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1. Morison v New Zealand Association of Counsellors [2024] NZHRRT 46 [pdf, 362 KB]

   ...redacted documents. Ms Morison took issue with the completeness of the information provided to her and with the extent of the redactions. She made a complaint to the Privacy Commissioner (Commissioner). [3] As a result of the Commissioner’s investigation, NZAC subsequently provided Ms Morison with some of the documents released earlier with fewer redactions. Thereafter NZAC has released additional documents to Ms Morison, sometimes partially redacted. [4] NZAC says that certa...

2. [2017] NZEnvC 130 Butterbee Childcare Limited v Auckland Council [pdf, 972 KB]

   ...Acoustics - Construction Noise. Implementation of Construction Traffic Management Plan 14. All construction works shall be carried out in accordance with the Construction Traffic Management Plan required by condition 8. Maintain access to public and private assets 15. There shall be no obstruction of access to public footpaths, berms, private properties, public services/utilities, or public reserves resulting from earthworks activity on the site. All materials and equipment shall be...

3. [2022] NZEnvC 063 Wayfare Group Ltd v Queenstown Lakes District Council [pdf, 861 KB]

   ...controlled, restricted discretionary or discretionary activity. P 25.4.1A Earthworks for the removal and deposition of material deposited by a natural hazard event from within: a. 10m either side of the edge of the formed carriageway of a road or private road, or b. 10m of a structure, utility or a building, measured from the external walls, edge of roof, or edge of footprint as relevant. The standards for the maximum total volume of earthworks within the Rural Zon...

4. [2024] NZEnvC 035 Beachlands South Limited Partnership v Auckland Council [pdf, 608 KB]

   ...has jurisdiction, if it is considering the core issues, to consider that there could be consequential or other changes elsewhere. Those almost always lead to a notification requirement and the Court has proven reluctant to undertake this broader investigation unless it is clearly signalled by the submissions and cross-submissions themselves. Outcome [65] We have concluded that the Court has jurisdiction to hear this appeal and that we should focus the attention of the Appellant...

5. [2024] NZEnvC 101 Pascoe v Minister for Land Information [pdf, 371 KB]

   ...advice. We do not repeat those citations here but record that we respectfully concur with them. We are also conscious of the proposition stated by the High Court in the Queenstown Airport Corporation20 case that … “The greater the impact on private land, the more careful the assessment of alternative sites not affecting private land will need to be”. Although that statement was made with reference to considerations under s 171 RMA we assume that it is equally applicable to the...

6. [2024] NZEnvC 101 Pascoe v Minister for Land Information [pdf, 371 KB]

   ...advice. We do not repeat those citations here but record that we respectfully concur with them. We are also conscious of the proposition stated by the High Court in the Queenstown Airport Corporation20 case that … “The greater the impact on private land, the more careful the assessment of alternative sites not affecting private land will need to be”. Although that statement was made with reference to considerations under s 171 RMA we assume that it is equally applicable to the...

7. [2011] NZEmpC 108 Auckland District Health Board v Bierre [pdf, 145 KB]

   ...in Business Administration, a Diploma in Clinical Psychology, and a Masters degree in Psychology with Honours. He deposes to having worked as a clinical psychologist for about 14 years although does not do so at present. Mr de Zoete is now a private sector management, training and development consultant and although is a registered psychologist, he does not hold a current practising certificate. [69] I do not accept Ms Bierre’s argument that because Mr de Zoete is not practisi...

8. LCRO 160/2017 EH v FP (23 April 2018) [pdf, 192 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...

9. Proprietors of Mangatawa Papamoa Block - Lot 1 DP SA 86263 (2007) 90 Tauranga MB 25 (90 T 25) [pdf, 3.8 MB]

   ...of s 237, all the powers of the High Court in respect of trusts. [15] By comparison the statutory powers of the Maori Land Court in respect of incorporations are considerably more limited. Under section 280, the Maori Land Court has powers to investigate the affairs of a Maori incorporation only on application by shareholders holding III Oth of the shares or pursuant to a declaration in a special resolution passed by a general meeting of the shareholders that the incorporation'...

10. LCRO 220/2020 UOY - Application for review of a prosecutorial decision (3 June 2021) [pdf, 225 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 5 Email from Ms SV to the Case Manager (8 December 2020). 6 Deliu v Hong [2012] NZHC 158, [2012] NZAR 209 at [39]–[41]. 7 of a Standards Committee or an...