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1. IACDT - A Complainant's Guide to Proceedings [pdf, 439 KB]

   ...details may mean that documents will be treated as having been effectively served on you, irrespective of whether you actually receive them. 8. WITHOLDING YOUR ADDRESS 8.1. If the Immigration Advisers Authority has withheld your identity during the investigation of the complaint pursuant to section 47(3), the adviser will serve the Immigration Advisers Authority who will then pass the documents on to you. 8.2. Once your complaint has been referred to the Tribunal, you can raise any...

2. [2021] NZACC 38 - ACC v White and Ovation NZ Ltd (19 February 2021) [pdf, 214 KB]

   ...Court agreed to send the matter back for a new review hearing and decision, he would no longer have cover for his mallet thumb injury and the new review decision might determine that he was not entitled to this cover. The Corporation instructed private investigators to locate Mr White and serve the above documents on him. [27] On 17 March 2020, a process server provided an affidavit of service stating that, on 2 March 2020, he spoke with a male who confirmed his name to be Tyronne...

3. RX v KL LCRO 31/2014 [pdf, 137 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 tha...

4. [2021] NZEmpC 196 KAQ v The Attorney-General [pdf, 245 KB]

   ...alleging that the Labour Inspectorate had breached its statutory duties by failing to enforce minimum standards at Gloriavale. [3] Access is sought because of what is described as the significant public interest in the matter, including in light of investigations conducted by the Labour Inspector;1 reported concerns raised by the Commissioner of Children about conditions for children at Gloriavale; and reports that the Police, Oranga Tamariki and the Teaching Council have active i...

5. [2007] NZEmpC CC 13A/07 Abernethy v Dynea NZ Ltd [pdf, 107 KB]

   ...whether the plaintiff’s grievances were barred was determined by the Authority as a preliminary issue after Dynea lodged a statement in reply in the Authority protesting its jurisdiction and raising the accord and satisfaction defence. An urgent investigation meeting was convened by the Authority to deal with this preliminary issue. Its determination also found that a letter sent by the plaintiff to Dynea on 10 February 2007 did not raise a personal grievance. At the direction of...

6. HortNZ - EiC - V Hodgson - Planning (5 Feb 2021) [pdf, 341 KB]

   ...experience 6. My full name is Vance Andrew Hodgson. I am a director of Hodgson Planning Consultants Ltd, a resource management consultancy based in Waiuku. I have been employed in resource management related positions in local government and the private sector since 1994 and have been in private practice for 17 years. I hold a Bachelor of Resource and Environmental Planning (Hons) degree from Massey University. 7. I have worked in the public sector, where I was employed in stud...

7. Raukawa v Lux - Te Oitahuna Raukawa Whānau Trust (2015) 116 Waiariki MB 288 (116 WAR 288) [pdf, 245 KB]

   ...2013, despite the injunction to freeze the bank account of the Trust being in place since 5 July 2012. Mr Lux deposited two cheques amounting to approximately $42,379.16 into that newly created bank account. [18] Further, counsel advised that an investigation by the Inland Revenue Department was now being undertaken in relation to the Whānau Trust, due to the failure of Mr Lux to file tax returns since 2010. A debt owed by the Trust in relation to the GST had also been enforced...

8. Waters v Alpine Energy Ltd (Discovery) [2014] NZHRRT 8 [pdf, 97 KB]

   ...Act. These provisions must be applied purposely. Recognition must be given to the fact that discrimination can be easily disguised and difficult to prove. A claim to confidentiality must not be allowed to shield alleged discriminatory acts from investigation. [38] Bearing these factors in mind the public interest in the full and rigorous investigation of alleged unlawful discrimination must be given significant weight in the weighing or proportionality assessment mandated by s 69(2) o...

9. [2011] NZEmpC 21 Maddern v Worldxchange Communications Ltd [pdf, 154 KB]

   ...Mr Nicholson related to his artwork being “the focus of the workplace bully”. He went on to state: This time the harassment took the form of vandalism. The culprit was caught on camera and so was soon identified by Mr Nicholson after an investigation that he initiated. As I understand it a formal process was started that you are no doubt aware of. So I do not seek to revisit that unfortunate period except to say that I felt compelled to remove my artwork from my workpl...

10. LCRO 48/2014 M LJ and the trustees of the M LJ Family Trust v PY (5 June 2019) [pdf, 219 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 t...