Search Results

1. Government Response to Law Commission report on the Review of the Privacy Act 1993 [pdf, 84 KB]

   ...Justice to analyse the implications of these recommendations and to report back to the Government in September 2012. Recommendations that need further analysis before a Government view is possible There are 55 recommendations11 that require further investigation before the Government is able to form a view. Most of these recommendations are to make significant changes to the Act; will have regulatory implications that are more than minor; and will have flow on effects that need to be...

2. New Zealand Law Society v Faleauto [2009] NZLCDT 19 [pdf, 180 KB]

   ...particular charges are: 2 1.1 Without lawful justification or excuse, he refused or failed to comply with the lawful requirement of the Auckland District Law Society or Complaints Committee No. 2 to provide specified documents, relating to the investigation of a complaint against him by Mr G S, for inspection under s.101(3)(d) Law Practitioners Act 1982. (“the S Charge”); 1.2 Between July 2005 and July 2007, in breach of Rule 11.03 of the Rules of Professional Conduct...

3. UC v YW LCRO 165/2013 (30 November 2016) [pdf, 261 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...

4. 2019-10-01-MfE-Professor-Skeltons-Report.pdf [pdf, 1.9 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 ii Acknowledgements Peter Skelton wishes to acknowledge the considerable assistance he has received from Ministry for the Environment officials Robert McClean, Carly O’Connor and Rowan Taylor in both the investigation work a...

5. BORA Education Pastoral Care Amendment Bill Vet [pdf, 148 KB]

   ...where a provider otherwise refuses to allow reasonable access). It is likely that information relevant to a complaint or possible breach of a code will be located at student accommodation; c. express statutory protections exist to ensure that highly private and sensitive areas of student accommodation (namely, students’ rooms) can only be entered and searched where the code administrator believes on reasonable grounds that this is necessary for a purpose of monitoring or investigating...

6. [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...

7. 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”? .....................

8. 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...

9. 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...

10. 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...