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1. Tane v Accident Compensation Corporation (Personal Injury) [2025] NZDC 36 (27 February 2025) [pdf, 228 KB]

   ...joint osteoarthritis worse on the right compared to the left, it would be fair to say this has been asymptomatic prior to the accident. However she has not had any significant back problems prior to this accident, and has been doing heavy manual jobs for over 30 years without any difficulty and without any significant time off work for back problems. Hence I would agree for the reasons above that there has been a significant material contribution from the accident in terms of her...

2. Clay v Accident Compensation Corporation (Personal Injury) [2024] NZACC 91 [pdf, 283 KB]

   ...is no acute neural compression of the nerve root or any signs of nerve root irritation or objective nerve root deficit. Therefore in my opinion it is likely he has had an aggravation which presented as a tweak in his back when doing his normal job of getting into the truck. However he now has signs and symptoms consistent with chronic pain which is more than likely related to central sensitisation. 3. Has Client’s covered condition (lumbar sprain) resolved? The cause of his cont...

3. O’Rourke v Accident Compensation Corporation [2024] NZACC 166 (22 October 2024) [pdf, 279 KB]

   ...“bloods looked okay”. (y) On 4 December 2019, Ms O’Rourke had had a rheumatological review; she was still taking “regular naproxen” and had some lifestyle changes to be trialled. (z) On 10 December 2019, Ms O’Rourke reported stress in her job, and that her father had died in September. 6 (aa) On 23 July 2020, Ms O’Rourke reported that her work was increasingly stressful, but she had cut down to four days per week. (bb) On 28 January 2021, Ms O’Rourke was “...

4. CAC 20006 v Azimi [2014] NZREADT 69 [pdf, 120 KB]

   ...for Barfoot & Thompson since January 2007. She was dismissed from that role in July 2011 when the current allegations surfaced. She is shown as an “Accountant” employee of SBA Penrose Ltd with the inference that was her full-time and only job. Her detailed employment contract with that employer company is on the same basis. In fact the evidence is that she is not qualified to be an accountant but is a tax agent. [9] Mr Delaney's brief of evidence outlines the above all...

5. [2011] NZEmpC 64 Brake v Grace Team Accounting [pdf, 78 KB]

   ...plaintiff is not paying any fees for her own representation. The plaintiff’s financial circumstances (and therefore the defendant’s ability to recover costs against her) are not propitious. Until very recently, when Ms Brake began a part-time job at a golf club paying $200 per week, she had not worked since her dismissal by the defendant although she attributes this to her inability to do so as a consequence of the dismissal. It is unclear from the Authority’s determination w...

6. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - list of issues 6th report [pdf, 51 KB]

   ...in the labour market. Please provide information on the measures taken to protect migrants, including targeted measures to strengthen equal access to the labour market in order to alleviate the concentration of qualified individuals in low-paying jobs. Right to life, prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, and rights of non-citizens (arts. 3, 6, 7 and 13) 13. Please provide an update on the legislative, administrative and other measures ta...

7. Wang v Registrar of the REAA [2015] NZREADT 52 [pdf, 182 KB]

   ...consequence (I will not eligible to apply for a new license for 5 years if my license has been cancelled), I really want to keep my license because I had spend too much time and effort to the license and I am really like Real Estate salesperson this job. I ask to give me a chance to keep my license and I will complete the continuing education as soon as possible.” The Central Question [5] Did the Registrar make an error of fact or law in cancelling the applicant’s licence? [6]...

8. CAC10063 v Picknell [2013] NZREADT 25 [pdf, 41 KB]

   ...also copied them. She put them in a manila envelope labelled Sale and Purchase Agreements. Ms Leota said that Jo Picknell would come into the office every few weeks and help complete Agreements for Sale and Purchase but that when she began her job Sale and Purchase Agreements were completed by Vicky Letele or the Consultants without ‘Jo’ knowing on the blank Agreements for Sale and Purchase by Jo. Ms Leota was aware that Jo Picknell charged Vicky a fee of approximately $500 for co...

9. Dixon v CAC 20004 & Anor [2014] NZREADT 98 [pdf, 42 KB]

   ...[15] The Tribunal have articulated the issues slightly differently to the way in which Ms Dixon has articulated them and the way in which Mr Parker has set them out in his submissions. This is because while Ms Dixon as a layperson, did an excellent job of presenting her case she did not attempt to construct her case in terms of what legal principles or rules might have been breached. In our view Ms Dixon’s concerns set out above can be grouped into issues concerning (1) the piles and (...

10. Zuo v CAC306 & Ors [2015] NZREADT 20 [pdf, 134 KB]

    ...breach of the rules by the agents so as to overturn the finding of the Complaints Assessment Committee and substitute a finding that there has been unsatisfactory conduct. [17] The burden of proving the appeal is on Ms Zuo. Ms Zuo did a sterling job of discharging that burden in that she carefully articulated the premise on which her appeal was based, namely that it was very unfair to her as the prospective purchaser that had been any indication of a price feedback which would give any...