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1. Key initiatives

   ...Adoption Law Reform The Government is reforming our adoption laws. The aim of the reform is to create a new system that protects the rights, best interests and welfare of children, upholds our Tiriti o Waitangi obligations, and upholds our international human rights obligations. We want to put tamariki, our children, at the heart of our adoption laws. Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Court The AODT Court aims to deliver better outcomes and experiences for court participants with alcohol and o...

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2. Training & skills

   ...detective a signed letter from your employer outlining your training, experience and competence as a private investigator. This can be your past or present employer a signed letter from your employer showing that you are an apprentice Evidence of training in Human Resources and experience in undertaking employment investigations. Evidence that you’re a member of the NZ Institute of Professional Investigators (NZIPI) OSACO Certified Training in Investigations* Professional Certified Investigat...

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   3. Private Security Personnel Licensing Authority

3. Review progress reports

   ...including DPMC (the National Assessments Bureau) and the New Zealand Police. Meetings with key public officials such as the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security (IGIS), a Commissioner of Intelligence Warrants, the Chief Commissioner of the Human Rights Commission and the Deputy Chief Executive of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet to discuss our thinking and/or understand their views of the Act. Ongoing meetings with the New Zealand Security and Intelligence Service (NZS...

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   4. 2022 periodic review of the Intelligence and Security Act 2017

4. Proactive release - Security Information in Proceedings Legislation Bill.pdf [pdf, 2.2 MB]

   ...These costs would be met from within existing baselines. Any future cost pressures may require additional funding which would be sourced by reprioritising other expenditure, through the annual Budget bid process, or by a request directly to Cabinet. Human rights implications 85. The proposals in this paper clearly engage the rights to justice affirmed in NZBORA. The right to justice includes observing the principles of natural justice (s 27(1)), the right to a judicial review of determ...

5. Proactive-release: Firearms-Registry-Review [pdf, 7.3 MB]

   .....................................................................................................................42 Registration of Crown-owned firearms ..............................................................................................43 Consistency of the Registry with the New Zealand human rights framework ...................................44 Te Tiriti considerations ..............................................................................................................

6. [2010] NZEmpC 115 Fonterra Cooperative Group Limited v Te Stroet [pdf, 64 KB]

   ...compliance with its reinstatement order. Consideration of that application for compliance has been delayed by the Authority pending the outcome of this application for stay. [30] The grounds for stay include the following. First, its human resources’ manager, Sally Beard, deposes to comments that are said to have been made by Mr Te Stroet’s representatives during the employer’s investigation, indicating that a return by him to his former position “would not be ap...

7. Payne v CAC 20005 & Ors [2014] NZREADT 1 [pdf, 152 KB]

   ...home being sold far too cheaply and on a ridiculous basis of sight unseen, or house uninspected by any prospective purchaser, the agents did not cause that situation and were merely doing their duty. However, they had become involved in a real-life human drama with an unusual and financially foolish stance being taken by 13 the appellant. He should have been treated with respect rather than as an obstacle. It is rather heart-warming that the purchaser, who financially reaped t...

8. Steele v Board of Trustees of Salisbury School [2012] NZHRRT 20 [pdf, 83 KB]

   1 IN THE HUMAN RIGHTS REVIEW TRIBUNAL [2012] NZHRRT 20 Reference No. HRRT 022/2011 IN THE MATTER OF A CLAIM UNDER THE PRIVACY ACT 1993 BETWEEN MARCUS JAMES STEELE PLAINTIFF AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF SALISBURY SCHOOL DEFENDANT AT NELSON BEFORE: Mr RPG Haines QC, Chairperson Ms J Grant MNZM, Member Ms S Ineson QSM, Member REPRESENTATION: Mr Steele in person Mr DM O’Neill for Defendant DATE OF HEARING: 16 December 20...

9. [2018] NZEmpC 9 Lyttelton Port Co Ltd v Arthurs [pdf, 297 KB]

   ...opinion that Mr Arthurs had ongoing psychological issues from the trauma relating to the death he witnessed of his workmate. Mr Arthurs says this letter was provided to LPC. However, it did not make its way to Mr Arthurs’ manager or to the human resources advisors at LPC and they were unaware of it at the time. [11] Then, in August 2014, a friend and colleague of Mr Arthurs was killed in another accident at LPC. Mr Arthurs was not at work at the time of the accident b...

10. BORA Criminal Proceeds (Recovery) Bill [pdf, 437 KB]

    ...types of orders provided for in Part 2 raise a number of potential issues under the BORA. We note also that similar regimes for the forfeiture of proceeds of criminal activity in comparable jurisdictions have been subject to challenge on a range of human rights-related grounds. We have therefore considered the full range of potential issues in light of relevant New Zealand jurisprudence and that from comparable jurisdictions. Section 9 - cruel, degrading, or disproportionately severe trea...