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1. DK & EK v S Ltd [2024] NZDT 359 (27 March 2024) [pdf, 194 KB]

   ...Was the work carried out with reasonable care and skill? b. If so, what remedy is available? c. Was it a term of the contract that liability would be limited to $10,000.00? Was the work carried out with reasonable care and skill? 7. Where services are supplied to a consumer, s 28 of the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 states that there is a guarantee that the service will be carried out with reasonable care and skill. 8. The burden is on DK and EK to show that the services by S Lt...

2. [2012] NZEmpC 124 Allen v C3 Ltd [pdf, 256 KB]

   ...in dispute. According to Mr Thompson, the text message said: Sleep in if you want, the ship’s finished. 1 [2011] NZERA Auckland 506. [6] The plaintiff says that he had his cell phone switched off and did not receive the text before he arrived at work, as previously arranged. [7] In the event, the plaintiff arrived at work at 6.45am and was informed by Mr Thompson that he was not required to work and that a text t...

3. [2025] NZIACDT 21 – KA v Wen (5 March 2025) [pdf, 197 KB]

   ...Advisers Code of Conduct 2014 (the Code), these being grounds of complaint under the Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007 (the Act). BACKGROUND [4] 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. [5] The client (and the first complainant) is KA, a national of China. He had a friend in New Zealand, ZD, with whom he communicated for the purpose of imm...

4. Unnikrishnan v Goldsmith [2016] NZIACDT 29 (2 June 2016) [pdf, 177 KB]

   ...the student visa before they will register her. This is absurd because INZ will never issue a student visa without formal and original confirmation of enrolment, registration and receipt of fees that was paid. I was promised that the manager will phone me back after 10 am this morning. I am still waiting! It is my viewpoint that we are wasting our time with this institution. [35] On 26 February 2013, Ms Goldsmith had another opportunity to understand how the process worked. The univers...

5. E Ltd v XL [2024] NZDT 563 (9 July 2024) [pdf, 239 KB]

   ...Ltd? Did E Ltd’s work meet the guarantee as to fitness of a particular purpose pursuant to section 29 of the CGA? 9. Section 29 of the CGA is as follows: 29 Guarantee as to fitness for particular purpose Subject to section 41, where services are supplied to a consumer there is a guarantee that the service, and any product resulting from the service, will be— (a) reasonably fit for any particular purpose; and (b) of such a nature and quality that it can reasonably be...

6. BU v L Ltd [2025] NZDT 45 (11 February 2025) [pdf, 200 KB]

   ...not complied with L Ltd’s requirements. One was a delay of nine months by the previous owner during the covid period; and the other was not carried out by L Ltd. BU said that the first thing that he had done when he bought the car was to have it serviced by L Ltd. L Ltd had performed the last service that had been done before the car broke down. [6] BU provided evidence that there had been a recall by L Ltd of its [model] cars that were manufactured between 2011 and 2014. The reason g...

7. [2022] NZEmpC 233 Baillie v The Chief Executive of Oranga Tamariki – Ministry for Children [pdf, 280 KB]

   ...while Mr Baillie was on sick leave, but they knew each other from his previous time in the facility. [13] Mr Baillie and the shift leader, Andrew Rowe, were working together on 3 April 2021. During the afternoon the young person was allowed to phone his girlfriend. The call was from a room using a Bluetooth speaker connected to a phone in another room. As Mr Baillie and Mr Rowe walked past the room they could hear the young person talking. They thought the language he was usi...

8. LCRO 76/2020 FV v GT (23 July 2021) [pdf, 269 KB]

   ...this until [redacted] 2018. [14] By [redacted] 2018 matters had not been resolved with IRD, and the Court placed [ABC] into liquidation. Complaint [15] Miss FV lodged her complaint against Mr GT with the New Zealand Law Society Complaints Service (Complaints Service), on 12 July 2019. She said: (a) Mr GT arranged an initial adjournment of the liquidation proceedings against [ABC] with IRD, on 25 January 2018. The eventual adjourned date was [redacted] 2018. (b) On the afte...

9. February Legal Aid News [pdf, 525 KB]

   ...continue to be managed by our Christchurch office until 20 March 2017; any remaining active criminal files for Christchurch will be transferred at this time. Contacts details for our Wellington office are: Email: wellington.legalaid@justice.govt.nz Phone: (04) 472 9040 or 0800 253 425 Postal Address: SX10146 https://www.justice.govt.nz/assets/Documents/Publications/Legal-Aid-Practice-Standards-Feb-17.pdf mailto:auckland.legalaid@justice.govt.nz justice.govt.nz Urgent o...

10. EU v LX [2019] NZDT 1487 (23 October 2019) [pdf, 194 KB]

    ...balance and could not be contacted. In August 2018, EU referred the debt to a collection agency, [Collection Agency], but LX disputed the debt. 3. EU now claims $4,122.33, comprising the balance of $3,111.43 together with collection costs of $653.40, a service fee of $70.00, and $287.50 for the cost of filing proceedings. 4. LX did not attend the hearing or present any defence to the claim. The absence of a party does not prevent the hearing going ahead. 5. The issues to be determined...