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1. Establishment of Canterbury Earthquakes Insurance Tribunal [pdf, 257 KB]

   ...precedent cases. Further, some claims will only settle in the ‘shadow of the court’; that is, parties are more likely to settle before trial. 10 Other claims have only recently been identified as over-cap,3 and have been passed from EQC to Southern Response or private insurers, who are still working through their standard claims resolution processes. The remaining unresolved claims include both first-time settlement and reopened claims, many of which have complex legal or technica...

2. LCRO 130/2017 HS v NC and EH (18 September 2019) [pdf, 260 KB]

   ...2015 authority to act which the practitioners prepared on this matter. [14] For those reasons, Mr HS claimed he ought not be obliged to pay the practitioners’ fees for their “submissions” or “correspondence” to the Disputes Tribunal. Response [15] I refer to the practitioners’ responses, and submissions to the Committee, on which they rely in response to Mr HS’s application for review, in my later analysis.3 Standards Committee decision [16] The Standards Committee...

3. COVID-19 Public Health Response Bill [pdf, 205 KB]

   LEGAL ADVICE LPA 01 01 24 11 May 2020 Hon Andrew Little, Acting Attorney-General Consistency with the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990: COVID-19 Public Health Response Bill Purpose 1. We have considered whether the COVID-19 Public Health Response Bill (‘the Bill’) is consistent with the rights and freedoms affirmed in the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 (‘the Bill of Rights Act’). 2. We have not yet received a final version of the Bill. This advice has been prep...

4. Canterbury Earthquakes Insurance Tribunal 28 February 2018 [pdf, 257 KB]

   ...precedent cases. Further, some claims will only settle in the ‘shadow of the court’; that is, parties are more likely to settle before trial. 10 Other claims have only recently been identified as over-cap,3 and have been passed from EQC to Southern Response or private insurers, who are still working through their standard claims resolution processes. The remaining unresolved claims include both first-time settlement and reopened claims, many of which have complex legal or technica...

5. Director of Proceedings v Bay of Plenty District Health Board [2022] NZHRRT 5 [pdf, 326 KB]

   ...Board (“BOPDHB”), was a healthcare provider within the meaning of s 3 of the Act, and was providing health services to the consumer. 4. At all material times, the defendant managed and operated Place A Hospital (“the Hospital”), and was responsible for the services the Hospital provided. 5. In February 2018, the aggrieved person’s father complained to the Health and Disability Commissioner about services provided to his son by the defendant. 6. On 7 December 2020 t...

6. LCRO 32/2024 MP v LG (21 January 2025) [pdf, 207 KB]

   ...understanding of the 25 October 2022 conversation was confirmed in an email exchange on 27 and 28 October, which also recorded that: (a) the applicant would consider disengaging from her existing lawyer if she did not accept a change of strategy; (b) in response to a question from the respondent, the reason for the advice being required before 22 November 2022 was stated to be that: This is a 1 hour hearing to define whether the leave to change the parenting order should be granted....

7. [2024] NZEnvC 271 Auckland Council v Sharma [pdf, 321 KB]

   ...clean or geotechnically suitable; (d) proper geotechnical methods were not used to ensure the future stability of the fill; and (e) the required expert supervision and certification did not occur. [3] A series of abatement notices were issued in response to the breaches which required compliance with the resource consent conditions, the cessation of any non-compliant earthworks and remediation of adverse effects. 1 Petronella Johanna Strydom affidavit sworn 4 July 2022, at [3.2]...

8. Auckland Standards Committees 3 and 4 v Banbrook [2017] NZLCDT 35 [pdf, 404 KB]

   ...a copy of his file to the Legal Complaints Service in contravention of a request made under s 147 of the Act. 3 [2] Full details of the charges and particulars of the charges are attached as Appendix A. [3] The respondent has filed no responses to the charges. A brief history of the opportunities given to the respondent to respond to the charges is: (a) Following the decision of the LCRO confirming the Standards Committee’s decision in respect of charge ASC3, the respon...

9. NZCVS topical report Victims trust and confidence in the criminal justice system [pdf, 640 KB]

   ...October 2018 to September 2019. The sample covers 8,038 adult respondents. Households are randomly selected to participate in the survey. A response rate of 81% makes the sample highly representative of the New Zealand adult population. Survey responses are also weighted by age group, sex and ethnicity to reflect the population. Victimisation in the NZCVS is measured according to experiences of crime, regardless of whether the crime was reported to the Police. This is important giv...

10. River Oaks Farm Ltd & Ors as Trustees of Ingodwe Trust v Olsson [pdf, 136 KB]

    ...of the project managersand director of operations concerning the application of membrane to internal gutters Mr Olsson must take responsibility for its poor application at location one (see [13] supra, being 25% remediation costs). He is also responsible for attaching the brackets at the kitchen window, being leak location three (see [14] being 5%), lack of membrane coating at leak location four (see [15] being 10%), and the lack of deck slope at leak location five (see [16] being...