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1. Welcome-Guide-Information-for-court-and-tribunal-interpreters-v5.docx [docx, 1.7 MB]

   ...Ministry staff. The purpose of our complaints process is to give people a way to raise dissatisfaction or concern with the quality of interpreting. It provides the Ministry with a robust process to investigate complaints and determine what action or response is needed to maintain and improve the service. The complaint process will follow the principles below: · Fairness: the process is objective, and all complaints are dealt with in an unbiased, fair, and reasonable way · Consistency: deci...

2. [2025] NZEmpC 48 Brown v The Clinician Holdings Ltd [pdf, 287 KB]

   ...residual handover work. During this time, he also declined to take on new clients for Surestart. Mr Tenenbaum recalls Mr Brown completing work for other Surestart clients, but he does not recall Mr Brown telling him that he was handing over his responsibilities for his clients to other providers. [30] Mr Brown was able to submit and be reimbursed for expense claims he incurred on TCHL’s behalf, which he previously did not do as a contractor. He continued to use his own comput...

3. OIA-116775 [pdf, 5.3 MB]

   ...accordance with section 9(1) of the Act, I have considered the public interest in making available the information being withheld and determined that it does not outweigh the need to withhold the information at this time. Please note that this response, with your personal details removed, may be published on the Ministry website at: Official Information Act responses | New Zealand Ministry of Justice. S9(2)(a) S9(2)(a) S9(2)(a) https://www.justice.govt.nz/about/official-in...

4. Wilton TRI-2021-100-002 Procedural Order 27 [pdf, 311 KB]

   ...cent uplift in its legal costs (to the sum of $61,221.23) is justified given the claimants’ blanket refusal to engage with the first respondent’s proposed solution. In total, the first respondent seeks costs of $121,378.56. The claimants’ response to the application [20] The claimants oppose the costs application on the grounds that: (a) the statutory threshold for “lack of substantial merit” has not been met; (b) the February Offer did not exceed the amount ultimatel...

5. [2025] NZEmpC 242 Tertiary Education Union v Te Pūkenga, New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology T/A Unitec [pdf, 381 KB]

   ...to provide individual coverage.14 Peseta Lotu-Iiga advised that Unitec would consider any further feedback before making a final decision with the aim of sharing the feedback by 23 March 2023. [81] Alongside the 9 March 2023 email, a summary of responses and feedback was provided. It identified key themes which had emerged from the feedback. Of the 86 who provided feedback, 84 disagreed with the proposal. Significant time and effort had gone into the feedback with a focus on the...

6. [2011] NZEmpC 137 Service and Food Workers Union Nga Ringa Tota Inc v PACT Group Charitable Trust [pdf, 61 KB]

   ...communities served by the defendant have an interest in the secure and proper treatment of its members who are impaired mentally including, in particular, those who have been detained compulsorily under law on this ground. The locking out of employees responsible for the fulfilment of these obligations to the 1 WA 79/06, 12 May 2006. 2 [2010] NZEmpC 38. 3 CEC 34/93, 8 July 1993. community will affect the public interest. On...

7. AE v Secretary for Justice 3 April 2012 NZRA 000005 [pdf, 55 KB]

   ...of the criminal law. (f) He has the support of two reputable criminal lawyers who have worked with him in a number of cases. 3 (g) He has had success in a number of criminal trials and has never been the subject of complaint. [10] In response to the Application for Review, the Secretary relies on the reasons for decision given in the decision of 10 February 2012. [11] In reply, the applicant argues; (a) that he had a favourable assessment at Ministry level before ref...

8. [2014] NZEmpC 80 Tomo v Checkmate Precision Cutting [pdf, 65 KB]

   ...strongly considers that his dismissal was unjustified and that the Authority overlooked, or did not adequately address, a number of factual matters. He accepts that if he does not succeed and an award of costs is made against him he will bear responsibility for that award. He does not say how he would meet that responsibility. It is, however, submitted on Mr Tomo’s behalf that it is improbable that an award of costs would be made against him if his challenge fails, although the...

9. ENVC Hearing 6Oct14 AT rebuttal Aut Karndacharuk [pdf, 120 KB]

   ...para 40. 9 Langwell, 29 July 2014, para 36. 4813737.3 4 enforcement of the keyhole parking controls during peak ferry times is currently carried out in an informal manner. My evidence in chief 10 is that the enforcement and monitoring responsibility of “moving” vehicles is the responsibility of the police, and the Parking Officers are an interim measure until a long-term solution is found for the ferry terminal areas. I understand there is currently no certainty about...

10. AFE Ltd v ZUR Ltd and ZUQ [2013] NZDT 150 (25 June 2013) [pdf, 67 KB]

    ...the contract, rather than putting a stop to it because of any supposed breach of contract by AFE Ltd. [15] Support for this finding is also found in a taped telephone conversation in which ZUQ tells SK that he had always stated that ‘we are responsible for the debt’. While ZUQ now says that this was his way of proactively trying to resolve the issues between them, I find that SK was entitled to assume that ZUQ meant that there was no dispute between them and it wa...