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1. [2018] NZEmpC 45 Performance Cleaners All Property Services Wellington Ltd v Chinan [pdf, 427 KB]

   ...circumstances which have often been considered in the past, where a party resides in the place where the proceeding is heard, but chooses to engage a lawyer who practices elsewhere.25 [77] In the present case, the evidence is that Ms Chinan resided in Auckland and wished to retain counsel who had advised on previous matters involving herself and Performance Cleaners/Mr Barron; her counsel was aware of the history of the litigation between the parties. Given the extent of the cla...

2. Balatbat v Sparks [2016] NZIACDT 27 [pdf, 254 KB]

   ...BY The Registrar of Immigration Advisers Registrar BETWEEN Edwin Balatbat Complainant AND Lindsay Charles Sparks Adviser DECISION REPRESENTATION: Registrar: Ms G Kelly, lawyer, MBIE, Auckland. Complainant: Mr M Smith, barrister, Wellington, on instructions from Lane Neave, solicitors, Christchurch. Adviser: Ms R Burgess, Lexington Legal Ltd, Lawyers, Christchurch. Date Issued: 25 May 2016 2...

3. Justice Matters July 2019 [pdf, 3.5 MB]

   ...event in May to discuss young women starting out in their careers. We heard from a panel of four young women: Katherine Descours and Anna Graham, based in our National Office in Wellington, and Tatiana Daniels and Sammi Parks who joined us from the Auckland District Court via a video call. Tina Wakefield moderated as panellists discussed their experiences and challenges in their careers, and then opened the floor up for questions. The panellists had plenty of helpful advice for the a...

4. LCRO 98/2018 and 201/2018 HK v CN (22 May 2019) [pdf, 238 KB]

   ...to the purchasers instead of to him. (2) Supervision [55] Mr CN says he had placed himself in the firm’s hands only “to suffer unnecessary financial loss”. Review [56] The review progressed by way of an applicant only hearing in Auckland on 2 May 2019 attended by Mr HK who was represented by Mr SO. Although invited to attend, Mr CN did not exercise his right to do so. Nature and scope of review [57] The nature and scope of a review have been discussed by the High...

5. BORA - Abortion Legislation Bill: Crown Law's advice [pdf, 220 KB]

   ...helped 32 women choose to continue their pregnancies”: Voice for Life New Zealand “Media” (https://voiceforlife.org.nz/who-we-are/media/, accessed 17 July 2019). The Life Resources Charitable Trust says that free-standing abortion clinics in Auckland and Wellington were targeted by sidewalk counsellors in the 1970s and 1980s: Life Resources Charitable Trust “Coercion and Abortion” (http://www.life.org.nz/abortion/abortionkeyissues/coercion-and-abortion/Default.htm, accessed 17 J...

6. Austin v Accident Compensation Corporation (Treatment Injury) [2023] NZACC 59 [pdf, 257 KB]

   ...injury: First prescribed Roaccutane in mid-80’s when I was 33 years old and living in Hamilton, for a greasy, infected skin. Course duration likely 6 months. In 1991 my GP Andrew Murley referred me to David Downey, a dermatologist practising on Auckland's North Shore. I went back on Roaccutane in 1991 and was taking the drug on and off through to 2005. At no time over this extended period did David Downey ever suggest I should have my spine x-rayed to see if any abnormali...

7. Regulatory Impact Statement: Regulatory regime for the new alcohol laws. [pdf, 300 KB]

   ...(individuals and representative bodies) – 6 submissions d. retail stakeholders (individuals and representative bodies) – 7 submissions e. other7 – 13 submissions. 89. The public consultation lasted four weeks and included three public meetings (in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch). Forty-seven people attended the public meetings, and representation ranged from local government, district health boards, hospitality and retail stakeholders, and industry groups. 90. A webinar...

8. Justice Matters - issue 15 - July 2019 [pdf, 3.5 MB]

   ...event in May to discuss young women starting out in their careers. We heard from a panel of four young women: Katherine Descours and Anna Graham, based in our National Office in Wellington, and Tatiana Daniels and Sammi Parks who joined us from the Auckland District Court via a video call. Tina Wakefield moderated as panellists discussed their experiences and challenges in their careers, and then opened the floor up for questions. The panellists had plenty of helpful advice for the a...

9. Regulatory Impact Statement Regulatory Regime for the new Alcohol Laws [pdf, 254 KB]

   ...(individuals and representative bodies) – 6 submissions d. retail stakeholders (individuals and representative bodies) – 7 submissions e. other7 – 13 submissions. 89. The public consultation lasted four weeks and included three public meetings (in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch). Forty-seven people attended the public meetings, and representation ranged from local government, district health boards, hospitality and retail stakeholders, and industry groups. 90. A webinar...

10. LCRO 18/2021 MB v RP and ND (14 October 2022) [pdf, 265 KB]

    ...[27] and [36]. In this context, the word “negligible”, which is not defined in either the Act or the Rules means, “unworthy of notice or regard; so small or insignificant as to be ignorable”: Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (5th ed, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003) Vol 2. 19 Ethics, Professional Responsibility and the Lawyer, above n 9, at [7.2]. See Sandy v Kahn, and more recently ZAA v YBC LCRO 243/2013 (June 2017); generally, Lawyers’ Professional Responsibility, ab...