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1. July 2016 Criminal Fee Schedules [pdf, 684 KB]

   ...Name Suppression $450 Interlocutory Appeal - hearing time* $48 per half hour For:  actual hearing time  any agent fees. GRANTING NOTES – SCHEDULES A-C Note that many of the tasks listed in the fixed fee schedules are generic and relate to tasks that may need to be undertaken for progression of the case. Not all tasks will need to be repeated at each stage of the case. Legend @ 1 Sentencing indications - this preparation fee is available only if there is a wri...

2. Complaints Assessment Committee 304 v Foreman [2017] NZREADT 3 [pdf, 158 KB]

   ...____________________________________________________________________ DECISION OF THE TRIBUNAL ____________________________________________________________________ [1] Mr Foreman is a real estate agent from Albany, near Auckland. He is facing a charge relating to the 2011 sale of his family home at Glenelg Road, Red Beach. The purchasers of the property (the Parkers) complained that Mr Foreman was aware of a number of defects with the property which he should have disclosed to th...

3. Ref: LCRO 99/2019 SQ v LP (27 October 2020) [pdf, 235 KB]

   ..._____________________ B A Galloway Legal Complaints Review Officer In accordance with s 213 of the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006 copies of this decision are to be provided to: Mr SQ, as the Applicant Mr LP, as the Respondent Mr WR, as the related party (respondent) [Area] Standards Committee [X] New Zealand Law Society

4. LCRO 72/2020 ZW v CB (29 September 2020) [pdf, 204 KB]

   ..._____________________ R. Maidment Legal Complaints Review Officer In accordance with s 213 of the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006 copies of this decision are to be provided to: Mr ZW as the Applicant Mr CB as the Respondent Mr MN as a Related Person [Area] Standards Committee [X] New Zealand Law Society

5. [2020] NZIACDT 42 - NMS v Mercado (1 October 2020) [pdf, 270 KB]

   ...deleted by him. He removed the percentages and the management section, at the same time expanding the “Liaising Duties”, “Administration” and “Reception Duties” sections. Of relevance are the following entries: • liaising on matters relating to the organisation’s operations such as accepting deliveries, managing bulk orders and coordinating with Head offices and suppliers as required • collecting and summarizing weekly reports on sales and inventories [21] A fr...

6. Proactive release - Strengthening the Family Court [pdf, 1.9 MB]

   ...emotional harm to children, and stress and anxiety to their parents and whānau. Children exposed to ongoing inter-parental conflict are four times more likely to have social and emotional problems than the general population. Research suggests it is the related conflict that is more emotionally harmful to children than the actual breakup of the relationship. 16. Effects on children include: fear of an uncertain future; uncertainty about where they will live and go to school; loss of continuit...

7. Impact of S24A of the Sentencing Act on Reoffending [pdf, 289 KB]

   ...significantly different from that observed prior to the change. Prior to the change, conferenced offenders had a 26% lower rate of offending for a high-level offence (6.7% versus 9.1%), an absolute difference of 2.4 percentage points. After the change, the relative difference was 23% (7.6% versus 9.9%), an absolute difference of 2.3 percentage points. Figure 4: Reoffending rates (%) within one and two years for high-level offences, for conferenced and matched offenders: pre- and post-l...

8. LCRO 181/2017 FW and KP v BG (31 October 2019) [pdf, 173 KB]

   ...Review Officer, “after conducting a review”, to “make such order as to payment of costs and expenses” as the Review Officer “thinks fit”. Section 210(2) states that a costs order may “be awarded to any person to whom the proceedings relate”. [99] The Guidelines for Parties to Review state that although costs may be awarded “as between complainant and practitioner in respect of the review”, such power “will be exercised sparingly”. In circumstances where the...

9. LCRO 211/2020 BU - Application for review of a prosecutorial decision (30 July 2021) [pdf, 233 KB]

   ...Act 2006, I may judicially review any decision, if I am dissatisfied with the decision or do not agree with aspects of that decision. I have considered the Act and the Judicial Review process, at some length and have sought guidance from Counsel in relation to not only the lengthy delay with Judicial Review proceedings but the stress and anxiety that goes with any such application. By a very close margin I have elected to ignore the legal and factual matters within the decision, whic...

10. Application for a Protection Order [pdf, 887 KB]

    ...include the same information for each child. * NOTE: A child means a person who is under the age of 18 years (s8 Family Violence Act). PAGE 5Application for a Protection Order A P P LI C A TI O N V2 November 2021 Are there any current orders relating to any of those children? (for example, Parenting Orders or Oranga Tamariki Orders).  Yes   No   Don’t know Please give details if you know any of the following (it’s OK if you don’t know): File number What they...