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1. [2016] NZEmpC 136 Xtreme Dining Ltd t/a Think Steel v Dewar [pdf, 391 KB]

   ...primarily interested in swimming. The other two were mainly interested in drinking beer. [27] Late in the afternoon when the group left the river, Mr Dewar stated that he would drop the other two back at a location where Mr Feaver’s car was parked. At that point, Mr Dewar understood that Mr Feaver and Mr Jones wanted to obtain more beer. [28] As they drove back, Mr Feaver said that he wanted to obtain money to buy beer, and that he had a fuel card which he would us...

2. [2024] NZEnvC 143 Cooper v Kaipara District Council [pdf, 857 KB]

   ...extending into LVE and the associated private roading network. [4] The LVE development lies between the Western and Eastern Flanks of the site, 4 comprising lots generally between 5,500m2 – 8,000m2. There are local shops, a kindergarten, parks and other social and community infrastructure located in the Mangawhai township within 3km to the northeast of the site.1 Figure 1 Showing Western and Eastern Flanks, surrounding Rural Zoning (green) and existing cadastral pattern of dev...

3. [2024] NZEnvC 129 Second Star Limited v Queenstown Lakes District Council [pdf, 591 KB]

   ...m² in area and would be located, largely out of sight in a small valley to the south-east of the lodge buildings. It is a conventionally designed single story building with a pitched roof clad in cedar weatherboards, with an adjacent area of parking for 20 staff and service vehicles. [9] There is some limited curtilage area in front of Buildings A – D, comprising seating areas and landscaped pools that would be flanked by constructed wetland areas with associated riparian plan...

4. Recommendations Recap Issue 26 1 January-31 March 2021 [pdf, 984 KB]

   Recommendations Recap A summary of coronial recommendations and comments made between 1 January and 31 March 2021 Office of the Chief Coroner | 2021 (1) i Coroners’ recommendations and comments Coroners perform essential functions within our society. They inquire into a range of unexpected deaths to establish the identity of the person who has died and the cause and circumstances of their death. While inquiring into a deat

5. [2012] NZEmpC 20 White & Others v Reserve Bank of New Zealand [pdf, 148 KB]

   ...its functions in the most efficient and cost-effective manner.” The ERP explained that an employee’s base salary was to be 70 per cent of the total remuneration package and it identified certain benefits, such as concessional staff loans, car parks and expense allowances that were substitutable for an equivalent cash value. [15] Mr Lang said in evidence that a complicating issue in introducing the total remuneration packages concept was how to determine salary for superannuatio...

6. [2016] NZEmpC 86 Radius Residential Care Ltd v The NZ Nurses Organisation Inc [pdf, 182 KB]

   ...New Zealand Apple and Pear Marketing Board v Master & Sons Ltd [1986] 1 NZLR 191 at 193. the peril and possibility of being convicted as a criminal': per Field J in Lamb v Munster 10 QBD 110, 111" (403). See also Blunt v Park Lane Hotel Ltd [1942] 2 KB 253. The rule extends to discovery (Triplex Safety Glass v Lancegaye Safety Glass) and to interrogatories (Taranaki Co-operative Dairy Co Ltd v Rowe [1970] NZLR 895). [24] As to whether that common law rule ha...

7. TA v NC & Anor LCRO 207-208 / 2011 (20 December 2012) [pdf, 122 KB]

   ...remedies against L 5 Limited. After doing the usual conflict check, PD referred the new client to the Practitioner. [18] In an early email (25 June 2008) the Applicant wrote to the Practitioner, “I forgot to ask, could you give me a ball park figure as to the cost of these proceedings?” to which the Practitioner responded, “[i]t is difficult to estimate at this stage, but I would say something in the $7,000.00 - $10,000.00 range, assuming a reasonable degree of res...

8. BORA Court Matters Bill [pdf, 194 KB]

   ...tribunals, are heard) and a “court”.2 A “court” includes the courtroom of each of the bodies, the part of the building that services the courtroom, the grounds immediately adjacent to the building that belong to or service the building, and any car parking area in the building or grounds.3 It also includes the Judge’s chambers and those parts of the building and grounds associated with servicing the chambers.4 1 Long title to C...

9. Stone v CAC 412 & Lim [2019] NZREADT 20 (22 May 2019) [pdf, 589 KB]

   ...similar complaint to the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA). [19] They noted that in February 2016 Ms. Lim told an employee of the authority that Mr. Stone said that he wanted to come back to her house; that he took her to a car park where he touched her back and did not let her leave the car park6. [20] Mr. Stone strongly disputed the allegations which he described as: comprising theft, corruption, assault, sexual abuse and abduction [21] Subsequently, Ms. Lim se...

10. 2020-12-07 Statement of evidence of Tom de Pelsemaeker on behalf of the ORC - Appendix H [pdf, 197 KB]

    ...Waitangi Tribunal are considered by the Court of Appeal to be of “great value” to the Court,36 and are often given considerable weight in its judgments, Courts are nonetheless not obliged to give effect to Tribunal 28 Waikanae Christian Holiday Park v Kapiti Coast District Council Wellington CIV-2003-485-1764, 27 October 2004 (HC). 29 See for example Mahuta v Waikato Regional Council EnvC A091/98. 30 Sea-Tow Ltd v Auckland Regional Council [1994] NZRMA 204 (PT). 31 Te Puni Kōkir...