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1. Justice Matters - issue 15 - July 2019 [pdf, 3.5 MB]

   ...the team came after our Ministry started using behavioural insights to improve the way we deliver our services. The team will have 11 members and has funding for the next two and a half years. Behavioural insights play a key role in delivering a humane and effective justice system. Almost everything that happens within the justice sector is behaviour related, from arranging for people to pay their fines to crime prevention strategy. “If you understand what motivates people’s behavi...

2. Proactive release - Electoral Amendment Bill No2 [pdf, 1.9 MB]

   ...political parties to determine the origin of donations. This is not expected to be significant based on existing data about overseas donations. However, political parties have not been consulted on the options or the proposed threshold for donations. Human Rights and the New Zealand Bill of Rights 1990 56. These proposals extend existing prohibitions on overseas persons making donations on the basis of citizenship status, or place of incorporation or association. This limitation on the abil...

3. Director of Proceedings v N [2019] NZHRRT 38 [pdf, 953 KB]

   (1) ORDER PROHIBITING PUBLICATION OF NAME, ADDRESS AND ANY OTHER IDENTIFYING PARTICULARS OF THE DEFENDANT. (2) ORDER PREVENTING SEARCH OF THE TRIBUNAL FILE WITHOUT LEAVE OF THE CHAIRPERSON OR OF THE TRIBUNAL. IN THE HUMAN RIGHTS REVIEW TRIBUNAL [2019] NZHRRT 38 UNDER Reference No. HRRT 092/2016 SECTION 50 OF THE HEAL TH AND DISABILITY COMMISSIONER ACT 1994 BETWEEN AND AT WELLINGTON BEFORE: Mr RPG Haines ONZM QC, Chairperson Ms K Anderson, Member Ms W Gilchrist, Member...

4. Director of Proceedings v McMillan [2020] NZHRRT 18 [pdf, 379 KB]

   ...(1) ORDER PROHIBITING PUBLICATION OF NAME OR IDENTIFYING PARTICULARS OF AGGRIEVED PERSON, HER DAUGHTER AND THE DAUGHTER’S FATHER (2) ORDER PREVENTING SEARCH OF THE TRIBUNAL FILE WITHOUT LEAVE OF THE CHAIRPERSON OR OF THE TRIBUNAL IN THE HUMAN RIGHTS REVIEW TRIBUNAL [2020] NZHRRT 18 Reference No. HRRT 005/2020 UNDER SECTION 50 OF THE HEALTH AND DISABILITY COMMISSIONER ACT 1994 BETWEEN DIRECTOR OF PROCEEDINGS PLAINTIFF AND VICKI ANNE...

5. [2022] NZEmpC 52 Fechney v Employment Relations Authority [pdf, 382 KB]

   ...[37] Ms Fechney’s claim of discrimination amounting to bad faith principally relates to the documentation comment. Ms Fechney says the documentation comment was discriminatory. She relies on the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 and the Human Rights Act 1993. She says there was no basis for the Authority to make that comment which she says was irrelevant and without basis and therefore unjust and prejudicial. [38] Ms Fechney says that repeating the documentation comment in...

6. Director of Proceedings v Chief Executive, Department of Corrections [2021] NZHRRT 34 [pdf, 567 KB]

   ...DATE OF DECISION: 20 July 2021 (REDACTED) DECISION OF TRIBUNAL1 1 [This decision is to be cited as Director of Proceedings v Chief Executive, Department of Corrections [2021] NZHRRT 34. Note publication restrictions.] IN THE HUMAN RIGHTS REVIEW TRIBUNAL [2021] NZHRRT 34 I TE TARAIPIUNARA MANA TANGATA 2 [1] These proceedings under the Health and Disability Commissioner Act 1994 were filed on 8 June 2021. [2] Prior to the filing of the proceedings the parties r...

7. 2022-03-18 Remarkables Park - Legal submissions as to scope [pdf, 1.5 MB]

   ...Comment (summarised by Fish and Game) Aukaha on behalf of: Te Rūnanga o Waihao, Kāti Huirapa Rūnaka ki Puketeraki, Te Rūnanga o Ōtākou and Hokonui Rūnanga (Ngā Rūnanga) Policy 7.C.12(c) The scope of PC8 is restricted and does not include human sewage discharge rules in 12.A. The wider issue of human sewage discharge will be reconsidered under the plan review. Rule 13.5.1.8A(b) The associated Policy 7.D.9(b)(i) indicates ORC’s long-term objective, which will progressively...

8. [2023] NZEmpC 173 Pact Group v Robinson [pdf, 334 KB]

   ...impact on a return to the workplace, was a relevant circumstance. Also relevant, as submitted, were Ms Robinson’s personal circumstances and her cultural needs. [23] The significant resources available to the company (management, financial, human resources and legal) are also relevant to an assessment of the ‘reasonable action’ mix.5 Put in a nutshell, higher standards can generally be expected of the notional fair and reasonable employer who is well resourced and well sup...

9. Hodgson v Accident Compensation Corporation (Work-Related Personal Injury) [2024] NZACC 40 [pdf, 326 KB]

   ...and tenderness, consistent with a soft tissue (injury) occurring; [58] Mr Vugler refers to s 25 of the Accident Compensation Act defining accident as involving, amongst other things, the application of force of force or resistance external to the human body, or the sudden movement of the body to avoid a force or resistance external to the body. [59] He notes that s 26 defines personal injury as including a strain or sprain. [60] Mr Vugler refers to the decision in Waghorn v ACC1 whe...

10. LCRO 145/2023 ET v PU (25 February 2025) [pdf, 241 KB]

    ...Although complaints about lawyer conduct are not time-barred, it goes without saying that the longer the delay between event and complaint, the greater the chance that recollections about critical (or even non-critical) facts will diminish. [55] Human memory is not infallible and the passage of time adds to that. [56] This presents a decision-maker with a difficulty, particularly when the parties differ about the conclusions to be drawn from particular events. [57] Helpful evidence fo...