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1. LCRO 88/2023 VG v FB and SS (30 July 2024) [pdf, 186 KB]

   ...March 2022, decided to terminate his employment with the firm, does not conclusively establish the position argued for by Mr VG that Mr FB must have known, when taking instructions to file a notice of defence, that he would not be around to finish the job. [79] There could be many explanations as to why a decision had been made by Mr FB around 21 March to resign when that option did not present to him as a possibility as at 10 March 2022. It is speculative to suggest possible options bu...

2. 2025 NZPSPLA 013.pdf [pdf, 80 KB]

   ...of the Act. It is therefore a mandatory ground for cancelling Mr Hillman’s security certificate unless he successfully applies for waiver of the grounds for disqualification. In addition, Police advise Mr Hillman was dismissed from his security job last year for using his employer’s fuel card for personal use without permission. [2] Mr Hillman has not applied for waiver of the grounds for disqualification. In addition, he neither attended the hearing nor provided any other response...

3. CAC 10007 v Wallace - Penalty Decision [2012] NZREADT 70 [pdf, 40 KB]

   ...keen to help us and show us their country. She arrived and has single headedly tarnished for ever our feelings about NZ, and its business community, and ethical standpoint. We travel the world a lot and meet lots of people in the course of my job, who ask me about my favourite place in the world where I would like to live. I struggle not to let her actions affect my answer. The majority of the remainder of the people we have met in New Zealand have been friendly and professional,...

4. [2014] NZEmpC 234 Mega Wreckers Ltd v Taafuli [pdf, 59 KB]

   ...award of $6,000 on account of hurt and humiliation. The hearing proceeded on that basis. The background [5] Mr Taafuli, who had previously worked for a courier firm, commenced employment with Mega Wreckers on Tuesday, 26 February 2013. 4 His job involved driving tow trucks and collecting vehicles that Mega Wreckers had arranged to purchase. He did not have a written employment agreement but he was told that he would be paid $14 per hour. Mr Taafuli was given $1,000 in cash ev...

5. Tukutau v Tangilanu [2014] NZIACDT 103 (01 October 2014) [pdf, 187 KB]

   ...Tangilanu’s assistance to get a work visa. [2.2] The complaint was that while Ms Tangilanu had a written agreement, it did not set out the services she was to provide. Furthermore, she lodged the complainant’s request for a visa relying on a job offer that was obviously unsatisfactory. [2.3] The Tribunal upheld the complaint; it found that the agreement was not compliant and that the adviser was incompetent in submitting the application based on the job offer. [3] The Tribunal uph...

6. CU v XG [2015] NZDT 782 (28 May 2015) [pdf, 106 KB]

   ...she would probably not have lodged a complaint against XG. It was this information that caused the greatest stress, given the risk to her investment during a period of earthquakes and the unexpected financial burden from the urgency to get the job done. The failure of the piles was one loss, but the failure of the property to be fully insurable as a result was another. Whilst in the end no actual loss was suffered from the inability to fully insure the property until the piles we...

7. MVDT Annual Report 2013-2014 [pdf, 255 KB]

   ...by fitting the roof rack. The Tribunal found on the evidence of the various service invoices produced by the parties that the roof had probably begun to leak about April or May 2013 after the purchaser had fitted a roof rack to the vehicle, a job he did himself. The purchaser admitted that he had not read the owners handbook to see if a roof rack could be fitted without causing interior water damage. The Tribunal also obtained a report from a panel beater that the roof rack had been...

8. [2020] NZEmpC 131 Surplus Brokers Ltd v Armstrong [pdf, 174 KB]

   ...relation to the broken mirror. At 7.40 am on 10 April 2018 Mr Caspersen sent an email to Mr Armstrong emphasising a number of concerns in relation to what had occurred, and advising that: “I am now letting you know I will not be continuing our job role offers with you.” At 10 am Mr Caspersen sent a further email, reinforcing that he was not taking sides, that he had been presented with two conflicting versions of events which he did not intend to resolve, and that: “I have mad...

9. Te Manutukutuku Issue 16 [pdf, 2.7 MB]

   ...that any claim is only a claim until it is proven. At the same time, the sooner everyone acknowledges the sanctity of a Crown-guaranteed title and stops scare-mongering and grandstanding for the media, the more expeditiously we can get on with the job of investigating claims. Once a title is issued by the Crown, it is guaranteed by the Crown. If any financiers are, as reported, threatening to retrieve credit advanced and secured to land to which a Crown title has been issued, I can on...

10. TI v N Ltd [2019] NZDT 1438 (30 September 2019) [pdf, 200 KB]

    ...discuss the situation but received no answer. Her real estate agent, NB, (who had originally recommended BCS) contacted BCS on her behalf and he was referred to a tiler. Arrangements were made for the tiler to attend the property and assess the job. Upon inspection, the tiler advised that it was a bigger job than just replacing the sunken tiles. He considered the bathroom had no water proofing and that the problem of sunken tiles was a result of a bigger problem, being water damage...