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1. LCRO 154/2024 WK v QM (26 June 2025) [pdf, 256 KB]

   ...settlor, the grandmother, who had dementia and was therefore not able to form an intention to add beneficiaries, had she wanted to. [13] On the grandmother’s death, the respondent was both her executor and the director of the sole remaining trustee. Probate of her will was not required, as she owned nothing. [14] The children were hostile towards the fiancée and some of them were hostile towards the respondent. They apparently made various allegations against the respondent both di...

2. Directory of Official Information 2019 A-C [pdf, 1.6 MB]

   Directory of Official Information Listings A-C About This is a living document. We endeavour to update it whenever there are changes to be made. If your department or agency’s information is out of date, please email oia@justice.govt.nz with the necessary amendments. We can send you a MS Word version if you need. Ministerial Relations and Services Strategy, Governance & Finance Ministry of Justice | Tāhū o te Ture oia@justice.govt.nz

3. Directory of Official Information 2019 A-C [pdf, 1.6 MB]

   Directory of Official Information Listings A-C About This is a living document. We endeavour to update it whenever there are changes to be made. If your department or agency’s information is out of date, please email oia@justice.govt.nz with the necessary amendments. We can send you a MS Word version if you need. Ministerial Relations and Services Strategy, Governance & Finance Ministry of Justice | Tāhū o te Ture oia@justice.govt.nz

4. LCRO 11/2024 GD and CZ v BO (30 May 2025) [pdf, 429 KB]

   ...father’s New Zealand holding company had been held for many years by the accountant executor as nominee for the father. He was the company’s accountant and financial controller. He charged a monthly retainer. [15] The executors met not long after probate was granted and agreed on various matters. These included that the advisory trustee’s role was to be limited to advising on matters relating to the [Nationality] company assets, that the lawyer executor would become director o...

5. The age of physical abuse victims and the sentence imposed on their abusers [pdf, 50 KB]

   ...available in Spier, P. 2000, pp 28-30, Conviction and Sentencing of Offenders in New Zealand: 1990 to 1999, Ministry of Justice, Wellington. 2 Victim impact statements and pre-sentence reports are prepared respectively by the Police and the Community Probation Service, in collaboration with the relevant parties. They are used as additional information by the Judge at sentencing. 2 3 Description of the sample Table 1 shows the age group and gender of victims for some physical abuse charges...

6. EMPC Effective representation in the Employment Court - perspective from the bench [pdf, 300 KB]

   ...witness. The power contained within s 189(2) is discretionary. The Court’s discretion is to be exercised judicially and in accordance with principle. The principles underlying various provisions in the Evidence Act 2006 (including reliability, probative value and prejudicial effect) and the interests of natural justice, are likely to provide a useful focus for consideration. Other logistics Consider other matters well in advance of the hearing: - Will an interpreter be requ...

7. [2014] NZEmpC 227 O’Hagan v Waitomo Adventures Ltd [pdf, 129 KB]

   ...When the alleged fraud consists of perjury, as in the present case, the evidence must be so strong that it would reasonably be expected to be decisive at a rehearing, and if unanswered must have that result. Generally, the plaintiff must submit probative affidavit evidence verifying the critical pleaded facts relied on in the proceeding and has the onus of establishing that the new evidence is such as to justify a new trial. 8 Does the statement of claim disclose a reasonably ar...

8. [2015] NZEmpC 85 Agus Riyanto & 43 others v Dong Nam Company Ltd interlocutory [pdf, 181 KB]

   ...Court retains a discretion to refuse unnecessary or undesirable disclosure and whether this would be oppressive as a consideration to be taken into account. In determining this balancing exercise, a relevant consideration is also the likely probative value of the documents sought. Analysis [17] The amended statement of claim refers to a range of documents and provisions which create the legal framework within which the plaintiffs were employed by the defendant. These include:...

9. Youth Court - 10 ideas that might “cross-pollinate” from the Youth Court into the adult District Court [pdf, 301 KB]

   ...judicial monitoring in some situations. It permits the court to impose a condition of judicial monitoring on a sentence of intensive supervision (s 54I(3)(d)) and on a sentence of home detention (s 80D(4)(d)). Where judicial monitoring is ordered, probation officers must make written progress reports to the Judge (s 80ZJ) and after considering this, may order that the offender attend before him or or her if the Judge considers it desirable for the administration of the sentence or for...

10. McGeorge v Standing [2012] NZIACDT 48 (30 August 2012) [pdf, 124 KB]

    ...Tribunal would take was that it would not unnecessarily use evidence in one complaint to support another complaint. However, multiple complaints which involve strikingly similar features where fees were paid and service was not delivered, may be probative evidence when the Tribunal determines whether there was systematic dishonesty, incompetence, or a set of circumstances amounting to an innocent explanation. [41.4] In the present case, the period during which Mr Standing failed to de...