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1. MOJ0587_OCT21_web.pdf [pdf, 73 KB]

   ...can be ordered to undergo treatment, they need to be assessed. The Mental Health Service will decide when and where the assessment will take place. PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT After an application is made, a medical practitioner or doctor (called the responsible clinician) assesses the patient. This is called a preliminary assessment. The preliminary assessment takes five days and the responsible clinician must decide if there are reasonable grounds to believe the patient has a mental disor...

2. OIA-109796.pdf [pdf, 1.3 MB]

   ...work/service being undertaken and length of contract. I have interpreted your request to mean contracted third party providers for the provision of community justice services, who deliver out of court justice services to members of the public. This response excludes individuals who provide services directly to the courts. In response to your request, please see Table 1 attached. Please note the contract term start date provided in the table is the date in which the most recent outcome ag...

3. [2021] NZACC 50 - Astle v ACC (17 March 2021) [pdf, 224 KB]

   ...is the client’s current diagnosis, and reason for symptoms/incapacity? The diagnosis is most likely to be a left L4/5 lumbar facet joint pain problem, given that pain is worse with extension, and rotation to the right and given the positive response to medial branch blocks. This would be the likely reason for her incapacity. There is a history of intermittent and previously more persistent lower back pain, but this is not considered likely relevant, as Adele was coping well wi...

4. LCRO 18/2021 MB v RP and ND (14 October 2022) [pdf, 265 KB]

   ...towards administration of Mr GB’s estate led to High Court proceedings. In 2016 a mediation of those proceedings resulted in the executors resigning and Mr RP and Mr ND being appointed in their place as trustees. [5] On 10 August 2017, in response to Mr RP and Mr ND’s request for “an independent review and expert opinion” on management of the estate’s assets, financial advisors recommended “alternative types of investment” to retention of one of the two commercial p...

5. LCRO 138/2023 FK v LM (12 June 2025) [pdf, 230 KB]

   ...respondent’s memorandum. The applicant filed his own memorandum. [52] There was a further flurry or email correspondence in similar vein the following month in which the applicant complained in various ways about the respondent’s lack of responsiveness and lack of urgency. He also queried whether his emails were being forwarded to the wife for instructions and sought responses on various property occupation, management, and costs issues. [53] The respondent relevantly respond...

6. Taueki v Horowhenua Sailing Club Ltd - Horowhenua (11) Lake (2013) 304 Aotea MB 288 (304 AOT 288) [pdf, 129 KB]

   ...powers of the Court per rule 6.9 of the Māori Land Court Rules 2011 and accordingly the Court should “rescind its interim oral judgment” and issue a decision forthwith. [10] Following that on 5 April 2013 Mr Downey filed a memorandum in response. He submitted that the Board chairman met with the trustees on 17 February 2013 where “parties agreed to try to negotiate a memorandum of understanding regarding the future usage of the building.” Mr Downey went on to record tha...

7. National Standards Committee 1 v Young [2020] NZLCDT 30 (25 September 2020) [pdf, 183 KB]

   ...very hard. [4] In the circumstances of this case, the Tribunal recognises the force of the Standards Committee’s submission seeking strike-off, but this decision explains why we choose to apply a lesser penalty. Strike-off is the most severe response the Tribunal can order, a penalty that ends a practitioner’s legal career, with reputational and financial consequences. It is a penalty that should only be applied when there is no proper alternative. The Tribunal is concerned t...

8. Bahramitash & Goundar v Real Estate Agents Authority (CAC 402) [2017] NZREADT 8 [pdf, 228 KB]

   ...Ritesh, contacted Mr Bahramitash about the property. Mr Ritesh is also a licensed salesperson, at a different real estate agency. Mr Bahramitash described the property and Mr Ritesh expressed interest at “the mid $300,000s”. Mr Bahramitash’s response was that he expected interest at “the high $300,000s” and that if Mr Ritesh wanted to be in the running, he would have to be at that level. Mr Bahramitash told Mr Ritesh that viewings were being arranged for 23 January....

9. Auckland Standards Committee 2 v Kejriwal [2022] NZLCDT 24 (20 July 2022 [pdf, 156 KB]

   ...blocked her memory of these two other matters, albeit that they occurred within a matter of weeks from the time of the previously admitted offending, and indeed preceded it. [34] When served with the charge and associated documents, Ms Kejriwal responsibly engaged counsel and promptly admitted responsibility and the charge of misconduct. Ms Kejriwal repaid $700 in relation to the first discovered offending and has promised, for the last 12 months, to repay the remaining sum fraud...

10. 2025 NZPSPLA 030 pdf [pdf, 179 KB]

    ...misconduct. If so, Mr Kumar is not suitable to be 2 a company officer or operate a crowd controller business given his lack of compliance and treatment of migrant workers. [4] Mr Kumar accepts SSSL did not hold a security licence. He takes responsibility if there was a breach of the Act but says it was not intentional. He denies that he engaged any uncertified people to work as security guards either through SEAL or SSSL. While he accepts that he did not obtain the correct...