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1. [2017] NZEnvC 160 Auckland Council v Lau [pdf, 2.3 MB]

   BEFORE THE ENVIRONMENT COURT IN THE MATTER AND BETWEEN AND Decision No. [2017] NZEnvC I b 0 of the Resource Management Act 1991 of applications under s 314 of the Act AUCKLAND COUNCIL (ENV-2017 -AKL-000067) (ENV-2017 -AKL-000068) (ENV-2017 -AKL-000069) (ENV-2017 -AKL-000070) (ENV-2017 -AKL-000071) (ENV-2017-AKL-000117) Applicant EE KUOH LAU (AUGUSTINE LAU) YINGQUI ZHANG YINGYUE ZHANG QUI FEN LU MEIJUAN CHEN JESUS (2016) COMPANY LTD XINWEN CAO (CINDY C...

2. [2011] NZEmpC 149 NZPFFU ors v NZ Fire Service Commission [pdf, 158 KB]

   ...changes to the on-call roster without first securing the agreement of the employees concerned. [2] The plaintiffs seek a declaration that the Fire Service cannot unilaterally make changes to the on-call roster. For its part, the Fire Service claims in its statement of defence that the clause in question provides it with the entitlement to place Fire Safety Officers on an on-call roster and change that roster from time to time for operational reasons. [3] In a determination 1...

3. [2023] NZEnvC 086 Bay of Islands Maritime Park Incorporated v Northland Regional Council [pdf, 4 MB]

   ...relating to investigating additional marine protected areas must be included in the Proposed Plan. The Council notes there are available avenues under the RMA for tangata whenua to propose new areas for protection, including private plan change requests. The RMA provides statutory processes for those to be implemented, which cannot and should not be superseded. The Council considers the RMA provides statutory processes for implementing 6 Environmental Defence Society v New Zeala...

4. Pratt v General Distributors Limited [2025] NZHRRT 5 [pdf, 337 KB]

   ...box of low alcohol beer. The defendant operates those two supermarkets (which now trade as Woolworths).2 [3] Both parties agree that Mr Pratt was not intoxicated when attempting to buy beer on 6 October 2019 and 3 January 2020. [4] Mr Pratt claims that each refusal to sell him beer was unlawful discrimination on the basis of his disability. [5] Direct discrimination is where the prohibited ground of discrimination is the very basis for the different treatment.3 Indirect dis...

5. King v Manukonga - Section 11 Oākura Town Belt (Oākura Pā) (2021) 437 Aotea MB 124 (437 AOT 124) [pdf, 303 KB]

   ...WĀHANGA Under Section 67, Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993 MŌ TE TAKE In the matter of Section 11 Oākura Town Belt (Oākura Pā) I WAENGA I A Between ME And JAQUALINE TUHI ALLLISON KING Te Kaitono Applicant KEITH MANUKONGA Te Kaiurupare Respondent Nohoanga: Hearing 23 April 2021, 431 Aotea MB 210-230 (Heard at New Plymouth) Kanohi kitea: Appearances Jaqualine King, in person Keith Manukonga, in person Whaka...

6. Māori Land Court - Rule 5.11 Schedule - November 2017 [pdf, 1.3 MB]

   1 Notification of applications that have not been finally determined (over 6 months old) 30 November 2017 TAKE NOTICE THAT the following schedule of applications are hereby notified pursuant to rule 5.11(2)(b) of the Māori Land Court Rules 2011 being applications which are 6 months or older as at 30 November 2017, and which are currently held by the Registrar in the District set out, or, in the case of applications to the Chief Judge of Māori Land Court or those to the Mā...

7. [2007] NZEmpC CC 16/07 Harris v Charter Trucks Ltd [pdf, 109 KB]

   ...Dispatch Carriers Limited and subsequently to merge the business of that company with Charter Trucks Limited. Mr Sutherland’s evidence was that Rapid Dispatch Carriers Limited was running at a loss and that he saw an opportunity to improve its performance by merging the businesses and rationalising the larger organisation. [7] During the first half of 2005, some rationalisation did occur. Overall staff numbers were reduced from 52 to less than 40 but this occurred largely thro...

8. Toiloloi v Letalu [2014] NZIACDT 93 (18 September 2014) [pdf, 193 KB]

   ...2012, though the professional offending was largely complete at that point. Mr Letalu has not given any explanation that significantly ameliorates what was a sustained and delinquent failure to meet his professional obligations. [8] Mr Letalu did claim he agreed with the complainant to make a section 61 application rather than lodge an appeal. However, that is not consistent with the findings made, and he has not produced records to support that claim. It would have been an important iss...

9. Qualitative study on behalf of the Independent Panel examining the 2014 family justice system reforms [pdf, 943 KB]

   ...widely valued. However, participation by either or both partners is random - some parents participated, while others did not - which raised the question of how compulsory attendance at PTS is? We understand that it is only a requirement for the applicant to attend, but parents did not know this. A minority of participants viewed PTS as another delay in the process. And for some the lessons in PTS were not anything new. Page 9 of 92 Final report - April 2019 The practicaliti...

10. [2012] NZEmpC 218 NZ Airline Pilots Association v Mt Cook Airlines Ltd [pdf, 147 KB]

    ...of, effectively, 1/365 th of the pilots’ annual salary in identifying the value of the relevant daily pay. Before the Authority the first plaintiff contended that the correct divisor was 206 or, in the alternative, 235, representing what it claimed was the number of days the pilots were actually required to work in order to earn their salary. In its determination the Authority concluded that the approach taken by Mount Cook in calculating the relevant daily pay, by looking at...