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1. IR v ST LCRO 203 / 2010 (9 March 2012) [pdf, 190 KB]

   ...properties that each of them had brought into the marriage were roughly equal after the effect of inflation was taken into account, and that therefore relationship property should be divided equally. 2 [4] In the first Family Court judgment, Judge Strettell determined that there should be unequal sharing in the proportion of 65% (Ms IS) and 35% (Mr IR). [5] Mr IR appealed that judgment to the High Court, initially acting on his own behalf. Part way through proceedings howeve...

2. IHC NZ v Ministry of Education (Non-Party Access) [2013] NZHRRT 2 [pdf, 72 KB]

   ...Registrar by a letter that— (a) identifies the document, court file, or part of the formal court record that the applicant seeks to access; and (b) gives the reasons for the application. 5 (3) The application is heard and determined by a Judge or, if a Judge directs the Registrar to do so, by the Registrar. (4) On receipt of an application made in accordance with subclause (2), the Judge or Registrar may direct that the person file an interlocutory application or originating ap...

3. Te Tawa Kaiti Lands Trust v Tuhoe PutaiaoTrust - Ruatoki B23 (2008) 123 Whakatane MB 150 (123 WHK 150) [pdf, 2.8 MB]

   ...IN THE MATTER OF Ruatoki B23, Ruatoki B32, Ruatoki B33B2C2, Ruatoki B79 and Ruatoki B35B2 - Injunction BETWEEN TE TAW A KAITI LANDS TRUST Applicant AND AND TUHOE PUTAIAO TRUST Respondent THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL Interested Party COUlt: Judge S R Clark Judge C T Coxhead Appearances: Peter Jolm Marshall, for the Applicant Jason Pou, for the Respondent Darnen Ward, for The Crown Judgment: 19 December 2008 RESERVED DECISION OF JUDGE C T COXHEAD AND JUDGE S R CLARK Introduc...

4. Family Court Rewrite Submission FV Death Review Committee [pdf, 316 KB]

   ...court staff, LFC and the Family Court bench. This training should include training for all on the whakapapa of whānau violence and the ongoing impacts of colonisation and intergenerational trauma on whānau. Increasing the appointments of Māori judges in the family court and Māori staff who have deep understandings of tikanga and Te Ao Māori, as well as improving the framework for cultural information to be heard in court, is essential. Decision-making processes could involve wider...

5. Laboyrie v The Real Estate Agents Authority (CAC 403) and Prout [2018] NZREADT 36 [pdf, 557 KB]

   ...not amount to unsatisfactory conduct within the ambit of section 72 because the requirement for the conduct to have occurred as part of carrying out real estate agency work was not present. [7] The Committee’s assessment was that that judgement acquitted Mr Prout of any conduct that could amount to disgraceful conduct that could constitute the basis of a charge under section 73. Because there was no basis for a charge under section 72, it concluded that it should not take a...

6. [2022 NZACC 59 – McPhail v ACC (12 April 2022) [pdf, 328 KB]

   ...Selleys Pty Ltd (2005) 17 PRNZ 897. 9 Miriam Dean CNZM QC Independent Review of the Acclaim Otago (Inc), July 2015 Report into Accident Compensation Dispute Resolutions Process (May 2016). 10 At [5]. compensation appeals – a power for judges to appoint counsel to represent claimants where appropriate. At present, the District court has the power to appoint an impartial adviser to the court (amicus curiae) but such appointments are primarily to assist the court, not a par...

7. LCDT Annual Report 2022 [pdf, 435 KB]

   ...years as a judicial officer. Judge Clarkson has presented papers on Family Law, Mediation and Professional Discipline topics nationally and internationally. She was the inaugural President of the New Zealand branch of the International Women Judges Association. Dr John Adams, Deputy Chair Dr Adams was appointed as a District Court judge (with Family Court warrant) in 1995. He retired as a fulltime District Court judge in 2014, finally retiring in 2022. He graduated with a...

8. 20240923-Sentencing-Reform-Amendment-Bill.pdf [pdf, 5.7 MB]

   BRIEFING TO ATTORNEY-GENERAL Sentencing Reform Amendment Bill and District Court (District Court Judges) Amendment Bill - Consistency with the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 Our Ref: ATT395/413 1 1. We have considered the Sentencing (Reform) Amendment Bill (Sentencing Reform Bill) and the District Court (District Court Judges) Amendment Bill (District Court Bill) for consistency with the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 (Bill of Rights Act). 2. We conclude that both Bills a...

9. [2011] NZEmpC 4 Pacific Loans Limited v Viau Halaapiapi Lesoa [pdf, 61 KB]

   ...LIMITED Plaintiff AND NUNIA VIAU-HALA'API'API MAY LESOA Defendants Hearing: without notice, papers received 21 January 2011 Counsel: C T Patterson, counsel for the plaintiff Judgment: 24 January 2011 JUDGMENT OF JUDGE A A COUCH [1] This decision concerns an application by the plaintiff for a freezing order and ancillary orders for the purpose of preserving money and/or assets believed to be in the defendants’ possession and which it is alle...

10. [2014] NZEmpC 76 Matsuoka v LSG Sky Chefs NZ Ltd [pdf, 52 KB]

    ...MARIE LYNNE PARK Third Defendant Hearing: 19 May 2014 Appearances: R B Stewart QC and B Nicholson, counsel for plaintff G Pollak, counsel for defendants Judgment: 19 May 2014 ORAL INTERLOCUTORY JUDGMENT OF JUDGE M E PERKINS Introduction [1] This matter has come before the Court today on an application in ARC 102/13 by the first, second and third defendants, to strike the proceedings out. There is no need to go into the matter further at thi...