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1. Holden - Hiraani Te Hei (2011) 271 Aotea MB 106 (271 AOT 106) [pdf, 72 KB]

   ...regarding the administration over the General land interests. The proceedings were adjourned to enable Mr Te Rangi opportunity to decide what further steps to take. [7] There matters lay until 19 February 2008 when, in the absence of any response from Mr Te Rangi despite repeated attempts by the Registrar, the proceedings were adjourned sine die. 4 [8] Then on 12 June 2009 orders were made for succession as to the additional interests of Hiraani Te Hei in Awarua o Hinemanu...

2. Graves v CAC 2003 & Langdon [2012] NZREADT 41 [pdf, 32 KB]

   ...which are not reasonably necessary to protect the interest of the agent). [6] The complainant included with his complaint a copy of an agreement dated 6 December 2010, entered into by the appellant’s company with a vendor. The appellant’s response to the complaint indicated that the agreement in the form as submitted continues to be used by his company in the course of its business. The relevant provisions of that agreement were clauses 3, 8, 18 and 19. The complainant alleged t...

3. Auckland Standards Committee v Castles [2014] NZLCDT 8 [pdf, 77 KB]

   ...practitioner who was either totally lacking in insight about the wrongfulness of his charging practices or, worse, simply did not care about complaints about his charging or indeed how that might reflect on his profession as a whole. [16] Finally his response to the disciplinary process is a further aggravating feature of the misconduct. Not only are there the misleading statements already referred to, but it is clear that this practitioner delayed the proceedings as long as possib...

4. LA - Reference - Part 3A [pdf, 574 KB]

   ...comment on this skill area Provide a comment to support your rating: b) c) MOJ0052.3a-June13_reference Page 5 / 6 communicating with clients a provider of legal aid or specified legal services should: • Inform clients of their rights and responsibilities, and give timely, appropriate and sufficiently detailed advice and explanations to the client to enable him or her to make an informed decision about the matter. From your experience with the applicant please state your level of...

5. Standards Committee 1 v Hart [2011] NZLCDT 5 [pdf, 84 KB]

   ...c. to recognise the status of the legal profession and to establish the new profession of conveyancing practitioner. 2. To achieve those purposes, this Act, among other things,— a. reforms the law relating to lawyers: b. provides for a more responsive regulatory regime in relation to lawyers and conveyancers: c. enables conveyancing to be carried out both— i. by lawyers; and ii. by conveyancing practitioners: d. states the fundamental obligations with which, in the public in...

6. Auckland Standards Committee 4 v Thomas [2016] NZLCDT 5 [pdf, 50 KB]

   ...previous good character or for having an unblemished disciplinary history. [16] The Committee accepted that the period of suspension which it asked for should be reduced in light of the respondent having acknowledged his wrongdoing and accepting responsibility for it. [17] Counsel for the respondent submitted that the respondent had acted with the best of motives but with a flawed methodology. He had convinced himself that where a trustee was acting in flagrant breach of his obli...

7. [2015] NZSSAA 12 (13 March 2015) [pdf, 46 KB]

   ...home and family in New Zealand. The agreement they have 2 between them is that they will spend six months of each year in each other’s country. This enables them to maintain contact with their respective families. In addition, each is responsible for the outgoings on their own properties. The appellant says that the loss of his New Zealand Superannuation has significant financial consequences for him and has resulted in him having to return to work. The appellant says that...

8. 1982 Official Information Act charging guidelines [pdf, 28 KB]

   ...exercising this discretion it would be appropriate to consider whether remission of charges would be consistent with the need to provide more open access to official information for Members of Parliament in terms of the reasonable exercise of their democratic responsibilities. The overall scheme of the legislation recognises that there is a balance between promoting readier access to official information and the administrative cost in time, labour and materials of that access. Accordingly, one...

9. T & Anor v CAC 20004 & Anor [2014] NZREADT 95 [pdf, 121 KB]

   ...14 November 2014 Hearing on Penalty [3] The point of reconvening to deal with penalty was to enable Mr Vanderkolk to fully cover the concerns of the licensees, and we appreciate that. Each of the other parties also provided helpful submissions in response to those of Mr Vanderkolk for the licensees. [4] Mr Vanderkolk emphasised the concerns of the licensees about their professional integrity and the stress for them since these matters developed in mid- 2011. He observed that their li...

10. Darling v CAC 20002 & Penrose [2014] NZREADT 63 [pdf, 31 KB]

    ...already been imposed on the licensee and that there should not be any further fine. [15] Ms Eckford disputes that the licensee should make any contribution to the appellant's costs in circumstances where (she puts it) the appellant was entirely responsible for his own misfortune so that (she also puts it) the licensee's actions or inactions had no causative effect and cannot be contended to have resulted in the appellant's alleged loss of sale price. Ms Eckford then cove...