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1. LCRO 6/2025 EI v NT (30 April 2025) [pdf, 194 KB]

   ...relationship with XE, their separation and reconciliation and further separation. (d) NT provided EI with written legal advice. EI was reassured by the advice she received. (e) On 12 February 2024, she received a letter from NT, on behalf of XE, requesting information and documents in connection with the couple’s former relationship. 4 (f) Receiving NT’s letter caused extreme distress. EI considered that her privacy and confidentiality, arising out of her retainer with NT d...

2. [2024] NZREADT 34 – MY v CAC 2301 & MA (19 September 2024) [pdf, 143 KB]

   ...licensee by email to the agency’s compliance manager. The details of the initial complaint are not known. [24] On 9 August 2021, the owner’s solicitor wrote to the licensee noting alterations to the agency agreement had been made at the request of the ex-husband without the owner’s consent. She was the client with whom the agency had a contractual arrangement. This was conduct below the expected standard of a real estate agent and might be a breach of the Crimes Act 1961....

3. OIA-124261.pdf [pdf, 2 MB]

   Justice Centre | 19 Aitken Street DX SX10088 | Wellington T 04 918 8800 | F 04 918 8820 ContactUs@justice.govt.nz | www.justice.govt.nz 11 September 2025 Our ref: OIA 124261 Tēnā koe Official Information Act request: Changes to the Official Information Act 1982 Thank you for your email of 8 August 2025, requesting information under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act), regarding potential changes to the Official Information Act 1982 (the OIA). Speci...

4. White and Te Korowai Tiaki o Te Hauāuru Incorporated Society v Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Tama Trust (2020) 415 Aotea MB 164 (415 AOT 164) [pdf, 290 KB]

   ...would grant directions to enable the major transaction vote to proceed and that, given the uncertain environment, it was premature to set down a timetable for the substantive hearing. In response, counsel for the Rūnanga agreed to prepare the form of the directions that should be granted under s 66 of the Trustee Act and counsel for Te Korowai helpfully indicated a preparedness to review those directions (without prejudice to Te Korowai’s substantive position on whether the direct...

5. [2024] NZEnvC 014 Fleming v Waikato District Council [pdf, 1.6 MB]

   ...Rural Lifestyle Zone which has a minimum lot size of 5,000m2. 5 Appeal [9] The appeal seeks the rezoning of the appeal area to the Settlement Zone. The Settlement Zone is the nearest equivalent NPS zone to the Village Zone (which was requested in the original submission). The Settlement Zone has a minimum lot size of 2,500m2. [10] There are no s 274 parties to the appeal. [11] The Appellants and Respondent have held discussions to explore ways of resolving the app...

6. OWRUG - Supplementary - S Dicey - Planning - 19 March 2021 [pdf, 573 KB]

   ...Pelsemaeker; and (c) My amendments to PC7 in response to Mr De Pelsemaeker’s updated version, and in response to matters raised both by the Court and by other parties in this hearing to date. Scope 4. The submission by OWRUG included relief requesting that PC7 be declined in its entirety (paragraph 194). The changes to PC7 proposed in my supplementary evidence are therefore within the scope of the relief sought by OWRUG. In addition, these changes only deal with PC7 (rather...

7. [2020] NZEnvC 166 Lindis Catchment Group Incorporated v Otago Regional Council.pdf [pdf, 11 MB]

   ...designed to have at least a 1m vertical drop from the top of the barrier to the water level downstream with a 500mm overhang on the downstream edge of the barrier. c. The bed of the stream below the barrier must be concreted flat to prevent a pool forming immediately below the barrier. 10.4 Within one year of obtaining resource consent under condition 10.1 b. or certification if condition 10.1 c. applies, the consent holder must erect, operate and maintain at the consent holder's...

8. 2020-10-16-EPA-PC8-Summary-of-Submissions-Further-Submission-Spreadsheet.xlsx [xlsx, 187 KB]

   Summary of submissions Provision Submitter ID Submission Point ID Name Support / Oppose Decision requested (see submission for reasons) Submission on PC1? Submission refers to PC7? Request to be heard Will consider joint case Further Submitter ID Further Submitter Name Support/Oppose Plan Change 8 80004 80004.01 Maori Point Vineyard Ltd (Arthur) Oppose Approve the plan change with amendments as outlined below Y Y N Part A: Policy 7.C.6(b) 80004 80004.02 Maori Point Vineyard Ltd (Arthur) Oppos...

9. 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.

10. [2021] NZEnvC 133 Woolworths New Zealand Limited [pdf, 1 MB]

    WOOLWORTHS NZ LTD v CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL IN THE ENVIRONMENT COURT AT CHRISTCHURCH I TE KŌTI TAIAO O AOTEAROA KI ŌTAUTAHI Decision [2021] NZEnvC 133 IN THE MATTER of the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) AND an application under s87G of the RMA BETWEEN WOOLWORTHS NEW ZEALAND LIMITED (ENV-2020-CHC-001) Applicant AND CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL Consent Authority Court: Environment Judge P A Steven Alternate Environment Judge L J Newhook Environment Commissione