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1. Family Court Rewrite Submission - Auckland Coalition for the Safety of Women and Children [pdf, 1.1 MB]

   ...child’s safety must be protected and, in particular, a child must be protected from all forms of violence as defined in section 3(2) to (5) of the Domestic Violence Act 1995: “(b) a child’s care, development, and upbringing should be primarily the responsibility of his or her parents and guardians: “(c) a child’s care, development, and upbringing should be facilitated by ongoing consultation and co-operation between his or her parents, guardians and any other person who has a...

2. LCRO 174/2018 GL v TE (18 June 2020) [pdf, 296 KB]

   ...emails to the NZICA; (2) the trust's 31 May 2017 accounts; (3) the trust's 31 March 2016 accounts; (4) the trust's 31 March 2017 accounts; and (5) income to the trust of $10,009 for the two-month period ending 31 May 2018. 6 Response [29] I refer to Mr TE’s response to Mr GL’s complaint in my later analysis.16 Standards Committee decision [30] The Committee delivered its decision on 17 August 2018 and determined, pursuant to s 138(2) of the Lawyers and Conv...

3. LCRO 3/2017 and LCRO 148/2017 McDonnell v LA (28 June 2019) [pdf, 436 KB]

   ...potential consequences for Mrs A’s WINZ subsidy; (e) the final legal fees of $25,000 were “totally ridiculous” but Ms McDonnell had agreed on a reduction to $8,000; and (f) Ms McDonnell caused extreme stress by providing incorrect advice. Response [26] Through her then counsel Ms RT, Ms McDonnell provided a response to the complaint in a letter to the Complaints Service dated 5 July 2016. It was accompanied by extensive supporting documentation. [27] The substance of Ms M...

4. LCRO 188/2021 MC v JK and UV (19 August 2022) [pdf, 355 KB]

   ...had come from separate property, and she wrongly applied it towards relationship property. (h) In submissions exchanged after the hearing in September 2018, Mr JK failed to identify and correct errors made in Ms M’s lawyer’s calculations. Response [21] Responding to the issues of complaint, Mr JK said:2 (a) He believes that terms of engagement were provided, and most probably handed to Mr MC at an initial meeting with him. (b) Mr JK advised Ms M’s lawyer that the Māori la...

5. Review of the Foreshore and Seabed Act 2004 Analysis of Replacement Regimes [pdf, 465 KB]

   ...the Crown as its absolute property (“Crown absolute title”); Option three: vesting the foreshore and seabed with Māori as their absolute property (“Māori absolute title”); or Option four: taking a new approach to clarifying roles and responsibilities in the foreshore and seabed (“a non-ownership regime”). 3 These options capture the broad range of ownership options that could be developed and analysed. 4 Based on the analysis of impacts and the indications of the con...

6. LCRO 175/2022 OP v VN (10 October 2023) [pdf, 315 KB]

   ...to that course of action. Mr VN did not respond to the request from this Office to express a view on that issue. Rather, through counsel, he agreed to abide the Committee’s October 2022 orders. [42] After carefully reading the complaint, the response to the complaint, the first Committee decision, the first LCRO decision, the second Committee decision and the submissions filed in support of the application for review, I was concerned that Mr VN had filed no evidence or submissions in...

7. LCRO 109/2024 BD and GD v RJ (19 September 2025) [pdf, 293 KB]

   ...Counsel for the respondent stated in her submissions on review that the PDF copy of the agreement on the vendors’ electronic file included the Restrictive Covenants page but the physical agreement on that file did not. [54] It is a complainant’s responsibility to produce in support of a complaint any material the complainant considers to be relevant to the complaint. The Committee is not obliged to remedy any deficiency in that regard. [55] I presumed that if there had been any...

8. Appointment of additional guardian by parents [pdf, 193 KB]

   ...following statements apply. The proposed additional guardian― [ select if applies] is or has been the spouse, civil union partner, or de facto partner of the arent who is making the appointment; and p is not a parent of the child, but shares responsibility for the child's day-to- ay care, and has done so for not less than one year; and d is not, and has never been, involved in proceedings concerning a child under the Act, a former Act, corresponding to the Act, or Part 2...

9. ENVC Hearing 6Oct14 AC rebuttal Christiaan Moss [pdf, 105 KB]

   ...alter or detract from my opinions. SCOPE OF EVIDENCE 6. This Rebuttal Statement of Evidence responds to issues raised in section 274 party evidence, having regard to the JWS and proposed conditions. Page 3 31555485:629148 RESPONSE TO SECTION 274 PARTY EVIDENCE 7. I have reviewed the section 274 evidence. The following is my response to issues raised relating to navigation safety. Expert witness evidence 8. Mr Drake states, at paragraph 44 of his e...

10. [2015] NZSSAA 039, 29 May [pdf, 44 KB]

    ...In 1987, when he was 47 years old, he and his wife sold their home in New Zealand and returned to XXXX with their five children. They returned to XXXX so that the appellant could care for his elderly father and so that the appellant could assume responsibility for the family land. The appellant’s father died in 1990 and the appellant took on his father’s Matai responsibilities. 2 [5] The appellant has expertise in land survey matters, and following his return to XXXX he...