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1. [2024] NZEnvC 291 Strain v Queenstown Lakes District Council [pdf, 3.2 MB]

   ...frustration in WEL’s attempts to develop the Site. From his perspective, QLDC has treated the property as a type of buffer rather than consistently with others. WEL seeks a more equitable approach be taken to these matters. Joint memorandum in response to the court’s directions [37] Annexure 1 relevantly records the following as a matter that the court informed counsel would be helpfully refined in the final version of provisions put to the court for approval: The Court is...

2. [2024] NZACC 141 NF v ACC (Impairment Assessment, Independence Allowance) (21 August 2024) [pdf, 357 KB]

   ...Handbook is for linear subtraction. [67] Dr Meads suggested that Dr Vickers had apportioned for a personality disorder which other experts suggested was part of the covered condition, rather than a separate non-covered condition. Dr Vickers’ response was that Dr Meads had got this wrong. Dr Vickers maintained that he did not apportion for antisocial personality disorder but for antisocial personality traits. The extent of NF’s history of violent crime and imprisonment could not...

3. [2024] NZEmpC 248 Secretary for Education v Public Service Association [pdf, 456 KB]

   ...11.12.4 Where a suitable reassignment is offered and this offer is not accepted the member will not be surplus and the provisions relating to surplus employees will not be available. A suitable position shall mean a position, at a similar responsibility level, in which an employee can adequately perform the duties with their current skills and knowledge and: (a) The offered employment is within a reasonable commuting distance from their home and (b) The salary, and co...

4. National Standards Committee 2 v Mulligan [2025] NZLCDT 18 (24 March 2025) [pdf, 353 KB]

   ...effort”. Mr McMullan submitted that that interpretation ignored the purposes of the Act and context in which it sits. He further submitted that the maintenance of public confidence in the provision of legal services and the need for a “more responsive regulatory regime in relation to lawyers”22 meant that a “wide approach” advanced those purposes best. For that reason, that the word “work” “…must be interpreted broadly to capture all of a lawyer’s activities wit...

5. Jeffrey v Accident Compensation Corporation (Cover) [2025] NZACC 093 [pdf, 336 KB]

   ...Cariga, Neurologist. Dr Cariga considered that Mr Jeffery had developed chronic daily headache syndrome and likely vestibular hypoactivity with features of central nervous system with hypersensitisation. Dr Cariga stated; This can occur in response to multiple factors including psychological reaction to the injury, anxiety regarding previous/recurrent injuries and the previous use of medications. I reassured Warren that there is no evidence of long-term brain damage. I cannot...

6. [2018] NZEnvC 006 The Wellington Co. Ltd v Save Erskine College Trust [pdf, 23 MB]

   ...name, [2017] NZEnvC 59. 3 [4] The present litigation has had a fast moving and regularly changing flavour. The appeal was brought initially against a "deemed refusal" of SECT to consent to the demolition of the heritage buildings (non-response within an extremely short requested time-frame), and subsequently an actual refusal , modified later by a partial refusal stemming from the mediation referred to below. Later again, in September 2017, TWC made a further applicati...

7. [2018] NZEnvC 006 The Wellington Co. Ltd v Save Erskine College Trust [pdf, 23 MB]

   ...name, [2017] NZEnvC 59. 3 [4] The present litigation has had a fast moving and regularly changing flavour. The appeal was brought initially against a "deemed refusal" of SECT to consent to the demolition of the heritage buildings (non-response within an extremely short requested time-frame), and subsequently an actual refusal , modified later by a partial refusal stemming from the mediation referred to below. Later again, in September 2017, TWC made a further applicati...

8. NZCVS-Cycle-5-Perceptions-of-safety.xlsx [xlsx, 378 KB]

   ...other hand, when the confidence intervals of two estimates do overlap, the difference between the estimates is described as not statistically significant. This is a more conservative approach than a formal statistical test. Don't know/refusal responses Residual response categories such as "don't know" and "don't wish to answer" are generally excluded from analysis. This is generally the case for analysis of victimisation and rates of reporting victimisations...

9. [2024] NZEmpC 147 MW v Spiga Ltd [pdf, 740 KB]

   ...the public, but also that media representatives should be free to provide fair and accurate reports of what occurs in court. Given the reality that few members of the public will be able to attend particular hearings, the media carry an important responsibility in this respect. The courts have confirmed these propositions on many occasions, often in stirring language. [3] However, it is well established that there are circumstances in which the interests of justice require that the g...

10. NZCVS-Cycle-5-Perceptions-of-safety-v2 [xlsx, 378 KB]

    ...other hand, when the confidence intervals of two estimates do overlap, the difference between the estimates is described as not statistically significant. This is a more conservative approach than a formal statistical test. Don't know/refusal responses Residual response categories such as "don't know" and "don't wish to answer" are generally excluded from analysis. This is generally the case for analysis of victimisation and rates of reporting victimisations...