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1. OIA-113567.pdf [pdf, 7.8 MB]

   ...Minister of Local Government - Budget 24 Proposal: Proposed changes to regulations in your portfolio 15/03/2024 Letter Letter to Minister of Revenue - Budget 24 Proposal: Proposed changes to regulations in your portfolio 18/03/2024 Briefing Human Rights Review Tribunal - Reappointment Options Paper 19/03/2024 Aide Memoire Meeting with Ben Norton, CEO of Liquidus, regarding verification of identity for alcohol licensing 19/03/2024 Briefing Ministry of Justice Tier 1 official sta...

2. [2024] NZEnvC 294 Whakatane District Council v Ohope International Golf Club Incorporated [pdf, 1.6 MB]

   ...burrows, placing Magtoxin pellets well into the burrows (which are then activated either by wetting or natural soil moisture levels in burrows), and then stopping- up the burrow entrances. MPI has assessed that phosphine fumigation is a comparatively humane tool4 (mild to moderate negative humane impacts). However, Magtoxin is very toxic to aquatic life, and very toxic to terrestrial vertebrates and invertebrates. All work associated with the use of toxicants should be overseen by approp...

3. VAB v Corrections [2022] NZHRRT 31 [pdf, 215 KB]

   ...(REDACTED) DECISION OF TRIBUNAL1 1 [This decision is to be cited as VAB v Corrections [2022] NZHRRT 31. Due to publication restrictions this decision has been anonymised by the redaction of the true name of the plaintiff.] IN THE HUMAN RIGHTS REVIEW TRIBUNAL [2022] NZHRRT 31 I TE TARAIPIUNARA MANA TANGATA 2 [1] In May 2010 the plaintiff was a new father to a baby girl and completing a sentence of home detention. As part of his home detention sentence, he met wit...

4. Sax v Commissioner of Police (Strike-Out – Privacy) [2022] NZHRRT 34 [pdf, 247 KB]

   ...for defendant DATE OF HEARING: Heard on the papers DATE OF DECISION: 31 August 2022 DECISION OF TRIBUNAL STRIKING OUT CLAIM-PRIVACY1 INTRODUCTION [1] In January 2015 Janine Sax filed a claim under the Privacy Act 1993 (Privacy Act) in the Human Rights Review Tribunal (Tribunal) claiming there had been an interference with her privacy by the New Zealand Police (Police). [2] The alleged privacy breaches occurred as early as 2011. 1 [This decision is to be cited as Sax v Commissioner...

5. Evidence Brief: Mental Health Courts [pdf, 255 KB]

   ...Interventions with Mental Health Illness: Evaluation of Mental Health Courts in Bronx and Brooklyn, New York, Urban Institute. Honegger, L. (2015). Does the Evidence Support the Case for Mental Health Courts? A Review of the Literature. Law and Human Behaviour, Vol. 39, No. 5. Citations i Thompson et al, 2007 ii Almquist and Dodd 2009 iii Schug and Fradella, 2015 iv Ibid. v Sowerwine and Schetzer, 2013 vi Sarteschi et al, 20...

6. Government Response to Law Commision Report on New Issues in Legal Parenthood [pdf, 36 KB]

   ...profiling); and - Powers of parents and the courts to undertake or compel parentage testing. (ii) Assigning legal parenthood, including recommendations about: - Allocating legal parenthood status (and consequent rights and responsibilities) where assisted human reproductive (AHR) procedures have been used; and - Processes for assigning and transferring legal parenthood status, for example to a known sperm or egg donor or to implement surrogacy arrangements. (iii) Information about genetic...

7. Hutt City Ltd & Anor v CAC 20002 & Anor [2013] NZREADT 109 [pdf, 127 KB]

   ...to have reserve backups in their own office when that is available 5 to 15 minutes away by car. In any case, the necessary and proper systems, with training systems, were in place but, perversely, a normally sensible real estate agent succumbed to human pressure from purchasers and prematurely handed over keys to the property on good faith. [47] We note that the Committee felt obliged to find that there was little evidence adduced to it to show that supervision or support was provided...

8. Review-of-the-Courts-Remote-Participation-Act-2010.pdf [pdf, 345 KB]

   ...housing, unemployed people, Pacific peoples and Māori are most at risk of being digitally-excluded. Cost is a significant barrier to digital inclusion, and digital-only or ‘by default’ services can have marginalising effects on these groups. Human Rights 38 I consider that the options do not engage the Human Rights Act 1993, the Privacy Act 2020, or international treaty obligations. I consider that the options are consistent with New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 (NZBORA) rights...

9. OIA-Compensation for wrongful conviction and detention - rates [pdf, 429 KB]

   ...https://www.canlii.org/en/commentary/doc/2019CanLIIDocs2793#!fragment/zoupio-_Tocpdf_bk_8/BQCwhgziBcwMYgK4DsDWszIQewE4BUBTADwBdoAvbRABwEtsBaAfX2zhoBMAzZgI1TMAHAEoANMmylCEAIqJCuAJ7QA5KrERCYXAnmKV6zdt0gAynlIAhFQCUAogBl7ANQCCAOQDC9saTB80KTsIiJAA 4 https://www.justice.act.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/2072433/Fact-Sheet-P-s-23- Right-to-compensation-for-wrongful-conviction-Human-Rights-Education.pdf https://jbsolicitors.com.au/compensation-for-wrongfully-convicted- persons/#:~:t...

10. Disputes-Tribunal-Amendment-Bill_FINAL.pdf [pdf, 1.5 MB]

    ...is available to support identifying any population implications. The Ministry of Justice is unable to accurately estimate the impacts on population groups as the information on claim types is not able to be filtered by demographic information. Human Rights 35 No inconsistencies with the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 and the Human Rights Act 1993 have been identified. I have considered rights to justice and principles of natural justice in determining the suitability of the Dis...