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1. [2023] NZEnvC 053 Bennett v Dunedin City Council [pdf, 761 KB]

   ...become parties under s274 of the Act. Mr Parata withdrew his notice on 18 December 2020. The three active s274 parties have signed the memorandum setting out the relief sought. [7] The parties advise that: (a) the parties have agreed to a Deed of Private Development in relation to stormwater management; and (b) the appellant and Blueskin Bay Watch Society Incorporated will enter into a private agreement; and (c) the amendments: (i) for the rezoning are consistent with Policy...

2. MLC - 150 years of the Māori Land Court [pdf, 11 MB]

   ...rapid changes as a result of the work of the Native Land Court was Hawke’s Bay. Quite why Hawke’s Bay was so dramatically affected at this early stage in the Court’s history is uncertain. It is very clear, however, that a sudden flood of investigations began in Hawke’s Bay in March 1866, leading to rapid tenurial change in the province and a contraction of the area in Māori land ownership as grantees sold their interests to private purchasers. In its first year of operation...

3. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - summary record 5th report (continued) [pdf, 96 KB]

   ...country’s largest business organization — and the Institute of Directors in New Zealand. Its aim was to present the case for women on boards from a business perspective and it actively advocated for more women in corporate governance. In another private sector initiative, a group of prominent New Zealand businesswomen, including the former Prime Minister Dame Jenny Shipley, had been established to push the case for female directors, provide governance, training and mentorship. It w...

4. Auckland Standards Committee 5 v Barton [2020] NZLCDT 28 (10 September 2020) [pdf, 143 KB]

   ...denials and lying in an affidavit are congruent with that understanding of her offending – she wanted to avoid losing face at all costs. Even when asked the simple question what was going on for her when the forgeries occurred, she wanted to speak privately with her lawyer before responding. We gave her that opportunity. From what followed, it seems likely that her guardedness was mainly against the strength of her own passionate guilt and private remorse. [23] In our view, Ms...

5. 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...

6. 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?...

7. Southland Standards Committee v W [2013] NZLCDT 28 [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...

8. [2016] NZEmpC 32 Bhikoo v Stephen Marr Hair Design Newmarket Limited [pdf, 239 KB]

   ...disparaging language towards the company and fellow directors and advised that he was going to open his own salon. Mr Bhikoo again denies that he used foul language on this occasion. [14] While Mr Bhikoo’s shareholding was held in the name of his private trust and he was a director of SMHD, when these events occurred he was acting in his capacity as manager of the Newmarket salon. He was therefore acting as an employee when he behaved in the way he did. Mr Irvine wrote to Mr...

9. LCRO 1/2016 87/2016 and 88/2016 GV v Standards Committee [pdf, 167 KB]

   ...GV’s conduct both as a lawyer for, and a member of, the respective Councils. [6] On 29 March 2016, the Committee resolved: a) to inquire into the complaints pursuant to s 137 of the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006; and b) to appoint an investigator to investigate the complaints. [7] The Committee advised that Mr BP had been appointed to undertake the investigation of these complaints. Application for review [8] Ms GV applied for a review of the November 2015 resolution...

10. 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...