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1. 2022-02-11 Statement of Evidence of Edward Ellison dated 11 February 2022 [pdf, 692 KB]

   ...reflection of the condition of the people - when the wai is healthy, the people are strong and healthy and so too is their mana;1 (b) The whakapapa connection carries rakatira rights for Kāi Tahu and also imposes kaitiakitaka obligations to care for freshwater (wai māori) and the life it supports;2 (c) The primary resource management principle for Kāi Tahu is the protection of mauri, which is characterised by good quality waters that flow with energy and life, sustain health...

2. LA Terms of Reference - quality and value audits [pdf, 531 KB]

   ...initial findings. The auditor may also conduct additional interviews with the clients or survey them for their feedback. Engagement with clients should only be undertaken if the client’s view is likely to add value to the overall audit finding. Care should be taken to avoid risk of causing the client anxiety. The auditor should check with the provider that it is appropriate for them to contact specific clients before contacting them. The purpose of interviews with clients are to e...

3. Proactive-release-Re-written-Evidence-Regulations-6-July.pdf [pdf, 1023 KB]

   ...replaced part of the function of the Royal prerogative of mercy; and 19.2. Family Court access to EVIs of adults, not just children (for instance, to inform civil proceedings under the Family Violence Act 2018 or to assist in determining the child’s care and protection needs). 20. The second issue is the obligation to destroy video evidence 10 years after the court proceeding is finally determined or discontinued (or 7 years after it was made, if not used in court). Those obligations d...

4. Family Legal Advice Service operational policy version 1.4 [pdf, 479 KB]

   Family Legal Advice Service Operational Policy for providing early legal advice for disputes under the Care of Children Act 2004 Family Legal Advice Service Operational Policy v1.4 August 2016 Although all reasonable steps have been taken to ensure the accuracy of the information contained in this document, the Ministry of Justice disclaims any and all responsibility for any inaccuracy, error, omission, or any other kind of inadequacy, deficiency, or flaw in, or in re...

5. Body Corporate 199883 & Ors (Ridgeview Apartments) v Clarke [2010] NZWHT Auckland 22 [pdf, 216 KB]

   ...accepts that CFA was a developer but denies that he is in any way personally responsible to the claimants. The principal issue is whether Mr Clarke was a co-developer of the apartment complex and liable to the claimants for breaches of duties of care to ensure the construction of a weathertight building. The answer to this issue depends on identifying the actual role performed by Mr Clarke in the development and interpreting and assessing the relevance of the documentation refer...

6. Offord v Patel [pdf, 90 KB]

   ...course of activities on behalf of the company come under a personal duty to a third party, breach of which might entail personal liability. The test as to whether liability had been incurred was whether there had been an assumption of a duty of care, actual or imputed. Liability depended on the facts, on the degree of implicit assumption of personal responsibility and balancing of policy considerations. (page 517). [34] Recently however, the Court of Appeal in Body Corporate...

7. Gray v Tulip Holdings Ltd [pdf, 176 KB]

   ...18 LIABILITY FOR LOSS CAUSED BY THE CLAIMANTS’ DWELLING BEING A LEAKY BUILDING 21 The liability of the First respondent, THL, in contract 21 The liability of the Fifth respondent, Brown Day, in tort 25 • The standard of care 27 • Evidence of the standard 27 • The standard of plans and specifications generally 29 • The standard of the plans and specifications of Brown Day 35 CLAIM NO.00499 – GRAY DETERMINATION.doc 3 •...

8. Starik v Auckland Council [2016] NZWHT Auckland 5 [pdf, 491 KB]

   ...Peninsula Homes Limited – this company is alleged to have developed the property by the purchase of the land and the construction and sale of the building on that land. It is alleged against Peninsula Homes that it had a non-delegable duty of care to ensure that the building complied in all respects with the Building Act 1991 and the New Zealand Building Code, that it did not leak and cause loss to the claimants. (c) Kevin Bryan Perry – whilst various causes of action were in...

9. Responding together: an integrated report evaluating the aims of the Waitakere Family Violence Court protocols [pdf, 894 KB]

   ...central role in our research process and ensured that the critical importance of culturally specific understandings of intimate violence has not been subsumed by the monocultural institutions of Pākehā research traditions. We are grateful for your care, support and generous collaboration. Denise Blake and Tracey Powis are also owed a debt of thanks - for so many and varied forms of support that we could not begin to name. We are blessed to be able to count on both of you when we are...

10. OIA-97846.pdf [pdf, 14 MB]

    ...to the Minister of Justice” I have outlined your specific requests and my response to each below. The proposal to change the grounds of discrimination was consulted on as part of a package of proposals aimed at strengthening the provisions that protect groups from speech that incites hatred, and improving protections against discrimination. Proposal Six was to “add to the grounds of discrimination in the Human Rights Act to clarify that trans, gender diverse, and intersex people are...