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1. RIS - Abortion Law Reform [pdf, 750 KB]

   ...For the conscience issues, the Ministry of Justice has identified impacts on rights and freedoms, and any justified limitations on these, enshrined in the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990. There are also impacts on New Zealand’s international human rights obligations. The Ministry of Health considered the impacts of the proposed regulatory framework on women and health practitioners. Women seeking an abortion could move through fewer process stages than the current system of refe...

2. [2022] NZEnvC 6 Otago Regional Council - Primary Sector Provisions (Rural) [pdf, 3.3 MB]

   ...7.D.5 When considering any discharge under section 12.C, including the duration of any consent, have regard to: (a) The effects, including cumulative effects, of the discharge on water quality, ecosystem health and natural and human use values, including Kāi Tahu cultural and spiritual beliefs, values and uses; and (b) The physical characteristics and any particular sensitivity of the land and the sensitivity of the any receiving water; and (c) The quality and...

3. [2022] NZEnvC 006 Otago Regional Council [pdf, 2.1 MB]

   ...7.D.5 When considering any discharge under section 12.C, including the duration of any consent, have regard to: (a) The effects, including cumulative effects, of the discharge on water quality, ecosystem health and natural and human use values, including Kāi Tahu cultural and spiritual beliefs, values and uses; and (b) The physical characteristics and any particular sensitivity of the land and the sensitivity of the any receiving water; and (c) The quality and...

4. Davis v Rogers (Final Non-Publication Orders) [2020] NZHRRT 31 [pdf, 150 KB]

   ...restrictions require this decision to be anonymised by the redaction of the true names of the plaintiffs. In substitution the plaintiffs are to be referred to as "Melanie Davis" and "Geoffrey Rogers" (not their true names).] IN THE HUMAN RIGHTS REVIEW TRIBUNAL [2020] NZHRRT 31 I TE TARAIPIUNARA MANA TANGATA 2 Background [1] Filed on 2 July 2018, these proceedings were subsequently discontinued by the plaintiff. The settlement was notified to the Tribunal o...

5. Rabson v Solicitor-General (Strike-Out Application) [2018] NZHRRT 37 [pdf, 312 KB]

   IN THE HUMAN RIGHTS REVIEW TRIBUNAL [2018] NZHRRT 37 UNDER BETWEEN AND AT WELLINGTON BEFORE: Reference No. HRRT 008/2018 THE PRIVACY ACT 1993 MALCOLM EDWARD RABSON PLAINTIFF SOLICITOR-GENERAL DEFENDANT Mr RPG Haines ONZM QC, Chairperson Dr JAG Fountain, Member Hon KL Shirley, Member REPRESENTATION: Mr ME Rabson in person Ms V McCall for defendant DATE OF HEARING: DATE OF DECISION: Heard on the papers 29 August 2018 DECISION OF TRIBUNAL STRIKING OUT STATEM...

6. Te Manutukutuku Issue 16 [pdf, 2.7 MB]

   ...business to a financier who understands the business. Maori land owners are not the only citizens who dis­ cover to their horror that the Crown has issued a title and sold land that was not the Crown's to sell. My father fell victim to such human error in the 1960s and it took 11 years of dogged persistence, with absolutely no assistance from the Crown agency responsible, to have the situation rectified. But for the cooperation of the pur­ chaser, who agreed to sell the land back...

7. [2019] NZEnvC 208 Aratiatia Livestock Limited v Southland Regional Council [pdf, 11 MB]

   ...health. Secondly, while many persons within the farming sector will rightly consider themselves good environmental stewards, by defining what is meant by 'degraded' water quality with reference to the attributes of ecosystem, cultural and human health5 this should afford resource users a better more holistic understanding of those attributes and their interactions. This will facilitate the focus on the causes of degradation, which may not be the same for every waterbody, a...

8. Directory of Official Information S-U [pdf, 1.2 MB]

   ...Bureau, New Zealand Defence Force and New Zealand Police to facilitate their functions and co-operating with other agencies to respond to an imminent threat to life or safety. In exercising its functions, the NZSIS acts in accordance with the law and human rights obligations, independently and impartially, and in a manner that facilitates democratic oversight. Oversight The Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) is the parliamentary oversight mechanism for the intelligence agencies...

9. Directory of Official Information G-I [pdf, 1013 KB]

   ........................................................................................................55 New Zealand Horticulture Export Authority .....................................................................57 Ministry of Housing and Urban Development ..................................................................60 Human Rights Commission ...............................................................................................63 Hutt Valley District Health Board..........

10. Mr-Rasheeds-Submissions-of-37-Families.pdf [pdf, 619 KB]

    ...the Bill of Rights, sets the legal standard that the Coroner must comply with and against which any decisions made by the Coroner would fall to be assessed (regardless of whether the Coroner carries out a separate determination of compliance with human rights issues). 6. Further, s 8 incorporates a “protective obligation” – in the sense that it imposes duties on the state when it is in a position of knowledge of potential risk to a person and fails to take steps to avert that r...