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1. Guide-for-making-an-appeal-to-the-Taxation-and-Charities-Review-Authority.pdf [pdf, 330 KB]

   ...Registration Board is the decision-maker regarding the registration and de-registration of charities on the register. Alongside the register of charities, the Act establishes the regulator for the charities sector which consists of two bodies. Charities Services operates as a business group within the Department and the independent Charities Registration Board and ensures that entities continue to conduct charitable purposes and provide public benefit. Charities Services maintains the...

2. Tan v New Zealand Police [2016] NZHRRT 32 [pdf, 327 KB]

   ...the Crimes Act 1961. The request [11] Because he did not, at that stage, consider he had enough evidence to obtain a search warrant or a production order to compel the provision of information from the CCDHB, Mr Woodley on 12 September 2014 telephoned Ms Donna Hickey, Director of Human Resources, to make a request under the Privacy Act 1993 and the Official Information Act 1982 that the CCDHB advise whether Ms Tan had accessed the child’s NHI record. The request was made. Ms Hick...

3. COVID-19 Alert Level 4 in the District Court data summary [pdf, 439 KB]

   During Alert Level 4 of COVID-191 the justice system, including the courts, was an essential service. The District Court continued to operate to deal with priority proceedings, including those affecting the liberty of the individual; protection of the at-risk or vulnerable (including children); national and community safety; and facilitating and promoting public order. In the criminal jurisdiction, defendants in custody appeared before a Judge either remotely or in person. Othe...

4. LCRO 68/2016 ZA v YB (23 May 2019) [pdf, 202 KB]

   ...her father’s estate and the Trust after his death. [11] Mrs ZA has complained that Mr YB has failed to:3 • Act competently and in a timely manner. • Provide [her] with information about the work to be done, who will do it and the way the services will be provided. • Charge [them] a fee that is fair and reasonable. • Give [them] clear information and advice. • Treat [them] respectfully. • Keep [them] informed about the work being done. • [Tell them] how to make...

5. Director of Proceedings v Te Whatu Ora [2023] NZHRRT 32 [pdf, 461 KB]

   ...2(a) A declaration pursuant to section 54(1)(a) of the Health and Disability Commissioner Act 1994 (“the Act”) that Southern District Health Board (“DHB”) has breached the Health and Disability Commissioner (Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights) Regulations 1996 (“the Code”) in respect of Right 4(1) by failing to provide services to the aggrieved person with reasonable care and skill; and 2(b) A final order pursuant to s 107(3)(b) of the Human Rights Ac...

6. Addressing-Stalking-in-NZ_Final-pack.pdf [pdf, 1.7 MB]

   ...managing any persons sentenced to imprisonment. Implementation activities will include ensuring sufficient prison capacity for those sentenced to imprisonment following a conviction for stalking and harassment. 24 There are no stalking specific support services available for victims or rehabilitative services for perpetrators. However, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) already provide a wide range of support for victims and their whānau who experience stalking and harassment. I exp...

7. OIA-120214.pdf [pdf, 5 MB]

   ...Commissioning and Service Improvement. The team focused on exploring if the risk assessment model being used in Australia could be trailed as a component of the Christchurch Family Violence Operating Model pilot. • The Provider and Community Services team, managed by Hayley Mackenzie, Manager Provider & Community Services, Commissioning and Service Improvement. The team focused on Ministry contracted family violence service providers. • The Office of Legal Couns...

8. [2021] NZACC 159 – Hawkins v ACC (12 October 2021) [pdf, 184 KB]

   ...finger in March 2013. 5. At the time of her original shoulder/neck injury on 29 July 2006, Mrs Hawkins and her husband were working directors and shareholder employees of Southern Homes Ltd, which provided house construction and building services. Mrs Hawkins was primarily responsible for the administration side of the business and her husband the building work. Each director held 400 shares and a further 400 shares were jointly owned. 6. After injury, Mrs Hawkins returned...

9. DA v EB LCRO 7/2013 (3 December 2014) - Penalty and Costs [pdf, 62 KB]

   ...conduct to consider the purposes set out in s 3 of the Act, and the fundamental obligations of lawyers in s 4, which relevantly say: 3 Purposes (1) The purposes of this Act are – (a) to maintain public confidence in the provision of legal services...: (b) to protect the consumers of legal services…: ... (2) To achieve those purposes, this Act, among other things, – (a) reforms the law relating to lawyers: … 4 Fundamental obligations of lawyers...

10. LCRO 101/2019 YK v RN (17 March 2020) [pdf, 146 KB]

    ...She received no response to that request. [8] The following day (16 August 2018) the vendors cancelled the contract. The complaint and the Standards Committee decision [9] Ms YK lodged a complaint with the New Zealand Law Society Complaints Service on 10 September 2018. [10] Her complaint named Ms RN and Mr [VIC] as the parties against whom she was advancing her complaint. [11] The Complaints Service advanced Ms YK’s complaints as two separate complaints. The complaint in r...