email of 25 July 2025, to the Ministry of Justice (the Ministry) requesting, under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act), copies of documents related to the removal of funding for section 27 r...

2. Gupta v Dhar [2016] NZIACDT 65 (4 October 2016) [pdf, 208 KB]

   ...However Immigration New Zealand declined the first work visa application; a second work visa application that Mr Dhar prepared. [1.3] Mr Dhar filed a residence application; Immigration New Zealand declined it as it contained false and misleading information. [2] The Registrar raised three potential grounds of complaint: [2.1] Mr Dhar did not have a written agreement for providing the professional services; [2.2] He did not prepare the work and residence visa applications with ade...

3. NZCVS Methodology Report Cycle 2 (2019) [pdf, 4.9 MB]

   ...incorporating address files 22 3. Questionnaire, incident selection and automated offence coding 24 Introduction 24 Mode of interviewing 24 The questionnaire 26 Selection of incidents 28 Selection of incident scenarios 28 Individual and cluster victim forms 28 Offence codes 29 Victim definition 29 In-scope NZCVS offences 29 Automated offence coding 31 Data linking 31 4. Questionnaire development and testing 33 Overview 33 Stakeholder consultation 33 Questionnaire design 34 Co...

4. [2023] NZIACDT 12 - XX v Xu (13 April 2023) [pdf, 252 KB]

   ...did she realise that she had “overlooked the letter of 24 March”.1 [13] According to Ms Xu, she advised the complainant on the same day that her mother’s visa had been declined, that the mother had become unlawful in New Zealand and that a request under s 61 should be made.2 The complainant acknowledges being aware of the decline (Ms Xu had told her on 2 May) and the need to make a request under s 61, but she does not accept Ms Xu informed her that her mother was an overstaye...

5. LJ v Accident Compensation Corporation (personal injury; deemed cover; unreasonable delay) [2025] NZACC 179 [pdf, 257 KB]

   ...right but pain mainly on right side. PROM: normal. Accessory tests: tried nerve traction of UL nerve but nil changes. Palpation: pain on palpation over UFT. [7] On 1 December 2022, Mr Karl Houltham, Physiotherapist, reported: ACC has received a request to cover cervicalgia - pain in neck at lodgement on this claim. While this is acknowledged, pain is a reported symptom and not a diagnosis of a discrete physical injury. The GP clearly documents their clinical impression as a “c...

6. Vivash v Accident Compensation Corporation [2020] NZHRRT 16 [pdf, 282 KB]

   ...for the Tribunal to read into IPP 5 a limitation which would 11 substantially reduce the duty on ACC to ensure the security of personal information until, at least, the IPP 9 duty to keep has been spent. IPP 5 must be read as applying to all forms of loss just as the other IPP 5 safeguards relating to access, use, modification, disclosure or “other misuse” are not conditioned by intent, motive or other happenstance. [42] The various document retention policies described by Mr Pa...

7. Young-Adult-List-Operating-Guidelines2.pdf [pdf, 5.8 MB]

   ...they will agree upon a consistent approach which can be used for all cases at that District Court. The Court Registry Officer should create a note in CMS and keep a copy of their sent emails on the physical file to evidence the adjournment and request made to the Prosecutor. Page 7 Court Management System (CMS) The Court Registry Officer should ensure that they keep CMS updated. The following event types are to be used by a Court Registry Officer in the Young Adult List:...

8. Young-Adult-List-Operating-Guidelines.pdf [pdf, 5.8 MB]

   ...they will agree upon a consistent approach which can be used for all cases at that District Court. The Court Registry Officer should create a note in CMS and keep a copy of their sent emails on the physical file to evidence the adjournment and request made to the Prosecutor. Page 7 Court Management System (CMS) The Court Registry Officer should ensure that they keep CMS updated. The following event types are to be used by a Court Registry Officer in the Young Adult List:...

9. [2020] NZIACDT 17 - XA v Hill (10 March 2020) [pdf, 304 KB]

   ...PRELIMINARY [1] It is alleged that Ms Hill, the adviser, used an unlicensed employee within her office, her life partner, to engage with her client, the complainant, and also to do immigration work that only a licensed adviser is allowed to perform. Furthermore, that she was negligent in permitting incorrect information regarding the complainant’s work experience to be provided to Immigration New Zealand. [2] The essential issue to consider is one of credibility, being whether Ms...

10. Guidelines on common core documents [pdf, 528 KB]

    ...COMPILATION OF GUIDELINES ON THE FORM AND CONTENT OF REPORTS TO BE SUBMITTED BY STATES PARTIES TO THE INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS TREATIES Report of the Secretary-General In its resolutions 52/118 and 53/138, the General Assembly requested the Secretary-General to compile in a single volume the guidelines regarding the form and content of reports to be submitted by States parties that have been issued by the Human Rights Committee, the Committee on Economic, Social and...