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1. 30-June-Legal-Aid-News.pdf [pdf, 596 KB]

   June 2016 Legal Aid News is your official regular communication from Legal Aid Services on all matters related to legal aid. Legal Aid News is generally published in the last week of every month. In this issue ... Engaging an Expert – New form and disbursements Amendments to the Children, Young Persons and their Families Act Changes from 4 July 2016 Queries Engaging an Expert – New form and disbursements On Monday, 27 June 2016 a new form and disbursement was...

2. 29-July-Legal-Aid-News.pdf [pdf, 590 KB]

   ...updated our FLAS operational policy to clarify when a statutory declaration should be used in relation to a client’s financial eligibility. Please take the time to download and become familiar with the updated version of the policy. http://www.justice.govt.nz/about/lawyers-and-service-providers/legal-aid-lawyers/family-legal-advice-service/ Requesting Benefit Information The “verification of benefit income” form on the Ministry’s website (under supplementary forms section) ca...

3. BORA Vehicle Confiscation and Seizure Bill [pdf, 284 KB]

   ...Bill of Rights Act. The release of this advice should not be taken to indicate that the Attorney-General agrees with all aspects of it, nor does its release constitute a general waiver of legal professional privilege in respect of this or any other matter. Whilst care has been taken to ensure that this document is an accurate reproduction of the advice provided to the Attorney-General, neither the Ministry of Justice nor the Crown Law Office accepts any liability for any errors or omission...

4. [2018] NZEnvC 148 Lau v Auckland Council [pdf, 1.6 MB]

   ...W 502,503: The power of each Court over its own process is unlimited; it is a power incident to all Courts inferior as well as superior; were it not so, the Court would be obliged to sit still and see its own process abused for the purpose of injustice. [7] This statement has been cited with approval in Watson v Clarke [1990] 1 NZLR 715, 718 (HC) and in Burchell v Urlich [2010] DCR 837 at [16] . It plainly informs a number of previous decisions of this Court, such as Thompson v Hutt...

5. LCRO 35/2020 RS v HM (27 May 2020) [pdf, 86 KB]

   ...Ms HM considered the information Mr RS had provided and indicated her preliminary view was that he would be unlikely to succeed. 2 [4] Undeterred, Mr RS wished to proceed. [5] Ms HM informed Mr RS that she was not prepared to work on his matter under legal aid. Ms HM said she would accept Mr RS’s instructions if he paid her $10,000 in advance, and that she would provide him with a formal written opinion. [6] Mr RS did not pay $10,000. [7] The retainer did not proceed....

6. CAC 521 v Wright [2019] NZREADT 33 - Ruling (5 August 2019) [pdf, 158 KB]

   ...recorded his immediate response to the application, to the effect that the application to amend is too late. Discussion [11] Pursuant to s 105 of the Act, the Tribunal may regulate its procedures as it thinks fit, subject to the rules of natural justice, the Act, and any regulations made under the Act. Regulation 13 of the Real Estate Agents (Complaints and Discipline) Regulations 2009) provides: (1) At the hearing of a charge, the Disciplinary Tribunal may, of its own motion o...

7. Maniototo IC Ltd, Maniototo Eastside IC Ltd - G Herlihy (5 Feb 2021) [pdf, 94 KB]

   ...been four years in the making) being developed consistent with current statute, and the existing ORC 2 PP-1035600-2-174-V1 Water Plan that has not long been signed off. I strongly contend that anything otherwise would be a travesty of justice . 6. To submit on specific sections of PC7: 7. Firstly that new permits be restricted to a maximum of 6 years. A six year term is a total disincentive to any spending or actions by farmers to improve the efficiency and environmental...

8. DS v NS [2018] NZDT 1454 (7 May 2018) [pdf, 130 KB]

   ...dog, injuring that dog. DS was also bitten by the dog. A car drove past and NS got out, called the attacking dog off, and put it in the car. NS came back to DS to ask if she was ok. NS then left. He confirmed to the [Council], who followed the matter up on DS’s complaint, that it was not his dog, but belonged to a person he had met that day. DS incurred $779.10 in vet’s bills for the treatment of her dog, and she filed a claim in the Disputes Tribunal against NS for this expense....

9. Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa Tāmaki nui-ā-Rua Claims Settlement Bill [pdf, 962 KB]

   ...Is'-ahungunu ki Wairarapa Tamaki nui-a-Rua Claims Settlement Act or the Te Rohe o Rongokako Joint Redress Act 2018. 6. Legislative determination ought not conventionally to fall within the scope of judicial review.' However, to the extent any excluded matters could be susceptible to judicial review, c115 constitutes a justified limit under s 5 of the Bill of Rights Act on the right affirmed by s 27(2). Excluding subsequent challenge is a legitimate incident of the negotiated se...

10. Auckland Standards Committee 3 v Park [2024] NZLCDT 6 (14 March 2024) [pdf, 108 KB]

    ...English – but, in the context, he should have yielded to the beneficiary’s request as acceptance of her cultural identity. [8] We find that the level of contribution to costs (20 per cent) advanced by Ms Mok appropriately balances the needs of justice in this case. That amounts to $12,504.08. We adopt the same percentage in relation to the Tribunal costs payable by the New Zealand Law Society under s 257 LCA.2 [9] Mr Park has taken new employment since the events that gave ri...