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1. DF v QT [2024] NZDT 474 (11 June 2024) [pdf, 101 KB]

   ...to replace the boundary fence between [address 1] and [address 2]. 4. Both parties submitted this information to their insurers. The claims were accepted, and they received payment of $3,785.00 each. 5. Mr U then refused to proceed with the job. In DF’s view, he did so because he realised that he had under-quoted the job. DF suspects this because when she sought alternative quotes, they were substantially more expensive. 6. [Construction company] quoted $12,539.08 for the j...

2. [2019] NZEmpC 31 Talbot Agriculture Ltd v Wate [pdf, 495 KB]

   ...tractor and truck driving, was required. [5] In response to the advertisement Talbot Agriculture was approached by John Horan, who was then an immigration adviser and is now Mr Wate’s advocate. Mr Horan was seeking to place Mr Wate in the job and suggested a work assessment be undertaken. Details of Mr Wate’s training and experience were sent to Talbot Agriculture following which he completed the work assessment at its workshop in Temuka between 2 May and 4 May 2016. Th...

3. [2025] NZEmpC 34  Xu v Pioneer Education and Immigration Services Group Ltd [pdf, 313 KB]

   ...university research assistant roles. He was able to gain interviews but was unsuccessful in obtaining a position. [20] On 23 March 2020, after being unsuccessful in finding employment in New Zealand, he booked flights to China and began to look for jobs there. Those flights were cancelled on 30 March 2020 and 17 April 2020 due to COVID-19. He then resumed looking for jobs in New Zealand, but without success. Again, he has been able to provide a significant amount of evidence in...

4. Pick-A-Part Tauranga Ltd 30 September 2014 NZSHD 11 [pdf, 51 KB]

   ...Authority upholds the Police Complaint, section s.29(3)(b) of the Act directs that the Authority must cancel Pick-A-Part Tauranga’s licence. The Police Evidence [22] The Police Complaint consists of an email summarising the Complaint and a short Job Sheet detailing the Police visit to Pick-A-Part in Greerton, Tauranga on 20 June 2014. [23] The Police have attached to their Complaint a purchase record for a Mitsubishi motor vehicle SW2346 and 4 photographs of this vehicle. [24] I...

5. [2020] NZEmpC 234 McBride v ANZCO Foods Ltd [pdf, 232 KB]

   ...between the parties to have the Authority resolve as a preliminary issue whether the grievance had been raised within time. [4] The Authority held that Mr McBride resigned from ANZCO with effect from 10 March 2017 and that when he applied for a job with the company at the end of 2017 he was not a person intending to work. Those conclusions were sufficient for the Authority to find that his personal grievance had not been raised within time.3 [5] Mr McBride now wishes to challenge...

6. [2018] NZSSAA 31 (5 July 2018) [pdf, 145 KB]

   ...and the second is to consider the appellant’s complaint about the Ministry filing documents outside the timetable. Which decision is under appeal? [2] XXXX (“the appellant”) appeals the decision to decline to include his wife in his Job Seeker Support (JSS) payments from the date that she was granted a New Zealand residency visa, 21 February 2017. [3] The decision which the appellant asked the Benefit Review Committee (BRC) to review was the Ministry’s decision...

7. TT v BQ [2023] NZDT 138 (4 April 2023) [pdf, 195 KB]

   ...house in [Suburb 1] which he, BQ, was building for himself. A dispute arose between the parties, and TT did not complete the work. TT’s claim is for $9,585.00, the value of the work which he says he provided to BQ. The sum includes another, smaller, job that TT did for BQ on another site in [Suburb 2], and a disbursement for the power connection. [2] With regard to BQ’s house, TT said that the arrangement was that BQ would provide all the materials, and TT was to provide only the la...

8. [2015] NZEmpC 181 Allied Investments Ltd v Guise [pdf, 167 KB]

   ...working in the Christchurch area at five different client sites. [10] Before the major earthquake in Christchurch in February 2011, Ms Guise worked as a nurse-aid for Ali's Home Healthcare in Christchurch. She told the Court that she lost her job as a result of the earthquake and was unemployed for a period. Later in the year, when she was working at an event in her capacity as a volunteer with St John, she was approached by a Mr Morris Allingham, Allied's then Christc...

9. Muneez v Deng [2013] NZIACDT 53 (20 August 2013) [pdf, 65 KB]

   ...responding to correspondence. However, nothing she could have said or done would have changed the outcome. If so, there would be no adverse effect from the professional shortcomings. [5] In response, Mr Muneez said Ms Deng had told him getting a job would have been useful, but it was not essential. This caused him to be in a position where he could not make the best decisions, and it resulted in expense. [6] Ms Deng through her counsel submitted there was no causative link between the...

10. Adams & Anor v Easthope & Ors [2014] NZWHT Auckland 2 [pdf, 110 KB]

    ...involvement in the construction of the Bell Terrace property. [12] Mr Sayles then visited the Adams’ property on a number of occasions prior to the building contract being completed and signed. Mr Adams believes this was to size up and cost the job. Mr Sayles accepts he made these visits but says he only went to see whether the floors could be made level as if they could not Gemini would not take on the building project. 5 [13] Mr Adams however notes that Mr Say...