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1. 19032025 Financial Markets Conduct of Institutions Amendment Duty to Provide Financial Services Amendment Bill [pdf, 212 KB]

   ...financial institutions provide financial services to consumers and must not treat any consumer less favourably in the provision of financial services for any of the following reasons: a. any of the prohibited grounds of discrimination in s 21 of the Human Rights Act 1993,1 b. any direct or indirect environmental, social, or governance consideration, c. any climate-related reporting standard issued by the External Reporting Board, or d. the industry within which the consumer oper...

2. Waters v Alpine Energy Ltd (Discovery No. 2) [2015] NZHRRT 7 [pdf, 73 KB]

   1 IN THE HUMAN RIGHTS REVIEW TRIBUNAL [2015] NZHRRT 7 Reference No. HRRT 011/2013 UNDER THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT 1993 BETWEEN KEVIN ALLAN WATERS PLAINTIFF AND ALPINE ENERGY LIMITED DEFENDANT AT TIMARU BEFORE: Mr RPG Haines QC, Chairperson Ms DL Hart, Member Hon KL Shirley, Member REPRESENTATION: Mr KA Waters in person Ms AL Keir for defendant DATE OF HEARING: 20 February 2015 DATE OF DECISION: 9 March 2015 D...

3. BORA Citizenship Amendment Bill [pdf, 344 KB]

   ...applicants convicted of very minor offences. CONSISTENCY WITH SECTION 19(1) OF THE BILL OF RIGHTS ACT • Section 19(1) of the Bill of Rights Act affirms that everyone has the right to freedom from discrimination on the grounds of discrimination in the Human Rights Act 1993. The grounds of discrimination under that Act include (among others) family status, sex, disability, nationality and age. • Drawing on the New Zealand case law on discrimination, we consider that the key questi...

4. Director of Human Rights Proceedings v Commissioner of Police (Discovery) [2020] NZHRRT 32 [pdf, 202 KB]

   ...OF ALL ADDRESSES OR LOCATIONS REFERRED TO IN THE PROCEEDING (4) ORDER PREVENTING SEARCH OF THE TRIBUNAL FILE WITHOUT LEAVE OF THE TRIBUNAL OR OF THE CHAIRPERSON Reference No. HRRT 004/2018 UNDER THE PRIVACY ACT 1993 BETWEEN DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RIGHTS PROCEEDINGS PLAINTIFF AND COMMISSIONER OF POLICE DEFENDANT AT WELLINGTON BEFORE: Mr RPG Haines ONZM QC, Chairperson REPRESENTATION: Ms E Tait for plaintiff Mr RS May and Ms NI Burt for defendant DATE OF HEARIN...

5. Electoral (Registration of Sentenced Prisoners Amendment Bill [pdf, 3.3 MB]

   ...express a coherent view of moral responsibility, sentencing and democratic rights deeply held by many in society. The `social contractarian' approach to democratic rights upon which they draw may be in tension with the universalist promise of human rights, but to some extent this tension is built into s 12 itself, which restricts the right to vote to citizens (who have chosen to further restrict it to those citizens who are resident in or maintain a connection with die country), in c...

6. E39 Rob Van de Munckhof - Risk and NES Soil - EIC - Council [pdf, 727 KB]

   ...with the America’s Cup (the Application). 1.3. My evidence relates to the hazardous substance risk aspects of the Application, and also addresses the National Environmental Standard for Assessing and Managing Contaminants in Soil to Protect Human Health (NES Soil). 2. QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE 2.1. I am a Principal and Senior Environmental Engineer at Tonkin & Taylor. I hold the qualifications of Bachelor of Engineering in Chemical and Materials from Auckland Univers...

7. Harawira v New Zealand Management Academies Limited & McAuley (Strike Out) [2024] NZHRRT 59 [pdf, 249 KB]

   1 DECISION OF TRIBUNAL STRIKING OUT CLAIM1 1 This decision is to be cited as Harawira v New Zealand Management Academies Limited & McAuley (Strike Out) [2024] NZHRRT 59. IN THE HUMAN RIGHTS REVIEW TRIBUNAL [2024] NZHRRT 59 I TE TARAIPIUNARA MANA TANGATA Reference No. HRRT 007/2024 UNDER THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT 1993 BETWEEN HONE PURIRI WILLIAM HARAWIRA (to be referred to as PURIRI) PLAINTIFF AND NEW ZEALAND MANAGEMENT ACADEMIES LIMITED FIRST DEFENDANT AND...

8. Apostolakis v Rennie (Strike-Out Application) 2017 NZHRRT 42 [pdf, 286 KB]

   1 IN THE HUMAN RIGHTS REVIEW TRIBUNAL [2017] NZHRRT 42 Reference No. HRRT 010/2016 UNDER THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT 1993 BETWEEN KATHY APOSTOLAKIS PLAINTIFF AND JACINDA RENNIE FIRST DEFENDANT AND JANA DE POLO SECOND DEFENDANT AT WELLINGTON BEFORE: Mr RPG Haines QC, Chairperson Ms GJ Goodwin, Member Mr BK Neeson JP, Member REPRESENTATION: Mrs K Apostolakis in person Mr A Darroch for first defendant Ms J De Polo i...

9. Nixon v Attorney-General [2018] NZHRRT 9 [pdf, 301 KB]

   1 IN THE HUMAN RIGHTS REVIEW TRIBUNAL [2018] NZHRRT 9 Reference No. HRRT 053/2015 UNDER THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT 1993 BETWEEN CURTIS ANTONY NIXON PLAINTIFF AND ATTORNEY-GENERAL ON BEHALF OF THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF THE MINISTRY OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT DEFENDANT AT WELLINGTON BEFORE: Ms MA Roche, Co-Chairperson Ms GJ Goodwin, Member Ms K Anderson, Member REPRESENTATION: Mr CA Nixon in person Ms HM Carrad for defendant...

10. BORA Electoral (Finance Reform and Advance Voting) Amendment Bill [pdf, 306 KB]

    ...Electoral activity, including advertising by persons and bodies other than candidates and parties and the making of political donations, should take place in a robustly transparent way. 9. These principles have been widely accepted as consistent with human rights standards, including by the United Nations Human Rights Committee, [5] the European Court of Human Rights [6] and the Supreme Court of Canada. [7] The United States Supreme Court has, however, rejected the first principle, in...