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1. Audit summary report [pdf, 609 KB]

   ...appropriately according to their individual needs and characteristics. By skilfully representing vulnerable people, lawyers add value to the justice system. 6 . . . [the lawyer] was consistently professional in her dealings with her clients. Her response to her clients showed the quality of her care and commitment to her clients. High-quality practice was typified by excellent interactions with other justice system users, including meeting the needs of Courts and Police. Communi...

2. Yiasoumi v Attorney-General [2017] NZHRRT 12 [pdf, 242 KB]

   ...Constable Upton the previous night. 5 [31] DS Orr told the Tribunal that subsequent inquiries made by the CIB led to the discovery of CCTV footage of the incident. Mr Yiasoumi was shown damaging the tyres of a vehicle owned by one of the persons responsible for the alleged assault. The assault had followed. [32] On 12 May 2013 Mr Yiasoumi was interviewed by DS Orr and told that the Police held evidence which showed the account given to the CIB officers at the hospital was not a...

3. [2017] NZEnvC 067 PowerCo Limited v Thames-Coromandel District Council [pdf, 481 KB]

   ...the terms of the draft order proposed 3 by other parties and identify any expert evidence he would propose to call in relation to those issues at a hearing of the appeal. The Appellant and the Respondent were directed to file and serve their responses to such particulars and identify any expert evidence they would call. The other parties under s 274 of the Act were given an opportunity to participate in the same way. [8] Responding to the Court's direction, Mr Vernon lodged...

4. LCRO 189/2015 ZA v YB [pdf, 262 KB]

   ...taken “alone cannot be the determining evidence” of a retainer or “proof of engagement”; and (c) she thought Mr YB would engage the firm hence agreeing to hold his folder of evidence for safe keeping which had been returned to him. Response [19] Mr YB was invited to comment on Ms ZA’s review application but declined. Review [20] This review was progressed by way of an applicant only hearing before me in Auckland on 27 April 2017. Mr YB did not exercise his right to...

5. [2018] NZEnvC 078 Hughson Reid v Nelson Speedway Association [pdf, 919 KB]

   ...Club's Rules Applying to Construction (the Construction Rules), which identify the specifications to which racing cars were both held on the Council file together with the formal application. 6 Any person who inspected the Council file in response to the public notification of the application would have seen the Letter and Construction Rules which clearly formed part of the Club's proposal. [16] When the Council belatedly wrote to adjoining property owners about the...

6. Evidence Brief: Mental Health Courts [pdf, 255 KB]

   ...Steadman, H., Redlich, A., Callahan, L., Robbins, P., and Vesselinov, R. (2011). Effect of mental health courts on arrests and jail days, Archives of General Psychiatry, 68(2). Thompson, M., Osher, F., & Tomasini-Joshi, D. (2007). Improving Responses to People with Mental Illnesses: the Essential Elements of a Mental Health Court. Bureau of Justice Assistance, U.S. Department of Justice. Woodley A. (2012). A report on the progress of Te Kooti O Timatanga Hou – the Court of New...

7. LCDT Annual Report 2020 [pdf, 708 KB]

   ...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 1982. 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 Tribuna...

8. G v EQC [2020] CEIT-2020-0010 [pdf, 289 KB]

   ...contrast to the usual contractual arrangements of an insurance policy where there is no such distinction between a building and the underlying land of the building platform. [15] The Court noted that EQC has flexibility to tailor its indemnity response to a particular case, concluding that EQC’s policy of settling claims on the diminution of value basis in appropriate cases is consistent with its obligations.6 [16] The Court made the following declaration regarding the settlement...

9. LCRO 184/2015 WD v YR (6 July 2017) [pdf, 171 KB]

   ...expeditiously. I will file a memorandum seeking to withdraw as counsel in the District Court. Best of luck. Regards [YR] 1 Email BG to WD (18 March 2014). 2 Mr YR advises that Mr WD’s response to settlement offers from his previous lawyer that Mr YR considered should be accepted, was that Mr WD did not consider the offer caused his former lawyer enough discomfort and that he wanted him to “bleed from the eyes”. Letter YR...

10. Legal Complaints Review Officer v Morrison [2018] NZLCDT 27 [pdf, 422 KB]

    ...different between each of Version 2 and Version 3. He accepted that for a person to insert the signature page from Version 1 into Version 3, a deliberate recalibration of the document was required.4 Ms F told the applicant that she was the person responsible for typing up the documents. [22] As to (d). The applicant’s argument is that the removal of the word “child” from Version 3 leads to the compelling conclusion that it required a manual act and a degree of legal analysi...