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1. [2024] NZEmpC 164 EMPC 363-2021 EMPC 85-2022 Courage & Ors-Pilgrim & Ors v Attorney-General & Ors - Interlocutory Judgment [pdf, 179 KB]

   ...2000. [5] It is well accepted that the Court may grant access to documents held on the Court file, and has an inherent power to control the use of information disclosed in proceedings, where such control is necessary for the due administration of justice. A balancing exercise is required, including having regard to each party’s interests. In undertaking the analysis, the Court has previously found it helpful to have regard to the approach set out in the Senior Courts (Access t...

2. [2022] NZEmpC 154 Pilgrim v Attorney-General [pdf, 180 KB]

   ...remain and the family members of leavers and supporters) with an accurate record of what occurs during the hearing on a daily basis, to facilitate discussion and commentary. Ultimately the application is said to be advanced in the interests of open justice. [3] I directed that the application be provided to the parties. The plaintiffs have advised that they abide the decision of the Court; the second defendants are opposed to the application except insofar as it relates to the tak...

3. Privacy-Amendment-Bill-2023-Approval-for-introduction_FINAL.pdf [pdf, 606 KB]

   ...including maintaining our European Union (EU) adequacy status.1 5 The Bill gives effect to the policy decision by introducing a new Information Privacy Principle 3A (IPP 3A) into the Act. IPP 3A will require agencies to notify individuals of a range of matters if their information has been indirectly collected and the individual is not already aware that their information will be collected. IPP 3A also contains a number of practical exceptions to this requirement to ensure efficient adm...

4. AB v WA & Ors LCRO 68/2015 (11 July 2016) [pdf, 67 KB]

   ...with intent to conspire to defeat justice. (c) Made their decisions without receiving full responses from the practitioners, when the practitioners were concealing the truth and obstructing the administration of justice. (d) Were aware that the matters the practitioners refused to respond to were substantive and criminal matters and the Committee concealed this. (e) Allowed the lawyers to obstruct, hinder, resist and deceive the Standards Committee. (f) Ignored the evidence provided...

5. Canterbury Earthquakes Insurance Tribunal Bill: Approval for Introduction [pdf, 462 KB]

   1 In Confidence Office of the Minister of Justice and Minister for Courts Chair, Cabinet Social Wellbeing Committee Canterbury Earthquakes Insurance Tribunal Bill: Approval for Introduction Proposal 1 This paper seeks agreement to two matters of design relating to the jurisdiction of the Canterbury Earthquakes Insurance Tribunal and to introduce the Canterbury Earthquakes Insurance Tribunal Bill (the Bill). Executive Summary 2 I propose that the Canterbury Earthq...

6. FINAL-2021-Research-Memorandum-Witness-Familiarisation.pdf [pdf, 300 KB]

   ...Date: September 2021 Subject: Witness Familiarisation “Whether or not it is always the case, the trauma of participating in a rape trial as a victim-witness has become common cultural knowledge. Fear of a second assault by the criminal justice system also appears to discourage women from reporting sexual assaults and rapes to police or being willing to continue through the justice process. If rape survivors perceive that they will be treated with dignity and respect and be g...

7. [2017] NZEmpC 160 Prasad v LSG Sky Chefs (NZ) Ltd [pdf, 148 KB]

   ...also take into account the matters listed in r 12(a)-(h), insofar as they are relevant to the request or any objection to the request. The factors which are of varying degrees of relevance in this case are: The orderly and fair administration of justice: The right to bring and defend civil proceedings without disclosure of any more information about the private lives of individuals or matters that are commercially sensitive than is necessary to satisfy the interests of open justi...

8. OIA-112469.pdf [pdf, 1.2 MB]

   Legal Services Commissioner Justice Centre I 19 Aitken Street I DX SX10125 I Wellington T 04 918 8800 I F 04 918 8820 lsc@justice.govt.nz 24 June 2024 Our ref: OIA 112469 Tēnā koe Official Information Act request: Legal aid resources Thank you for your email of 24 May 2024, requesting under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act) information relating to legal aid guidelines and policies. Specifically, you requested: a. Any current guidelines, polici...

9. National Standards Committee 1 v Name Suppressed [2021] NZLCDT 5 [pdf, 150 KB]

   ...before the Disciplinary Tribunal is a judicial proceeding within the meaning of section 108 of the Crimes Act 1961 (which relates to perjury). (Emphasis added) [11] Section 236 of the Act, to which s 239(1) refers, states: 236 Rules of natural justice The Disciplinary Tribunal must, in performing and exercising its functions and powers, observe the rules of natural justice. [12] In W v Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal,4 the High Court admitted evidence of the type that...

10. [2012] NZEmpC 216 Q v W [pdf, 110 KB]

    ...preliminary issue in February 2010, I noted that in a five page letter dated 3 December 2009, addressed to the Registrar of the Employment Court, the plaintiff stated: [36] [Q] is seeking name suppression for all past and present employment matters, which she has previously raised with the Court. [3] There was no indication that this matter had been raised in any prior memoranda filed by the plaintiff and was not addressed by Q in the chambers conference held on Wednesday 9 De...