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1. Dyall v CAC20001 & Lantz [2013] NZREADT 50 [pdf, 58 KB]

   ...Court to take all necessary steps to market and auction the house. He was at the house on 24 September 2011 pursuant to, and in accordance with, the directions given and authority conferred by the Court. Bluntly, the licensee was there doing his job. 4.5 The Committee would observe that in a forced sale situation such as this, (including one arising from difficult and protracted relationship property proceedings) it is and would be prudent for the licensee appointed to act on the sal...

2. McLachlan v CAC 10048 & Hegan [2012] NZREADT 39 [pdf, 51 KB]

   ...licensee “ended up purchasing at a later date”, as the appellant put it, never occurred to the appellant. [25] There was a dramatic change to the plans of the appellant (and his wife) on 12 May 2010 because the appellant then received an important job offer to work in Iceland, decided to accept it, and so needed to sell the property very quickly. Apparently, on that day the licensee came, unsolicited, to endeavour to persuade the appellant’s wife to make a counteroffer closer to...

3. CAC 10054 v Subritzky [2012] NZREADT 19 [pdf, 129 KB]

   ...standing and reasonable members of the public would, nevertheless, consider it disgraceful for a licensee to threaten a process server in the manner alleged and, particularly, to send racially abusive text messages to a person attempting to do his job. [24] Licensees should be expected to conduct themselves professionally in the course of business, both while performing real estate agency work and otherwise. The recourse to personal abuse by the defendant was disgraceful. The threat...

4. Justice Matters - issue 02 - March 2016 [pdf, 1.8 MB]

   ...for special jurisdictions: Specialist Courts Group, which supports the Employment, Environment and Coroners courts, for reducing the average age of cases in their jurisdictions by more than 30% since 2013. Attracting top talent to work here Jobs at our ministry feature in a new website attracting talented people from overseas. General Manager People and Performance Kellie O’Sullivan says the website connects top talent from around the world to New Zealand-based companies and...

5. Canterbury Westland Standards Committee v Hemi [2013] NZLCDT 23 [pdf, 121 KB]

   ...he could not afford to travel to Hamilton from Gisborne despite his long hours of work, because his income was modest and he was supporting his wife and children. He found this distressing. He says that this is why he accepted the two “cash jobs” the subject of the charges. [6] While not seeking to excuse his actions Mr Hemi has placed this contextual material, together with evidence of subsequent steps taken by him, before the Tribunal in order to identify possible risk facto...

6. [2015] NZEmpC 66 Su v iGolf Limited [pdf, 117 KB]

   ...“experience days” or training days for overseas secondary school students and carried out some administrative tasks such as liaising with the company’s accountant and Inland Revenue about tax matters. These duties were also confirmed in the job description annexed to the employment agreement. [10] Ms Su stated in her evidence that the majority of iGolf’s business was providing golfing tours for and training Chinese tourists. Her plans for the golf tours would norm...

7. AI v AJ LCRO 01/2012 (21 November 2014) [pdf, 53 KB]

   ...as to approach the trite to emphasise that an instructing solicitor should exercise caution before agreeing to fulfil the role of instructing solicitor, if the solicitor has reservations regarding the barristers competency or ability to do the job, or concerns that the barrister has been the subject of disciplinary sanction, which may reflect on the barristers competency, character, or suitability. [44] At minimum, it would be expected that a solicitor who instructs a barrister in the...

8. [2016] NZSSAA 026 (11 April 2016) [pdf, 50 KB]

   ...Purposes Benefit. As she was providing for the baby’s day-to-day care, and had been told by the Ministry that she could apply for Domestic Purposes Benefit, she did not think anything of this. [10] The appellant said she was in no position to be job searching as she was demand-feeding her baby and caring for XXXX was quite draining. She did not pay board to her parents as she had a mortgage to pay. She was not aware that her parents were receiving payments from CYF for XXXX. [11...

9. Mark McNeilly (dated 21 April 2017) [pdf, 3.8 MB]

   ...that operate out of our three branches - Dunedin , Christchurch and Auckland. Fulton Hogan Heavy Haulage undertakes a diverse range of overweight and over- dimension transportation throughout New Zealand including the project management of such jobs. The project management often includes route assessment, planning and preparation, obtaining necessary consents from road controlling authorities and completing actual transportation of the loads. 4. Fulton Hogan have undertaken tr...

10. [2016] NZEmpC 117 NZMWU Inc v AFFCO NZ Ltd [pdf, 160 KB]

    ...damages, or would it be a claim for “wages” under the Wages Protection Act 1983 (WP Act)? b) Should the calculation of lost remuneration disallow any period when the employee was on a benefit (other than an unemployment benefit, now known as Job Seeker Support) or working elsewhere, either on the employee’s own account or for someone else? c) Is assessment of such a sum subject to an obligation to mitigate loss? Wages or damages? [8] AFFCO contends that the plaintiffs...