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1. [2024] NZREADT 24 – OG Trust v REAA (29 July 2024) [pdf, 180 KB]

   ...purchaser’s details and the details of the trustees’ solicitor. The accountants sent a shareholder commitment pack to the purchaser on 28 September 2022, but he did not respond. They informed the licensee on 2 November 2022 of his lack of response. The licensee replied presumably on the same day advising the agreement was unconditional and suggesting they chase the purchaser. The accountants emailed the licensee again on 3 November 2022 querying the settlement date and notin...

2. OIA-122155.pdf [pdf, 965 KB]

   ...of Corrections (Corrections) requesting, under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act), information relating to indeterminate sentences. On 14 May 2025, your request was partially transferred to the Ministry of Justice (the Ministry) for response. Specifically: 1. Data for figures on number of new indeterminate sentence starts each calendar year from 2013 to 2024? 2. The current total number of offenders ever sentenced to an indeterminate sentence since Departmental records b...

3. [2011] NZEmpC 83 NZ Professional Firefighters Union v NZ Fire Service Commission [pdf, 57 KB]

   ...today, Monday 11 July 2011. I note that neither the Bargaining Process Agreement nor the leave that I reserved allows such a direction to be given about when mediation is to commence. [3] The Commission was almost as quick out of the blocks in response. On Saturday 9 July 2011 it filed, by counsel, a comprehensive memorandum in response opposing the Union’s applications and confirming that there had been no liaison, at least between counsel, about the matters for which leave w...

4. AE v Secretary for Justice 9 December 2014 NZRA 000007 [pdf, 43 KB]

   ...competence towards PAL 1. b. By determining that he did not meet the competence requirements for PAL 1. 11. As to the ground advanced in para 10(a).it is not necessary to discuss this at length for the reason that the Secretary has acknowledged in his response dated 27 November that involvement in criminal proceedings that are higher than the category for which approval is sought can be properly taken into account in assessing competence for that particular category. 12. As to the...

5. Singh v Registrar of Immigration Advisers [2015] NZIACDT 65 (27 May 2015) [pdf, 119 KB]

   ...submit an appeal in time. [9.6] Not referring the instructions when not available to carry them out. [10] The Registrar satisfied herself each of the grounds apparently lacked substance. She did so after making inquiries, and obtained a detailed response to the complaint. [11] In essence, Mr Singh’s complaint arises as he says he wanted the adviser to lodge an appeal after receiving a Deportation Liability Notice. However, the adviser said he did not consider there were grounds for a...

6. BORA Secondhand Dealers and Pawnbrokers Bill [pdf, 18 KB]

   ...limits necessarily involve a degree of generalisation, without regard for the particular abilities, maturity or other qualities of individuals within that age group. As here, age may be seen to be used as a proxy measure of maturity and capacity to act responsibly. In broad terms, the use of age in that way can be understood as a necessary alternative to the assessment of each individual's maturity and responsibility, which would be plainly unworkable in some contexts and contrary to...

7. MLC - 2012 June - Residential utilisation of multiply-owned Māori land [pdf, 433 KB]

   ...“ownership” of the block. 1. The standard structure is the same: (a) The ahu whenua trustees are the legal “owners” of the block in dealings with third parties and must ensure compliance with the district plan, payment of local body rates etc and are responsible for the block’s services, access etc. (b) The whānau trustees are not “owners” of their exclusive use areas but, subject to their obligations under the ahu whenua trust, have responsibility for the use and occupa...

8. RV v GK LCRO 56/2014 (7/9 September 2015) - Substantive and Supplementary Decisions [pdf, 43 KB]

   ...the person to whom the complaint relates. These regulations require the Complaints Service to provide a copy of the complaint to the person to whom the complaint relates, and to advise that person of the right to make a written submission in response to the complaint. The only reference to any contact with Mr GK is in the letter dated 14 February 2014 forwarding the determination to Mr GK, in which the Legal Standards Officer refers to a “recent email and phone message”. Nei...

9. 24 November 2014 Legal Aid News [pdf, 373 KB]

   ...know, we’re currently seeking your thoughts and ideas for our review of criminal legal aid fixed fees. The outcomes of that review won’t be known in full for a few months, but we’ve already started making some operational policy changes in response to your feedback. You can see details of these immediate changes here review-of-criminal-legal-aid-fixed-fees- operational-policy-changes. These steps address some of the issues highlighted so far during the review of criminal fixed f...

10. OIA-105544.pdf [pdf, 332 KB]

    ...to the following: • Statistics on opposed parenting order applications, specifically he volume, and the average time taken from application filing to application receiving a final outcome for each of the last three financial years. In response to your request, please find Tables 1 and 2 attached: • Table 1 provides you with the number of parenting order applications, both defended and undefended for Whangārei District Court and New Zealand, for the 2020 to 2023 financial...