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1. Induction guide for legal aid providers - v1.2 January 2017 [pdf, 659 KB]

   ...provide legal aid services or specified legal services. A provider is generally a lawyer with a contract to provide legal aid or specified legal services. A lead provider is a person who has been assigned a legal aid case. The lead provider is responsible for all work undertaken on a case assigned to them. A legally aided person is a person who has applied for, and who has been granted, legal aid. How legal aid works The government is committed to ensuring those that need legal as...

2. [2019] NZEmpC 20 Jacks Hardware and Timber Ltd v First Union Inc [pdf, 537 KB]

   ...First Union Inc v Jacks Hardware and Timber Ltd [2018] NZERA Christchurch 85 at [81]. [2] Jacks Hardware has challenged that determination maintaining s 50J of the Act has not been satisfied and that it is prepared to continue bargaining. In response the union says Jacks Hardware has breached the duty of good faith and the test in s 50J is satisfied. The beginning of bargaining [3] A notice initiating bargaining was served by the union on Jacks Hardware on 18 October 20...

3. LCRO 97/2019 DH v MB (29 June 2020) [pdf, 273 KB]

   ...ownership of the property to pass to [Ms DH] and her sister on Mrs RS’s death. [23] As with the property purchase, and Mrs RS’s will, Ms DH said any file notes made by Mr MB recording his “recommendations” to Mrs RS were not available. Response [24] Following an initial assessment by the Lawyers Complaints Service (Complaints Service), Ms DH’s complaint was dealt with through its Early Intervention Process which I refer to later in this decision. Standards Committee deci...

4. LCRO 188/2018 KB v WQ and LT (22 January 2021) [pdf, 264 KB]

   ...would be reasonable for him to exercise. [14] In July 2017, Q Law merged its practice with [Law firm A]. Mr WQ continued as a director. Mr LT ceased being a director in December 2016. Mr WQ is now retired from practice. The complaint, the response to the complaint, and the Standards Committee decision [15] Mr KB lodged a further complaint with the New Zealand Law Society Complaints Service (NZLS) on 18 July 2018. [16] In this complaint, Mr KB refers to having endeavoured to...

5. [2022] NZEmpC 4 Chief of the New Zealand Defence Force v Darnley [pdf, 401 KB]

   ...however, is that the conclusion was reached without hearing from Ms Darnley first or giving her an opportunity to make the points that Mr McKenzie-Bridle raised once he became involved. He was in the invidious position of making such points in response to a preliminary decision of dismissal based on an entrenched conclusion of serious misconduct. [56] Mr Boyle has suggested that this was a “preliminary decision”. That is not consistent with the clear wording of the letter: ...

6. LCRO 184/2020 BC v NP and RS decision & minute (20 May 2021 & 30 April 2021) [pdf, 257 KB]

   ...view as to outcome. [26] If the Committee’s preliminary view is that the complaint appears to lack substance, a Legal Standards Officer (LSO) will contact the respondent lawyer and inform them of the Committee’s preliminary view, inviting a response from the lawyer. [27] Any response is included in a file note, described as a “Call Log”, prepared by the LSO and provided to the Committee, which then completes its inquiry into the complaint. [28] On 17 August 2020 the LSO...

7. v2.3-Induction-guide-for-legal-aid-providers-April-2017.pdf [pdf, 714 KB]

   ...provide legal aid services or specified legal services. A provider is generally a lawyer with a contract to provide legal aid or specified legal services. A lead provider is a person who has been assigned a legal aid case. The lead provider is responsible for all work undertaken on a case assigned to them. A legally aided person is a person who has applied for, and who has been granted, legal aid. How legal aid works The government is committed to ensuring those that need legal as...

8. Auckland Standards Committee v Hylan [2014] NZLCDT 3 [pdf, 202 KB]

   ...incompetence, relied on the same allegations as in the first alternative charge, but added a further element, relating to Mr Hylan’s failure to satisfy himself as to the truth of the matters covered by his certificate. [6] In his required regulatory response1 Mr Hylan denied the charge of misconduct. He also denied the second alternative charge, negligence or incompetence, but admitted the first alternative charge of unsatisfactory conduct. [7] Mr Hylan said in that resp...

9. [2017] NZEnvC 124 Skyline Enterprises Ltd v Queenstown Lakes District Council [pdf, 12 MB]

   ...powerline. 43 [40] ZJV criticises Skyline's consent application AEE for not including an evaluation of the risk, its probability and consequences (despite Skyline having commissioned the SGRP). It submits that we should also factor in the responsibilities borne by OlOC and Skyline under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 ('HSWA'). In particular, it submits that the HSWA requires OlOC and Skyline to each take reasonable steps to understand relevant hazards and risk...

10. [2022] NZEmpC 223 FGH v RST [pdf, 688 KB]

    ...eventually met with Ms D and Mr E, Ms D’s manager, when he told them Ms H had been in care. There is a dispute as to whether Ms H’s father also said this information was not to be passed on, in particular to Ms C, who had been ultimately responsible for managing Ms H’s return-to-work in late 2019/early 2020. [12] Ms H continued to be unfit to attend work. Three medical certificates were provided to Ms D during July 2020, signed by a psychiatric registrar from a local...