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1. Karaitiana v Seagar - Wharetoto 9 Part (2025) 509 Aotea MB 11 (509 AOT 11) [pdf, 240 KB]

   ...lease at Turangi on 6 May 2025 (the hearing). This hearing set down alongside the application to remove Harvey as a trustee.4 In advance of the hearing Tokoahu sought to have the hearing adjourned. I declined that request and issued the following response: "The application by email dated 1 May 2025 for an adjournment of the hearing set down for 6 May 2025 is declined on the basis that there have been many requests for adjournments previously, and this is a very late request,...

2. Auckland Standards Committee 5 v Hong [2020] NZLCDT 12 [pdf, 160 KB]

   ...8 See above n 3. 11 (d) Mr Hong is not remorseful and is lacking insight into his professional failings. (e) There is a clear need for deterrence. (f) There are no mitigating factors. Mr Hong’s response to the Committee’s submissions [28] Mr Hong has filed submissions on penalty and costs. The submissions are 19-pages. Mr Hong refers to the submissions that Mr Collins has made about penalty but he concentrates on explaining his

3. Chen v Gu-Chang [2013] NZIACDT 16 (19 March 2013) [pdf, 221 KB]

   ...approached another licensed immigration adviser and in a letter that adviser requested a copy of Mr Chen’s file. The letter was directed to Ms Gu-Chang. Lawyers acting for AGC subsequently provided the balance of Mr Chen’s file on 11 March 2011. The Response – Ms Gu-Chang’s Initial Response to the Complaint [41] Ms Gu-Chang responded through her counsel to the initial complaint made by Mr Chen’s current advisers. However, she also responded personally to the Authority. The...

4. Wellington Standards Committee v Twigley [2016] NZLCDT 37 [pdf, 601 KB]

   ...restrictive outcome which is commensurate with a proportionate response to serious offending needs to be engaged. He referred us to previous decisions of the Tribunal, however we find that only Hackshaw5 and Andersen6 are relevant. [82] Mr Twigley responsibly accepted that there needed to be deterrence in penalty. He submitted that specific deterrence was not necessary in this instance, but other than a reference to his first 15 years of practice which occurred without adverse fin...

5. [2019] NZEmpC 172 Cowan v Idea Services Ltd [pdf, 356 KB]

   ...Hudson wrote to Ms Cowan summarising the information she had obtained. She said she had not yet made a decision as to what should occur. She would not do that until she had spoken to Ms Cowan again at a scheduled meeting when she could provide a response. [44] She went on to record Ms Cowan’s initial response, and her interviews with the SUs and staff. She said that having considered the matters, there were several behaviours which seriously undermined her, and IDEA’s, tru...

6. 3.0-W-RIS-Family-Court-Associate-FINAL.pdf [pdf, 2.4 MB]

   ...how is the status quo expected to develop? Recent reform has focused on delay in CoCA matters in the Family Court 1. Extensive reforms of the process for resolving CoCA disputes took effect in 2014. Those reforms sought to encourage individual responsibility and shift the focus from in-court resolution to encouraging parents to reach agreement themselves, through out-of-court processes. The reforms aimed to enable the Family Court to focus its resources on serious and urgent (“wi...

7. 2021-11-05 ORC - Regional Plan Waste for Otago Chapter 6 & Glossary - tracked [pdf, 487 KB]

   ...for controlling the use of land related to hazardous substances. Section 62(1)(ha) of the Resource Management Act requires that regional policy statements shall state for the region or any part of the region, which local authority shall have responsibility within its own area for developing objectives, policies and rules relating to the control of the use of land for the prevention or mitigation of any adverse effects of the storage, use, disposal and transportation of hazardous...

8. OIA-121395.pdf [pdf, 18 MB]

   ...9(2)(a) to protect the privacy of natural persons. In withholding information under section 9 of the Act, the Ministry has considered the public interest and does not consider that it outweighs the need to withhold the information at this time. In response to part 2 of your request, I can advise that the Ministry holds no relevant documents. Therefore, I am refusing this part of your request under section 18(g)(i) of the Act, as the information requested is not held by the Ministry...

9. Chalecki v Accident Compensation Corporation (Personal injury/Deemed cover) [2024] NZACC 147 (2 September 2024) [pdf, 356 KB]

   ...and this is clearly related to progression of the disc prolapse. There was obviously structural failure of the disc itself and this leads to progressive changes with further protrusion which was seen on the more recent scan of 5 January 2022. (D) RESPONSE TO QUESTIONS You have asked me to comment on some comments related to the ACC Clinical Advisor, Mr Sudhindra Rao. 1. You have stated that he did not feel that there was sufficient magnitude of forces to cause an acute disc prolapse...

10. LCRO 36/2024 CFJ v BDU (31 July 2025) [pdf, 254 KB]

    ...however, was his premise that: …the principals were jointly [the respondent’s partner and the respondent], as they were joint owners of the Property. [The respondent’s partner] had expressly communicated to the applicant that [the agent] was the responsible real estate agent and was giving him authority to sell the house” (sic). [75] This is not tenable either legally or as a matter of professional conduct. The respondent and her partner were not joint owners of the land but...