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1. OIA-121215.pdf [pdf, 1.4 MB]

   ...recommendations sitting within the Justice portfolio. 12. The recommendations include proposed amendments to, or review of, the Crimes Act 1961, the Criminal Records (Clean Slate) Act 2004, the Evidence Act 2006, the Human Rights Act 1993, the Legal Services Act 2011, the Limitat on Act 1950, the Limitation Act 2010, the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990, the Sentencing Act 2002, and the Victims’ Rights Act 2002. Your direction is sought on the prioritisation of recommendati...

2. National Standards Committee 1 v Peters [2019] NZLCDT 39 [pdf, 248 KB]

   ...sought under s 240 of the Act be a blanket one, or should the decision be released to the client and to the Crown solicitor conducting his case? Background Summary [7] On the evening of 15 March 2019 Mr Peters was requested to speak by telephone (under the Police Detention Legal Assistance Scheme) to the suspect who had been arrested for the Christchurch Mosque shootings which had taken place earlier that day. [8] Mr Peters spoke with the man that evening for a relatively brief...

3. INZ (Gilray) v Croxson [2019] NZIACDT 72 (18 October 2019) [pdf, 142 KB]

   ...NZ (South Island) Limited. He is based in Christchurch. [5] Messrs E and B had been offered employment by the same New Zealand branch of an Australian company (the employer), as small engine mechanics. [6] In March 2016, Absolute Immigration Services (Absolute Immigration), an Australian based immigration consultancy, contacted Mr Croxson and asked him to act for four Filipino clients to be employed by one New Zealand employer. The staff of Absolute Immigration are not licensed...

4. Greyling v Gimranov [2016] NZIACDT 22 (2 May 2016) [pdf, 181 KB]

   ...complaint relates to instructions Mr Gimranov received from a client to apply for a work visa and then a residence visa. [2] Mr Gimranov worked in a practice styled North Shore Immigration: [2.1] Mr Gimranov agreed to provide the professional services to apply for a work and residence visa, [2.2] The complainant paid $7,000 for those services, [2.3] Mr Gimranov identified a Mr Woodberg styled as the managing director of North Shore Immigration. Mr Woodberg provided information for...

5. [2007] NZEmpC WC 33/07 Balfour v CE of the Department of Corrections [pdf, 42 KB]

   ...Corrections (“the department”), his former employer. Following a judicial settlement conference the parties entered into a settlement agreement dated 29 August 2003. Bronwyn Kingdom, the human resources manager for the Community Probation Service/Probation and Offender Services, signed the settlement agreement on behalf of the department. The present claim [2] Mr Balfour now claims compensation for “deliberate and malicious” breaches of that settlement agree...

6. MW v EF Ltd [2019] NZDT 1304 (4 December 2019) [pdf, 248 KB]

   ...meruit award for the consulting work? 13. A party who has operated with a reasonable belief in a contractual undertaking as a result of reliance on representations that give that impression may be entitled in equity to reasonable remuneration for services rendered. Such a claim can be made where the recipient of the services has received a benefit, and if so, if it is unjust for that benefit to be retained without being paid for. 14. I find that there is a basis for a modest quantum...

7. ABC Trust v G Ltd [2021] NZDT 1307 (16 April 2021) [pdf, 247 KB]

   ...In an attempt to thwart that outcome, he issued a Trespass Notice (served 22 May 2019) against the person he mistakenly believed was the only person who could drive the hauler off the site. In fact, that individual was the mechanic contractor who serviced the equipment on site for G Ltd, the logging company finishing the northern block and the digger company. LK says he attached a map to the Trespass Notice that specifically showed where the individual could and could not go on site so...

8. QAB v PAC, OAD and NAE LCRO 93/2015, 94/2015 and 142/2016 [pdf, 105 KB]

   ...expressed simply:1 Mr PAC, Mr OAD and Ms NAE all knowingly, recklessly, produced a document with the intention to deceive the Standards Committee. [5] The document referred to is a letter dated 19 May 2009 from Mr PAC to the Lawyers Complaints Services replying to an earlier complaint by Mr QAB against the three lawyers in which he said: [28] Neither the trial Judge, nor any of the many experienced counsel and accused involved, enquired whether the transcript of the sentencing indic...

9. Edwardes v Architectural Edge Limited [2017] NZWHT Auckland 2 [pdf, 117 KB]

   ...dwelling-house situated at 308D Seaview Road, Ostend, Waiheke Island. The home allegedly has water ingress issues causing significant damage. The claimants filed an application for an assessor’s report under the Weathertight Homes Resolution Services Act 2006 (the Act) with the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment on 27 November 2012. [2] The claimants applied for adjudication before this Tribunal on 14 March 2016. [3] The claimants’ second amended statement...

10. NQ & SS v QG & Ors [2024] NZDT 83 (9 January 2024) [pdf, 218 KB]

    ...9. For the reasons stated below, I find the remedial drainage work done by E Ltd in (or around) June 2022 at [address 1] is covered by s28 of the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 (“CGA”). 10. I say that because: a. within the definition of “services” in s2 CGA, this work constitutes the provision of services to SS and NQ, despite there being no direct contract between E Ltd and SS and NQ; and b. I am satisfied SS and NQ are “consumers” for the purposes of s2 CGA...