[2016] NZEmpC 144 Rossiter v AFFCO NZ Ltd [pdf, 123 KB]
...significant part, reply to the plaintiff’s submissions made on 1 November 2016 and the matters at issue, even on this preliminary question, are of such significance that the parties should be heard fully on them. That should not be taken as a licence to ignore timetabled directions and not to seek a variation to them where the interests of justice may so require. [4] Mr Rossiter says that at the end of the off-season at AFFCO’s Wairoa plant, he was offered work for the forthcom...