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1. SI v HD Ltd [2023] NZDT 58 (25 January 2023) [pdf, 225 KB]

   ...counterclaim application the following: 43. SI applied for “hardship” in February 2021. The reason hardship was provided at the time was an unforeseen change in financial circumstances as the benefit payments had changed from sole parent to job seekers. The initial hardship was approved for reduced repayments of $65.00 per week. The Account details provided as evidence show that the first payment of $65.00 per week became due on 19 February 2021. 44. The Account details provid...

2. Q Ltd v U Ltd [2024] NZDT 454 (2 July 2024) [pdf, 212 KB]

   ...determined by the contract, left to be determined in a manner agreed by the contract, or by the course of dealing between the parties (s31 of the CGA). However, where the CGA does not apply, the law of contract will imply a term that a time and materials job must be commercially reasonable to ensure fairness between a customer and supplier. 12. The parties agree that U Ltd gave Q Ltd the go-ahead to build both Prototype 1 (via an email dated 2 October 2023) and Prototype 2 (verbally)....

3. [2025] NZIACDT 26 - KA v Wen (26 April 2025) [pdf, 218 KB]

   ...reflect her relative lack of experience. She was naïve. She did not wilfully flout the Act or the Code. [17] Ms Wen has taken major steps to reduce her exposure to future liability. She has shifted her practice away from a heavy reliance on job-based work visas to focus primarily on the student market. She uses the Ezymigrate client management system which facilitates compliant workflows and now pays attention to the system’s prompts. [18] As for the appropriate sanctions:...

4. WNO v Oranga Tamariki [2025] NZHRRT 13 [pdf, 127 KB]

   ...(Gorgus (HRRT)) at [34]. 8 Watson v Capital and Coast District Health Board [2015] NZHRRT 27 at [93], cited in Gorgus (HRRT) at [35]. 5 returns home. Concerns that [WNO] is currently controlling everyone and that it’s Oranga Tamariki’s job to protect the safety and wellbeing of [BPQ].” [18] As regards their content, page 403 sets out [redacted]. [19] Page 404 sets out [redacted]. [20] As both redacted pages record communications by a person other than WNO to Oranga T...

5. [2025] NZEmpC 1 Byrne v Coverstaff Recruitment Group Ltd [pdf, 198 KB]

   ...of a friend and business associate in a competing business, breaching the term on his responsibilities. (c) He took for his own use business information sent to him in his capacity as an employee of the defendant, by emailing information about jobs at a client business to his personal email address, breaching the term on use of confidential information. (d) He sent templates of the defendant’s work documents to his personal email address after having begun his own business and s...

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

   ...Tribunal registrar and swearing at them, accusing them of a lack of independence and of being discriminatory. [25.3] The following emails sent to the Tribunal registrars: ITS CLEAR ASF WHAT YOUR MOTIVES ARE!... HRRT THE VERY INSTITUTION THATS JOB IT IS TO UPHOLD OUR RIGHTS EMPOWERS THESE BALLHEADS TO THINK ITS OK TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ME!HOW IRONIC!13 Good to know even in the Human Rights Tribunal a place that is supposed to be devoid of discrimination is just as discriminatory t...

7. Wild v Ministry for Primary Industries (Strike Out) [2024] NZHRRT 69 [pdf, 252 KB]

   ...the public that you fail. You disgust me. […] The HRT is just as guilty as MPI, and MPI are clearly guilty. You are all guilty of treason with malice. You have behaved like animals and you have no morals. You disgust me. Do your fucking jobs, public fucking servants, so that I can then prosecute every single last one of you disgusting bastards […] No more lies, no more delays, no more cover ups. Every single one of you who is guilty is going to prison and I will not rest until...

8. [2025] NZSSAA 18 (30 May 2025) [pdf, 196 KB]

   ...financial support, while her husband was working in a low-paid position. XXXX accepted a position at a bank in Australia. Her husband initially remained in New Zealand but joined her in Australia in June 2008 after being made redundant from his job. Throughout her time in Australia, XXXX progressed in her career, eventually becoming a data architect. 6. In March 2020, XXXX returned to New Zealand permanently, prompted partly by her daughter's concerns during the COVID-19 p...

9. [2023] NZEmpC 190 (Judgment of Judge M S King 6 November 2023) [pdf, 195 KB]

   ...changed his tax code and that he wished he earned that much. Mr Liu advised SFL that he would talk to IRD and sort out the matter. During a meeting held on 4 October 2023, Mr Liu’s explanation changed. He advised SFL that he had a part-time job and this was the likely reason for the issues with his tax code. However, he still could not explain why this would result in IRD changing his tax code with SFL to a secondary tax code. [10] When Mr Liu commenced employment at SFL he...

10. Final-Technical-Assessment-E-Social-Impact-Assessment-v2.pdf [pdf, 1.6 MB]

    Barristers and Solicitors Wellington Solicitor Acting: David Allen / Thaddeus Ryan Email: david.allen@buddlefindlay.com / thaddeus.ryan@buddlefindlay.com Tel 64 4 462 0423 Fax 64 4 499 4141 PO Box 2694 DX SP20201 Wellington 6011 IN THE MATTER OF the Resource Management Act 1991 AND IN THE MATTER OF applications for resource consents and notices of requirement in relation to the Ōtaki to North of Levin Project BY WAKA KOTAHI NZ TRANSPORT AGENCY Applic