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1. LCRO 155/2023 DU v KQ (8 April 2025) [pdf, 358 KB]

   ...FD confirmed that Mr DU was no longer acting; (f) she had not been informed by Mr DU that he would be withdrawing his services; and (g) on learning that Mr DU was no longer acting, she had made several attempts to contact Mr DU but received no response; and (h) Mr FD referred her to a barrister who was able to prepare an application to the court for an adjournment, but this barrister was not well positioned to take over the file; and (i) her lack of representation resulted in her ha...

2. Deloitte report: Assessment of business compliance costs of the indicative anti-money laundering regulatory requirements [pdf, 2 MB]

   ...appropriately representative sample of participants has been selected, subject to time / cost constraints. • Benchmarking & Comparison – Data collected is standardised to determine the costs for a ‘normally efficient’ business. Individual responses and collective results are compared and benchmarked for reference purposes. In order to achieve framing consistency for participants’ feedback, the following parameters were established: • Incremental Costs – The costs att...

3. Evaluation of Whanau Protect (National Home Safety Service) 2022 [pdf, 1.6 MB]

   ...relationships between all professional stakeholder groups • Referrers (particularly those from Women’s Refuges) have a good understanding of eligibility criteria, thereby minimising service ‘declines’ • National office co-ordinators are responsive, with very fast times for referrals to be approved • Tunstall staff are highly responsive and fast to get alarms sent out • Most contractors ‘go over and above ’ to ensure timeliness and comprehensiveness of security me...

4. Abernethy v Coughlan [pdf, 95 KB]

   ...sub-floor framing, the floor and to a degree the framing and cladding, is in part due to surface and subsoil water at the base of the building arising from inadequate drainage. I conclude that the lack of sub-floor ventilation is also partly responsible for the repairs necessary at the rear of the house. Inadequate ground clearance [39] There is inadequate ground clearance at two parts of the house. One is where the cladding is in contact with the concrete near the fro...

5. LCRO 197/2017 SM v HW (29 March 2019) [pdf, 293 KB]

   ...informed Ms HW by email on 16 December 2016 that Ms SM wanted both properties sold. In doing so, Ms SM’s lawyer provided Ms HW with a listing agreement for Mr JK to sign failing which Ms SM would apply to the Court for a sale order. [9] In response, the following day, 17 December 2016, Ms HW stated that Mr JK and his parents did not agree to the sale of the [Address A] property. Concerning [Address B], Mr JK’s parents required repayment of their loan to Mr JK and Ms SM, and...

6. LCRO 42/2021 JKL Limited v HC and GD (30 August 2021) [pdf, 277 KB]

   ...disclosure of privileged and/or confidential information (Mr HC); (b) excessive fees; 4 (c) improperly serving a statutory demand;4 (d) Mr GD’s unbecoming treatment of his colleague Mr MT during the discussions about the disputed invoices. Responses [17] Messrs HC and GD responded to Mr FB’s complaint in a jointly signed letter to the Complaints Service dated 19 October 2020. [18] Mr MT, although not named as a respondent in the complaint, separately offered comment...

7. Regulatory Impact Statement all-of-Government Response to Organised Crime [pdf, 331 KB]

   1 Regulatory Impact Statement All of Government Response to Organised Crime Agency disclosure statement This Regulatory Impact Statement (RIS) was prepared by the Ministry of Justice. It provides an analysis of proposals arising from the organised crime strategy - Strengthening New Zealand’s Resistance to Organised Crime: An all-of-Government Response published in August 2011. The proposals in this paper focus on ensuring New Zealand maintains an effective regime for ta...

8. [2006] NZEmpC AC 51/06 Fuiava v Air New Zealand Ltd [pdf, 118 KB]

   ...instead of only one appropriate sanction. She referred to the English Court of Appeal decision in Post Office v Foley; HSBC Bank Plc (formerly Midland Bank Plc) v Madden [2001] 1 All ER 550, which found there may be a band or range of reasonable responses and if there was room for reasonable disagreement among reasonable employers, as to whether dismissal for the particular misconduct was a reasonable or unreasonable response, the decision to dismiss was likely to be upheld. In li...

9. Stanley & Anor as trustees of the Lucy Stanley Family Trust v North Shore City Council [2011] NZWHT Auckland 20 [pdf, 194 KB]

   ...aware the sill and jamb flashings were a proprietary system that would be fitted by the cladding installer. He therefore left the completion of the head flashing to the cladding installer. His evidence was that it was the cladding installer’s responsibility to create or install the turnout/diverter when completing the rest of the flashings and installing the cladding. Sufficient length had been left on the head flashings for a turnout to be created. On the curved window in t...

10. LCRO 24/2017 HC v DASH (24 January 2020) [pdf, 216 KB]

    ...that he considered there was potential for conflict. (i) Mr HC had failed to identify the parties involved in the two transactions at an early stage, and the possibility that he was conflicted in acting for two parties. [13] Mr HC provided a response to the complaint on 20 July 2016. He submitted that: (a) His initial instructions were that the ownership of the [Town] property was to be registered in the names of Mr and Mrs Dash, but after discussions with his clients, it was...