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1. Anti-corruption guide for NZ businesses [pdf, 223 KB]

   ...operations and limited resources. Anti-corruption compliance is equally important and beneficial for these types of businesses, and need not be cumbersome and expensive. Combating bribery and corruption should be a priority for any organisation that cares about its future. While no compliance programme can completely remove the risk of corruption, following the principles set out in this guide will go a long way to helping your business implement effective and proportionate procedures...

2. Fish & Game - EiC - M J Trotter - Ecological Flow (5 Feb 2021) [pdf, 397 KB]

   ...considered a ‘no more than minor’ impact. Executive summary 10 Many streams in Central Otago experience high levels of abstraction and do not have effective environmental flows (a minimum or residual flow and associated allocation limit) to protect habitat and ecological values. This is often due to historic allocation under deemed permits. 11 In general, the lower the minimum flow and/or higher the allocation limit the greater the risk of adverse effects on ecosystem health...

3. [2022] NZEnvC 091 Otago Regional Council [pdf, 528 KB]

   ...Waste Plan and better give effect to pt2 of the Act, the NPS-FM, and both regional policy statements. The specific management of discharges from landfills within 13km of airports will also give better effect to the regional policy statements, by protecting nationally significant infrastructure.34 [33] The Council acknowledges that the full review of the Waste Plan is likely to result in other regulatory changes in terms of the management of landfills, including for cleanfill and gr...

4. Edinburgh Realty Ltd & Ors v CAC20004 & Anor [2016] NZREADT 5 [pdf, 320 KB]

   ...defects to the property or that they had concealed any defects. Additional breaches [27] The Committee also found that the Agency and each of the said licensees had breached rule 9.15 of the Real Estate Agents Act (Professional Conduct and Client Care) Rules 2009 (“the Rules”) through the absence of an agency agreement, and rule 9.5 through the absence of an appraisal for the property. Salient evidence adduced to us Evidence for the agents [28] Mr Barclay Sievwright covered th...

5. [2014] NZEmpC 92 H v A Ltd [pdf, 263 KB]

   ...prisons which, if publicised, might endanger prison staff; the identities of persons who have been subjected to criticism in evidence but have had no opportunity to challenge or refute that criticism; and the identities of hospital patients whose care and treatment are the subject of proceedings involving professional health staff. There are many other instances of ad hoc non-publication orders which are, nevertheless, very much the exception than the rule. [81] With this framewor...

6. M D Cottle Family Trust & Ors v Barnett [2015] NZREADT 57 [pdf, 256 KB]

   ...(“the licensee”) appeals against the decision of Complaints Assessment Committee 20002 finding him guilty of unsatisfactory conduct under the Real Estate Agents Act 2008 (“the Act”) and the Real Estate Agents Act (Professional Conduct and Client Care) Rules 2009 (“the Rules”). M D Cottle Family Trust and McBride Street Cars Ltd (“the complainants” as vendors) cross-appeal against the Committee’s decision finding unsatisfactory conduct and the penalty orders imposed. The...

7. [2014] NZEmpC 92 H v A Limited [pdf, 263 KB]

   ...prisons which, if publicised, might endanger prison staff; the identities of persons who have been subjected to criticism in evidence but have had no opportunity to challenge or refute that criticism; and the identities of hospital patients whose care and treatment are the subject of proceedings involving professional health staff. There are many other instances of ad hoc non-publication orders which are, nevertheless, very much the exception than the rule. [81] With this framewor...

8. [2019] NZREADT 59 - Keene & Sharma (17 December 2019) [pdf, 267 KB]

   ...Keene gave him false information about the Authority’s complaints process. The Committee’s substantive decision [19] The Committee found that the appellants had breached r 9.6 of the Real Estate Agents Act (Professional Conduct and Client Care) Rules 2012 (“the Rules”) and engaged in unsatisfactory conduct by failing to obtain a listing agreement before offering and endeavouring to sell the property. The Committee did not accept that having “verbal authorisation” from...

9. LCRO 136/2016 AB v DE and GH [pdf, 483 KB]

   ...view:13 (a) it was not professionally improper for Mr DE and Ms GH to act for both the JKs and Ms AB “in relation to the transfer of the NZ property”; and (b) concerning r 6.1 of the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act (Lawyers: Conduct and Client Care) Rules 2008 (the Rules), Mr DE and Ms GH “were able to, and did, discharge the obligations owed to their respective clients”. 9 At [31] referring to email MN to GH (13 August 2015...

10. Otago Standards Committee No. 1 v Zhao [2016] NZLCDT 22 [pdf, 115 KB]

    ...long period. 1 Saxmere Company v Wool Board Disestablishment Company [2010] 1 NZLR 35 (Supreme Court). 2 Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006. 3 Lawyers and Conveyancers Act (Lawyers: Conduct and Client Care) Rules 2008. 4 [8] Following some initial telephone contact during March 2013, Mr Zhao travelled to China where he met Ms L for the first time on 28 March. At that meeting they agreed about the legal work to be undertaken by Mr...