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1. Workforce Capability Framework

   ...specialist Rachel Smith, and Shine Client Services Manager Jill Proudfoot. It was published in June 2017. The Framework is now being tested in some select family violence and sexual violence service provider sites, as well as at the Integrated Safety Response pilots  in Christchurch and Hamilton. All family violence and sexual violence service providers are encouraged to read the Framework and consider how it fits with their service. To ask any questions or make a comment, email...

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2. Finding human bones

   ...coroner will try to find out how long they’ve been buried and who they belong to. An archaeologist may be asked to help the police and the coroner find out the age of the burial or site. It is then up to the coroner to decide whether or not to take responsibility for looking into the death. Significance for Māori Finding koiwi tangata (human remains) is of particular significance for Māori. Most accidental finds of historical human bones will be Māori. Once it’s known that the koiwi are...

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3. Māori perspectives on justice - report released

   ...The independent report calls for Māori to have a genuine leadership role in creating a future justice system for Aotearoa New Zealand. The report reflects hui attendees’ clear challenges to the Crown: to share power with Māori and for Māori led responses to be central to the reformation of the justice system; to stop working in silos and to take a whole-of-Government approach to improve the wellbeing of Māori; and to recognise that they do not have the cultural capability or capacity to...

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4. Briefings to Incoming Ministers published

   ...ministers when they take up a portfolio. The reports are a key part of a briefing process which also includes meetings and other communications, taking place over several weeks. The BIMs help give the new minister an overview of their portfolio, what their responsibilities are and what the agency does. We provided four BIMs to the Ministers responsible for the following portfolios: Justice BIM: Hon Paul Goldsmith , Minister of Justice  Courts BIM: Hon Nicole McKee, Minister for Courts and...

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5. [2011] NZEmpC 151 Penney v Fonterra Co-operative Group Ltd [pdf, 94 KB]

   ...reasons: (a) She signed it when she was under stress and that her apparent agreement to its terms was not her real intention. (b) She signed the agreement in reliance on an offer of employment by another employer and that she believes Fonterra was responsible for that job offer subsequently being withdrawn. (c) The agreement provided for it to be signed by a mediator under s 149 of the Employment Relations Act 2000 and that, because that did not occur, the agreement was incomple...

6. Environment Court annual report 2015 [pdf, 475 KB]

   ...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 that h...

7. Slade - Parengarenga 3G (2014) 87 Taitokerau MB 46 (87 TTK 46) [pdf, 121 KB]

   ...of Parengarenga 3G Trust [15] Parengarenga 3G comprises approximately 500 hectares. It has been committed to plantation forestry for approximately 30 years. An ahu whenua trust has been in place since at least 1987. The Māori Trustee was the responsible trustee up until 2009. At around that time the forest was harvested and the trust received over $1,000,000.00. [16] In May 2009 the Court appointed seven trustees to replace the Māori Trustee as responsible trustees. Those sev...

8. Hart - Okaha Section 5 block VIII Gore SD (2012) 12 Te Waipounamu MB 286 (12 TWP 286) [pdf, 232 KB]

   ...he was unaware of the terms on which part of one of the Trust’s properties was being leased, as he claimed he had requested a copy of the lease several times and had not received one. [12] On 12 January 2011 the applicant wrote to the Court in response to comments made by Mark Walker at the Court hearing on 23 August 2010. She made the following points: a) Okoha was set aside to develop a “whanau-based marae”, not to avoid rates. b) The comment that the applicant was trying...

9. Moeahu v Winitana - Waiwhetu Pa No 4 (2014) 319 Aotea MB 166 (319 AOT 166) [pdf, 164 KB]

   ...to counsel for the respondent, Mr Winitana. On 15 October 2 275 Aotea MB 188 (275 AOT 188) 319 Aotea MB 169 2012 a submission was filed by Kathy Ertel & Co on behalf of Mr Winitana in response to the audit report findings and the submission of the trustees, a copy of which was sent to the trustees. [9] The substantive hearing of the application was held in Wellington before me on 18 January 2013. At the hearing Mr Winit...

10. LCDT - 2015 annual report [pdf, 249 KB]

    ...employment in respect of non- practitioner employees working in a legal or conveyancing practice. As can be seen, the Act has a more consumer oriented approach than its predecessor, the Law Practitioners Act. It also seeks to put in place a “more responsive regulatory regime”. This latter aspect is reinforced as part of s 231 “responsibilities of chairperson” where subsection (1)(a) refers to the “orderly and expeditious discharge of the functions of the Disciplinary Tri...