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1. Austin v Accident Compensation Corporation (Treatment Injury) [2023] NZACC 59 [pdf, 257 KB]

   ...treatment. (2) Treatment injury does not include the following kinds of personal injury: (a) personal injury that is wholly or substantially caused by a person’s underlying health condition: (b) personal injury that is solely attributable to a resource allocation decision: (c) personal injury that is a result of a person unreasonably withholding or delaying their consent to undergo treatment. (3) The fact that treatment did not achieve a desired result does not, of itself, c...

2. [2023] NZEmpC 179 Pyne v Invacare New Zealand Ltd [pdf, 255 KB]

   ...workplace culture report. It is apparent that the report was prompted by a range of issues within the company’s Auckland office. The report writer spoke to a selected group of staff, including Ms Lincoln, the staff member and Mr Cotter (the human resources manager). Mr Pyne was not spoken to by the report writer. [8] Ms Lincoln had a meeting with Mr Pyne about the 2019 events and other issues on 6 January 2020. She prepared a file note of her discussion and followed up with...

3. LCRO 103/2022 RP v DQ (25 September 2024) [pdf, 272 KB]

   ...report was only provided after she had indicated she would be making a complaint about Mr FG.32 • Ms RP’s assertion that Mr FG was biased against her. • Comments that Mr FG approached his task through the lens of a big firm with more resources available than were available to her. • Mr FG had not taken into account the contributing conduct of Ms DQ and Ms CY. [80] Overall, Ms RP rejected Mr FG’s report, and stood by her invoice as rendered. Discussion [81]...

4. LCRO 167/2023 UG v XY and EP (17 July 2025) [pdf, 255 KB]

   ...Dr Ord, you have received a painful lesson in why it is important for all practitioners to remain within their areas of expertise. While you were well intentioned to assist a client who you saw as in a very difficult situation and with little resources available to her, from her perspective, your interventions only made matters worse. It is important, for the reputation of the profession to be upheld, that lawyers exercise better judgement than their clients. We admonish you to be...

5. Legal Complaints Review Officer v Hong [2015] NZLCDT 27 [pdf, 407 KB]

   ...vexatious. Nor could it properly be characterised as a dispute “personal to the parties”, because it drew others into the dispute, including other lawyers and former clients of both Mr Hong and Mr Deliu, and the District Court. It wasted court resources. It had the potential at least to undermine public confidence in the profession.” 4 [10] Her Honour went on to say: “The fact that criticism can also be made of the complainant Mr Deliu is, in this context irrelevant. A...

6. Electoral-Matters-Bill_Communications-Tranche-47.pdf [pdf, 25 MB]

   ...policy objective would be to remove the ‘inadvertent contravention’ defence and rely on the ‘without reasonable excuse’ defence. Thank you for your advice on that. Regarding the penalty, I think it makes sense to lower it. Do you have any resources on how to calculate an appropriate maximum fine or some examples from previous work? Given the existing treating offence (s217) will remain and capture egregious/corrupt behaviour (and is subject to the much harsher penalty), it would m...

7. Recommendations recap - issue 2 [pdf, 1.7 MB]

   ...retailers and identify those where abusers are obtaining inhalants; that an annual audit process is implemented whereby compliance with the retailer code of conduct can be measured. The Victorian Department of Human Services developed a suite of resources titled Responsible Sale of Solvents – A Retailer’s Kit in 2002 which addressed retailers obligations under the Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Act 1981 (Vic), as well as strategies for how to store solvents in s...

8. Wall v Fairfax New Zealand Ltd [2017] NZHRRT 17 [pdf, 1.1 MB]

   ...child poverty that pose distinctive policy challenges and require distinctive responses, including being mindful of whānau dynamics. It is important to recognise the impact of the experience of colonisation on Māori. The alienation of land and resources has seen the loss of a cultural and spiritual base and the loss of an economic base (Cram, 2011). Any analysis of the financial and material deprivation of whänau today is incomplete without understanding this context (Baker K., et....

9. OIA-125635.pdf [pdf, 2.2 MB]

   ...41(A) Of The Crim Regs Crim Regs Section 41(A) D516 Careless Driving Alcohol Inv Cause Death Transport Act 1962 Section 30AA(2) & 56(1A) 1493 Assault Person With Blunt Instrument Crimes Act 1961 Section 202C 9773 Breach Subdivision Restrictions Resource Management Act 1991 Section 11 9559 Other Offence Explosives Act Explosives Act 1957 Q116 Failed to display pay and display parking ticket - Hamilton Hamilton City Traffic Bylaw 2021 Clause 6.1 & 27.1 G510 HMV exceeded 70 km/h post...

10. Common Bundle Volume 6 [pdf, 3.3 MB]

    ...for this publication is held by the Otago Regional Council. This publication may be reproduced in whole or in part, provided the source is fully and clearly acknowledged. ISBN [get from Comms Team] Report writer: Adam Uytendaal; Rachel Ozanne, Resource Scientists Reviewed by: Dean Olsen, Manager, Resource Science Published CB1690 State of the Environment – Surface Water Quality in Otago 2006 to 2017 i Executive summary This report summarises compliance with Sch...