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1. 2025 NZPSPLA 058.pdf [pdf, 73 KB]

   [2025] NZPSPLA 058 IN THE MATTER OF a complaint by The Police under s 74 of the Private Security Personnel and Private Investigators Act 2010 (the Act) against EUNICE FOORD HEARD remotely on 9 June 2025 APPEARANCES Senior Constable T Pillay for NZ Police E Foord – no appearance DECISION [1] Police are asking for Eunice Foord’s certificate of approval to be cancelled as she has been convicted of burglary and sentenced to 80 hours community work and 1 year of s...

2. 2025 NZPSPLA 059.pdf [pdf, 100 KB]

   [2025] NZPSPLA 059 IN THE MATTER OF a complaint by The Police under s 74 of the Private Security Personnel and Private Investigators Act 2010 (the Act) against MORONI TO’O HEARD on the papers DECISION [1] In March 2025 Moroni To’o was granted a temporary certificate of approval (COA) after passing the criminal history check. In May 2025 Police filed a complaint against Mr To’o as he was facing a representative charge of rape and charges of sexual connection wit...

3. 2025 NZPSPLA 079 pdf [pdf, 70 KB]

   [2025] NZPSPLA 079 IN THE MATTER OF A complaint under s 74 of The Private Security Personnel and Private Investigators Act 2010 (the Act) against VICTOR LEFAOSEU HEARD remotely on 11 August 2025 APPEARANCES Sgt D Greaney for NZ Police V Lefaoseu – no appearance DECISION [1] In December 2024 Police made a complaint against Victor Lefaoseu after he had been charged with firearms, drugs and driving offences. Other than suspending Mr Lefaoseu’s certificate of...

4. LCRO 001/2017 AB v AC [pdf, 253 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...

5. NG & OG v JS [2024] NZDT 33 (18 January 2024) [pdf, 151 KB]

   ...PLEASE NOTE: A rehearing will not be granted just because you disagree with the decision. 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 pro...

6. [2014] NZEmpC 69 H v A Limited Interlocutory [pdf, 77 KB]

   ...there is, and has been, no “permanent order” made by the Court and no party has applied for such an order. [13] Next, the plaintiff says that his privacy grounds on which interim orders have been granted are genuine. They include sensitive private information including medical information about a child, and the orders have been made to protect confidentiality, including the confidentiality of the child. [14] As to the Court’s power to make the orders that it has prohibiting...

7. 2019 NZPSPLA 000852/2019 A Taupale [pdf, 30 KB]

   NZPSPLA 000852 / 2019 IN THE MATTER OF The Private Security Personnel and Private Investigators Act 2010 AND IN THE MATTER OF An application for a Certificate of Approval by ATELI TAUPALE DECISION [1] Mr Taupale has applied for a Certificate of Approval (COA), with a temporary COA in the classes of crowd controller, property guard and personal guard. He is not eligible for a temporary COA as he has had two assault convictions in the last seven years which is gr...

8. 2021 NZPSPLA 002 [pdf, 81 KB]

   [2021] NZPSPLA 002 Case number 003946 / 2018 IN THE MATTER OF The Private Security Personnel and Private Investigators Act 2010 AND IN THE MATTER OF Complaint by The Police under s 74 of the Act against NATHAN LAMB HEARD by telephone on 15 January 2021 APPEARANCES Constable T Bates – for NZ Police N Lamb – no appearance DECISION [1] In February 2020 the Police laid a complaint against Nathan Lamb as he had been charged with impeding breathing, threa...

9. 2020 NZPSPLA 006 [pdf, 60 KB]

   [2020] NZPSPLA 006 Case number 001904 / 2015 IN THE MATTER OF The Private Security Personnel and Private Investigators Act 2010 AND IN THE MATTER OF Complaint by The Police under s 74 of the Act against JOSHUA WATSON HEARD by telephone on 3 June 2020 APPEARANCES Sergeant J Moody for NZ Police J Watson – no appearance DECISION [1] The Police have laid a complaint against Joshua Watson as he has been convicted of lighting fires after setting fire to fou...

10. 2020 NZPSPLA 004 [pdf, 72 KB]

    [2020] NZPSPLA 004 Case number 005618 / 2016 IN THE MATTER OF A complaint under s 74 of The Private Security Personnel and Private Investigators Act 2010 BETWEEN THE POLICE Complainant AND JAMES JONES-ATAONGO Respondent HEARD By telephone on 12 February 2020 APPEARANCES Sergeant A McMillan for NZ Police J Jones-Ataongo, no appearance DECISION [1] The Police laid a complaint against Mr Jones-Ataongo after he assaulted a patron outside an Auckland...