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1. Directory of Official Information V-Z [pdf, 1.3 MB]

   ...arm, there are a range of other providers who provide a variety of health services and disability services for people in the district, the largest of which is the Tū Ora Compass Health which covers the whole district. Other providers are a mix of private, religious, welfare and other non-governmental organisations. The services they provide include mental health residential and support services, rest homes, primary care (GP and nursing services, community workers, pharmacists, laboratori...

2. Director of Human Rights Proceedings v Slater [2019] NZHRRT 13 [pdf, 717 KB]

   ...journalism in particular) by the internet and by the digital revolution. Of interest in the present context the Cairncross Review notes there are two areas of public-interest news that matter greatly. Both are essential in a healthy democracy. One is investigative and campaigning journalism, especially investigations into abuses of power in both the public and the private sphere. The second is what is described as the “humdrum task” of reporting on the daily activities of public in...

3. [2024] NZEmpC 147 MW v Spiga Ltd [pdf, 740 KB]

   ...power to depart from an open hearing. We elaborate on the details of that power for each body. Particular provisions relating to the Employment Relations Authority [26] Relevantly, the Authority may, in investigating any matter, decide that an investigation meeting should not be “in public” or “should not be open to certain 24 Sections 214 and 216. 25 Section 157(3). 26 Sections 157(3) and 189. 27 Section 143(f). 28 Sections 214 and 216. See also FMV v TZB [2021] N...

4. 2019 Directory of Official Information G-I [pdf, 916 KB]

   ...understanding of, and compliance with, the Code or the provisions of the Act; • act as the initial recipient of complaints about health care providers and disability services providers, and to ensure that each complaint is appropriately dealt with; • investigate, on complaint or on the Commissioner’s own initiative, any action that is or appears to be in breach of the Code; • refer complaints or investigations on the Commissioner’s own initiative to the Director of Proc...

5. LCRO 2/2017 RR and SS Trust v QQ, WW, EE, GG, TT, YY, UU, OO, PP, ZZ, FF and DD (3 December 2019) [pdf, 70 KB]

   ...Review Officers is not appropriately equated with a general appeal. The obligations and powers of the Review Officer as described in the Act create a very particular statutory process. The Review Officer has broad powers to conduct his or her own investigations including the power to exercise for that purpose all the powers of a Standards Committee or an investigator and seek and receive evidence. These powers extend to “any review” … … the power of review is much broader th...

6. Beauchamp 30 March 2014 NZSHD 4 [pdf, 103 KB]

   ...in her possession at the time the car was stolen. [47] Detective Parker took a written statement from Mr. Beauchamp on 29 August 2013. In it he says amongst other things: 8 [a] Only a small percentage of the cars he purchases are from private buyers, perhaps 3 to 5 per month. Most are from Turners. [b] He dismantles the cars. The engines are sold on site or are sent overseas. The shells of the vehicles go to Sims Pacific Metals (“Sims”) for $120 per tonne. [c] He hol...

7. Waitangi Tribunal theme G - Public works takings of Māori land [pdf, 1.4 MB]

   ...project. 7 CHAPTER 2 SUMMARY The public works land taking provisions introduced into New Zealand after 1840 were based on principles developed in previous centuries in English law. Ironically the main principle, that the state had the right to take private land for public purposes, was not vastly different from traditional concepts of Maori land tenure where individual rights to the use of certain land and resources were subject to the greater needs of the hapu or iwi. The right of the...

8. [2015] NZEmpC 200 South Pacific Meats Ltd v NZ Meat Workers & Related Trades Union Inc [pdf, 177 KB]

   ...frequency and reasonableness of union access to 1 South Pacific Meats Ltd v New Zealand Meat Workers & Related Trades Union Inc [2015] NZERA Christchurch 102. SPML’s plants were not investigated or ruled on by the Authority and they will not be determined in this judgment. The sole, albeit important, issue for determination is whether the Authority was right to dismiss the SPML’s claim because it had no jurisdiction t...

9. Final-Technical-Assessment-G-Hydrogeology-and-Groundwater-v2.pdf [pdf, 9.1 MB]

   ...adverse effects and to maximise environmental and community outcomes. 4. To identify and avoid any potential adverse effects of the Ō2NL Project on groundwater, and where this is not possible to mitigate potential adverse effects, comprehensive investigations were undertaken to gain a better understanding of the groundwater system beneath and adjacent to the proposed highway. Those investigations are summarised in Appendix G.1 to this Technical Assessment. That appendix should...

10. NZHC 349 28 February 2013 Therese Anne Sisson v The Standards Committee [pdf, 181 KB]

    ...the appellant responded to an email from Ms H saying she was in discussion with the LSA concerning an amendment to the grant and that although her ‘final account has been prepared for some time ... Legal Services have not authorised payment privately of work undertaken by me from June 2007 to (the) fixture’. [26] After further delay, a final invoice was sent to Ms H on 27 June 2008 in which the appellant charged for her work from 29 June 2007 to the time of the final settlem...