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1. [2018] NZEnvC 166 Queenstown Lakes District Council v Sunnyheights Limited [pdf, 8.1 MB]

   ...Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 20 12. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 3. Department of Conservation, Wellington. 70 pp. McEwen M. 1987: Ecological districts and rcgions of New Zealand. New Zealalld Biological Resources Centre Publication No 5, Part 3. Dcpartment of Conservation, Wellington. Simpson N. and Lawrence R. 20 12: Significant natural area assessment - Crossh ill SNA A. Unpublished report. Prepared for Queenstown Lakes District Council....

2. BIM-Justice-July-2023_FINAL.pdf [pdf, 2.2 MB]

   ...approximately 24 offenders living with their programme providers who could be impacted by this judgment. Corrections advises that requiring separate agencies to provide accommodation and rehabilitative programmes would create significant operational and resourcing difficulties in managing these offenders. Further, this would mean high risk individuals may need to move from their current accommodation, which Corrections considers untenable from a public safety point of view. 38. Correctio...

3. [2023] NZEmpC 173 Pact Group v Robinson [pdf, 334 KB]

   ...lockdown, the uncertainty surrounding the pandemic and its impact on a return to the workplace, was a relevant circumstance. Also relevant, as submitted, were Ms Robinson’s personal circumstances and her cultural needs. [23] The significant resources available to the company (management, financial, human resources and legal) are also relevant to an assessment of the ‘reasonable action’ mix.5 Put in a nutshell, higher standards can generally be expected of the notional fair...

4. NZCVS Cycle 4 Core Report v0.20 [pdf, 3.1 MB]

   ...Descriptive statistics. June 2022. Results drawn from Cycle 4 (2020/21) of the New Zealand Crime and Victims Survey. Wellington: Ministry of Justice. This document is available at https://www.justice.govt.nz/justice-sector-policy/research- data/nzcvs/resources-and-results/ Crown copyright © 2022 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 New Zealand licence. You are free to copy, distribute, and adapt the work, as long as you attribute the work to New...

5. [2017] NZEnvC 012 Envirofume v Bay of Plenty Regional Council [pdf, 7 MB]

   ...and Plantation forestry is of major importance to the region's economy. The region contains one of the biggest concentrations of plantation forests in New Zealand. The region is home to 13% of New Zealand's exotic plantation forest resources, totalling 215,340 hectares and accounting for 22% of the country's forestry sector workforce. The processing and manufacture of wood products and the manufacture of paper, paper products, printing and publishing are the two pri...

6. Regulatory Impact Statement increasing maximum claims level in disputes tribunals [pdf, 506 KB]

   ...maximum claims level in the Disputes Tribunals from $15,000 (or $20,000 if the parties agree) to $25,000 (or $30,000 if the parties agree), as having more low value disputes go to the Disputes Tribunals could free up both District Court and legal aid resources for more serious cases. Data in a number of areas that would assist in evaluating the magnitude of the problem or effectiveness of policy options is lacking. In the time available, the Ministry has not been able to analyse oth...

7. Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination – summary record 15th-17th reports (continued) [pdf, 66 KB]

   ...was not restricted by the rules applying to the court system. Operating with a quorum of three, including at least one lawyer and at least one Maori, the Tribunal mostly investigated historical claims concerning the dispossession of land and other resources as from 1840. 36. As a rule the powers of the Waitangi Tribunal were recommendatory. Its powers were theoretically binding, however, in the cases of certain categories of land. In view of the breadth CERD/C/SR.1822 page 8 of su...

8. Parlane v REAA Registrar [2013] NZREADT 94 [pdf, 176 KB]

   ...probabilities. However, to meet this standard sufficient and adequate information must be provided. The Supreme Court made this point in Westfield (New Zealand) Limited v North Shore City Council [2005] 2 NZLR 597 where the Court considered s.93 of the Resource Management Act 1991 which required the Council to be satisfied it had received adequate information to make a decision about notification of applications for resource consent. Section 94(2) of the Resource Management Act 1991 pr...

9. Jang v Tse [pdf, 92 KB]

   ...made when I declined to strike him out. 9.5 Mr Mo owned number 14 Maidstone Place and he produced as exhibit B the agreement for sale and purchase dated 22 November 1999 under which he purchased that property (Lot 19 DP 192523) from Wistill Resources Limited. He says that as owner of Lot 19 (number 14) he was asked to consent to the proposed construction of the dwelling at number 16 (Lot 16 DP 110520) because of certain non-complying features of the structure. His consent is...

10. Regulatory Impact Statement: Increasing the maximum claim level in Disputes Tribunals [pdf, 537 KB]

    ...maximum claims level in the Disputes Tribunals from $15,000 (or $20,000 if the parties agree) to $25,000 (or $30,000 if the parties agree), as having more low value disputes go to the Disputes Tribunals could free up both District Court and legal aid resources for more serious cases. Data in a number of areas that would assist in evaluating the magnitude of the problem or effectiveness of policy options is lacking. In the time available, the Ministry has not been able to analyse oth...