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1. OIA-122506.pdf [pdf, 787 KB]

   ...Fairgray appeals Thank you for your email of 24 May 2025, requesting under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act), information regarding the cost of Luca Fairgray’s appeals. Specifically, you have requested: Please provide me with the OIA response given to Tracy Neal of the New Zealand Herald regarding the costs of the Fairgray appeals, split by grant, and split by legal fees and disbursements. Your request has been referred to me for a response, as it falls within my responsibi...

2. Proposed amended Auditing and Monitoring Policy [pdf, 811 KB]

   ...the documentation or explanation within ten working days. If ... then ... the provider supplies a satisfactory explanation the Ministry records its findings, and closes the quality assurance check. the provider supplies an unsatisfactory response, or does not respond the Ministry records its findings, and refers the matter to the complaints or audit process. 4 Outcomes of assurance checking Actions taken When a quality assurance check of a provider has been comple...

3. Beath v The Real Estate Agents Authority (CAC 409) and Kemp, Scoble & Mike Pero Real Estate Limited [2018] NZREADT 45 [pdf, 257 KB]

   ...the party wall and having engineering advice that “if” required strengthening might cost $50,000. [22] The Committee decided not to investigate this aspect of Mr Beath’s complaint. It said (referring to s 72 of the Act) that Mr Kemp’s responses:16 …are not part of the complaint, but are part of the information considered whilst investigating the complaint. The Committee has not specifically asked Licensee Kemp to explain his responses. The responses cannot be incorporate...

4. Follow-up-report-to-the-United-Nations-Committee-against-Torture_FINAL.pdf [pdf, 384 KB]

   ...and many of the recommendations focus on the need for continuous improvement of existing processes. 8 For this Convention, it is not necessary to support, support in part, or note (reject) the Committee’s recommendations (as it will be for the response to New Zealand’s recent Universal Periodic Review). 9 For four of the recommendations, the Committee has requested that New Zealand provide a written update within a year on the measures taken to implement them. The follow-up procedu...

5. Tank Trust v Auckland Council [2013] NZWHT Auckland 20 [pdf, 107 KB]

   ...1 at [51]. 3 Above n 1 at [52]. Page | 4 THE COUNCIL’S OPPOSITION [8] Ms Harrison frames the Council’s position as not conceding liability and putting the claimants to proof. She argues that the Council’s interim response clearly set out its denial that it breached its duty and the reasons for that denial. Ms Harrison submits that costs are not justified because: a) Mr Flay’s evidence was necessary for the claimants to prove their claim that the...

6. Wise v Commissioner of Police [2020] NZHRRT 44 [pdf, 169 KB]

   ...February 2015. After concluding her employment with the Police Ms Wise made a number of information privacy requests leading up to an information privacy request dated 19 June 2018 which is the subject of this claim. [2] Ms Wise did not receive a response to her information privacy request until 29 August 2019, which was after she had filed her claim in this Tribunal. 1 [This decision is to be cited as Wise v Commissioner of Police [202...

7. Family violence and sexual violence work programme archived updates

   ...language explanations of processes and legal terms. The guide is part of a wider package of work to improve victims’ experience of the justice system, which will include: training for frontline Justice people on how to provide safe and appropriate responses to people affected by family violence and/or sexual violence; further research and evaluation including additional interviews with victims of sexual violence to understand their personal experiences of the justice system, to help inform a...

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8. Wilson v Welch [pdf, 53 KB]

   ...company that undertook the plastering work on the dwelling. The claimants say he is personally liable to them because although the work was done in the name of his company, his “hands-on role” with the work was such that he assumed personal responsibility for it. THE POSITION OF THE FIRST RESPONDENTS [34] Mr Welch denied any liability in either contract or tort. He stated he was completely unaware of any potential leaky issues with the dwelling at the time he sold...

9. Government Response to Law Commision Report on New Issues in Legal Parenthood [pdf, 36 KB]

   GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO LAW COMMISSION REPORT ON NEW ISSUES IN LEGAL PARENTHOOD Presented to the House of Representatives GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO LAW COMMISSION REPORT ON NEW ISSUES IN LEGAL PARENTHOOD INTRODUCTION 1. The Government has carefully considered the Law Commission’s report NZLC 88 “New Issues in Legal Parenthood”. The Government responds to the report in accordance with Cabinet Office circular CO (01) 13. BACKGROUND 2. The Law Commission’s report responds to a Gove...

10. LCRO 89/2017 FZ v LS [pdf, 229 KB]

    ...… You can offer me settlement or we are going to court and I will be demanding every penny. I have nothing to lose except the time and effort but I would not say the same for you. I will be filing a formal complaint with the NZICA based on your response to this my final attempt to resolve this matter amicably. [8] LS, who practises as a barrister, sent FZ a reply on behalf of [Company A] on 5 September 2016. In that reply he said of the demand for $71,652: [Company A] takes demand...