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1. Family Court Rewrite Submission Birthright NZ [pdf, 187 KB]

   ...recommendation that a child lawyer be appointed who is best fit for the child. Translation services should also be provided where a child has English as a second language and would be more comfortable communicating in their native tongue. • Parenting Through Separation: we agree that PTS is an important part of the family justice system and has been positively received. Work needs to be done on reviewing the format and availability of PTS to meet the needs of all people engaging...

2. NZCVS topical report - Offences against New Zealand adults by family members (data tables) [xlsx, 121 KB]

   ...boyfriend or girlfriend) or ex-partner (previous husband, wife, partner, boyfriend or girlfriend). Though we use the term ‘offences’, the information is based on survey respondents’ experiences and they may not reflect incidents that have been through a formal criminal procedure. Offences by family members The definition of offences by family members in this report is in line with offence coding used by Police. The following offence types are included (where the offender is a family...

3. NZCVS Cycle 4 Core Report FAQs [docx, 43 KB]

   ...opposed to ex-partners). The report provides some new results not included in previous reports. For example, looking at working age adults, disabled adults are four times as likely to be highly victimised compared to non-disabled adults. Females who are separated or divorced are significantly more likely to be victimised, while males who are married, in a civil union, or in a de facto relationship are significantly less likely to be victimised. Cybercrime is the least likely offence to be repor...

4. Mokena v Riwai Morgan Whānau Trust - Estate of Tamati Mokena [2014] Chief Judge's MB 314 (2014 CJ 314) [pdf, 183 KB]

   ...order was consistent with local Māori custom on whāngai rights on intestacy and referred to Willoughby v Panapa Waihopi 5 in support of this statement. In this case, the Court observed that children had long been capable of acquiring land rights through customary adoption and that it was Māori practice to give an adopted child the rights of a child by birth. 5 (1910) 29 NZLR 1123 (SC) 2014 Chief Judges’ MB 320 [33] T...

5. Parenting Through Separation - Hindi translation [pdf, 386 KB]

   अलग होन ेके बाद की जान ेवाली परवररश अपन ेबच्चों के लिए सर्वश्षे्ठ व्यरस्थाएँ करनथा यह केरि एक सथारांश है। अधिक वरररण के लिए, ऑनिथाइन JUSTICE.GOVT.NZ/FAMILY/CARE-OF-CHILDREN पर जथाएँ जब आप अिग होत ेहैं, तो आपके बच् ेपर

6. [2015] NZEmpC 206 Fox v Hereworth School Trust Board [pdf, 620 KB]

   ...employer; her demeanour which was not conducive to resolution of the employment relationship problem identified by it; her language which was destructive of the relationship of trust and confidence between the parties; and her apparent connection, through supply of information, to the authors of what are known to the parties as the critical and destructive “aromabadlaughs” emails, which breached her obligations of good faith and further eroded the relationship of trust and confi...

7. Fisher v Potroz - Mohakatino Parininihi No 1C West 3A2 (2016) 361 Aotea MB 146 (361 AOT 146) [pdf, 552 KB]

   ...Te Kawau, including 1C West 3A2. He says that in or around 1992 he entered into an informal arrangement with Bill Waho, his whānaunga and the father of the manager of Te Kawau Station at the time. The arrangement allowed Mr Waho to move stock through the inland side of the land (an apparent reference to the parent block Mohakatino Parininihi 1C West 3A), in exchange for weed spraying and maintenance of all the fences. The arrangement was not for grazing. Mr White noted that the...

8. Legal needs among low-income New Zealanders survey [pdf, 808 KB]

   ...(discussed above) before proceeding to the main interview. The sample design ensured that 70% of respondents were drawn from a landline sample frame and 30% of respondents drawn from a mobile frame2. Potential contact phone numbers were generated through Random Digit Dialling (RDD). RDD involves generating a large volume of telephone numbers through matching known telephone ‘pre-fixes’ (the first part of a phone number) with a random generation of the remaining digits. 2 Th...

9. Evaluation of Victim Support Services [pdf, 1.1 MB]

   Page 0 ­ ‹#› Legal needs among New Zealanders A general population survey – which includes comparisons with a previous survey of the low income population Organisation: Ministry of Justice Attention: Phyllis Anscombe Date: 13 April 2018 Page 1 ­ ‹#› Table of Contents Executive Summary .....................................................................................

10. [2012] NZEmpC 207 Hutton and Others v Provencocadamus Ltd (in receivership) [pdf, 252 KB]

    ...ProvencoCadmus group of companies. In this Court, the claim is that the plaintiffs were employed by the 1 See [2012] NZEmpC 127. 2 Subject to a dispute as to the extent to which interest is payable. parent company (ProvencoCadmus Limited (PCL)) and one subsidiary company only – Provenco Payments Limited (PPL). [8] The Authority determined 3 that when the plaintiffs signed their employment agreements, the intention was tha...