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1. Recommendations recap - issue 2 [pdf, 1.7 MB]

   ...effective risk assessment and management of those identified as being at risk is an important part of doing so. The work done by the Department of Corrections on improving processes and skills of staff in this area is laudable. However, recognising environmental factors such as hanging points and eliminating (where possible and reasonable) those points is also required. It is extremely concerning to this court that over a period of almost fifteen years the Department of Correct...

2. Human-Rights-Commission-submissions-on-scope-of-inquiry.pdf [pdf, 379 KB]

   ...undercover policing,66 has to date designated 248 individuals and groups. Those granted core participant status cover a range of people impacted by undercover policing practices, such as relatives of deceased individuals, social, political and environmental activists, and individuals in relationships with undercover officers. This approach has been taken despite the sensitive nature of UPCI’s work, much of which pertains to issues of national security. 54. The Royal Commis...

3. WT Te Manutukutuku Issue 70 [pdf, 1.6 MB]

   ...the first few years the Tribunal ‘operated out of a billy can’. Sir Graham was involved in all of the Tribunal’s early landmark inquiries, not­ ably Motunui­Waitara, Kaituna River and Manukau. They focused strongly on the impact of the environmental degrada­ tion of waterways and harbours on Māori communities. They also reached deeply into the Māori experience of colonisation and land loss, demonstrating a context of historical grievance that helped lead in 1985 to the ex...

4. Appendix-4_Peter-Kinley_-s87F-Report_Flooding-and-Hydrology_28-April-2023.pdf [pdf, 1 MB]

   ...and investigation, undertaken by Waka Kotahi. F. BACKGROUND 21. My involvement in the Ō2NL Project began in April 2022, and I have been continuously involved since then. Along with review of the resource consent application, and Assessment of Environmental Effects (“AEE”), I have also reviewed draft reports from Waka Kotahi, and liaised with their experts to identify and resolve issues, including through the Section 92 request for information, on 9 December 2022, and Waka Ko...

5. Regulatory Impact Statement all-of-Government Response to Organised Crime [pdf, 331 KB]

   ...trans-nationally generated organised crime. Police’s 2010 assessment of organised crime in New Zealand documents a wide array of organised criminal markets and activities, ranging from drug crime to fraud, to intellectual property theft, to cybercrime and environmental crime. These activities significantly impact our communities, international reputation and markets. 3 10. For example, New Zealand’s methamphetamine market is estimated to be worth $1.2 billion per year and co...

6. Waitangi Tribunal - He Whiritaunoka (Whanganui) chapter 1 [pdf, 827 KB]

   ...comprise representatives of Whanganui Māori and the Crown, symbolic of the treaty relation- ship. It will be supported by a strategy group consisting of representatives from iwi, local and central government, commercial and recreational users and environmental groups. Legislation, which will give effect to these terms, is expected to be introduced to parliament in 2016. 1.6.5 The Whanganui land inquiry after the river inquiry was completed, plans for an inquiry into land claims commence...

7. ENV-2016-AKL-000194 Highgate Business Park Limited v Auckland Council [pdf, 2.3 MB]

   ...rating of industrial and commercial buildings over a certain scale. It is submitted that the PAUP is an inappropriate mechanism to introduce a Green Star Rating requirement. Such measures would be more appropriately introduced through a National Environmental Standard to ensure parity across regions. (b) Finally, it Is submitted that the PAUP zoning ofthe northern part ofthe Silverdale South block (between the Northern Motorway, Hibiscus Coast highway and East Coast Road) as 'F...

8. ENV-2016-AKL-000198 G M Welsford Family Trust v Auckland Council [pdf, 12 MB]

   ...Mixed Housing Suburban, Mixed Housing Urban and Terrace House and Apartment Building zones. The inclusion of objectives, policies and rules that enable sporadic and scattered rural subdivision , The inclusion of provisions that allow for minimal environmental benefits to be accepted in exchange for rural-residential subdivision Absence in recommending specific site sizes for Countryside Living subdivision in the Caldwells Road I area in Whitford Amendment to the definition of '...

9. [2018] NZEnvC 085 Glencoe Land (Joint Venture) Limited v Queenstown Lakes District Council [pdf, 6.5 MB]

   ...drew my attention the observations of the Court of Appeal in Shell New Zealand Ltd v Porirua City Council that whether an amendment falls within or outside the ambit of an application will depend on the facts of any particular case, including such environmental impacts as may be rationally perceived by a consent authority" [15J Those authorities always seem fair and reasonable to me, but I must bear in mind that they are all part of an overall "fairness and reasonableness&...

10. Recommendations recap - issue 4 [pdf, 832 KB]

    ...effective risk assessment and management of those identified as being at risk is an important part of doing so. The work done by the Department of Corrections on improving processes and skills of staff in this area is laudable. However, recognising environmental factors such as hanging points and eliminating (where possible and reasonable) those points is also required. The coroner expressed concern that over a period of almost fifteen years the Department of Corrections did n...