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1. OIA-120087.pdf [pdf, 5.5 MB]

   Justice Centre | 19 Aitken Street DX SX10088 | Wellington T 04 918 8800 | F 04 918 8820 ContactUs@justice.govt.nz | www.justice.govt.nz 10 April 2025 Ref: OIA 120087 Tēnā koe Official Information Act request: Crimes Act reform and citizen’s arrest Thank you for your email of 6 March 2025 requesting information, under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act), about the proposed reforms to the Crimes Act, which would allow greater citizen arrest powers. Specifica...

2. [2009] NZEmpC CC 10/09 Rooney Earthmoving Ltd v McTague and ors [pdf, 175 KB]

   ROONEY EARTHMOVING LTD V MCTAGUE AND ORS CHCH CC 10/09 24 August 2009 IN THE EMPLOYMENT COURT CHRISTCHURCH CC 10/09 CRC 21/07 IN THE MATTER OF a challenge to a determination of the Employment Relations Authority BETWEEN ROONEY EARTHMOVING LIMITED Plaintiff AND KELVIN DOUGLAS MCTAGUE First Defendant AND CLARENCE HENRY WHITING Second Defendant AND KERRY WAYNE BARTLETT Third Defendant Hearing: 17-21 and 24-28 November, 10 and 15 December 2008 23 and 2

3. 2019 Directory of Official Information G-I [pdf, 916 KB]

   ...machine operations • hearing complaints about the way the Department has handled complaints in relation to Class 4 gambling • advising Ministers on the setting of the problem gambling levy • advising the Minister of Internal Affairs on matters relating to the performance of the Commission’s functions and the administration of the Gambling Act 2003. In exercising these functions, the Commission has wide powers to determine its own procedure, to engage experts and to rec...

4. KD v N Ltd & HX [2023] NZDT 424 (3 July 2023) [pdf, 280 KB]

   ...decision of the Tribunal. Specifically, the Referee conducted the proceedings (or a Tribunal investigator carried out an enquiry) in a way that was unfair and prejudiced the result of the proceedings. This means you consider there was a breach of natural justice, as a result of procedural unfairness that affected the result of the proceedings. PLEASE NOTE: Parties need to be aware they cannot appeal a Referee’s finding of fact. Where a Referee has made a decision on the issues raised...

5. [2011] NZEmpC 31 Ravnjak v Wellington International Airport Ltd [pdf, 262 KB]

   ...for it. One aspect of its work is to manufacture or assemble hidden camera systems for particular uses. [10] On a number of occasions the airport’s General Manager, John Fuller, has engaged Mr Hardiman’s business to provide advice about matters that may require investigation and, in this connection, Mr Hardiman has installed a number of covert surveillance cameras which have resulted in the apprehension of a number of people at the airport. When he was approached by the airp...

6. King v Attorney-General (Application to Remove Proceedings to High Court) [2017] NZHRRT 10 [pdf, 215 KB]

   ...otherwise); or (c) the nature and the urgency of the proceedings or matter mean that it is in the public interest that they or it be removed immediately to the High Court; or (d) the High Court already has before it other proceedings, or other matters, that are between the same parties and involve issues that are the same as, or similar or related to, those raised by the proceedings or matter; or (e) the Tribunal is of the opinion that, in all the circumstances, the High Court shoul...

7. LCRO 92/2021 AZ v BY (19 July 2021) [pdf, 134 KB]

   ...signed a Deed of Family Arrangement (the Deed). Having signed the Deed, Mr AZ has quite a number of queries about the way Ms BY, who is understood to be acting for the deceased’s estate, has been giving effect to the Deed. Instead of taking matters that arise from the interpretation of the Deed and the application of its terms based on that interpretation to Court for determination, Mr AZ raised his concerns with 2 the New Zealand Law Society (NZLS) in the form of a profession...

8. LCRO 293-2014 KX v Area Standards committee X [pdf, 206 KB]

   ...submissions made. [18] Ms KX explained her involvement, and that the 11 March 2014 letter had been signed and sent out in her absence by a staff member. Ms KX said that although Mrs GI had signed the Deed of Appointment as Trustee in front of a Justice of the Peace who witnessed her signature, Ms KX had not signed any of the documents enclosed with the letter of 11 March 2014. [19] Ms KX says she became aware of the contents of the letter after Mrs JB contacted her to say Mrs GI...

9. [2012] NZEmpC 33 Cruickshank v CE of Unitec Institute of Technology [pdf, 57 KB]

   ...1 CC 27A/01, 15 November 2001. [7] In those circumstances (and counsel agree on this), the broad test as to whether new evidence should be admitted now is whether that is in the interests of justice. Mr Cook has relied on two provisions of the Evidence Act 2006, although acknowledging that this legislation does not apply to proceedings in this Court. Counsel is correct, of course, that the Court has previously said (and I would

10. [2014] NZEmpC 210 Robinson v Pacific Seals Ltd oral judgement [pdf, 62 KB]

    ...to the broader circumstances of the case. While at this early stage (and in the absence of detailed submissions on the likely merits of the application) I do not regard the prospects of success as high, there are important issues of access to justice that need to be weighed. 5 Booth v Big Kahuna Holdings Ltd [2014] NZEmpC 43, at [16]. [10] The application for security for costs and stay is declined. Costs [11] I turn...