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1. OIA-109863.pdf [pdf, 930 KB]

   Justice Centre | 19 Aitken Street DX SX10088 | Wellington T 04 918 8800 | F 04 918 8820 ContactUs@justice.govt.nz | www.justice.govt.nz 1 March 2024 Our ref: OIA 109863 Tēnā koe Official Information Act request: Abortion Legislation Act 2020 Thank you for your email of 20 February requesting, under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act), information regarding the Abortion Legislation Act 2020 (ALA Act). Specifically, you requested: In 2020 the Parliamentary Couns...

2. Social Wellbeing Commitee Paper COVID-19 options to amend Sale And Supply of Alcohol FINAL [pdf, 1.5 MB]

   ...include adding an outdoor area or increasing the size of a licensed area. The legislation requires at least 15 working days to allow the public, the Medical Officer of Health (Medical Officer) and/or the Police to raise an objection or report any matters in opposition to the application. 5 The hospitality industry is seeking an urgent temporary amendment to the Act to allow DLCs to grant extensions to the licensed area to allow a greater number of customers to drink alcohol while restr...

3. Cribb - Succession to Tieme Karepe, Te One Karepe, Hoani Karepe and Porokuru Te Kiwi [2025] Chief Judge's MB 373 (2025 CJ 373) [pdf, 366 KB]

   ...facts of the case to the court or the Registrar, cancel or amend the order or certificate of confirmation or make such other order or issue such certificate of confirmation as, in the opinion of the Chief Judge, is necessary in the interests of justice to remedy the mistake or omission. [10] In Ashwell – Rawinia or Lavinia Ashwell (nee Russell), the principles to be applied in determining such applications made pursuant to s 45 of the Act were listed as follows: 12 (a) When cons...

4. BORA Criminal Proceeds and Instruments Bill [pdf, 350 KB]

   ...powers are confined to search for and seizure of evidence relevant to proceedings under the Bill and property that is or may be subject to an order under the Bill. Further, clause 115 sets out the form and content of warrants and requires that certain matters must be stated in the warrant in reasonable detail. Clause 117 specifies the powers that are conferred by a search warrant and includes a requirement for searches to be carried out at a time that is "reasonable in the circumstan...

5. [2023] NZEmpC 102 van Kleef v Alliance Group Ltd [pdf, 273 KB]

   ...email to counsel for Alliance, and to the Court, indicating she had run into problems trying to access files and addressing formatting issues in time to complete a proposed application for leave. She said she was in the course of addressing these matters and would have an affidavit filed as soon as possible. No subsequent communication has since been received from Ms van Kleef. No application for leave to file an amended pleading, supported by an affidavit, has been filed. This...

6. [2025] NZEmpC 19 Postal Workers Union of Aotearoa Inc v NZ Post Ltd [pdf, 218 KB]

   ...determine the real nature of the relationship between them. [8] Where the Court must determine the real nature of the relationship s 6(3) provides: For the purposes of subsection (2), the court or the Authority— (a) must consider all relevant matters, including any matters that indicate the intention of the persons; and (b) is not to treat as a determining matter any statement by the persons that describes the nature of their relationship. The second application [9] The se...

7. National Standards Committee 2 v Mr Q [2023] NZLCDT 27 (18 July 2023) [pdf, 75 KB]

   ...opportunity of reconsidering the matter. [3] On 30 May 2023, further interested parties filed a notice of appeal and interlocutory application to be joined to the respondent’s appeal, regarding the matter of name suppression. [4] By consent, all matters in the High Court were adjourned to enable the Tribunal to reconsider the matter of name suppression in the light of further evidence available from both Mr Q2 and other interested parties. [5] On 22 June 2023, Mr Collins, c...

8. Proactive Release - Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT): High-Value Dealer Regulations [pdf, 1.9 MB]

   ...advantage for a reporting entity or would disadvantage other reporting entities; and 39.6. the overall impact that making the regulation would have on the integrity of, and compliance with, the AML/CFT regulatory regime. 40. I have had regard to these matters set out in section 154(2) of the AML/CFT Act, having considered advice from officials. 41. Section 154(3) requires the Minister of Justice to take reasonable steps to consult with all persons who, in the Minister’s opinion, wil...

9. BORA Aquaculture Amendment Bill [pdf, 299 KB]

   ...Bill of Rights issues. 2. We have concluded that the Bill appears to be consistent with the rights and freedoms affirmed in the Bill of Rights Act. In reaching this conclusion we have considered possible inconsistencies with the right to natural justice affirmed in section 27 of that Act. PURPOSE OF THE BILL 3. The aquaculture management regime is designed to enable the sustainable growth of aquaculture in New Zealand and ensure the environmental effects of aquaculture are properly ma...

10. Watson v Accident Compensation Corporation (Application for recall of judgment) [2024] NZACC 34 [pdf, 229 KB]

    ...three categories of cases in which a judgment may be recalled. These categories were initially set out by Wild CJ in Horowhenua County v Nash (No. 2).3 Ms Koloni, for Ms Watson, relies on the third category: (c) For some other special reason, justice requires the judgment be recalled. [5] The Corporation opposes this application. Legal Principles [5] In Horowhenua County,4 Wild CJ noted that: Generally speaking, a judgment once delivered must stand for better or worse s...