Search Results

1. Overview - Hearing process [pdf, 207 KB]

   ...officer. If the parties are unable to attend, they must advise the Secretary of the Authority of this no later than three working days before the hearing date and the hearing may be rescheduled. Appeals before the Authority are generally heard in private. At the hearing, relevant evidence that was considered when MSD made its decision and heard by the Benefits Review Committee will be reheard. It is the responsibility of the appellant to advance and support their argument on appeal....

2. Summary of submissions: New Zealand accession to the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime [pdf, 248 KB]

   ...this requirement. 2 Any submission indicating that it was being provided from a Māori perspective, or by an individual or organisation identifying as Māori has been considered as a Māori submission [IN-CONFIDENCE] 4 points to coordinate investigations and requests for information, and the importance of accession in light of several recent cyber incidents in New Zealand. The four submissions received from organisations involved in the creative community supported accessio...

3. Sax v Commissioner of Police (Strike-Out – Discrimination) [2022] NZHRRT 33 [pdf, 173 KB]

   ...come before the courts and may be openly reported. [55] These principles are given statutory effect in s 107 of the HRA which provides that every hearing of the Tribunal must be held in public unless it is desirable for the hearing to be held in private or for a non-publication order to be made: 107 Sittings to be held in public except in special circumstances (1) Except as provided by subsections (2) and (3), every hearing of the Tribunal shall be held in public. 8 (2) The T...

4. 2012 Ministry of Justice annual report [pdf, 2.3 MB]

   ...the Serious Fraud Office, the Ministry of Social Development (for youth justice) and a number of Crown entities and agencies. Working as a sector recognises that there is a ‘pipeline’ across the criminal justice system. It extends from the investigation of crime to arrest and prosecutions, through to courts, sentencing, and sentencing management and rehabilitation. It means policies and approaches in one part of the system can have significant effects on others. The crimin...

5. [2016] NZEmpC 175 Wikaira v The Chief Executive of Department of Corrections [pdf, 767 KB]

   ...pay for the period of the employment investigation and that she was expected to be “responsive and communicative”. She was advised that a copy of the terms of reference for the investigation would be sent to her, as would be advice of the investigator appointed by the defendant. [53] On 9 June 2015, and although the prosecution had concluded, Ms Wikaira’s lawyer, Mr Blaikie, wrote at some length to Mr Rongo narrating what he described as setting some matters “straight bec...

6. Chalecki v Accident Compensation Corporation (Entitlement to Vocational Rehabilitation Costs, Decision Capable of Review) [2023] NZACC 88 [pdf, 297 KB]

   ...were keen to limit their liability, so they supported him building up the number of pigs that he had. [18] He said ACC was told by specialists that he was sick; in chronic pain and that he needed rehabilitation. [19] He said that ACC had a private investigator check whether he was working and that they went to the Police, his bank and his neighbour. He said “it got that bad for us that me and my wife had to move”. He said that ACC breached ss 35 and 37 of the 1982 Act. He...

7. Otago Standards Committee v Duff [2021] NZLCDT 25 (2 September 2021) [pdf, 168 KB]

   ...almost half of the annual income for AKL, the categorisation of the payment within the company’s accounting records did not change until January 2021 after Mr Duff had received some professional accounting advice. [24] Mr Duff had begun to be investigated in relation to the transaction under consideration here in mid-2019. In late 2019 Mr Duff approached his accountant Mr Ruddell to begin discussing work on the company’s accounts which had clearly been neglected for some years....

8. [2019] NZEnvC 077 Bunnings Limited v Queenstown Lakes District Council [pdf, 3.3 MB]

   ...with Council's road naming policy. Advice Note 2: the consent holder is advised that the road naming application should be submitted to Council prior to starting works. 6 f) The provision of road and pedestrian lighting to Road 9 and the private car parking areas in accordance with Council's road lighting policies and standards, including the Southern Light lighting strategy. Road lighting on Road 9 and development car parking and manoeuvring areas shall be designed to a L...

9. [2012] NZEmpC 206 Faapito v CE of the Department of Corrections [pdf, 237 KB]

   ...concluded that although the inmate did receive some morning doses, his prescribed medication was not recommenced until nine days after receipt of a new prescription from a psychiatric consultant. This fact-finding report generated an employment investigation of the plaintiff’s conduct. [24] On 7 April 2009 Ms Faapito was placed on special leave on pay for two days to allow her to prepare submissions about these allegations and to address the question whether she should be suspe...

10. Mullane v Attorney-General (Request for Transcript) [2021] NZHRRT 31 [pdf, 143 KB]

    ...and why Politicians, from day one, have ignored my pleas for help and also why senior respected officials, such as Edwards, Judge Sir David Carruthers, Judge Peter Boshier and his corrupt side-kick Leo Donnelly, have deliberately misled me, delayed investigations of my complaints to their Agencies (upto 3 and a half years) and then give some lame excuse which led back to it being my fault. 3 [8] Mr Mullane has also alleged the Chairperson of the Tribunal is corrupt and a complaint h...