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1. Auckland Standards Committee 3 v Mr G [2024] NZLCDT 16 (31 May 2024) [pdf, 164 KB]

   ...by Mr G. We considered it was more relevant how Mr G’s reaction to his work pressures and his lack of experience fitted into the overall picture. [19] Mr G immediately fully accepted his wrongdoing, cooperated with the Standards Committee investigation and, at an early stage, admitted the charge brought at the most serious level rather than seeking to minimise his actions and seek to have his culpability assessed at the lower level of “unsatisfactory conduct”. All of these a...

2. LCRO 175/2022 OP v VN (10 October 2023) [pdf, 315 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...

3. [2013] NZLCDT 28 Southland Standards Committee v W [pdf, 234 KB]

   ...delivers the Tribunal’s decisions on those matters. It also records the reasons for the Tribunal’s decisions at the hearing in respect of the respondent’s application for permanent name suppression, and the respondent’s application for a private hearing, such latter application being declined for the reasons given at the time. Background [3] Section 241(c) LCA refers to professional negligence or incompetence in the following terms: “……negligence or incompe...

4. AM and HM v TH and NH [2022] NZDT 69 (24 March 2022) [pdf, 244 KB]

   ...string line, it is de minimus. The fence therefore, is a structure on the land belonging exclusively to TH and is not a boundary fence. CI0301_CIV_DCDT_Order Page 4 of 7 22. As I have found the fence is a structure on TH’s land that is privately owned, HM and AM are not entitled to an order that it be treated as a boundary fence. If it is not a boundary fence, then are HM and AM entitled to erect a new fence on the boundary and have TH and NH pay for half of that cost?...

5. Waitangi Tribunal - Wai 2200 A186 Scoping report [pdf, 3.3 MB]

   ...Expression of Rights ......................................................................................................................... 38 The Āhuaturanga and Rangitikei-Manawatū purchases 1864-1866 .................................. 38 Title Investigation of the Manawatū-Kukutauaki Block 1872 .......................................... 40 Whitireia and Wi Parata .................................................................................................................. 43...

6. Triennial-Legal-Aid-Discussion-document [pdf, 489 KB]

   ...system will be a key recommendation from the current triennial review. Legal aid providers Legal aid contracting arrangements involve a mixture of publicly provided services through the Public Defence Service (PDS) and contracting individually with private lawyers. PDS lawyers receive a salary and only provide criminal legal aid services. Contracted private 4 In 2023, there were 64,643 people with finalised charges in the District Court, of which 42% (27,425) of defendants were Māo...

7. Māori and Tauiwi have different concepts of justice

   ...and values to those of tikanga Māori. It divided the rules by which society operated into two streams of law, civil and criminal. Each had their own distinct set of principles and procedures.  The civil law dealt with matters that were considered ‘private’, typically disputes between individuals or companies, often involving money, contracts, wills, tax, land or other property, and family matters.  The criminal law, by comparison, dealt with wrongs considered to be done against the State...

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8. OIA-120119.pdf [pdf, 3.1 MB]

   ...Please note that this response, with your personal details removed, may be published on the Ministry website at: Official Information Act responses | New Zealand Ministry of Justice You have the right under section 28 of the Act to seek an investigation and review by the Ombudsman of this response. Information about how to make a complaint is available at ombudsman.parliament.nz or call 0800 802 602. Nāku noa, nā Fleur Keys Chief Advisor, Criminal Justice htt...

9. [2022] NZEmpC 101 UXK v Talent Propeller Ltd [pdf, 357 KB]

   ...relates to the question of whether a permanent non-publication order should be made in this proceeding. [5] Ms Fechney sought a permanent order of non-publication. Mr Upton submitted an interim order only was appropriate since the Authority would investigate the issue of whether a permanent order should be made at the upcoming investigation meeting. [6] That meeting is now due to commence on 20 June 2022 for three and a half days; it has been necessary for the challenge to be he...

10. [2023] NZEmpC 170 FGH v RST [pdf, 283 KB]

    ...a judicial settlement conference, I reviewed the decision to proceed with RST’s disciplinary process alongside the Court process.7 This included consideration of the somewhat surprising step that had been taken by RST to have an independent investigator undertake a disciplinary process at the time the Court was considering the legitimacy of that process. In the course of my consideration of this issue, I said: [392] In the absence of a formal application for stay being applied for...