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1. Human-Rights-Commission-Re-Hendrie.pdf [pdf, 511 KB]

   ...Applicant G.K. Panckhurst for Respondent T.M. Gresson for the Police at Ashburton Carolyn Risk for the Nurses Association J.G. Brandts-Giesen for the Ashburton Hospital Board B.McClelland Q.C. and P.B.H. Hall for the personal representative of Mrs Hendrie Judgment: 2 JAN 1983 JUDGMENT OF HARDIE BOYS J. This application for review under s 4 of the Judicature Amendment Act 1972 arises out of an inquest entered upon by the Coroner at Christchurch into the death of Mrs Nancy Ruth Hendrie...

2. [2022] NZEmpC 40 Ngawaka v Global Security Solutions Ltd [pdf, 219 KB]

   ...RIO NGAWAKA Plaintiff AND GLOBAL SECURITY SOLUTIONS LIMITED Defendant Hearing: 15–17 February 2022 (Heard via Audio Visual Link) Appearances: R Ngawaka, plaintiff in person R Johnson, agent for defendant Judgment: 9 March 2022 JUDGMENT OF JUDGE K G SMITH [1] Rio Ngawaka was employed as a security guard by Global Security Solutions Ltd. His employment ended with his resignation on 2 November 2018. [2] Mr Ngawaka raised...

3. Deputy Registrar - Pukerewa A Trust (2025) 277 Waikato Maniapoto MB 58 (277 WMN 58) [pdf, 228 KB]

   ...Maniapoto MB 131-153 25 August 2020, 209 Waikato Maniapoto MB 115-128 12 April 2021, 222 Waikato Maniapoto MB 92-112 15 October 2021, 229 Waikato Maniapoto MB 228-230 (Heard at Hamilton, Rotorua, Whangānui and via teleconference) Whakataunga: Judgment date 14 March 2025 TE WHAKATAUNGA Ā KAIWHAKAWĀ R P MULLINS Judgment of R P Mullins 277 Waikato Maniapoto MB 59 Hei tīmatanga kōrero Introduction [1] This proceeding concerns...

4. [2024] NZEmpC 116 Osborne v Callaghan Innovation [pdf, 203 KB]

   ...BETWEEN DAVID OSBORNE Plaintiff AND CALLAGHAN INNOVATION Defendant Hearing: 22 May 2024 (Heard at Wellington) Appearances: Plaintiff in person P Chemis and E von Veh, counsel for defendant Judgment: 2 July 2024 JUDGMENT OF JUDGE K G SMITH [1] David Osborne started working for Callaghan Innovation on 1 September 2014. In mid-July 2018, Callaghan Innovation advised him that his position was facing redundancy...

5. Waitangi Tribunal - The Whanganui district [pdf, 1.6 MB]

   ...purchase acceptable to Maori. As Clarke pointed out to the chiefs of Putiki, ‘If this was a new purchase, or an attempt to make a new purchase you perhaps might object, but it is only making straight a former purchase’.34 Spain’s final judgment was that the New Zealand Company should be awarded 40,000 acres of land and Maori £1000, in addition to the initial payment of £700 of trade goods – a sum that Tonk believes must have seemed ‘shamefully small and insignificant�...

6. [2018] NZEmpC 128 Blue Water Hotel Ltd v VBS [pdf, 435 KB]

   ...used to create jurisdiction if it does not otherwise exist. It is “to put valid proceedings back on the rails as it were, not to create the rails”.3 e) Previous cases have not expressed uniform views as to the scope of s 219; some of those judgments express or rely on obiter dicta. f) A general provision such as s 219 cannot reverse what the specific provision of s 114(6) provides. [14] Mr Govender, counsel for the defendant, submitted in summary: a) The use of the word ...

7. [2018] NZEnvC 205 Cossens v Queenstown Lakes District Council [pdf, 14 MB]

   BEFORE THE ENVIRONMENT COURT I MUA I TE KOOTI TAIAO 0 AOTEAROA IN THE MATTER AND BETWEEN AND Decision No. [2018] NZEnvC 205 of the Resource Management Act 1991 of an appeal pursuant to s 120 of the Act JOHN COSSENS (ENV-2017 -CHC-079) Appellant QUEENSTOWN-LAKES DISTRICT COUNCIL Respondent Court: Environment Judge J R Jackson Environment Commissioner J T Baines Hearing: at Queenstown on 1 and 2 August 2018 Final submissions received 12 September 2018 Appearance

8. Berry & Ors as Trustees of the Burns Berry Trust v Lay [pdf, 301 KB]

   CLAIM NO: 00136 UNDER The Weathertight Homes Resolution Services Act 2002 IN THE MATTER of an adjudication BETWEEN ELIZABETH WAUGH BERRY, DONALD JEFFREY WAUGH BURNS and CLAIRE MARIE RYAN as Trustees of the Burns Berry Trust Claimants AND No First or Second Respondents AND STEPHEN BRIAN LAY Third Respondent AND JESSOP TOWNSEND LIMITED Fourth Respondent AND AUCKLAND CITY COUNCIL Fifth Respondent AND ARCHITECTURAL WATERPROOFING LIMITED (in Liq

9. Gray & Ors as Trustees of the John Gray Family Trust v Lay [pdf, 300 KB]

   CLAIM NO: 00027 UNDER The Weathertight Homes Resolution Services Act 2002 IN THE MATTER of an adjudication BETWEEN JOHN RAYMOND GRAY, DEAN GRIMMOND and SANDRA MAY BARRY as Trustees of the John Gray Family Trust Claimants AND No First or Second Respondents AND STEPHEN BRIAN LAY Third Respondent AND JESSOP TOWNSEND LIMITED Fourth Respondent AND AUCKLAND CITY COUNCIL Fifth Respondent AND ARCHITECTURAL WATERPROOFING LIMITED (in Liquidation) Si

10. Rec-Recap-Q3-2022.pdf [pdf, 691 KB]

    Recommendations Recap A summary of coronial recommendations and comments made between 1 July and 30 September 2022 Office of the Chief Coroner | 2022 (3) i Coroners’ recommendations and comments Coroners perform essential functions within our society. They inquire into a range of unexpected deaths to establish the identity of the person who has died and the cause and circumstances of their death. While inquiring into a dea