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1. [2025] NZIACDT 22 – ZZ v Wen (25 March 2025) [pdf, 214 KB]

   ...briefly summarised here. [5] The complainant, ZZ, is a national of China. Xinru Wendy Wen is a licensed immigration adviser and director of NEO Education and Immigration Services Ltd, of Auckland. At the relevant time, she held a provisional licence. She now holds a full licence. [6] On 21 February 2023, Ms Wen was contacted by an unknown and unlicensed person (the agent) seeking a work visa on behalf of the complainant. There followed an exchange of texts and documents betw...

2. Jia v Wang [2011] NZIACDT 30 (19 September 2011) [pdf, 106 KB]

   ...purpose of the Act is set out in section 3, and it includes promoting and protecting the interests of consumers receiving immigration advice. [34] A licensed immigration adviser must take responsibility for the practice operated in reliance on their licence. The complaint is upheld [35] The Adviser claims in effect she was a victim of a dishonest pretence which excluded her from knowledge of what was occurring. If a licensed immigration adviser has taken reasonable steps to ensure a p...

3. Evidence Brief: Alcohol Ignition Interlocks [pdf, 324 KB]

   ...continues after the devices are removed. • An alcohol interlock programme is currently delivered by the New Zealand Transport Agency. The programme requires the use of an interlock for a period of time before a disqualified drink driver’s licence is reinstated. The Department of Corrections provides funding for interlocks for certain offenders. • Low uptake and high cost of installation are the main limitations on the effectiveness of interlocks. Uptake is reduced by...

4. [2019] NZEmpC 190 Maddigan v Director-General of Conservation [pdf, 304 KB]

   ...departmental vehicle or personal vehicle used for work purposes to report driving infringements to a manager at “the earliest opportunity”. Mr Maddigan did not advise a manager about either of these incidents at the time they occurred. His licence was subsequently suspended on the basis of accumulated demerit points on 1 September 2016. The Department’s policy requires employees to advise their manager or supervisor “immediately” if their driver’s licence has been susp...

5. Drug and Substance Checking Legislation Bill (No 2) [pdf, 140 KB]

   ...issue licences for drug and substance checking service providers to perform specified functions; • require the Ministry of Health to publish a list of drug and substance checking service providers; and • introduce offences for non-licenced persons to provide drug and substance checking and for licenced providers to breach the terms or conditions of their licence. 6. The Bill specifies the functions of drug and substance checking service providers as being: i. to...

6. CAC v Hughes and Hape, CAC v Hughes and Lal [2016] NZREADT 57 [pdf, 336 KB]

   ...also not received a commission. [21] The Tribunal comment that these are appropriate practical first steps for the parties concerned to have taken. Mr Hughes [22] Mr Hughes has stopped working as a real estate agent. He has surrendered his licence. His conduct is the most serious of all of the agents before the Tribunal. Mr Hughes did not contest the submissions of the Real Estate Agents Authority that his licence should have been cancelled if he had not already surrendered it....

7. [2021] NZIACDT 10 - YC v Wan (19 May 2021) [pdf, 238 KB]

   ...licensed immigration adviser, is a director of PJ Education & Immigration Services Ltd (the consultancy), of Auckland. His consultancy employs Ms Han, then a provisionally licensed adviser, whom he supervised. Ms Han has since obtained a full licence. [5] The complainant is a national of China. She has been in New Zealand since 2014, initially on student visas and later work visas. [6] In early June 2019, the complainant contacted Ms Han as she wished to apply for an es...

8. LCRO 202/2018 HB v MD (26 June 2020) [pdf, 172 KB]

   ...either issuing notices under the Property Law Act 2007, or writing letters of demand. [7] In late 2016 there was a default by Mr HB, which resulted in litigation between himself and WT. During the course of that litigation Mr HB referred to a licence to occupy the property that he had granted to his parents (Mr and Mrs HB Snr) in 2000 (the licence). [8] That litigation was settled on 31 March 2017 with Mr HB and WT executing a deed of settlement which resolved a number of issues....

9. [2020] NZIACDT 22 - NJUM v VOLE (2 June 2020) [pdf, 137 KB]

   ...Registrar, provided submissions on 13 March 2020. He notes the Tribunal’s observation that Mr Vole’s dishonesty was serious misconduct. It is submitted that the appropriate sanctions would be: (1) censure; (2) suspension of Mr Vole’s licence until he has completed the LAWS 7015 professional practice course through Toi-Ohomai Institute of Technology; and (3) an order for the payment of a penalty in the vicinity of $7,000. [20] According to Mr Denyer, Mr Vole has not compl...

10. 2023 NZPSPLA 057 [pdf, 79 KB]

    [2023] NZPSPLA 057 IN THE MATTER OF A referral under s 26 of the Private Security Personnel and Private Investigators Act 2010 in relation to applications for a company licence by ALL ROUND ENTERTAINMENT NZ LIMITED and certificate of approval by WYNYARD MANLEY DECISION 1. In March 2023 the Authority referred a complaint against All Round Entertainment NZ Limited and its director Wynyard Tyson Manley to the Complaints Investigation and Prosecution Unit (CIPU) for in...