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1. Environment court annual report 2013 [pdf, 213 KB]

   ...and determining cases. The Court’s Judicial Resources Manager co-ordinates the Court’s sitting programme. This follows directions from the Principal Environment Judge who, pursuant to s 251(2) of the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) is responsible for ensuring the orderly and expeditious discharge of the business of the Court. 1.4 The Court’s Jurisdiction The Environment Court is established by section 247 of the RMA as a Court of Record. It is a specialist court...

2. Environment Court annual report 2014 [pdf, 282 KB]

   ...factors such as case size, number of parties/ topics and complexity influence the level of judicial intervention through case management, mediation, expert witness caucusing and ultimately any hearing that may be required. Some careful management responses have been implemented in light of the overall climate of factors. As discussed earlier in this report, the Court has dropped from 15 permanent Commissioners and 6 Deputies to 12 permanents and 5 Deputies. The continued option of acce...

3. Body Corporate 85927, 38 Roxborough St v Wellington City Council [2010] NZWHT Wellington 12 [pdf, 203 KB]

   ...Bonner, Mr P Stewart, CAS Management Limited, Mr C A Stewart, AHI Roofing Limited/Carter Holt Harvey Limited and Wellington City Council reached a partial settlement with the claimants for $652,002 with a denial of liability. The apportionment of responsibility between the parties remains confidential. 7. The decision in Petrou v Weathertight Homes Resolution Service sets out the law applicable in relation to claims that have been assigned, or more properly referred to as subrog...

4. BU v DG LCRO 276 / 2011 (17 September 2013) [pdf, 102 KB]

   ...release a file. Instructing solicitor’s files are not counsel’s to command. [49] Evidently BU, BZ and DG had reached a stalemate. BU was relying on BZ, and they had not come to any arrangement that would relieve her from her professional responsibility to pay his fees. Since she was responsible for meeting his fees, BZ had a stake in the outcome. While BZ had no security for BU’s fees, and had lost DN as a client, she was still able to exercise a lien over the file. It wo...

5. LCRO 139/2015 WN v YL and TM [pdf, 190 KB]

   ...file would only be released once a final account had been rendered and all accounts paid. It would seem the file was released although the balance of fees remained outstanding. [27] In November, Mr WN questioned the firm’s invoices and in response, the firm provided copies of the firm’s time records. 6 [28] Ms YL advised the Legal Complaints Review Officer (LCRO) in a letter dated 26 July 2015 that $2,685.50 remained unpaid and proceedings were filed in the District C...

6. LCRO 247/2015 TL v CS (19 July 2017) [pdf, 240 KB]

   ...Mr TL’s colleague who reminded Mr CS that the firm had acted for him on unrelated matters some years previously and asked him to advise if he had any objections to the firm acting against him.1 [6] Mr TL claims that three months later, in response to attempts to serve him with a statement of claim, Mr CS phoned him to advise that he did not object. Mr CS disputes that he made this call. On 7 November 2014 and in subsequent correspondence, Mr CS’ lawyers informed Mr TL that M...

7. Waitangi Tribunal - Wai 2522 2.5.0019 TPPA [pdf, 814 KB]

   ...that in mind the Crown proposes that the Tribunal issues be confirmed without amendment (Wai 2522, #3.1.86). 11. We consider that the issues identified in our decision of 31 July 2015 can remain "as the issues for inquiry without amendment. In response to the concerns raised by claimant counsel as to what those issues encompass, the Tribunal can confirm that the first issue concerning the effectiveness of the Treaty of Waitangi exception clause does encompass claimant concerns about...

8. Regulatory Impact Statement: Improving security so that people feel safer in courts [pdf, 411 KB]

   ...Tribunals Policy May 2016 In confidence 2 Executive summary 1. Since the 1990s, responsibility for court security has been transitioning from the Police to court security staff. The Courts Security Act 1999 (the Act) was passed in response to a murder committed in a court waiting room. An independent inquiry concluded that court security staff needed statutory powers to protect the safety and security of court users. 2. The Act currently focuses on serious off...

9. [2016] NZEmpC 145 S v I Ltd [pdf, 170 KB]

   ...archived including both the dates of archive and dates files were removed from archive. Please convert all electronic communications to hard copy. … [16] This request was addressed both to L Limited, and to its lawyers. Initially there was no response so that it had to be repeated. Some documents were provided at mediation which was held on 18 July 2013. Then on 30 July 2013, the Authority conducted an investigation meeting to consider S’s application for interim reinstat...

10. LCRO 27/2018 DY v UQ [pdf, 142 KB]

    ...[date] that Mr UQ had mentioned Mr MD’s involvement early on. There is no evidence of Mr DY having taken steps before trial to progress what Mr UQ says were his instructions in that regard. That is consistent with Mr DY’s later explanation in response to Mr UQ’s complaint, set out in detail below, that he had made a decision about that. [15] Mr DY’s file also contained Judge A’s ruling regarding Mr DY’s indication at trial that he intended to call Mr MD as a witness....