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1. Justice Sector Criminal justice forecast 2010 to 2020 [pdf, 798 KB]

   ...forecast 4.2. Pre-sentence reports Table 4 and Figure 3 give the numbers of pre-sentence reports projected to 2013-14. The introduction of new non-custodial sentences in 2007 significantly changed the incidence of requests for these reports, with judges immediately favouring full reports. This is shown by the broad divergence of the lines in Figure 3. Since that time the gap has continued to grow. There has been no suggestion of a mechanism to reverse that growth, so the foreca...

2. Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination – summary record 10th-11th reports [pdf, 44 KB]

   ...social and economic conditions of the Maori people. Moreover, the settlements would in no way remove, restrict or replace Maori rights under the Treaty of Waitangi, including Maori access to mainstream government programmes. 29. The remarks made by Chief Judge Durie of the Waitangi Tribunal in 1959 at Oxford and similar statements had been prompted by problems relating to the "settlement envelope", including the Government’s need to make provision for upcoming claims and the fact t...

3. Waikato Bay of Plenty Standards Committee No 2 v X [2010] NZLCDT 14 [pdf, 115 KB]

   ...the s.351 jurisdictional issue. In saying this, the Standards Committee submitted that it was not a matter of concluding that a complaints committee would have reached a view that there was misconduct which should be the subject of a charge, to judge whether the jurisdictional threshold established by s.351 was met, but that a complaints committee could have reached that view. [51] In out view, a complaints committee under the Law Practitioners Act, if faced with the complaint...

4. Anti-corruption guide for NZ businesses [pdf, 223 KB]

   ...• Preferential treatment – discounts, rebates, refunds • Corporate hospitality – gifts, entertainment, travel (a) Domestic bribery and corruption Sections 100-105 of the Crimes Act criminalise bribery and corruption of New Zealand judges, government ministers, members of Parliament, police officers and other public officials. It is also an offence to corruptly use official information or to trade in influence (for example, accept a bribe in return for using one’s...

5. La Grouw as Trustee of the GJ Peacocke Trust v Rantin & MRA Architects Ltd [2011] NZWHT Auckland 8 [pdf, 178 KB]

   ...reasonable builder would have access to, and rely on, the manufacturer‟s specifications, and that this documentation did not need to be replicated by the designer in the plans. This is the relevant standard by which Mr Watson‟s drawings are to be judged. Scope of work [26] First, however, I consider Ms La Grouw‟s allegations that there was insufficient confirmation of the scope of the work at the time of client engagement, and a lack of attention to executing the w...

6. Koria & Anor v Johnson & Ors [2013] NZWHT Auckland 14 [pdf, 208 KB]

   ...territorial authority’s duty under the same legislation. [22] In 1989 in Askin v Knox1 Cooke P addressed the standards by which the conduct of a council officer should be measured. He concluded that a council officer’s conduct will be judged against the knowledge and practice at the time the negligent act or omission was said to take place. Mr Woodger’s defence to the claim against him was based on his general assertion that his inspections (being those carried out on h...

7. Tank Trust v Auckland Council & Anor [2013] NZWHT Auckland 15 [pdf, 237 KB]

   ...must prove that the practice of the Council either failed to meet the standard of a reasonable building inspector at the time or that common sense dictated that the inspector should have done something more.3 The Council’s performance must be judged against the standards of the day and the 3 Dicks v Hobson Swan Construction Ltd (in liquidation) (2006) 7 NZCPR 881 (HC). Page | 12 knowledge of the quality of the pa...

8. AA v BK, BL & BM LCRO 264 / 2012 (25 July 2013) [pdf, 184 KB]

   ...of emails which comprised some 87 pages, and concluded from this material that it was plain that the attendances covered a number of complex issues over a lengthy period.32 [71] One of the documents provided by Mr BL to Mr XX was the judgment of Judge Munro33 as to relationship property in which he describes the property built up by Mr AA as being held in a “complex web of interrelated companies and trusts in New Zealand and the United States.”34 Included in the judgment was a...

9. LCRO 124-2014 SM v TK [pdf, 236 KB]

   ...be treated as equivalent to any other document or property of the client for the purposes of a solicitor’s lien. Rather, it is a document issued by a central government to a citizen to facilitate travel outside the country of issue. [103] The judge who delivered the majority judgment also accepted that although a solicitor may have a lien on his client’s passport, the Court may decline to enforce it if it’s exercise would deprive an impecunious client of his liberty.15 [104] I...

10. Civil Proceedings Steps March 2017 [pdf, 826 KB]

    ...legal aid  Liaising with Legal Aid  Identifying legal and factual issues  Preparing Notice of claim  Filing Notice of claim with the Court  Serving Notice of claim on respondent/defendant  Reporting to client  Default judgement or formal proof – if no response to Notice of claim or Information Capsule  Reporting to and invoicing for Legal Aid Application for mediation or other alternative dispute resolution (District Court Rules 2009, r. 1.7)