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1. Cabinet proposal to establish a supervision regime for offenders deported to New Zealand [pdf, 204 KB]

   ...of their arrival. Where possible, offenders will receive advance notice about the regime. The notice will set out the details of the regime, including the term of supervision, and instructions for the returning prisoner to report to a specified probation service centre within 72 hours. 27. Where Police is required to serve notice on the offender after they have already arrived, Police would apply to the court for a warrant to enter a premise to serve notice if entry to the premise is...

2. OP v RS LCRO 159/2015 [pdf, 89 KB]

   ...Option A (the Notice) signed by Mrs OP, on Ms RS’s advice and with her certification. Once the choice was made, other than in limited circumstances, the Notice was irrevocable. That left Mrs 4 OP in the position of having applied for probate and filed the Notice. The High Court Registrar’s advice, which I take to be correct, was that she could do one or the other, but not both. [12] The Committee found that Ms RS’s part in supervising and managing the file was unsa...

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4. Outline of supervision regime for offenders deported to New Zealand [pdf, 79 KB]

   ...reintegration of offenders deported to New Zealand after serving a prison sentence in another jurisdiction. 3. The regime will comprise standard release conditions mirroring those in section 14 of the Parole Act, which require the offender to report to a probation officer and give the probation officer the authority to give directions to the offender in relation to residence, employment and associates. The standard conditions will apply automatically for qualifying offenders without req...

5. 2022 NZPSPLA 045.pdf [pdf, 91 KB]

   ...assault. He also has a previous similar conviction from 2015. [2] A telephone hearing was held on 20 January 2022 with the Police and Mr Vaiusu both giving evidence. As a result of the hearing Mr Vaiusu was directed to file a letter from his Probation Officer including any support documentation regarding the education and improvement work he was expected by Corrections to undertake, particularly with respect to alcohol use and violence. Probation subsequently advised that they have...

6. [2018] NZEmpC 85 Kaikorai Service Centre Ltd v First Union Inc [pdf, 407 KB]

   ...to be called by the defendant. The basis for this application is that those paragraphs are said to be irrelevant, contain opinion evidence or, in some instances, because of the prejudicial effect of the intended evidence outweighing its probative value. An allied part of the application was that hearing this evidence would needlessly prolong the proceeding. [2] The defendant opposes the application on the basis that all of its evidence is relevant and admissible. The p...

7. Waaka - Succession to Hauriri Kere [2021] Chief Judge's MB 824 (2021 CJ 824) [pdf, 322 KB]

   ...of April 1943. Wairata Kere 9. Court minutes at 30 Opotiki MB 304-305 (11 August 1943) concern the application for probate of the will of Wairata Kere and the reaching of an equal shares agreement between directly affected parties: M Runkall: Have had conference – Matehuirua Kere suggests that she and two adopted children should be treated as brothers...

8. Bahramitash v CAC 402 & Ritesh [2016] NZREADT 40 [pdf, 176 KB]

   ...Tribunal is not bound by the provisions of the Evidence Act 2006. However, those provisions are not irrelevant, and the Tribunal will still have regard to the general provisions of the Evidence Act, as set out in ss 7 and 8 of that Act, as to the probative value of evidence, balanced against the risk of evidence having an unfairly prejudicial effect on the proceeding.3 The decision whether to admit evidence is a matter for the exercise of the Tribunal’s discretion. [11] The rel...

9. Hunuhunu - Estate of Wiremu Witariana Hona (2017) 166 Waiariki MB 229 (166 WAR 229) [pdf, 139 KB]

   ...Phillips or Wiremu Wi Tariana or William Wiremu Hona or William Hona or William Phillips or Heta Witariana or Bill Hona or Heta Hona. 166 Waiariki MB 230 Background [4] Wiremu Hona died on 21 February 1978. He left a Will dated 16 July 1975. Probate of the Will was granted on 29 March 1978. In accordance with the Will, the Public Trustee became executor of the estate. [5] On 25 May 1985, an application was filed per s 78A of the Māori Affairs Amendment Act 1967 to vest t...

10. Julian v Inia-McCaull - Estate of Moehuarahi Te Ruuri [2018] Chief Judge's Minute Book 493 (2018 CJ 493) [pdf, 374 KB]

    ...challenge this bequest, the Will ought to have been contested at the time, in a “Court of competent jurisdiction” – the High and Family Courts. 18. The application states that the family couldn’t contest the Will because it wasn’t probated. There is no such barrier under the Family Protection Act 1955. Indeed, the only limitation to contesting a will is set out in section 9 which states: 9 Limitation of proceedings (1) No application in respect of any estate...