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1. People charged and convicted of family violence offences December 2017 [xlsx, 693 KB]

   ...Ministry of Justice uses three specific offence types to represent family violence. These are Breach of protection order, Common assault (domestic) and Male assaults female. As such, these statistics do not include family violence offending which is charged under different offence types, including more serious offences such as homicide. Contents: Table 1: Number of charges for family violence offences, by charge outcome, 2008 - 2017 Table 2a: Number of people charged with family violence o...

2. [2011] NZEmpC 107 Rush Security Services Ltd v Samoa costs [pdf, 52 KB]

   ...the amount paid by the Legal Services Agency for his legal aid and, therefore, calculated at very modest charge-out rates. Mr Samoa will be required to pay to the Legal Services Agency any difference between the amount advanced to him for legal fees in the litigation and this Court’s award of costs. 1 Rush Security Services Limited trading as Darien Rush v Samoa [2011] NZEmpC 76. [3] In these circumstances, the defendant says t...

3. People charged and convicted of family violence offences June 2017 [xlsx, 720 KB]

   ...Ministry of Justice uses three specific offence types to represent family violence. These are Breach of protection order, Common assault (domestic) and Male assaults female. As such, these statistics do not include family violence offending which is charged under different offence types, including more serious offences such as homicide. Contents: Table 1: Number of charges for family violence offences, by charge outcome, 2007/2008 - 2016/2017 Table 2a: Number of people charged with family...

4. [2014] NZEmpC 142 Narayan v Telecom NZ Ltd costs [pdf, 49 KB]

   ...the Authority proceedings. I do not propose to reimburse him for any disbursements incurred in respect of the Authority hearing. [6] Insofar as his challenge to the Court is concerned, Mr Narayan is entitled to be reimbursed for Court filing fees, Court hearing fees and reasonable photocopying charges. He sets these out in his submissions and they total $1,336.20. There is an award accordingly. [7] He has made other claims which relate to the fact that he now resides in We...

5. Form-51a_Criminal-Amendment_High-Cost-v2.pdf [pdf, 193 KB]

   Version 21 – October 2023 page 1 10/23 form 51a Amendment to Grant Criminal Legal Aid HIGH COST CASE Legal aid file no. Lead provider’s ref. Customer Provider Court Amendment sought Replace fixed fee High Cost Case Additional work when fixed fee has been claimed Disbursements Estimate Applicable fee schedule A-C D-F G H & I J Please tick the following criteria that is specific to your case. Fixed fee cr...

6. [2017] NZEnvC 101 D B Ellis v Porirua City Council Costs [pdf, 416 KB]

   ...Mr Ellis was charged $78,357.36 (GST included) for the processing of the application. Mr Ellis objected to the costs as unreasonable, unjustified and disproportionate under s3578 RMA and sought a reduction of at least 50% to the total amount of charges levied. The Council appointed an independent Commissioner (costs Commissioner) to consider the costs objection. That Commissioner accepted the recommendation of the Resource Consents Planner, who had processed the application, to redu...

7. Cunliffe & Cunliffe v Helensville Primary School Board of Trustees (Costs) [2024] NZHRRT 28 [pdf, 173 KB]

   ...Rule 14.12 of the HCR defines disbursements as follows: 14.12 Disbursements (1) In this rule,— disbursement, in relation to a proceeding,— (a) means an expense paid or incurred for the purposes of the proceeding that would ordinarily be charged for separately from legal professional services in a solicitor’s bill of costs; and (b) includes— (i) fees of court for the proceeding: (ii) expenses of serving documents for the purposes of the proceeding: (iii) expenses of pho...

8. [2015] NZEmpC 179 Harris v TSNZ Pulp and Paper Maintenance costs [pdf, 136 KB]

   WEERAPHONG HARRIS v TSNZ PULP AND PAPER MAINTENANCE LIMITED NZEmpC AUCKLAND [2015] NZEmpC 179 [9 October 2015] IN THE EMPLOYMENT COURT AUCKLAND [2015] NZEmpC 179 ARC 79/12 IN THE MATTER OF of a challenge to a determination of the Employment Relations Authority AND IN THE MATTER of an application for costs BETWEEN WEERAPHONG HARRIS Plaintiff AND TSNZ PULP AND PAPER MAINTENANCE LIMITED Defendant Hearing: By memoranda o...

9. [2015] NZEmpC 30 Wills v Goodman Fielder NZ Ltd costs [pdf, 99 KB]

   ...circumstances of a rehearing, rather than a first instance hearing. 5 Kaipara v Carter Holt Harvey Ltd [2012] NZEmpC 92 at [39]. [15] Without in any way criticising the makeup of the actual charges rendered to Mr Wills, for the purposes of the costs assessment which the Court must undertake I consider that the foregoing factors require recognition when assessing reasonable costs. [16] Turning to the issue as to whether...

10. De Marco v Accident Compensation Corporation (Costs on Appeal) [2025] NZACC 27 (17 February 2025) [pdf, 230 KB]

    ...Hearing: On the papers Appearances: The Appellant is self-represented H Botha for the Respondent Judgment: 17 February 2025 ___________________________________________________________________________ JUDGMENT OF JUDGE D L HENARE [Costs and disbursements on appeal] ___________________________________________________________________________ Introduction [1] On 25 November 2024, this Court issued a judgment in favour of the appellant.1 The Court directed that Ms d...