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1. Regulatory Impact Statement: Improving security so that people feel safer in courts [pdf, 411 KB]

   ...Affairs, Land Information New Zealand, the Ministries of Business, Innovation, and Employment, Health, Pacific Island Affairs, Social Development, Transport, New Zealand Customs, New Zealand Police, New Zealand Transport Agency, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, Real Estate Agents Authority, the State Services Commission and Te Puni Kōkiri. 60. The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, The Treasury and the Parliamentary Counsel Office were informed. 61. Heads of Bench...

2. [2017] NZEmpC 27 Dent v Waikato DHB [pdf, 192 KB]

   ...(1) and (2). It is too remote and the request is declined.  (13): Ms Dent is no longer pursuing the request for this category of documents. In any event it would involve the WDHB releasing a great deal of information which is protected by privacy insofar as the named employee is concerned.  (14): This item relates to the wages claim which is not before the Court and it is declined.  (15): This is a request for minutes of two meetings in 2010 and is related...

3. Richard Mayer v Complaints Assessment Committee 304 [2017] NZREADT 44 [pdf, 236 KB]

   ...evidence to show that [the Agency’s’] systems were not sufficient to ensure the professional and appropriate behaviour of [Mr File] given that there is no evidence provided to show that [Mr File] failed in these regards or that [Mr Mayer’s] privacy was compromised. 4.6 [Mr Barns] did investigate the allegations made by [Mr Mayer] and reached the conclusion that [Mr File] behaved appropriately. 4.7 The Committee has determined under section 89(2)(c) of the Act to take no furt...

4. Audit Summary Report 2016-2017 [pdf, 433 KB]

   ...records. Many providers did not keep a bound file but simply stacked papers loose leaf. Some providers had a habit of re-using already printed pages to record notes. Auditors found this added to the problems of comprehending the file and risked potential privacy breaches. Files were often in such a state that the Auditor could not determine when or how matters were resolved. There were concerns that any lawyer who uplifted the file would struggle to get up to speed on the case. On one f...

5. COVID-19 Communications to Family Violence Providers [pdf, 321 KB]

   ...muting/unmuting individual participants or all of them at one. You can also use the Mute Upon Entry feature to help with larger Zooms. • Explore the technology: Before you host or join a meeting, familiarise yourself with Zoom’s features and privacy settings. If your child is going to be using Zoom for school or to chat with friends, it’s important to go over these settings together and set expectations and boundaries for using it. 6 • Protect your identity: When usi...

6. LCRO 35/2018 MR v GB (4 April 2019) [pdf, 266 KB]

   ...the Notice of Withdrawal prepared by him is “what any lawyer would have prepared in the circumstances. It expressly contemplated independent advice”. 10 Mr GB’s complaint about breach of privacy falls into this category. 10 [49] All that is required to withdraw a complaint is for the Complaints Service to be notified accordingly. The notice prepared by Mr MR went significantly further by including a statement by Mr GB th...

7. Auckland Standards Committee 1 v Arman [2019] NZLCDT 18 [pdf, 340 KB]

   ...to one charge of misconduct pursuant to s 7(1)(a)(i) of the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006 (the Act). The amended charge to which the plea was entered is annexed as Appendix I. The client’s names have been anonymised for reasons of their privacy. [2] The charge related to multiple professional failures by the practitioner to his client Mr J, the most serious of which was particularised as subjecting Mr J to pressure to plead guilty to a very serious charge. That guilty plea w...

8. LCRO 64/2020 - QR - Application for review of a prosecutorial decision (7 September 2020) [pdf, 219 KB]

   ...also present were Mr and Mrs SJ, and Mr QR’s wife. Mr QR had previously been advised that this review would be addressed separately from Mr SJ’s. The reason for this is that I consider the issues to be different for each party and matters of privacy were important, so that each applicant would be able to be frank and free to make comments that he may not otherwise be able to make in the presence of the other. [34] I therefore asked Mr and Mrs SJ to withdraw which they immedi...

9. Chief Coroners Annual Report 2018-2019 [pdf, 1.6 MB]

   ...New Zealand ought to follow suit to reduce the chances of preventable quad bike deaths. Note: An order under section 74 of the Coroners Act 2006 prohibits the publication of photographs of the deceased in the interests of decency and personal privacy. 13 14 15 File Ref: CSU-2009-AUK-000932 2019 NZCorC 14 8/04/2019 Date of Finding: 8 April 2019 SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDATIONS Zachary Gravatt of Auckland, age 22, died on 8 July 2...

10. LCRO 38/2019 & 151/2019 Yuri Lukas v ZE (30 January 2020) [pdf, 167 KB]

    ...Approval Committee to practice only in the area of immigration law. 13 [66] The Standards Committee has fairly acknowledged that “the bar for name publication [i]s high …”.13 [67] Section 142(2) of the Act establishes a presumption of privacy. This Office has issued Publication Guidelines which are set out in paragraph [4] of the Committee’s determination. Additional comments made in that decision, CA v XU LCRO 196/2010 (18 May 2011), are equally relevant to this d...