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1. [2025] NZEmpC 32 ZUW v WFW [pdf, 216 KB]

   ...non-publication based on the circumstances of its director. That was a reference to cases concluding that, where sexual harassment occurred, the public interest in open justice is stronger so that the name of the person responsible should not usually be protected, while the name of the victim should usually be protected.14 Ms Foley sought to overcome that difficulty by weaving together submissions about the director’s personal circumstances with the potential impacts on D and F....

2. NU v ZY LCRO 239/2012 (31 March 2016) [pdf, 105 KB]

   ...period of time, he appears to have not had cause to exercise the attorney until around the time of the events which prompted the complaints. [8] In 2007, shortly after her husband’s death, Mrs EL appointed Ms HX her attorney in respect of personal care and welfare. Ms HX was also a beneficiary under Mrs EL’s will. Under the testamentary document that existed at the time of the events that led to the complaints, Ms HX was a beneficiary as to a quarter share in Mrs EL’s residual e...

3. [2020] NZIACDT 52 - TBE v Proudman (4 December 2020) [pdf, 202 KB]

   ...sought, until he contacted Immigration New Zealand himself two days later, on 23 September 2018. [13] Ms Proudman’s advice to the complainant concerning the eligibility of his daughter was found to have been neither diligent nor given with due care. Nor did she notify him of the decline of the visa application in a timely manner. Her updates were unprofessional and dishonest. These were breaches of cl 1 of the Licensed Immigration Advisers Code of Conduct 2014 (the Code). Fu...

4. DL v Accident Compensation Corporation (Work Related Mental Injury) [2022] NZACC 178 [pdf, 395 KB]

   ...fear and anger towards my elder son. I was afraid I was going to harm him. [5] In a report from the Victoria Clinic Hamilton, dated 30 April 2012, is this: 1993-1998: one son molested the other son multiple occasions Went into institutional care and was molested in care and by some of the professionals in his life. In 1997, consequent to an increasing depression in her husband, [the appellant) was subjected to months of anxiety and fear, as he cleaned guns, stopped talking to th...

5. LCRO 100/2021 QT v Righteous Law Ltd (21 June 2022) [pdf, 252 KB]

   ...would have occurred? Question 3 – Whether Righteous Law Limited’s conduct in completing settlement without obtaining an undertaking or a guaranteed search prior to settlement amounts to a failure to act competently consistent with the duty of care? 18 Beech Cove Properties Ltd v Reps Ltd (2010) 11 NZCPR 601 (HC). 19 At [45]. 20 At [64]. 21 BF’s opinion (9 September 2021). 11 [47] Without in any way diminishing the value of Mr BF’s opinion, the questions aske...

6. Bay of Plenty Regional Council Submissions - 29 November 2017 [pdf, 492 KB]

   ...Ranginui lwi Incorporation (Ngati Ranginui). 3. Each appeal has at its heart the relationship between tangata whenua and their taonga, culture and traditions, and how the PRCEP should recognise and provide for those matters. This issue has both a protection and an enablement facet, which might be summarised as: (a) Recognition, restoration, and protection of cultural taonga and values to enable the exercise of kaitiakitanga over the rohe moana (or parts of it); and (b) Enabling...

7. Key initiatives

   ...20,000 people, so that by December 2029 no more than 165,000 New Zealanders fall victim to assault, robbery, or sexual assault. Adoption Law Reform The Government is reforming our adoption laws. The aim of the reform is to create a new system that protects the rights, best interests and welfare of children, upholds our Tiriti o Waitangi obligations, and upholds our international human rights obligations. We want to put tamariki, our children, at the heart of our adoption laws. Alcohol and O...

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8. BORA Ngati Porou Claims Settlement Bill [pdf, 282 KB]

   ...Waitangi Tribunal over the historical claims and the settlement. This raises an issue about compliance with s 27(2) of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990. 5. That subsection provides: “Every person whose rights, obligations or interests protected or recognised by law have been affected by a determination of any tribunal or other public authority has the right to apply, in accordance with law, for judicial review of that determination.” 6. Legislative determination of a claim...

9. Auckland Standards Committee v Van der Zanden [2014] NZLCDT 54 [pdf, 78 KB]

   ...intentionally misleading or a completely reckless disregard of his professional obligations. We considered that the practitioner did not appreciate how serious the allegations (of prosecutorial misconduct) being made by him were, nor how much more careful he ought to have been in preparing a document for the Court of Appeal in the circumstances. In this respect his inexperience and lack of mentoring, as well as his sense of panic to 3 comply with time frames, provided som...

10. BORA Civil Union Bill [pdf, 272 KB]

    ...prohibit a civil union between two people who are within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity and to require the leave of the Family Court before two people within the prohibited degrees of affinity may enter a civil union. These measures are protections against the damage relationships between two people within the prohibited degrees of civil union may do to family structure, as is recognised in the general repugnance that society attaches to such relationships. The Bill does not l...