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1. OIA-Audio-visual techniques [pdf, 4.4 MB]

   ...recently been a review of the capability of AV technology within courts undertaken. I am seeking a copy of that review. Please find attached a copy of the AV Technical Review findings report. The AV Technical Review was initiated in 2023 in response to the Digital Strategy for Courts and Tribunals. It was a first step to document and understand the current state of AV services available to courts and tribunals and is being used to make service improvements and inform choices for...

2. Foster v Accident Compensation Corporation (Cover) [2025] NZACC 145 (4 September 2025) [pdf, 500 KB]

   ...personal injury within the meaning of the Act, but also there is no evidence to suggest that the appellant’s condition was caused by any property or characteristic of her employment tasks. … [33] In particular I note Professor Gorman's response to Dr Wigley's assertion that the incidence of fibromyalgia involves physical changes which indicate injury where Dr Wigley referred to electron microscopic examination of the collagen fibres showing decreased cross-linkage, s...

3. Court User Survey 2021 Results Report [pdf, 1.5 MB]

   ...District Court 157 Manukau 281 Wellington High Court 79 Hamilton 111 Nelson 100 Tauranga 100 Christchurch 281 Gisborne 70 Dunedin 62 Hastings 100 Invercargill 94 Whanganui 101 Total sample 2,009 The average interview length was 15 minutes, and the response rate to the survey was 33% (compared to 30% in 2019). Interviewers completed the surveys using Computer Assisted Personalised Interviewing (CAPI). Interviewers approached people waiting for their hearing or case to take place...

4. [2007] NZEmpC AC 50A/07 Service and Food Workers Union Inc & Anor v Spotless Services (NZ) Ltd [pdf, 86 KB]

   ...Thursday 12 July 2007. Although Spotless served these lockout notices on the union, they were not sent on to affected employees at work sites around the country. Spotless did not send copies of the statutory lockout notices to its local managers responsible for effecting the lockouts. The statutory notices did not circulate below head office levels in the company and the union, even although not all SFWU members were to be locked out on particular days. [22] On Wednesday 11 July,...

5. [2008] NZEmpC AC 24/08 Panovski v Marine Trimmers and All Awnings 2004 Ltd [pdf, 78 KB]

   ...us an extra week’s pay. I was quite happy with this outcome, but the incident had left me slightly distrustful of Mr Steers. [11] This account may be contrasted with Mr Panovski’s supplementary oral testimony led by Mr Finnigan probably in response to Mr Steers’s brief of evidence served before the hearing. Mr Panovski denied Mr Steers’s allegations that when he received his pay slips he became angry and claimed that Mr Steers had “ripped him off”. Mr Panovski said h...

6. Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination – summary record 10th-11th reports [pdf, 44 KB]

   ...consider acceding to article 14 of the Convention, for reasons that were not clear. It was to be hoped that, following the debate with the Committee, New Zealand would reconsider its position on that article and article 4. 60. Mr. WOLFRUM asked who was responsible for identifying members of ethnic groups. The Committee had in the past noted that self-identification was the commonest practice. 61. Mr. de GOUTEES said that the quality of New Zealand’s report was proof positive that it had not...

7. Kendal v Sherbourne LCRO 69 / 2009 (19 August 2009) [pdf, 57 KB]

   ...v C [2008] 3 NZLR 105). Conduct unbecoming could relate to conduct both in the capacity as a lawyer, and also as a private citizen. The test will be whether the conduct is acceptable according to the standards of "competent, ethical, and responsible practitioners" (B v Medical Council [2005] 3 NZLR 810 per Elias J at p 811). It is against these standards that the conduct of Ms Sherbourne is to be tested. When did Ms Sherbourne commence acting for Ms Kendal? [27] Mr Jo...

8. AA v BK, BL & BM LCRO 264 / 2012 (25 July 2013) [pdf, 184 KB]

   ...A’s] trust account following sale to be held undisbursed supported by appropriate undertakings of the firm. The alternative is into an independent solicitor's trust account to be held again with appropriate undertakings. We await your response in due course. [32] [Law Firm A] then provided the following undertaking:14 We refer to your previous correspondence in relation to the sale by [Trust 1] of the apartment at [Auckland]. In consideration of Mrs AA withdrawing her n...

9. Complaints Assessment Committee 409 v Andrew Rankin [2017] NZREADT 59 [pdf, 234 KB]

   ...inconsistencies relating to the diary note, which pointed to it being inaccurate and unreliable. He pointed to Mr Rankin’s diary note record that he told Mr Brogden that the “kitchen” had been cleaned with acid wash, but noted that in his original response to the complaint, Mr Rankin said that Mr Field told him he had had “the entire house” cleaned with acid wash; and in his evidence to the Tribunal, Mr Rankin said that he told Mr Brogden that Mr Field had told him he had...

10. LCRO 174/2013 ZF v H BU and G BU [pdf, 252 KB]

    ...2. That the monies are advanced on first mortgage over the property and are repayable upon demand; and 3. That there is no need for interest to be charged on the loan as the said G BU is the life tenant of the Estate. 4. That the said G BU is responsible for the legal costs of the security documentation; 5. That there is no need for a registered valuation of the property on account of the Quotable Value valuation (copy attached) being $320,000, and in all probability the registered...