Waitangi Tribunal Strategic Direction 2014-2025 [pdf, 16 MB]
...13 The Tribunal’s membership 13 A consultative and responsive approach 13 Balancing priorities and setting achievable goals
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...13 The Tribunal’s membership 13 A consultative and responsive approach 13 Balancing priorities and setting achievable goals
...professional failings. The only excuse offered is that he was acting out of a misguided sense of obligation to his client to get the best immigration outcome for her. [26] Mr Vole is 61 years old, and is married with 13 children. He is still financially responsible for four of his children. He suffers from poor health, as detailed in counsel’s submissions. He is no longer able to drive. The extensive publicity surrounding the Tribunal’s findings had caused him considerable di...
...action, because they do not have the required capacity to provide the support. (f) A further issue was that general service delivery, contingency planning, and production planning within the DHB’s sector are under significant pressure from the responsibilities that have already been assigned to many of the same DHB officers for managing the planning and implementation of changes associated with COVID-19 or the management of COVID-19 preparedness and Omicron business continuity...
...respondents are liable for the defect or breach, then they will fail in that part of their claim. The first and second respondents will have all the usual rights to challenge any evidence against them and to put the claimants to proof on their alleged responsibility for any of the claimed defects or breaches. [63] Any prejudice to the first and second respondents by way of the loss of evidence will have to be addressed as best as can be with the assistance of the contemporaneous...
...that bid was his or Mr P’s. When asked again by the investigator, he said he remembered that the bid of $1,199,000 was that of Mr P, so he added another $1,000. Explanation from the licensee [25] On 16 November 2022, the licensee provided a response to the Authority. He said all the bids had been made on the purchaser’s instructions. It was not true that he was instructed to make $1,000 bids. The purchaser’s bids were “all over the place between the interval of $1,000...
...account existed and was not a QC Ltd account. He stated further that: The screen shot you provided is simply a case of attempted fraud by deception. Fraud by deception does attract jail time. We need you to start being honest and face up to your responsibilities. We need a plan from you to pay back your arrears and not excuses. [14] On 8 March 2021, TX emailed KT requesting a meeting to discuss the above email from LI. KT emailed her back on 11 March 2021 confirming that the ban...
...living away from New Zealand. The attorney was Belinda O’Brien who is an accountant and friend of T. She wrote to the practitioner on 23 September 2009 in which she recorded that it was not feasible for either of the siblings to take over the responsibility for their father’s business because T was living overseas and F had mental health issues. She went on to say that the best and only option available was to try and sell the business as a going concern. She expressed pleasur...
...user), conducted at particular courts during one month of fieldwork in 2010. We cannot verify whether the profile achieved is representative of all users of New Zealand courts. This should be taken into account when interpreting the findings. The response rate (calculated by dividing the number of interviews by the number of court users approached) was 27%. This is a conservative estimate of the response rate because it assumes that all people who refused to take part in the survey wo...
...undermined the dignity of the judiciary and the processes of the court, and that he made allegations in documents filed in court without reasonable grounds or good cause.2 The practitioner’s defences [12] The practitioner filed an extensive response to the charges. In his amended response of 26 May 2014, he responded to what he grouped together as the “Judge’s charges”. He included the following denials: E. I deny that there is any evidence whatsoever that my allegat...
...night. Tama was asked firstly if he agreed with the police account and to tell those at the conference what happened. Tama agreed with the summary and spoke briefly about it. His father, Tane, requested more detail. At this time, Tama’s minimal responses were incomprehensible due to his tears and sniffing. He said, ‘I didn’t really want to do it…when I looked at him…I just pushed him up against the till’. Encouraged to speak more by the facilitator, Tama elaborated: ‘...