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1. Director of Human Rights Proceedings v INS Restorations Ltd [2012] NZHRRT 18 [pdf, 88 KB]

   ...not really understand what it meant to be a director and shareholder of the business. She had never been a director or shareholder of a company before. Her understanding was that she would be helping Mr Ballantyne with some of the fire restoration jobs but that he would organise everything. She did in fact help Mr 4 Ballantyne with cleaning jobs but was never involved in any of the paperwork for the company and had nothing to do with the finances of the company. [20] The New...

2. [2013] NZEmpC 235 Young v Bay Of Plenty DHB [pdf, 181 KB]

   ...[54] Mr Young’s pursuit of reinstatement appears to be on another ground with which I should deal. Mr Young says that protected disclosure issues should be decided in the context of continuing employment, that is that he should be back on the job to enable his protected disclosures to be considered and decided as the legislation intends. [55] I do not agree that this is either in the Protected Disclosures Act expressly or is implicit in it. Nor is it a principle underlying the...

3. [2021] NZACC 29 - Van Essen v ACC (9 February 2021) [pdf, 196 KB]

   ...acute injury. [32] The Corporation requested a report from Dr McBride, Occupational Medical Specialist. He reported on 18 December 2015. He referred to the history contained in Dr Dreyer’s report, noting a history of physically demanding jobs going back to 1982. [33] Under the heading “diagnosis”, Dr McBride said: The structural diagnosis is a mild osteoarthritis of the lumbar spine, the MRI being the objective evidence. This has obviously been present for some time,...

4. Easy Read Executive Summary - Word [docx, 7.3 MB]

   ...] There have been changes to the way that the court works out how safe children are. [image: C:\Users\Dell User\Desktop\Easy Read Images\Easy Read Images\Sam Corliss images\checklist 1.png] [bookmark: _Toc9540251]There have also been changes to the job of the lawyer who speaks for children in court cases. What needs to happen with the Family Court? [bookmark: _Hlk9244632][image: C:\Users\Dell User\Desktop\Easy Read Images\On notice application.png] [image: C:\Users\Dell User\Desktop\Easy R...

5. [2021] NZEmpC 82 Barry v C I Builders Ltd [pdf, 279 KB]

   ...supervised. The same could fairly be said of many experienced employees. The reality is that Mr Barry was told what he was to do and when. He moved between sites as directed by CIB; he picked up supplies for CIB as directed; he worked on particular jobs as directed; and the jobs he was working on would change – all at the direction and under the control of CIB. So, while the exercise of control was not consistently applied throughout each day of work, the key point is that CIB...

6. [2019] NZEmpC 167 Bradley v Ngāti Apa Ki Te Rā Tō Charitable Trust [pdf, 424 KB]

   ...Crown occurred in October 2010 and the Trust’s activities expanded. [8] Mr Bradley was employed as the Trust’s Chief Executive on 20 October 2014. His employment agreement required him to report to the Chair of the Board of the Trust. His job description required him to develop strategies to create economic and cultural wealth for the Iwi, support the Trust’s governance activities, develop and deliver its business plans, and promote the Trust to the community. His respons...

7. HM v Accident Compensation Corporation (Personal Injury) [2024] NZACC 004 [pdf, 199 KB]

   ...[the appellant’s] suicide attempts I note that she described that she first attempted suicide in the year 2000 in the context of separation from her husband, difficulty coping with the demands of her children, coping with adjustment of a nursing job to becoming a school nurse, not being in a good space mentally and being unable to talk about what she had been through with Dr Gluckman or others. She felt that her life had been reduced to living in a room by herself in somebody else...

8. Oliver v Accident Compensation Corporation (Personal Injury) [2023] NZACC 208 [pdf, 288 KB]

   ...throughout my travel overseas. I am able to provide an affidavit from my flatmate at the time if this is needed. • Does Mr Oliver have ongoing employment commitments in New Zealand? No, being a mechanic, my employment is very fluid and able to secure jobs very easily. I resigned from my job in August 2015 as my plans were to travel. • Does Mr Oliver have a family connection in New Zealand? Yes, my complete and immediate family is living in Auckland, New Zealand and were all bor...

9. Spray Marks NZ Ltd v Accident Compensation Corporation (Industry Classification) [2023] NZACC 127 [pdf, 454 KB]

   ...invoices where the customer is invoiced for services across different divisions. In each instance, the revenue attributable to each division is easily identifiable… … 39 I am advised that each division raises a work order number for any job that it has quoted and that the division’s staff then code their timesheets to the job via an online system “Workflow”. … 40 Each division manager, manages their own staff, plant and vehicle fleet in delivering the contracted ser...

10. [2007] National Distribution Union Inc v General Distributors Ltd AK AC 7/07 [pdf, 269 KB]

    ...and ensuring that those non-union employees who benefit subsequently by a passing on of these improved terms and conditions pay the union a bargaining fee for having set the benchmark. GDL wishes to pay all its staff at the same rate for the job done in the same position irrespective of whether those staff are union members or not. It says that the proper determiner of a rate of pay should be the job performed by the employee. It wishes to continue to pay its employees equally f...