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1. QX v HC [2025] NZDT 164 (13 May 2025) [pdf, 192 KB]

   ...you do file an appeal at the same time, the rehearing application will be heard first. Grounds for Appeal There are very limited grounds for appealing a decision of the Tribunal. Specifically, the Referee conducted the proceedings (or a Tribunal investigator carried out an enquiry) in a way that was unfair and prejudiced the result of the proceedings. This means you consider there was a breach of natural justice, as a result of procedural unfairness that affected the result of the proc...

2. [2023] NZEnvC 249 Bayswater Marina Berth-Holders Association Incorporated v Auckland Council [pdf, 3.9 MB]

   ...BMHL and Auckland Transport have agreed to the vesting of part of that area, being the extension to Sir Peter Blake Parade, as road reserve. This area to vest does not include the boat ramp/manoeuvring area, which will continue to be retained in private ownership by BMHL with public access secured by way of easement and esplanade strip covenant (modified to allow public vehicle use). [14] The map relied on in that case is annexed as “A” and it is unclear how that demonstrates...

3. CAC 10054 v Hume [2013] NZREADT 91 [pdf, 252 KB]

   ...‘pushy and blunt’ in asking about Mr Gaskin’s listing of his property at 19 Smart Terrace with Ms X; (c) On or about 1 December 2009, the defendant was subject of a verbal complaint to his employer from a member of the public selling a property privately, who alleged that the defendant had intimidated her in trying to persuade her to list the property with him; (d) In or around December 2009, the defendant failed to present an offer to a client against the direct instructions o...

4. Proactive-release-Foreign-Interference-Bill_FINAL..pdf [pdf, 594 KB]

   ...perceives as threats, covertly influencing government decision-making or electoral processes, and manipulating domestic media to amplify pro-foreign state perspectives. 11 Espionage refers to clandestine activities undertaken to collect State or private information, materials, or capability to obtain competitive advantage at the expense of New Zealand’s security, international relations, and economic prosperity. This definition is wider than the crime of espionage found in the Cr...

5. [2018] NZEmpC 71 Sawyer v The Vice-Chancellor of Victoria University of Wellington [pdf, 347 KB]

   ...University of Wellington. One of them is a claim that she was constructively dismissed from her position as a senior lecturer in the Law Faculty. The other claim is that she was unjustifiably disadvantaged in her employment during the course of an investigation into complaints she had made. [2] Dr Sawyer complained about two senior members of staff in her faculty as a result of which the university arranged an investigation. It reached the point where a draft report was prepa...

6. [2022] NZREADT 24 - Complaints Assessment Committee 2103 v Sharma (14 November 2022) [pdf, 258 KB]

   ...[6] The Committee called the following witnesses. Ms Galuszewski [7] Amanda Galuszewski attended the hearing and confirms the truth of her brief of evidence dated 9 June 2022. She also confirms the truth of what she told the Authority’s investigators on 14 February 2018, 24 October 2018 and 2 July 2020. [8] Ms Galuszewski previously worked as a property manager for the management company between 2013 and December 2016. Mr Sharma owned and operated the management company....

7. [2024] NZIACDT 03 – MT v Murthy (11 January 2024) [pdf, 160 KB]

   ...her submissions (10 December 2023) to the Tribunal, there is no denial of the breaches of the Code, nor any explanation from her. [33] The lack of a client account and the immediate use of the advance payment for her (or her company’s) own private purposes are breaches of cl 25(a), (b), (e) and (f). (5) Failed to provide file notes in the client file, in breach of cl 26(a)(iii) [34] It is alleged that the Authority’s review of Ms Murthy’s client file revealed there were no...

8. OIA-119557.pdf [pdf, 2.2 MB]

   ...(if at all). From our work to date we believe this is due in large part to a drafting error in s259 of the Local Government Act 2002 which makes it administratively unworkable. The RRC made three recommendations – that the Government: 1. Consider investigating why bylaw breaches are seldom designated as infringement offences. 2. Consider whether types or classes of bylaw breaches should be designated as infringement offences. 3. Formally set out its expectations for how a Minister would co...

9. LCRO Annual Report 2012 [pdf, 965 KB]

   ...Convenyancers (NZSC) Standards Committees on complaints against lawyers and conveyancers. Part 7 of the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006, which governs the regulatory scheme of the Act, essentially provides for the LCRO to undertake a second tier investigation into complaints where a party is dissatisfied with the first tier investigation by the Standards Committees. In that light it is necessary to not overlook that the activities of this office also reflect the activities of the Sta...

10. [2010] NZEmpC 146 Robertson v Envirowaste Services Ltd [pdf, 44 KB]

    ...insufficient evidence that it was Mr Robertson’s truck that had hit the hopper, particularly as there was no blue paint on it in the photographs taken by Mr Robertson. [23] Mr Hayes relied on Mr Robertson’s evidence that at the Authority investigation the defendant produced for the first time a computer printout of the GPS unit on the truck. Mr Robertson claimed that the unit was accurate down to about 1 or 2 metres. He claimed that the printout showed that his truck was at...