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1. Cabinet paper relating to Private Security Personnel and Private Investigators (Minimum Training) Amendment Regulations and other legislative instruments [pdf, 1.2 MB]

   ...employees, property guards and property guard employees. 10. The PSPPI Act definitions of ‘property guard’ and ‘property guard employee’ capture security personnel who only monitor alarms or security cameras, and do not have any front-line responsibilities (for example, responding to activated alarms or patrolling premises). 11. In 2011, Cabinet confirmed that property guards who are office-based with non front-line responsibilities should be excluded from the minimum training re...

2. Huata v Gotty - Lot 2 Deposited Plan 1996 (formerly Mangaroa 26N2 Block) (2021) 87 Takitimu MB 251 (87 TKT 251) [pdf, 248 KB]

   ...for the trust advised that David O’Connor is now counsel for Mr and Mrs Huata and confirmed that the application to transfer proceedings was served on 9 November 2020. As at the date of the case manager’s memorandum, she confirmed that no response had been received from Mr Huata or Mr O’Connor. Given the passage of time, and the lack of response to the application to transfer proceedings, I cannot determine whether Mr Huata and his counsel oppose the application to transfer...

3. [2019] NZEmpC 108 Plan B Limited v Roberts [pdf, 217 KB]

   ...Executive Officer of Plan B, and Adam Taylor Lockington, a systems engineer at Plan B. [10] As indicated, Mr Roberts was employed by Plan B on 30 July 2017. His role at Plan B was as a business development manager. In this role, he was responsible for sourcing new customers and turning sales leads into service contracts. The job description attached to his employment agreement states that the primary purpose of his role was to achieve sales of Plan B services and to dev...

4. Auckland Standards Committee 1 v Hanif [2019] NZLCDT 13 [pdf, 156 KB]

   ...the hearing Mr Hanif advised us that he had been a practitioner since 1983 and had a clean record. Certainly he is entitled to considerable credit for a long unblemished legal career. However, the information was not entirely correct. [22] In response Mr Collins referred us to findings of unsatisfactory conduct against the practitioner in November of 2013. Although Mr Collins fairly pointed out that this offending was not in any way comparable with the current matter it is, of co...

5. [2018] NZSSAA 12 (28 February 2018) [pdf, 158 KB]

   ...[19] A situation similar to that of the appellant was considered by the Court of Appeal in Commissioner of Inland Revenue v Alam & Begum2. The Court considered whether the Commissioner of Inland Revenue had the power to decide if a notice of response met the requirements of the Tax Administration Act 1994, and could reject it if he considered it non-complying. A notice of response was an essential step in a challenge to a proceeding leading to an appeal, which the Taxation Rev...

6. [2022] NZEmpC 30 Cousens v Star Nelson Holdings Ltd [pdf, 210 KB]

   ...made on his behalf to obtain payment from Star Nelson. Aside from steps taken in the Authority to obtain a compliance order Mr Cousens’ representative, Mr Mathews, has written to the company requesting payment but has had no acknowledgement or response from it. [10] The company is aware of the two proceedings in the Authority that led to the determinations just referred to as well as this proceeding. It took some limited steps in the Authority although did not turn up at e...

7. The Crown Minerals (Decommssioning and other Matters) Bill [pdf, 175 KB]

   ...effects and health and safety risks of failing to decommission can be significant. 6. There is currently no explicit statutory obligation to decommission under the Act, which means that there is a lack of clarity about permit and licence holders’ responsibilities, the length of time for which they are responsible, and the consequences of failing to decommission. 7. The Bill introduces a number of new provisions to mitigate the risk to the Crown and to other third parties of having to...

8. 2021-06-14 Trustpower - MOC - Submissions in response to Amicus Curiae memorandum [pdf, 718 KB]

   ...(referred to the Environment Court by the Minister for the Environment under section 142(2)(b) of the Act) BETWEEN Otago Regional Council Applicant AND Trustpower Limited Party LEGAL SUBMISSIONS OF COUNSEL FOR TRUSTPOWER LTD IN RESPONSE TO MEMORANDUM OF AMICUS CURIAE ON DEEMED PERMITS AND RIGHTS OF PRIORITY 14 June 2021 MAY IT PLEASE THE COURT: Background and summary of Trustpower’s position 1. Counsel has reviewed the memorandum of Amicus Cu...

9. Hunia v Skerrett-White - Kawerau A8D (2021) 263 Waiariki MB 93 (263 WAR 93) [pdf, 260 KB]

   ...regarding these lengthy proceedings, the relevant detail for the purposes of this judgment, is reproduced for convenience:1 [218] The current trustees of Kawerau A8D are all removed for cause with the exception of Andrew Kusabs who will remain as responsible trustee until further order of the Court. (Emphasis added) [2] Following that, and after a process of receiving submissions on whether my decision was an interim or final judgment, on 30 March 2017, the Māori Appellate Cour...

10. [2022] NZEnvC 241 Vortac New Zealand Limited v Western Bay of Plenty District Council [pdf, 306 KB]

    ...Vortac’s application to cancel or vary the enforcement order. On 27 September 2022 I made a second decision dismissing Vortac’s application to cancel or vary the enforcement order and directing a timetable for any application for costs and any response to such an application.4 On 17 October 2022, Western Bay of Plenty District Council (the Council) filed an application for costs. Costs in the Environment Court Under s 285 of the Resource Management Act 1991, the Enviro...