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1. Update to Ministers on investment approach [pdf, 897 KB]

   ...have begun the procurement process. This will be run as an open tender process on the Government Electronic Tendering Service (GETS). We will issue advance notice on GETS in mid- October and intend to release the tender at the end of October, with responses due back by the end of November. We are working with the MOJ communications unit to develop a RE LE AS ED U ND ER T HE O FF IC IA L IN FO RM AT IO N AC T Investment Approach: Update on progress and ongoing resour...

2. [2013] NZEmpC 213 Dr X v a District Health Board [pdf, 73 KB]

   ...the attendances set out in the invoices annexed to counsel’s memorandum. [11] I accept Ms Janes’s submission that a significant number of issues were raised by the respondent in its opposition to the application which required a considered response and that the costs that might otherwise have been incurred were increased as a result. Conversely a number of steps were taken by the applicant that added to costs, including an initial argument that the Court lacked jurisdiction, an...

3. ED v VV LCRO 229 / 2010 (15 June 2011) - Costs Decision [pdf, 104 KB]

   ...Respondent signalled an intention to make an application for costs against the Applicant, and repeated that application at the hearing. [3] In the decision on the substantive matters I invited both parties to make submissions as to costs and sought a response by 29 June 2011. Applicant’s submissions [4] The Applicant provided further correspondence that repeats her complaint against both the Applicant and Ms VT. She requested that this decision as to costs be delayed until a c...

4. LV v VJ LCRO 81 / 2011 (6 September 2011) [pdf, 86 KB]

   ...against the Practitioner concerned those chattels. Many were found to be missing at some stage after the funeral. The Applicant blamed the Practitioner for failing in his duty as executor to protect the estate property. 2 [4] With his response to the complaint the Practitioner included a copy of an email sent to him by the Applicant advising that a member of the family, another niece of the deceased, wished to uplift some of her aunt’s clothes and that she would call at...

5. ID v SR LCRO 60 / 2011 (22 December 2011) [pdf, 63 KB]

   ...Committee further noted that experienced members of the Committee did not consider that the costs as rendered appeared to be excessive in any way. [5] The Applicants challenged this decision. They contended that the Committee had ignored their response to the Committee, challenging the information provided by the Practitioner. The Applicants wrote, “The Committee have ignored the fact that (the Practitioner) stated that his fees were average. Please see attached proof that his...

6. B v Q LCRO 48 / 2009 (20 April 2009) [pdf, 21 KB]

   ...stated that the last payment was received from Client B on 30 December 2004. It was further asserted that $235 remained owing on the accounts rendered. After some further correspondence from Client B’s lawyer to Lawyer Q (which did not elicit a response) a complaint was made to the Nelson District Law Society on 30 June 2008. [14] There was no evidence before the Committee that invoices for more than $6 453.75 had been issued by Lawyer Q. 4 [15] Lawyer Q replied to that compl...

7. Jedburgh v Aberdeen LCRO 119 / 2009 (29 October 2009) [pdf, 84 KB]

   ...the applicant‟s wife breached the above Rule. [11] The practitioner was asked to explain the context for the proposition he had put to the applicant‟s wife, and to explain why he had not sought to prove this in subsequent evidence. In response the practitioner said that on the morning of the hearing the applicant‟s wife had provided notes that had not formed part of the pleadings, adding (to some extent reiterating his response to the Standards Committee) that it was not...

8. 2017 NZSSAA 024 (6 June 2017) [pdf, 107 KB]

   ...stated that he would need financial assistance with a bond or rent in advance, that he only needed one bedroom and that his current weekly costs were $150 for groceries, $65 for power and $17 for telephone. There is no evidence that any of these responses were not correct at the time of the application. We therefore conclude that, at the time Mr XXXX completed this application, his SAS score was C8 and he did not qualify for social housing in Dunedin. [7] We note that, even if M...

9. Brownlie v Brown - Pipituangi A (2010) 7 Tairāwhiti MB (7 TRW 39) [pdf, 417 KB]

   ...lease has been signed by the trustees. These were sent to the Court for noting on 23 June 2008. The Brownlies have their new lease but have yet to make the payment of $8,500.00. Applications [10] The Brownlies filed this application in 2008, in response to the trustees' pursuit of the investigation of the lease arrangements and the previous trustees' actions. [11] In 2009 three further applications regarding the block were filed. These were: a) A20090007433 - applica...

10. [2017] NZEmpC 140 Matsuoka v LSG Sky Chefs NZ Ltd [pdf, 143 KB]

    ...application. [2] So far as the defendant’s application in relation to the affidavit of Andrew Norman Sellar is concerned, that was filed on 29 September 2017. Even though I considered that the application had been filed too late, I directed that a response from the plaintiff was to be filed on or before 4 pm on 6 October 2017. As the hearing set for the interlocutory applications was due to be heard on Monday 9 October 2017, I directed that this further application would need to...