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1. Regulatory Impact Statement improvements to district court rules [pdf, 66 KB]

   ...forms and seek a judgment. Picture 1 outlines this process. 6. The Courts’ principal users fall into two broad groups: parties seeking to recover a debt and general civil claimants (eg, with contractual disputes). The average value of all filed claims is about $26,000. The average value of claims that proceed through the system to a defended hearing (rather than being settled or receiving a default judgment, for example) is about $73,000. 3 | Regulatory Impact Analysis: Re...

2. [2010] NZEMPC 137 NZ Amalgamated Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union v Steelfort Engineering Co Ltd [pdf, 40 KB]

   ...October 2010 JUDGMENT OF JUDGE A D FORD Background [1] During the course of bargaining negotiations in 2009 for a new collective agreement, the plaintiff sent a letter to the defendant requesting the most recent audited financial statements of the company and other financial information. The request was made ostensibly in order to have the defendant substantiate its alleged response to the plaintiff’s claim that it could not afford to offer a wage increase to union...

3. Te Wini v Askelund (Removal of Second Plaintiff) [2015] NZHRRT 2 [pdf, 54 KB]

   ...Secretary. [7] Having concluded that none of the parties appeared to have an incentive to comply with directions or to prepare the case for hearing the Chairperson allocated a date of hearing and required the parties to file and exchange their written statements of evidence in advance. The following directions were made: [6.1] All correspondence exchanged between Mr McQuoid Snr and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner since 15 November 2013 is to be filed and served by 5pm on Tuesd...

4. [2012] NZEmpC 104 Ong & Ong t/a Pharmacy 72 v Massie - Interlocutory Judgment [pdf, 51 KB]

   ...INTERLOCUTORY JUDGMENT OF JUDGE B S TRAVIS [1] Mr Pollak advised that he appeared for the plaintiff “Families Pharmacy Limited t/a Pharmacy 72, 72 East Coast Road, Milford, Auckland” (the company). Mr Pollak had pleaded this in an amended statement of claim filed on 12 June 2012. [2] However, the case brought by the defendant in the Employment Relations Authority and dealt with in its determination issued on 10 April 2012, was against “Allan & Neenee Ong t/a Pharmac...

5. Wai 3300, 2.6.011 Memorandum directions of Chief Judge Dr C L Fox following inquiry design judicial conference [pdf, 512 KB]

   ...wānanga should be organised by theme or by region, Darrell Naden from Tamaki Legal indicated that he does not support thematic wānanga, as these might require some claimants to travel to a region in which they do not live to address a specific theme. Statements of position 21. To facilitate productive kōrero at the wānanga takiwā, I suggested parties may prepare and file statements of position on the proposed inquiry themes before their commencement. 22. This suggestion was su...

6. [2020] NZEmpC 151 AlKazaz v Enterprise IT Ltd [pdf, 145 KB]

   ...AOTEAROA TĀMAKI MAKAURAU [2020] NZEmpC 151 EMPC 397/2019 IN THE MATTER OF a challenge to a determination of the Employment Relations Authority AND IN THE MATTER OF an application for leave to file an amended statement of claim BETWEEN AHMED ALKAZAZ Plaintiff AND ENTERPRISE IT LIMITED Defendant Hearing: On the papers Appearances: Plaintiff in person R Bryant, counsel for defendant Judgment: 23 Se...

7. [2023] NZEmpC 96 Halse v Employment Relations Authority [pdf, 291 KB]

   ...January 2020) in the Authority on behalf of Julie Nicholson in respect of three personal grievances. Progress to Health was named as respondent. [4] Progress to Health filed a statement in reply (dated 11 February 2020), which included a counterclaim. The counterclaim alleged that Ms Nicholson had breached the confidentiality clause in her employment agreement and sought penalties against Mr Halse and CultureSafe for aiding, abetting, inciting or instigating that breach pursuan...

8. Green and Green v IT (Reinstatement of Second Plaintiff) [2016] NZHRRT 39 [pdf, 253 KB]

   ...December 2016 DECISION OF TRIBUNAL REINSTATING SECOND PLAINTIFF AS A PARTY TO PROCEEDINGS AND GIVING TIMETABLE DIRECTIONS1 1 [This decision is to be cited as: Green and Green v IT (Reinstatement of Second Plaintiff) [2016] NZHRRT 39. Note publication restrictions. Those restrictions require this decision to be anonymised by the redaction of the true names of the plaintiffs. In substitution the plaintiffs are to be re...

9. [2015] NZEmpC 72 Waikato District Health Board v Dent [pdf, 108 KB]

   ...instance. 1 That application is opposed by Ms Dent. [2] Ms Dent filed her challenge to the Authority’s determination within the time allowed by s 179 of the Employment Relations Act 2000 (the Act) to do so (28 days). Although her original statement of claim was deficient and she was required to file and serve an amended statement of claim that complied with the Employment Court Regulations 2000 (the Regulations), that is simply background and the issue for decision now is not a...

10. [2014] NZEmpC 169 Goulden v Capital and Coast District Health Board [pdf, 97 KB]

    ...September 2014) Appearances: P McBride, counsel for the plaintiff J Drayton, counsel for the defendant Judgment: 15 September 2014 INTERLOCUTORY JUDGMENT OF JUDGE B A CORKILL [1] An issue has arisen as to whether a statement of defence sent to the Court herein was filed in time under the Employment Court Regulations 2000 (the Regulations). [2] The issue was raised by counsel for the plaintiff at a telephone directions conference held on 29 August 2...