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1. Audit summary report FINAL [pdf, 608 KB]

   ...one or more areas. Audits ranked poor or very poor were weak in a number of practice themes and sometimes failed to display an active focus on the client and file organisation. The quality of legal aid services is also assured by the complaint investigations service. To find out more about complaints received in 2015-16, see Appendix 1. 2 Audits of legal aid lawyers Each year Legal Aid Provider Services manages an audit programme for legal aid lawyers. This is part of the q...

2. Audit summary report [pdf, 609 KB]

   ...one or more areas. Audits rated poor or very poor were weak in a number of practice themes and sometimes failed to display an active focus on the client and file organisation. The quality of legal aid services is also assured by the complaint investigations service. To find out more about complaints received in 2015-16, see Appendix 1. 2 Audits of legal aid lawyers Each year Legal Aid Provider Services manages an audit programme for legal aid lawyers. This is part of the qu...

3. [2023] NZEnvC 245 The Adare Company Limited v Hamilton City Council [pdf, 1.3 MB]

   ...Mangakootukutuku gully network.  Require subdivision to create a connected, legible, and permeable transport network that enables access through the structure plan, particularly for active modes, allowing local trips to be undertaken without reliance on a private vehicle.  Subdivision should be undertaken, (where topography allows) to maximise access to sunlight for allotments.  Promote active street frontages that ensuring road frontages are not dominated by carparking, gara...

4. Protected Disclosures (Protection of Whistleblowers) Bill [pdf, 179 KB]

   ...(freedom of expression). Our analysis is set out below. The Bill 4. The Bill replaces the Protected Disclosures Act 2000 (the Act). The Bill continues the purpose of the Act, which is to promote the public interest by facilitating the disclosure and investigation of serious wrongdoing in the workplace, and by providing protection for employees and other workers who report concerns. 5. The Bill proposes to re-enact many provisions of the Act either without change or with only superfi...

5. [2016] NZEmpC 17 NZ Meat Workers & Related Trades Union Inc v AFFCO NZ Ltd [pdf, 126 KB]

   ...resolve their difficulties by those means: s 50K(2)(b). Indeed, if any of the grounds for facilitation in s 50C(1) are found to exist, the Authority (or the Court) must direct that facilitation be used (under ss 50B-50I) before the Authority can investigate the s 50K application unless it considers one of four alternative scenarios exists. Those are that the use of facilitation: 8  will not contribute constructively to resolve the difficulties; or  will not, in a...

6. Body Corporate 85978 and Unit Owners of St Pauls Apartments v Wellington City Council & Ors [2013] NZWHT Auckland 9 [pdf, 228 KB]

   ...CLAIM?.....................................................................................................16 ARE THE QUEST UNITS DWELLINGHOUSES AS DEFINED BY THE ACT? .......17 What is meant by the phrase “intended to have as its principal use occupation as a private residence”? ...........................................................................................18 If a unit is a hotel or motel, is it excluded from the definition of a “dwellinghouse”? .....................

7. BORA Education Pastoral Care Amendment Bill [pdf, 218 KB]

   ...provider means a person or body that is,— (a) in respect of international students, a registered school; or (b) in respect of domestic students and international students,— (i) an institution within the meaning of section 159; or (ii) a registered private training establishment registered under section 233; or (iii) an organisation that provides adult and community education that receives funding under section 159YA or 159ZC signatory provider means a provider that is a signatory to the...

8. DS v TL LCRO 12/2015 (15 June 2016) [pdf, 30 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...

9. 2020-12-07 Statement of Evidence of Tom de Pelsemaeker on behalf of the ORC - Appendix C [pdf, 1.4 MB]

   Investigation of Freshwater Management and Allocation Functions at Otago Regional Council Report to the Minister for the Environment by Professor Peter Skelton CNZM; D.Nat.Res (Hon); LLB; FEIANZ 1 October 2019 Ashley.Harker Textbox Appendix C iii Acknowledgements Peter Skelton wishes to acknowledge the considerable assistance he has received from Ministry for the Environment officials Robert McClean,...

10. JC v KB [2019] NZDT 1387 (3 July 2019) [pdf, 152 KB]

    ...PLEASE NOTE: A rehearing will not be granted just because you disagree with the decision. Ground for Appeal There is only one ground for appealing a decision of the Tribunal. This is that 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. A Notice of Appeal may be obtained from the Disputes Tribunal website. The Notice must be filed at the District Court of which the Tri...