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1. KM v LK [2023] NZDT 255 (28 June 2023) [pdf, 96 KB]

   ...refund from LK. Is LK entitled to reimbursement for lost earnings? 15. LK’s claim for reimbursement of lost earnings is a claim for costs which I am unable to award. The counterclaim is therefore dismissed. 16. LK said she had a makeup job booked for the day of the hearing today and she had to cancel that in order to attend the hearing. She said she had tried to negotiate a resolution of the claim with KM but that had not been successful and so she filed a counterclaim for her...

2. C Ltd v HN [2023] NZDT 451 (6 July 2023) [pdf, 95 KB]

   ...contract is formed when parties decide to exchange something of value, creating an obligation to perform a particular duty that is legally enforceable. A contract is binding when the parties agree on clear and certain terms. The parties exchanged a paint job for an opportunity to advertise a business. Both items have value to the respective owners. There is no dispute that under the contract no money would change hands. 7 SC had shown HN the intended colour that the stock car would be p...

3. DI v UM [2024] NZDT 727 (23 September 2024) [pdf, 184 KB]

   ...There is no New Zealand standard or law that sets out the maximum number of tradesman’s visits to a property for particular work to be carried out. In addition there is no record of how many visits were made to the property by UM to complete the job. There are no grounds for a reduction in the charge due to the number of visits to the property for the work to be carried out. Did UM overlook remedial work that needed to be carried out on framing before installing the new shower? 9...

4. QU v UQ & J Ltd [2024] NZDT 522 (9 July 2024) [pdf, 100 KB]

   ...excessive given that the contact was relatively minor. b. Some of the remove and refit costs relate to parts of the vehicle that were not damaged in the accident. c. New OEM parts were used for ten of the eleven parts that were replaced in the job. 15. In terms of those issues: a. The photographs provided by J Ltd show that the impact was significant enough to split the back panel on the boot and the rear bumper. The photographs show impact damage to the body of the vehicle...

5. [2025] NZEmpC 25 Hurrell v Menopaws Ltd t/a Number 8 Café [pdf, 177 KB]

   ...would interfere with her ability to pay for representation and therefore frustrate the litigation. [7] The plaintiff filed a brief affidavit. She deposed to being in permanent employment from October 2022. She stopped short of saying what her job is and did not provide any other information about her income, assets or liabilities. She said her representative is engaged on an hourly rate basis. She expressed concern that she 2 By applying Category 1, Band B of Employment Cou...

6. EJ v ND & CG [2024] NZDT 400 (7 June 2024) [pdf, 180 KB]

   ...balance of $12,000. That amount is therefore added to the total of this order. 10. EJ said he suffered severely when he discovered that the bike had been taken without the balance of the purchase price being paid. As a consequence, he lost his job and incurred medical expenses. EJ claimed to be compensated for those losses. I find that those losses are too remote from CG and ND’s breach of their duties as bailees. Although upsetting, CG and ND were not receiving any personal bene...

7. Get your own criminal record

   ...your record will automatically be concealed under the Clean Slate scheme. However, sometimes you need to give your full record, including convictions that have been concealed. For example, you might need a full record when you’re: applying for some jobs (such as police, prison or probation roles) involved in court cases or tribunal hearings travelling to certain countries – check with the embassy or consulate of the country you want to travel to. In most cases it is against the law for an...

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8. Wellington Standards Committee 1 v Shahzad [2025] NZLCDT 43 (6 October 2025) [pdf, 85 KB]

   ...law. His submissions indicate that he values his legal role. He references the case of G6 where an inexperienced lawyer, in panic, acted foolishly. Expert sworn evidence was given to establish the likely impact of publication on his obtaining job interviews. G’s offending was, in our view, low level, and the case is distinguished on that basis as well as the fact that no practitioner-specific 3 See above n 1 at [22]. 4 National Standards Committee 2 v Y [2023] NZLCDT 1. 5 See...

9. Ngati Pahauwera Supplementary Affidavit on behalf of Trustees Exhibits I to L [pdf, 20 MB]

   ...darned. Each one of us had to darn our own. Gumboots played havoc with socks not to mention the smell. Bill would pucker or gather his up just to close the hole. Flenry Pene our cousin w ho lived with us would patiently darn and make a really neat job, and still does. During the lambing season any motherless or sick lambs were brought to the house. Mum would give them a bath, put a nip of brandy in the milk, (M um always had a bottle of brandy in the house for emergencies) wra...

10. David Bain report of Hon Ian Binnie QC on compensation claim supplementary [pdf, 1.5 MB]

    ........................................................................................... 157 (ii) Evidence was prematurely destroyed ................................................................ 158 (iii) Little thought was given to the assignment of suitable officers to important jobs ........................................................................................................................... 158 CHAPTER XVI: FAILURE TO TAKE PROPER STEPS TO INVESTIGATE INFORMATION ACTUA...