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1. Directory of Official Information P-R [pdf, 997 KB]

   ...of Parliament appointed under the Environment Act 1986. The Act establishes the office, details the Commissioner’s powers and functions, and provides for a five-year term of appointment. The Commissioner’s purpose is to provide an independent check on the capability of the New Zealand system of environmental management and the performance of public authorities in maintaining and improving the quality of the environment. The Commissioner has wide-ranging powers to investigate enviro...

2. Directory of Official Information P-R [pdf, 999 KB]

   ...of Parliament appointed under the Environment Act 1986. The Act establishes the office, details the Commissioner’s powers and functions, and provides for a five-year term of appointment. The Commissioner’s purpose is to provide an independent check on the capability of the New Zealand system of environmental management and the performance of public authorities in maintaining and improving the quality of the environment. The Commissioner has wide-ranging powers to investigate enviro...

3. LCRO 204/2021 UX v AK (28 April 2022) [pdf, 162 KB]

   ...UX was residing. 2 [5] Mr AK stopped at the property on his way home from work. He photographed the property from the road. [6] Mr UX noticed Mr AK. He followed Mr AK and caught up with him. [7] Mr UX subsequently made a complaint to the Police. [8] Mr UX consulted a barrister, Mr KD. On 24 January 2020, Mr KD telephoned Mrs AK. Mr KD says that the purpose of his call to Mrs AK was to discuss his client’s concerns about the steps that had been taken to photograph his pro...

4. Interpreters, language & disability access

   ...the court proceedings.  The communication assistant may also: work with the lawyers to prepare questions for court that they will be able to understand and answer prepare easy to read documents or visual aids to assist their understanding  check that they can understand what is happening in court and tell the judge if they need a break or other help.  Communication assistance is funded by the Ministry of Justice and there is no cost to participants or their whānau.  Makin...

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5. Fishguard & Cannock v Walsall LCRO 109 / 2009 (9 October 2009) [pdf, 81 KB]

   ...revealed that three of the earlier invoices (31 January 2008, 30 April 2008 and 30 May 2008) had included fees for professional attendances in relation to the assault charge. Some of these entries referred to attendances on the client, time spent checking the Crimes Act and Summary Offences Act, communications with police, status hearing, several entries for ‘research’, research as to defence of provocation, research as regards justification of assault, further research on jus...

6. Hawke's Bay Lawyers Standards Committee v Mr E [2016] NZLCDT 30 [pdf, 30 KB]

   ...practitioner omitted two items. Charge 2 – missing items [3] The second charge was one of straightforward credibility assessment. Since we accepted Mr E’s evidence that he had sent everything he had held by way of file material, and later rechecked, we found that charge not proved to the requisite standard. The barrister to whom the file had been sent, had allowed his client to check the file when it first arrived. So the barrister’s own evidence of missing items was not...

7. The-costs-of-crime-victimisation-in-Aotearoa.pdf [pdf, 2 MB]

   ...using only never-treated units or all not-yet-treated units as control groups. We use respondents who do not report any victimisation as the control group in our main analysis, and provide an alternative not-yet-victimised control group in a robustness check. With many cohorts and time periods, this approach results in many treatment effects, so the ATT (g, t) can be aggregated in event-study parameters that provide average treatment effects at different periods after treatment, or an average t...

8. Rafiq v Civil Aviation Authority [2013] NZHRRT 10 [pdf, 132 KB]

   ...from his mother and brother-in-law in relation to his identification and family background. Mr Rafiq states that in doing so the CAA disclosed some personal information about him to his mother and brother-in-law, including his driving history and Police information. Principle(s) applied Principles 1-4 and 11 of the Privacy Act [10] It follows that in HRRT041/2011 the Tribunal only has jurisdiction to investigate breaches of principles 1-4 and 11, not Principles 5, 7, 8 and 10. The pos...

9. Evidence Brief: Compulsory Breath Testing [pdf, 259 KB]

   ...test any drivers at any time without needing good cause to suspect that the driver has consumed alcohol. • New Zealand’s RBT regime includes both compulsory breath testing (CBT) and mobile breath testing (MBT). CBT is conducted at Police checkpoints while MBT is conducted by mobile patrols after a driver is pulled over. This evidence brief is focused on CBT checkpoints.i • The New Zealand model of CBT, which developed in Australia, involves bus and car based opera...

10. Ms B 14 April 2015 NZSHD 3 [pdf, 25 KB]

    ...resulting from one or more of the grounds for disqualification as set out in s.22(b) to (h) of the Act, but not for a disqualification resulting from a conviction for a ‘specified offence’ under s.22(a). Discussion [9] The Authority has completed a check on this application pursuant to sections 21(3) and 24 of the Act. [10] These checks reveal that the applicant was convicted of ten ‘specified offences’ within the past five years (in 2011 and 2013), namely six convictions for...