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1. [2018] NZSSAA 018 (20 April 2018) [pdf, 502 KB]

   ...attended the interview and provided invoices issued by MOH to her brother for a paid family carer. The MSD official then suspended the appellant’s SLP. On 22 December 2015, MSD cancelled the appellant’s SLP. [6.8] MSD’s National Fraud Unit investigated the matter and concluded the appellant was not employed by Healthcare NZ Community Health. However, Healthcare of New Zealand Holdings Limited had made two payments to the appellant. Those payments were for the costs of her...

2. 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...

3. [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...

4. 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...

5. 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'...

6. 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...

7. [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...

8. [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...

9. [2015] NZEmpC 92 Hally Labels Ltd v Powell [pdf, 426 KB]

   HALLY LABELS LIMITED v KEVIN POWELL NZEmpC AUCKLAND [2015] NZEmpC 92 [16 June 2015] IN THE EMPLOYMENT COURT AUCKLAND [2015] NZEmpC 92 ARC 35/11 IN THE MATTER OF proceedings removed from the Employment Relations Authority BETWEEN HALLY LABELS LIMITED Plaintiff AND KEVIN POWELL Defendant Hearing: 31 March-4 April 2014 2-12 February 2015 23-24 February 2015 Appearances: C T Patterson and A Halloran, counsel for plainti

10. [2020] NZEmpC 149 Bay of Plenty District Health Board v CultureSafe NZ Ltd [pdf, 438 KB]

    ...whether it went beyond that which was fair and temperate in the circumstances. He also submitted that the Authority had power under s 134A of the Act to make an order for penalties against any person who “obstructs” or “delays” an Authority investigation. It was submitted this power was broad enough to encompass conduct that amounted to contempt, particularly where it was designed to discourage or obstruct a litigant from seeking a proper determination from the Authority....