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1. Chalecki v Accident Compensation Corporation [2015] NZACA 12 [pdf, 282 KB]

   ...April 1993, the Corporation wrote to Mr Chalecki advising that it was unable to accept his request for a self-employment grant. This confirmed the verbal advice given on 3 July 1992. According to the relevant legislation, the Corporation had the responsibility of restoring an injured person to the fullest vocational and economic usefulness of which they were capable. The “guideline” set out the circumstances in which the Corporation could give such assistance. The purpose of...

2. Sansom v Department of Internal Affairs [2016] NZHRRT 17 [pdf, 100 KB]

   ...about my complaints of harassment by NL staff, and any other information about me, in the period, December 16, 2010 to the present. Please forward copies of this information or state your reasons for failing to provide it. The Department’s response [19] Section 40(1) of the Privacy Act 1993 required the Department within 20 working days to make a decision whether the access request was to be granted and to give notice of that decision to Ms Sansom. Because Good Friday fell on Fri...

3. Transcript of speeches KG Smith [doc, 91 KB]

   ...that regard. In 2014 Judge Couch relinquished his Employment Court Judge’s warrant so that there was, again, no resident Christchurch or South Island Employment Court Judge. When Judge Bruce Corkill was appointed later that year, he was assigned responsibility for South Island files and has undertaken most of the Christchurch and other South Island sittings. However, other Judges have from time to time presided over these cases. That brings us to today and the appointment of our new Judge...

4. ENV-2016-AKL-000xxx Silvertown Group Limited (previously East Coast Farms Limited) v Auckland Council [pdf, 3.1 MB]

   ...LGATPA appeals APPENDIX A RELEVANT PARTS OF IHP RECOMMENDATIONS DECISIONS ON THE PAUP (19 AUGUST 2016) 535 Rodney Landscape Precinct Summary of recommendations 1. The Panel supports the changes proposed by Auckland Council in response to submitters but disagrees with other points raised in the submissions. It removes Sub-precinct H, Silverdale, in response to a submission. This precinct was heard in Topic 081. Precinct description 2. The Rodney Landscape Pr...

5. Reihana - Estate of Ngapipi Rewiti Panapa [2017] Chief Judge's MB 238 (2017 CJ 238) [pdf, 505 KB]

   ...of a 1/63 rd share in Te Ahipoutu block. d) If objections are received then the matter should be set down for hearing Procedural History [6] The Registrar’s Report was distributed to parties on 24 February 2016, advising that any written responses or objections to the Report were to be filed at the Office of the Chief Registrar, Wellington no later than 29 March 2016. [7] On 15 March 2016, the Registrar received a written response from Terese Reihana requesting that she be h...

6. Apostolakis v Gilbert (Decision) [2018] NZHRRT 22 [pdf, 290 KB]

   ...prepare. Mrs Apostolakis alleges she made a request under principle 6 for her file and claims Mr Gilbert did not respond to that request. Similarly, she alleges she made a request under principle 7 for information to be corrected and again there was no response. Mr Gilbert’s defence is that Mrs Apostolakis uplifted her entire file in August 2011 with the result that when the principle 6 and principle 7 requests were made he was entitled to refuse both under s 29(2)(a) and (b) of the...

7. Donnelly v Deputy Registrar - Ohinepoutea B [2018] Māori Appellate Court MB 219 (2018 APPEAL 219) [pdf, 478 KB]

   ...irregularity of such significance that it went to the fairness or otherwise of the election process. The Judge held that she was satisfied that the elected trustees were broadly acceptable to the beneficiaries, and made a s 239 order appointing them as responsible trustees. Grounds of appeal [20] The grounds of appeal set out in the notice of appeal filed by Mr Donnelly, Mr Hakaraia and Mr Johnson on 16 November 2017 are as follows: (a) That an ‘obsolete’ proxy form which was...

8. [2017] NZEnvC 173 National Trading Company of New Zealand v Auckland Council [pdf, 872 KB]

   ...and associated adverse effects on the transport network (eg congestion); and (iii) including maximum parking rates would result in better urban design and amenity outcomes. The two approaches [9] We conclude that both outcomes are a reasoned response to the objectives and policies of the proposed Plan, and this is not disputed by any of the parties. There was no dispute that the Council outcome, or that now proposed under the amended agreement provisions put before us and annexe...

9. Cooper v Hamilton Pharmacy 2011 Ltd (Strike-Out Application) [2017] NZHRRT 38 [pdf, 439 KB]

   ...settlement. For the complaint resolution process to work a person in respect of whom a complaint is made and an investigation conducted must know he or she is under investigation and must also know what is the subject of the investigation so an effective response can be made. This imperative is explicitly recognised by the Privacy Act. The complaints process mandated by it in ss 67, 70 and 73 is designed to ensure the person under investigation and the matter under investigation by the...

10. LCRO 50/2017 TG v JT and TAP LIMITED (26 January 2018) [pdf, 292 KB]

    ...consider the available material afresh, including the Committee’s requirement for production of Mr TG’s letter; and (b) provide an independent opinion based on that material. Statutory delegation and hearing in person [20] As the LCRO with responsibility for deciding this application for review, I appointed Mr Robert Hesketh as my statutory delegate to assist me in that task.4 As part of that delegation, on 16 October 2017 Mr Hesketh conducted a hearing at which Mr NP appear...