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...description of the legal problem in the client’s words together with a full background; (ii) photo identification; 5 Exhibit “GWT 10” BoD at 30. 5 (iii) a Letter of Engagement in the form required by the solicitor; (iv) a financial retainer for the solicitor and counsel. (b) The client was introduced to him in an indirect fashion (they never met) but no retainer arrangement was concluded. [13] The solicitor impresse...
...at all stages of any proceeding, to work constructively together to ensure that case management objectives are achieved. This duty extends to treating each other respectfully and professionally. Counsel also have a duty to keep their clients informed of possible solutions to issues, and of alternatives to litigation that are reasonably available. (b) All parties, whether or not represented by counsel, have a duty to the Court, at all stages of a proceeding, to work constructively...
...case the claim and counterclaim are essentially two halves of the same coin. The result must therefore be that if the counterclaim fails, the claim must succeed. 10. The rest of this decision addresses the substance of the counterclaim. The information provided by EF in his written claim and in the initial hearing is also taken into account in that context. 11. Following the second hearing on the counterclaim the issues to be addressed are now as follows: a) Was a debt due and...
For more information visit www.justice.govt.nz/tribunals New Zealand Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal For more information visit www.justice.govt.nz/tribunals/lawyers-and-conveyancers-disciplinary-tribunal Practice Note Issued by the Chairperson of the Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal Effective: 10 September 2010 Amended: 28 September 2012 Contents 1. Introduction 2 2. Commencing proceedings 2 3. Responses 3 4. Issues and setting down conferences 4 5.
...Joinder of the Attorney-General has necessitated changes to the existing statement of claim. [4.2] He (Mr Butcher) believes it is necessary to add to his claim the “procedural propriety” of both defendants’ actions. [4.3] Those who have been informally assisting him with his claim have suggested he remedy perceived deficiencies in both the form and content of the existing statement of claim. In his (and their) view the existing claim does not encapsulate all matters Mr Butcher w...
...Corrections Facility in 2010 Immigration New Zealand unlawfully disclosed to prison officers the fact that he had twice in New Zealand 2 sought recognition as a refugee. It is said that the alleged disclosure was in breach of Principle 11 of the information privacy principles set out in the Privacy Act 1993. Hearing procedure [2] These proceedings were filed on 28 April 2011. Some 20 days later the plaintiff was deported from New Zealand on 18 May 2011. He is now an excluded p...
...24 Urban or rural? .......................................................................................................... 25 Differences in character of activities in the residential nesting table? ............... 26 Retirement villages- a form of rural lifestyle living? ............................................. 26 RPS ..................................................................................................................................... 28 District plan ............
General Information 1. The Legal Complaints Review Officer (LCRO) is an independent statutory officer created by section 190 of the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006 (the Act). 2. The Legal Complaints Review Officer is an office of review and can only review decisions by a Lawyers Standards Committee or a Conveyancers Standards Committee on complaints that are made. 3. The purposes of the complaints and discipline system under the Act includes processing and resolving co
...according to contribution unless the couple had a child, in which case the equal sharing provisions of the Act would apply to property acquired after the commencement of the relationship. [7] Ms AL recorded:1 We agreed to sign the Agreement in the form that was acceptable to [Ms VR] and send to [Mr VR]’s lawyer for them to think about over the Christmas break. If they were not prepared to accept the Agreement in that form then I would not be involved in certifying the Agreemen...
...the rules for determining the terms and conditions of an employee's employment; and (b) to require new employees, whose terms and conditions of employment are not determined with reference to a collective agreement, to be given sufficient information and an adequate opportunity to seek advice before entering into an individual employment agreement; and (c) to recognise that, in relation to individual employees and their employers, good faith behaviour is— (i) promoted by prov...