OE v UC [2023] NZDT 47 (8 February 2023) [pdf, 129 KB]
...‘the court thing’. Although I made a further seven attempts to reach her over the next two hours, only one of these was successful for around a minute or so when the call was disconnected. UC then sent another email to the Tribunal to say that the service was terrible. However, the onus was on UC to be contactable for the hearing today, and she did not put herself in a position to do this. The absence of a party does not prevent the hearing going ahead, which it did two hours after the...