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1. Justice Sector Prison population forecast 2008 to 2016 [pdf, 608 KB]

   ...3: Proportion of people convicted Police have significant work underway to improve the preparation of cases. The Case Management programme of work aims to enhance investigative capability through consistent case handling processes, and improved response to victims and general quality of investigations. At the same time, the ongoing increases in the numbers being charged will place pressure on Police and the courts system as a whole, which will create some downward pressure on the number...

2. [2007] NZEmpC AC 52/07 General Distributors Ltd v National Distribution Union [pdf, 91 KB]

   ...mainly, to the fact that the position filled by that worker is, or will become, superfluous to the needs of the employer; ... [29] That section of the Labour Relations Act 1987 gave statutory recognition to redundancy negotiations and agreements in response to the Wage Adjustment Regulations 1974, since revoked, which dealt with redundancy in a negative way by restricting both the amount of redundancy compensation and the entitlement of claimants. The definition in s184(5)(a)(i)...

3. [2011] NZEmpC 103 Muldoon v Nelson Marlborough DHB [pdf, 153 KB]

   ...reinstatement as a nurse with the Board. The remedies he seeks are, therefore, compensation for loss of remuneration from 1 August 2009 to 18 July 2011 (the first day of the trial) and distress compensation under s 123(1)(c)(i) of the Act. [54] Responsibly and helpfully, the Board does not disagree with Mr Muldoon‟s arithmetic calculations of what he would have earned with it had he continued to be a full time permanent nurse from 1 August 2009. Rather, it says that he failed or...

4. [2010] NZEmpC 113 Service and Food Workers Union & Ors v OCS Ltd [pdf, 79 KB]

   ...second time, said: The bill as introduced provided that, in certain situations, employees had a right to bargain for redundancy entitlements if their new employer proposed making employees redundant as a result of the transfer of employees. In response to concerns about consistency with the common law and the risk of the drafting being too narrow, the committee recommended amending the bill to reflect that this right to bargain for redundancy entitlements arises if the new employer p...

5. [2009] NZEmpC AC 30/09 Masonry Design Solutions Ltd v Bettany [pdf, 74 KB]

   ...technician, Mr Ebbett, to do that work. It would not have been reasonable in the circumstances to have engaged another draughtsperson to do so or to have contracted out the draughting in an attempt to reduce the cost of rectification. The plaintiff was responsible to the client and to the engineer for the accuracy and professionalism of its designs and in all the circumstances it was reasonable that Mr Ebbett should rectify these to a proper standard at the appropriate cost to the c...

6. Payne - Estate of Hami Te Maunu (2013) 2013 Chief Judge's MB 598 (2013 CJ 598) [pdf, 303 KB]

   ...recommended that the application be set down for hearing. Research counsel’s reports [8] At my request, Research Counsel completed a report on the file dated 9 May 2008 (RC Report 1). A further report as to the comments of the applicant in response to RC Report 1 was submitted by Research Counsel on 7 July 2008 (RC Report 2). RC Report 1 was completed on 9 May 2008. The Report recommended the claims be dismissed for lack of evidence on the basis that there was insuffici...

7. Yan v CAC306 & Anor [2015] NZREADT 47 [pdf, 220 KB]

   ...instructions at every step of the auction bidding process. She denied that until, in the course of the hearing, she conceded that she did authorise Mr Chang to bid $530,000 “plus a little more if necessary” on her behalf. However, she alleges that, in response to that authority, he first bid $535,000 and then $540,000 for the apartment rather than about $1,000 more as she had contemplated. [72] In referring to the said video of the auction, Mr Rea, inter alia, put it that it show...

8. McMeeken and Anor v CAC306 & Ors [2015] NZREADT 79 [pdf, 224 KB]

   ...Committee’s decision on licensees seeking to act upon professional advice; [d] Whether consideration is needed of the professional and financial implications on the licensee through the unsatisfactory conduct finding, and whether the Committee’s response was disproportionate to the conduct in question; and [e] Whether the Committee’s decisions further the purposes of the Act. The Law on Disclosure [41] There is a clear and express disclosure obligation in the Real Estate Agent...

9. The Māori Trustee - Pt Sec 1 Blk 1 Punakitere SD (2016) 124 Taitokerau MB 231 (124 TTK 231) [pdf, 242 KB]

   ...February 1951. 12 The Minister of Lands apparently brought the application as a result of research being undertaken which demonstrated that the land was indeed intended to be reserved from sale as a Native Reserve. I assume the application was in response to lobbying by interested Māori. [20] At the hearing on 11 February 1946 Mr Wright outlined the history of the land (as set out above). In addition, Tamati Pehikuru, the grandson of the original Pehikuru who claimed the lan...

10. [2013] NZEmpC 56 Hamon v Coromandel Independent Living Trust [pdf, 132 KB]

    ...sole issue in that case was whether evidence of the general subject matter of a mediation was confidential under s 148(1). The plaintiff had become dissatisfied with her treatment by her supervisor, which she had described as bullying and, in response the defendant had proposed and the plaintiff had agreed that her concerns would be discussed in a mediation carried out under s 144 and related sections of the Act. The plaintiff alleged that during mediation her concerns were not di...