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1. OIA-113021.pdf [pdf, 5.4 MB]

   ...Changes • reducing funding for Lifting Cultural Capability • Ending the Mana Ōrite Agreement • Returning Funding for Te Ao Mārama 2. A list of roles disestablished at the Human Rights Commission, and in what teams/groups For the purpose of this response, the Ministry of Justice (the Ministry) has interpreted written advice ‘provided to Ministers’ to mean any written advice, which includes aides memoire, briefings, advice, talking points and letters, prepared by the Ministry for...

2. [2010] NZEmpC 82 Goodfellow v Building Connexion Ltd t/a ITM Building Centre [pdf, 44 KB]

   ...misunderstanding. Equally, in his evidence Mr Woolf accepted that Mr Goodfellow’s email was at best equivocal but agreed that he took no steps to clarify with Mr Goodfellow what he meant. Both men took the view that it was the other man’s responsibility to initiate any discussion or to provide clarification. [29] Mr Goodfellow regarded the direction that he finish work immediately, be paid in lieu of notice and return company property as the company bringing the employment rel...

3. Auckland Standards Committee v Banbrook [2014] NZLCDT 37 [pdf, 104 KB]

   ...Banbrook. Understandably, Mr Banbrook feels significantly let down and betrayed by these men, on whom he relied for proper governance of the company and accurate statements in the prospectus. [10] It is Mr Banbrook’s position, when asked about his responsibility for statements in the prospectus, and indeed the company’s accounts overall, that such were subject to independent audit, were under the control of an experienced accountant, the prospectus was prepared after independen...

4. Sisley & Anor v CAC 301 & Anor [2014] NZREADT 89 [pdf, 65 KB]

   ...does the complainant second respondent. The appellants and the second respondent are at odds on a number of substantive issues both legal and factual. [3] The essential concern of the complainant vendor is that, allegedly, the appellants were responsible for releasing a valuation to a prospective purchaser without the complainant’s authority and, indeed, contrary to the complainant’s instructions. A Summary of the CAC Decisions [4] As the CAC put it, the complaint is about t...

5. CAC20002 v Gollins [2015] NZREADT 2 [pdf, 178 KB]

   ...September Mr Lash sent this email train to Mr Gollins saying: “Hi Chris, all of this is in confidence of course. Below is an email that I sent to Marty seeking consent for the payment of the agency. With any luck I am reading too much into his response and the invoice just gets paid. He is also aware that you’ve fronted the purchase, hence you are referred to directly within the email chain. Will give you a call and let you know how you get on. The boss is in Hastings at the m...

6. Taylor v Corrections (Admissibility of Evidence) [2016] NZHRRT 10 [pdf, 72 KB]

   ...complaints and allegations of serious misconduct by Corrections staff and management covering a wide range of subject matter and context. None of these complaints and allegations relate to the alleged contravention of the Privacy Act by Corrections in response to Mr Taylor’s request of 5 September 2014, which is the subject of this proceeding. Similarly, with the exception of the mentioned 6 paragraphs, none of them are directly responsive to Mr Arbuckle’s evidence. The evid...

7. VX & VXZ v North Island Standards Committee LCRO 126 / 2012 (5 June 2013) [pdf, 103 KB]

   ...the lawyers would have carefully considered the arrangement before it was put in place and that Messrs WB and WA would have been conversant with the basis on which the arrangement was established. It is therefore difficult to ignore the initial responses from Mr WB to Mrs AT and the Lawyers Complaints Service and I have some doubt about the statements made by Messrs WA 10 Section 110(3)( b) Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006. 11 Re...

8. WA & WB v North Islands Standards Committee LCRO 127 / 2012 (5 June 2013) [pdf, 96 KB]

   ...fees to the [VXZ] business account by direct credit. However, if the fees were to be paid from monies received into the joint business account a pro-forma bill to cover the [WAA] costs was posted to the trust ledger 3 and Ms [VX] was responsible for drawing her share of the fees from that account. It was not [WAA’s] policy to render a bill of costs to [VXZ]. [7] By way of further explanation it is helpful to refer to the following extracts from a letter dated 28 October...

9. [2018] NZEnvC 023 Royal Forest Bird Protection Society of NZ Inc v Northland Regional Council [pdf, 4.2 MB]

   ...Kauri Dieback might be addressed, and this decision should not be taken as suggesting that the Biosecurity 10 Act is the only method by which this issue should be approached. We note in particular, the necessity for multi-agency and multi-level responses to achieve significant protection of kauri. [40] We stress that this is not only a taonga species, but also iconic in terms of its importance to the identity of New Zealand and to the native forests in the upper North Island....

10. George Lancaster v The Real Estate Agents Authority (CAC 491), John Lantz & Stephanie Kelland [2017] NZREADT 77 [pdf, 209 KB]

    ...acted on. [b] The Investigator failed to contact three persons (Mrs Tracey Lancaster, Ms Marina Oetgen, and Ms Anne Needham) whose names Mr Lancaster provided to him. Mr Lancaster submitted that they are able to provide cogent proof that the responses given to the Tribunal by the second and third respondents and the Agency are false, and that they had deliberately misled the Tribunal. Mr Lancaster requires the witnesses’ evidence to be submitted to the Tribunal by way of sworn...