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1. Ministry of Justice consultation paper on Phase Two of the AML/CFT Act [pdf, 317 KB]

   ...Act’s obligations and legal professional privilege may occur in the following circumstances: • when a lawyer is required to file an STR under the Act but information relating to the transaction may be privileged, or • when a sector supervisor requests information from a lawyer under the Act but information relating to the request may be privileged. This tension is increased by the fact that legal professional privilege is owned by the client and may be difficult for a legal pra...

2. Waitangi Tribunal - He Whiritaunoka (Whanganui) chapter 28 [pdf, 857 KB]

   1457 Chapter 28 Findings and Recommendations 28.1 Introduction here, we set out in digest form the tribunal’s findings and recommendations, with rele­ vant Crown concessions. We reproduce our findings here in summary form for ease of reference. Not all chapters had findings. For some, there are findings but no recommendations. This depends on the subject matter. We make no findings or recommendations about events before 1840. We make findings but no specific recommendations about nine...

3. LCRO 29/2023 CP v SW and KM (19 December 2023) [pdf, 245 KB]

   ...required legal advice, he would need to pay for it at the firm’s hourly rates. [11] The first respondent then gave brief advice about satisfaction of a due diligence condition, various other conditions in the contract and variations the vendor had requested. He then proceeded to answer the applicant’s specific questions, some of which related to the first transaction and some to the second. [12] Of relevance to the complaint, the first respondent’s final answer was as follows:...

4. Wai 2180 Taihape inquiry newsletter 4 Jan 2017 [pdf, 1.1 MB]

   ...week. This process included the completion of the Ngā Kōrero Tuku Iho hearing phase, the close of the research casebook and the completion of the Taihape Statement of Issues. Ngā mihi ki a koutou katoa. Upcoming dates  Witness summaries, requests to cross-examine witnesses with indications, questions of clarification 13 Feb 2017  Tangata whenua briefs of evidence 20 Feb 2017  Witness responses to questions of clarification 27 Feb 2017  Bundles of documents for...

5. LCRO 205/2016 EK v IQ (15 October 2018) [pdf, 169 KB]

   ...legal work to put in place the management structure that Mr EK wished to have his development operate under. [46] Specifically, he says that he wanted to operate his business under the vehicle of a limited partnership, and that Mr IQ himself had informed Mr EK, that he (Mr IQ) had no experience of having set up such a partnership. [47] Mr EK’s concerns were, he says, amplified when he received documentation from Mr IQ. In Mr EK’s opinion, the document received was simply a temp...

6. [2021] NZEnvC 040 Director-General of Conservation v Taranaki Regional Council Part 1 [pdf, 19 MB]

   BEFORE THE ENVIRONMENT COURT AT AUCKLAND I MUA I TE KOTI TAIAO O AOTEAROA KI TAMAKI MAKAURAU Decision No. [2021] NZEnvC 40 IN THE MA TIER of six appeals under s 120 and/ or s 17 4 of the Resource Management Act 1991 for Mount Messenger Bypass proposed State Highway 3 between Uruti and Ahititi, North Taranaki BETWEEN DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF CONSERVATION (ENV-2019-WLG-000003) (ENV-2019-WLG-000004) AND TE RUNANGA O NGATI TAMA TRUST AND AND AND AND (ENV-2019-WLG-000005)

7. [2011] NZEmpC 67 Pivott v Southern Adult Literacy Inc [pdf, 93 KB]

   ...the plaintiffs take issue. The first dealt with the procedure the Authority proposed to adopt to investigate and determine the plaintiffs’ two separately filed employment relationship problems it had before it. It declined the plaintiffs’ request for ―joinder‖ of these proceedings and set out a bespoke process for their sequential investigation. The Authority’s second decision, contained in the same written determination, was to decline to remove the matters before it t...

8. [2010] NZEmpC 77 Poulter v Antipodean Growers Ltd [pdf, 37 KB]

   ...[5] The defendant has taken no steps whatsoever in respect of the challenge despite being served with the proceedings. Accordingly, once the time limit for the defendant to take steps in the proceedings had expired, they were set down for a formal proof hearing. [6] The matter proceeded by way of formal proof on 27 April 2010. Mr Poulter himself gave evidence confirming the allegations contained in his amended statement of claim, his brief of evidence and other documentation. I

9. [2006] NZEmpC WC 26/06 Farmers Transport Ltd v Kitchen [pdf, 47 KB]

   ...work up to then. While I do not find that Mr Roebuck told Mr Kitchen that he was not to return to the workplace after he was made redundant, it is also clear that he was not encouraged to return. By telling him to go and check out alternative forms of employment in another part of the company, I find that Mr Roebuck made it clear to Mr Kitchen that he was not to return. Mr Roebuck now says that: He was encouraged by me to use his time to best advantage to sort out what else he w...

10. Pure - Ahipara 1B2B - (2013) 69 Taitokerau MB 109 (69 TTK 109) [pdf, 117 KB]

    ...69 Taitokerau MB 113 [16] Ms Taurau, appearing for Annie, submitted that the application should not be granted. She pointed out that her client’s fellow trustees had not been able to attend the meeting. Further, her client was only informed of the meeting at the last minute and she had limited opportunity to consider the revised partition plan. The plan itself has difficulties. The proposed access way is impractical as it cuts through an area of swamp (Jonnie acknowledg...