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1. OIA-Ministerial Advisory Group on retail crime [pdf, 1.2 MB]

   ...only charges laid were for theft /stealing under sections 219 and 223, please could you do so. ii) What were the outcomes of those theft/ stealing charges in terms of convictions / acquittals and penalties (a summary of this data is acceptable) In response to question a) regarding adults charged under the Trespass Act 1980, please refer to Tables 1 and 2 attached. In response to question b) regarding adults charged under sections 219 and 223 of the Crimes Act 1961, please refer to Table...

2. OIA-Data on name suppression in the Hamilton District Court [pdf, 319 KB]

   ...suppressions were requested at Hamilton District Court each year from 2014 to 2024 to date? The Ministry has interpreted your request for permanent name suppression information to be for cases where a final suppression order has been made. In response to part one of your request, please see Table 1 attached. Please note, the data being provided is for the financial years 2014/2015 to 2023/24. This data is a subset of Tier 1 data that is released twice a year, in March for the prev...

3. Regulatory stewardship

   ...monitoring and care of regulatory systems for which an organisation has policy or operational responsibilities. Its goal is to ensure that regulatory systems remain fit for purpose over the long term. Regulatory stewardship in the Ministry The Ministry is responsible for stewarding regulatory systems that set out some of our most important constitutional foundations. Regulatory systems and areas We administer 154 pieces of legislation and have regulatory stewardship responsibilities for 52...

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4. Albert v Paeroa - Omaio 39 (2014) 110 Waiariki MB 119 (110 WAR 119) [pdf, 131 KB]

   ...to press for distribution of $100,000 on that basis that there had not been any significant return to the owners for 32 years. [9] I reserved my judgment. The Law [10] The Court of Appeal in Rameka v Hall (2013) summarised the duties of a responsible trustee. 2 The general responsibilities of responsible trustees are set out in s 223 of the Act. Those are (a) carrying out the terms of the trust, (b) the proper administration and management of the business of the trust, (c) t...

5. [2018] NZSSAA 22 (7 May 2018) [pdf, 215 KB]

   ...engagement and a proper medical evaluation, there would likely be adverse effects from further appeals due to the appellant’s fragile circumstances and the fact that further money would be wasted by the Ministry on this matter. The Appellant’s Response [5] Consistent with our expectation that the parties should engage constructively, the appellant instructed Mr Ord, a Barrister and Solicitor, to represent him. Mr Ord wrote a letter to the Authority, sending a copy of the let...

6. BT & FT v Council [2015] NZDT 1492 (30 September 2015) [pdf, 233 KB]

   ...was no record of any call about incidents in the area until the afternoon, long after the trucks had already responded. 8. The trucks arrived to clean up the spill within around 29 minutes of FT’s crash. Therefore the Council/Transport’s total response time was anything up to a maximum of around 49 minutes, but may have been less depending on when it was notified. There is insufficient evidence to determine the actual response time, but even if it was 49 minutes, it is doubtful wheth...

7. OIA-108973.pdf [pdf, 1.2 MB]

   ...108973 Tēnā koe Official Information Act request: Court & legal aid information Thank you for your request under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act) on 12 January 2024, to the Ministry of Justice (the Ministry). For ease of response, your request has been numbered, and is as follows: 1. The number of people charged with sexual assault and related offences in the last five years (2019-2023) broken down by year and ethnicity of the offender. 2. The outcome...

8. OIA-109454.pdf [pdf, 907 KB]

   ...s15(1AA) of the Act, as your request was clarified after the date it was received, it was treated as a new request for the purposes of the Act. You were advised that the new deadline for your request was 11 March 2024 and that you could expect a response by this date. On 7 March 2024, the Ministry contacted you to advise that pursuant to section 15(1) of the Act, the Ministry had decided to grant your request. However, further time was required to prepare the information for rel...

9. LCRO 2/2018 MC v TL (17 June 2020) [pdf, 304 KB]

   ...said having “traced” delivery of the package he found it had been “sitting” in “Mr TL’s postbox/Mailbox” for “a while” and had asked Mr TL to collect it. (4) Accept instructions – rules 4, 4.1 [17] Mr MC claimed Mr TL, in response to his later 11 May 2017 request to make a “cross claim” against Ms PW for his legal costs, stated [Mr TL] did not have the “legal capacity/experience” to accept those instructions.6

10. Crosswell v Auckland City Council [pdf, 92 KB]

    ...best known to themselves, did not attend the adjudication hearing, even though they had been repeatedly reminded of its commencement date and were both advised that the Tribunal had jurisdiction to hold them liable if either or both were found responsible for any of the damage caused to the claimants’ house. [9] The two respondents who did not attend the adjudication were: (a) The third respondent, Grant Malone, the alleged developer and builder of the property which...