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1. Independent Electoral Review Final Report [pdf, 11 MB]

   Final Report Our recommendations for a fairer, clearer, and more accessible electoral system November 2023 He Arotake Pōtitanga Motuhake Independent Electoral Review This report may be cited as: Independent Electoral Review, 2023. Final Report: Our Recommendations for a Fairer, Clearer, and More Accessible Electoral System. Wellington: New Zealand. ISBN 978-0-473-69963-5 (Print) ISBN 978-0-473-69964-2 (Online) This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 I

2. Protection Order applications December 2017 [xlsx, 262 KB]

   Contents Protection Order applications Protection Order application data is extracted from a live dataset that is used for operational purposes.  This means that data will be updated through late data entry and active applications progressing through the court process. Therefore, this data may differ to data reported elsewhere with a different extraction date. These tables were extracted on 12 March 2018. Contents: Table 1: Number of Protection Order applications, by app

3. Protection Order applications June 2018 [xlsx, 263 KB]

   Contents Protection Order applications Protection Order application data is extracted from a live dataset that is used for operational purposes.  This means that data will be updated through late data entry and active applications progressing through the court process. Therefore, this data may differ to data reported elsewhere with a different extraction date. These tables were extracted on 17 September 2018. Contents: Table 1: Number of Protection Order applications, by�

4. Seismic-Strengthening-of-Ministry-of-Justice-Courthouses.pdf [pdf, 11 MB]

   ...ventilation, air conditioning, reticulation) is at end-of-life and is carrying significant risk of failure. 13. There have been incidents of infrastructure in this courthouse failing recently. An aged ventilation pipe burst causing damage to two judges’ chambers, three offices, corridors, a law library and two courtrooms. The remediation work cost around $200,000. There was also significant disruption to activities with all the affected rooms rendered unavailable for approximately thre...

5. McElroy & Ors as Trustees of the Shona and Roger McElroy Family Trust v Lay [pdf, 284 KB]

   ...entitled to claim anything outside the narrow parameters set by the “physical repair work”, he says that s.42(1) has no bearing on the matter of jurisdiction. 5.3.11 After the hearing had finished I was provided with a copy of a judgment by Judge F W M McElrea in the Auckland District Court in Waitakere City Council v Smith (CIV 2004-090-1757, dated 28 January 2005). Counsel alerted me to this case which had been argued before Judge McElrea at the same time as closing subm...

6. [2022] NZEnvC 215 Southland District Council v Peter Chartres [pdf, 958 KB]

   ...Management Act 1991 AND an application for enforcement orders under s314 and s316 of the Act BETWEEN SOUTHLAND DISTRICT COUNCIL (ENV-2020-CHC-109) Applicant AND PETER DONALD CHARTRES AND CP TRUSTEES LIMITED Respondents Court: Environment Judge P A Steven Environment Commissioner J T Baines Hearing: in Christchurch on 26, 27, 28 and 29 April 2022 Site visit in Te Anau on 8 September 2022 Appearances: M Garbett and S Chadwick for applicant J G A Winchester and R T Chapman...

7. Evidence Brief Independent Bodies and Complaints Mechanisms [pdf, 1.5 MB]

   Submitted to Office of the Chief Victims Advisor to Government by Elaine Mossman 29 May 2020 Independent bodies and complaint mechanisms for victims of crime Contents Summary ................................................................................................................................ i 1 Introduction .............................................................................................................

8. [2022] NZEmpC 223 FGH v RST [pdf, 688 KB]

   ...Hearing: 25 – 29 July and 24 August 2022 (heard at Wellington) Appearances: S Henderson and D O’Leary, counsel for plaintiff M Richards and K Allan, counsel for defendant Judgment: 6 December 2022 JUDGMENT OF JUDGE B A CORKILL Table of contents Introduction ................................................................................................................... [1] Core facts .............................................................

9. Recording Industry Association of New Zealand v Telecom NZ 3760 [2013] NZCOP 14 [pdf, 136 KB]

   ...fully with the parts of the applicant’s submissions that refer to case law that has considered the concept of “flagrancy” in the context of s 121(2)(a), or its equivalent in cognate jurisdictions. However, the Tribunal does note the comment of Judge Michael Fysh QC in Harrison v Harrison [2010] FSR 24, a case to which the applicant refers, that a “finding of additional damages … must be a matter of degree and context in each case” [para 42]. [37] “Flagrancy” suggest so...

10. Otago Standards Committee v Rayner [2014] NZLCDT 62 [pdf, 87 KB]

    BEFORE THE NEW ZEALAND LAWYERS AND CONVEYANCERS DISCIPLINARY TRIBUNAL [2014] NZLCDT 62 LCDT 005/14 BETWEEN STANDARDS COMMITTEE OF THE OTAGO BRANCH OF THE NEW ZEALAND LAW SOCIETY Applicant AND NOEL RAYNER Respondent CHAIR Judge BJ Kendall (retired) MEMBERS OF TRIBUNAL Mr M Gough Ms S Hughes QC Mr W Smith Mr S Walker HEARING at Dunedin DATE 19 August 2014 COUNSEL Mr G Nation for the Standards Committee Mr L Andersen for the Practitioner...