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1. 2022-03-18 ORC - Opening Submissions [pdf, 373 KB]

   ...Southland Regional Council [2020] NZEnvC 155 at [19]. 13 48 It is accepted that territorial authorities might validly impose conditions on land use consents for earthworks that seek to avoid a discharge occurring. Such conditions will in turn protect water quality as a consequential effect of the land use.23 However, real care is needed to ensure that by including a discharge limit there is no suggestion that the land use consent is authorising the discharge, given that this...

2. OIA-113637.pdf [pdf, 6.3 MB]

   ...your request, please refer to table 1 attached, which details the documents in scope of your request and my decision on their release. Please note some information has been withheld under the following provisions of the Act: • section 9(2)(a) to protect privacy of natural persons • section 9(2)(f)(iv) to maintain the constitutional conventions that protect confidentiality of advice tendered by Ministers and officials • section 9(2)(g)(i) to maintain the effective conduct of public af...

3. Tan v New Zealand Police [2016] NZHRRT 32 [pdf, 327 KB]

   ...the CCDHB “make up its own mind about this Tan woman”. This suggested ill-will or malice in relation to Ms Tan and her brother. [49] Having seen and heard Mr Woodley give evidence we do not accept these criticisms. His evidence was given in careful, balanced, measured and accurate terms. When asked by Ms Ternent for a copy of the search warrant or production order he responded (without hesitation) there had been insufficient evidence to obtain such orders. He did not equivocate o...

4. The Treaty of Waitangi Past and Present Resource [pdf, 21 MB]

   ...the Pakeha . arrived, Maori lived in all parts of our country. Life was hard, but the land, bush, rivers, lakes and oceans provided food and resources for the people. Home/kainga The kainga was where the fires burned. The land, whenua, was protected. Rivers, forests and hills were all important places. They provided shelter and food and were given special names. The names were a way of recording history. They would remind people about ancestors or events from many years ago. The...

5. [2016] NZEmpC 177 Go Bus Transport Ltd v Hellyer [pdf, 421 KB]

   ...resolution of a particular dispute and revenge exacted, but for reasons that are asserted to be un-associated with union conflict. [73] For all of these real and pragmatic reasons, and to attempt to achieve a balance of power, the law has long protected, but not absolutely, the rights of union delegates and other employees involved with union activities. That protection is not boilerplated: it does not make any union member or representative employee bullet- proof. Rather, the phi...

6. NHoO-Ngati-Kapu-O2NL-CIA-20-June-2022-v2.pdf [pdf, 1.3 MB]

   ...100 Wanganui Wanganui Wanganui 1500 7.4 It is interesting to note there were no other iwi recorded inland between Ōtaki and Whanganui. Ngāti Raukawa states that the original iwi were at this time hiding in the Tararua’s48 and under the protection of Te Whatanui49 a principal Ngāti Raukawa chief. 7.5 Because of the Hutt incident50 the NZC on the 22 July 1843 interviewed Te Rauparaha and Ngāti Raukawa in Ōtaki.51 At the same time it was publicly announced that Commiss...

7. LCRO 71/2022 OM v NT (22 July 2024) [pdf, 239 KB]

   ...provided; (b) whether the applicant had complied with regulations 9 and 10 of the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act (Trust Account) Regulations 2008 (the TA Regulations) and consequently r 9.3 of the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act (Lawyers: Conduct and Client Care) Rules 2008 (the Rules); and (c) whether the applicant had complied with s 114 of the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006 (the Act), which requires a lawyer, in summary, to ensure that all money held on behalf of any person earns int...

8. [2023] NZREADT 11 - CAC 2103 v Lieven (15 May 2023) [pdf, 263 KB]

   ...regarded by agents of good standing, or reasonable members of the public, as disgraceful; and/or 1 [Redacted]. 6 (ii) consists of a wilful or reckless contravention of r 6.3 of the Real Estate Agents Act (Professional Conduct and Client Care) Rules 2012 (the Rules). (b) Charge 2 (as an alternative to charge 1): unsatisfactory conduct under s 72(a) and/or s 72(b) and/or s 72(d) of the Act, namely conduct that: (i) falls short of the standard that a reasonable member of...

9. [2020] NZEnvC 051 Waikato Regional Council [pdf, 326 KB]

   ...3 [4] I have granted both applications to the extent outlined and for the reasons explained in this decision. Overview [5] PC1 was notified by the Council in October 2016 and seeks to give effect, in part, to obligations to restore and protect the Waikato and Waipā Rivers by reducing the presence of four key contaminants: nitrogen, phosphorus, sediment and microbacterial pathogens. PC1 seeks to do this by imposing additional controls on land use in the Waikato and Waipā R...

10. Mercury NZ Ltd v Cairns - Pouakani River Bed (2022) 277 Waiariki MB 174 (277 WAR 174) [pdf, 417 KB]

    ...under the Whakamaru, Maraetai and Waipapa dams. [52] Ms Feint submits that the indefeasibility argument “papers over the cracks” of colonisation. The Crown is in a unique position to grant itself titles and concurrently has a responsibility to protect the property rights of Māori. She submitted that customary rights can survive the conversion of title at least so long as the lake continues to be owned by the hapū. [53] She submitted that this Court should be “very cautious...