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1. 2022 NZPSPLA 039.pdf [pdf, 84 KB]

   [2022] NZPSPLA 0039 IN THE MATTER OF An application for a Certificate of Approval by MUAWIN HUSSAIN and an application by F H M ELECTRIX LIMITED for a Company Licence under the Private Security Personnel and Private Investigators Act 2010 HEARD virtually on 28 October 2022 DECISION [1] Muawin Hussain has held a certificate of approval in the classes of security technician and security consultant since 2011. His company, F H M Electrix Limited has held a company lice...

2. 2025 NZPSPLA 021.pdf [pdf, 77 KB]

   [2025] NZPSPLA 021 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 AMRITJOT SINGH HEARD remotely on 19 February 2025 APPEARANCES Snr Constable J Donaldson for NZ Police A Singh – certificate holder DECISION [1] In November 2024 Police filed a complaint against Amritjot Singh as he was facing an active charge of assault with intent to injure. Other than suspending Mr...

3. 2024 NZPSPLA 123.pdf [pdf, 76 KB]

   NZPSPLA 123 IN THE MATTER OF A complaint made under s 73 & 74 of the Private Security Personnel and Private Investigators Act 2010 (the PSPPI Act) against EAST SECURITY LIMITED & LYDIA EDWARDS and an application for renewal of a certificate of approval. DECISION [1] In March 2024 Lydia Edwards applied to renew her certificate of approval (COA) in the guarding classes. I put the application on hold when the Ministry of Business Immigration and Employment (MB...

4. 2025 NZPSPLA 093 pdf [pdf, 76 KB]

   [2025] NZPSPLA 093 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 SOLOMON TONGALEA HEARD remotely on 27 August 2025 APPEARANCES Constable A Tangney for NZ Police S Tongalea supported by his employer C Blair DECISION [1] On 28 July 2025 Mr Tongalea was convicted of driving with excess breath alcohol and failing to provide his name and address on demand. While these are...

5. 2025 NZPSPLA 129 pdf [pdf, 75 KB]

   [2025] NZPSPLA 129 IN THE MATTER OF Complaint by The Police under s 74 of the Private Security Personnel and Private Investigators Act 2010 (the Act) against LAUFILI LIVA HEARD remotely on 12 November 2025 APPEARANCES Sergeant S Dillon for NZ Police L Liva – Certificate holder no appearance DECISION [1] Police are asking for Laufili Liva’s certificate of approval to be cancelled as they say he is no longer suitable to be a responsible security worker. Poli...

6. Fast Dispute Resolution - consultation on a new statutory adjudication framework - Screen readable version [docx, 245 KB]

   ...representation. Adjudication is one of a range of different methods that are used to resolve disputes. The methods can broadly be separated into processes that use ‘facilitators’ or ‘decision makers’. In facilitation processes, an impartial third person investigates the dispute, advises on the facts and possible outcomes, and suggests solutions. This can be done in one of two ways. 1: by negotiation. Representatives of the parties go back and forth with competing offers until the issue...

7. KR v HS LCRO 227/13 (7 November 2014) [pdf, 107 KB]

   ...months that followed, Mr HS, and his firm more broadly, treated her with disrespect, did not support her interests and rights, misled her, caused her embarrassment, failed to obtain legal aid to fund her legal costs and then billed her $2,820.34 privately for their work, which she has not paid. [3] Ms KR says she would have been granted legal aid if Mr HS had been more diligent in ensuring her application was progressed. Ms KR says she advised Mr HS when she first met him that...

8. Legal Complaints Review Officer v Denee [2011] NZLCDT 6 [pdf, 74 KB]

   ...publication. [15] Mr Upton referred us to section 238 of the Act which provides for proceedings to be conducted in public unless the Tribunal can find some interest, including privacy of the complainant, which means it is proper to hold that in private. We were further referred to Dean v Wellington District Law Society & Anor3 which 1 HC Auckland, CIV-2007-441-631, 16 October 2007. 2 [2001] NZAR 465. 3 HC Auckland, CIV-2006-485-...

9. LCRO 36/2023 TL v RY and SK (4 July 2024) [pdf, 180 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...

10. [2021] NZREADT 43 - Complaints Assessment Committee v Lowndes (10 August 2021) [pdf, 302 KB]

    ...Drinnan [26] The Tribunal accepts that it would normally have been expected that the Committee would have interviewed, or sought comment from, Mr Drinnan. However, that is not the end of the matter. [27] On 18 September 2019 the Authority’s investigator wrote to Ms Lowndes (via her solicitor, Mr Ussher). He advised her that the Committee had decided to inquire 6 Published by the Authority in March 2019. into “a complaint made by [Mr Yang] against [Ms Lowndes]”....