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1. Arms-Act-rewrite-discussion-document.pdf [pdf, 1.5 MB]

   ...associated products • controls products (who can use them, how they can be used) • enables firearms amnesty and buyback regimes. Controls are important because when firearms are misused, the impacts can be serious and may involve the loss of human life. Definition of a firearm Products controlled in the Act include firearms, airguns, magazines, ammunition, parts, and restricted weapons. These products have specific definitions set out in the Act to support the FSA and the...

2. OIA-102050.pdf [pdf, 7.8 MB]

   ...agreed child centred purpose of adoption. • Ensuring children’s best interests are upheld in adoption. • Centres adoption decision-making on child rights. • Helps protect against exploitation and commodification of children. • Supports human rights obligations under the Children’s Convention: o Article 3: In all actions concerning children, the best interests of the child are a primary consideration. o Article 21: In adoptions the best interests of the child/adopted per...

3. OIA-113021.pdf [pdf, 5.4 MB]

   ...approaches to sentencing • Court Fines and Legal Aid Debt Collection Changes • reducing funding for Lifting Cultural Capability • Ending the Mana Ōrite Agreement • Returning Funding for Te Ao Mārama 2. A list of roles disestablished at the Human Rights Commission, and in what teams/groups For the purpose of this response, the Ministry of Justice (the Ministry) has interpreted written advice ‘provided to Ministers’ to mean any written advice, which includes aides memoire, brief...

4. ENVC paper Wuhan University China study tour 2015 [pdf, 587 KB]

   ...councils. It is not a planning authority, and does not have a policing role. “Sustainable management” [7] Very broadly, the approach of the RMA is to provide for a balance between environmental protection on the one hand, and development and human use of land, air, water and soil, on the other. [8] The “environment” includes things natural, physical, and people, and includes: (a) Eco-systems and their constituent parts, including people and communities; and (b) Al...

5. ENVC Hearing 6Oct14 TGKL expert Charles Waters [pdf, 95 KB]

   ...the total environment, 258: 5-19. Alzieu, C., (1991). Environmental problems caused by TBT in France: assessment, regulations, prospects. Marine Environmental Research, 32: 7-17. Antizar-Ladislao, B., (2008). Environmental levels, toxicity and human exposure to tributyltin (TBT)-contaminated marine environment. A review. Environment International, 34: 292- 308. Barranger, A., Akcha, F., Rouxel, J., Brizard, R., Maurouard, E., Pallud, M., et al., (2014). Study of genetic damage in t...

6. Shaw v Ngati Huarere Ki Whangapoua - Ngati Pu (2015) 113 Waikato Maniapoto MB 82 (113 WMN 82) [pdf, 229 KB]

   ...to be an issue, however, is the relative space left to hapū such as Ngāti Pu in a post-settlement environment to maintain and assert an independent voice. In one sense, this in an intensely practical question depending in large part upon the human and other resources available to the hapū and the extent to which it is unified. There are also important points of principle potentially at issue. Chief amongst these are the way in which whānau, hapū and iwi relate to each other and...

7. [2016] NZEmpC 31 A Labour Inspector v Taste of Egypt Limited [pdf, 473 KB]

   ...proceedings. All that the current proceeding does is to freeze assets pending further enforcement proceedings. This judgment does not require the second or third respondents to meet the debts of the first respondent but recognises that, as the human operatives of their company, Mr Awad and Ms McFarlane are responsible for what it does or does not do. Further, I consider that there is a realistic possibility that the company’s assets may have been transferred to either or both o...

8. Russell v CAC 10057 & Hoen [2012] NZREADT 17 [pdf, 123 KB]

   ...When we stand back and consider all the evidence objectively, we consider that Ms Hoen cannot be criticised in any substantive way and seems to have marketed the property in a competent manner. [41] The advertising confusion was simply due to a human administration error which Ms Hoen did her best to remedy in a fair manner. 9 [42] We appreciate that Mr and Mrs Russell found themselves under emotional stress at the point on 30 June 2010 when they agreed to sell their Kar...

9. Auckland Standards Committee v Banbrook [2014] NZLCDT 37 [pdf, 104 KB]

   ...Mr Banbrook’s attempt to go behind the Summary of Facts is part of a wider problem which we detected in Mr Banbrook; of complete failure to accept any responsibility whatsoever for his part in the NFL collapse. Whilst we understand his very human response to having been duped, we considered he was somewhat obsessed with Mr Gray’s part in the deception and subsequent company failure, rather than looking to the more obvious matters of many failures in the company and the outstand...

10. BORA Customs And Excise Amendment Bill [pdf, 419 KB]

    ...the provisions in the Bill do not appear to be inconsistent with the rights and freedoms contained in the Bill of Rights Act. Ivan Kwok Acting Chief Legal Counsel Office of Legal Counsel Stuart Beresford Principal Advisor Bill of Rights/Human Rights Team Footnotes 1 R v Keegstra [1990] 3 SCR 697, 729, 826 2 RJR MacDonald v Attorney-General of Canada (1995) 127 DLR (4th) 3 A Butler and P Bulter, The New Zealand Bill of Rights Act: A Commentary (2005) at para. 13.7.38. 4 I...