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1. Remote participation in courts discussion document plain language summary [pdf, 199 KB]

   ...2 Purpose of this document This plain language document is about how to have your say on ideas for changing remote participation in the courts. The discussion document is for anyone in New Zealand to read and tell the Ministry of Justice what they think about it. Your views will help the Ministry give the Government advice about how the law could be changed. The last day for giving feedback is Friday 6 December 2024. 3 Overview...

2. Regulatory Impact Statement discovery procedure high court and district court rules changes [pdf, 216 KB]

   ...District Courts Rules | 1 Regulatory Impact Statement Discovery procedure: changes to the High Court Rules and District Courts Rules Agency Disclosure Statement This Regulatory Impact Statement (RIS) has been prepared by the Ministry of Justice. The RIS provides an analysis of options to reduce the cost and inefficiencies of the procedure of discovering documents during civil litigation in the High Court and District Courts. Discovery is the process of a party disclosing...

3. Regulatory Impact Statement discovery procedure high court and district court rules changes [pdf, 216 KB]

   ...District Courts Rules | 1 Regulatory Impact Statement Discovery procedure: changes to the High Court Rules and District Courts Rules Agency Disclosure Statement This Regulatory Impact Statement (RIS) has been prepared by the Ministry of Justice. The RIS provides an analysis of options to reduce the cost and inefficiencies of the procedure of discovering documents during civil litigation in the High Court and District Courts. Discovery is the process of a party disclosing...

4. [2010] NZEmpC 18 C v Air Nelson Ltd [pdf, 38 KB]

   ...of settlement, the Court may make an order prohibiting the publication of all or part of the contents of that settlement, subject to such conditions as the Court thinks fit. [8] The Court is given a broad discretion to make orders that balance the justices of the particular parties’ position and also the public interest in open justice. [9] With the qualification that sexual intercourse was consensual, the plaintiff does not deny that the events that I have just described occurred....

5. [2022] NZEmpC 122 Reunited Employees Assoc Inc v Nelmac Ltd [pdf, 223 KB]

   ...relating to costs.21 [23] REA is opposed to security for costs being ordered. The union’s grounds of opposition assert that the application lacks merit, the challenge is meritorious and is being pursued in good faith, and the overall interests of justice favour declining it. An affidavit by John Drummond, a union official, supported its position. A significant part of Mr Drummond’s evidence discussed the history of the relationship between the parties and its recent difficult...

6. MacGregor v Craig (Rescission of Confidentiality Orders) [2016] NZHRRT 23 [pdf, 225 KB]

   ...variations are not relevant in the present context. Background [2] Section 95 of the Human Rights Act 1993 confers on the Chairperson jurisdiction to make an interim order if he or she is satisfied that “it is necessary in the interests of justice to make the order to preserve the position of the parties pending a final determination of the proceedings”: 95 Power to make interim order (1) In respect of any matter in which the Tribunal has jurisdiction under this Act to make an...

7. [2023] NZEmpC 53 Halse v Employment Relations Authority [pdf, 199 KB]

   ...ALLAN GEOFFREY HALSE v EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS AUTHORITY [2023] NZEmpC 53 [4 April 2023] IN THE EMPLOYMENT COURT OF NEW ZEALAND AUCKLAND I TE KŌTI TAKE MAHI O AOTEAROA TĀMAKI MAKAURAU [2023] NZEmpC 53 EMPC 425/2021 IN THE MATTER OF an application for judicial review AND IN THE MATTER OF an application to strike out proceedings AND IN THE MATTER OF an application for stay of proceedings BETWEEN ALLAN GEOFFREY HALSE Applicant...

8. SM v QN & FM [2024] NZDT 398 (14 June 2024) [pdf, 92 KB]

   ...the balance owed of $94.89. The respondent suggested repair costs (not including painting) of up to $180.00 based on materials required. This was not established as an actual cost, and as both the time and materials required are minor, the overall justice of the matter leaves the balance that was otherwise due back to the applicant ($94.89) as a fair set-off to any future repair work. Costs of proceedings 11. Both parties sought costs relating to the proceedings (the applicant soug...

9. Cabinet paper Responding to the Waitangi Tribunal [pdf, 2.1 MB]

   I N C O N F I D E N C E 1 I N C O N F I D E N C E In Confidence Office of the Minister of Justice Cabinet Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti Committee Responding to the Waitangi Tribunal’s recommendations for claimant funding Proposal 1 This paper seeks: 1.1 agreement to targeted engagement with Māori to inform the Government’s response to a recent Waitangi Tribunal recommendation to implement a system to fund claimants in Tribunal inquiries where there is no...

10. [2010] NZEmpC 108 MacBeth v Cookie Time Limited [pdf, 22 KB]

    ...guilty of inordinate delay, that such delay is inexcusable, and that it has seriously prejudiced the defendant. Although these considerations are not necessarily exclusive, and at the end one must always stand back and have regard to the interests of justice, in this country, ever since New Zealand Industrial Gases Ltd v Andersons Ltd [1970] NZLR 58 it has been accepted that if the application is to be successful, the applicant must commence by proving the three factors listed. [9] The...