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1. Proactive release - Amendments to the District Court Rules 2014 and High Courts Rules 2016 [pdf, 597 KB]

   ...waiver of the 28-day rule. Compliance 14. The regulatory changes comply with each of the following: 14.1. the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi; 14.2. the rights and freedoms contained in the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 and the Human Rights Act 1993; 14.3. the principles and guidelines set out in the Privacy Act 1993; 14.4. relevant international standards and obligations; and 14.5. the Legislation Guidelines (2018 edition), which are maintained by the Legislation...

2. Landcorp Farming Limited v Waikato Regional Council [pdf, 267 KB]

   ...significant consent processes. The definition needs to clearly exclude pastoral farming activities. 13.2 Relief sought: Amend to exclude any possibility of pastoral faming crop activities. Define “for commercial purposes” to capture supply for human use, and clearly excluding pastoral pasture and fodder crop growing as part of any commercial operation. 14. Property: 14.1 The definition and its use in the rules is insufficiently clear to accommodate catchment farming practic...

3. Tauranga-City-Council-election-OIC_FINAL.pdf [pdf, 525 KB]

   ...2024 following approval by the Governor-General. Compliance 32 This Order complies with each of the following: 32.1 the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi; 32.2 the rights and freedoms contained in the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 or the Human Rights Act 1993; 32.3 the principles and guidelines set out in the Privacy Act 2020; 32.4 relevant international standards and obligations; 32.5 the Legislation Guidelines (2021 edition), which are maintained by the Legislation Desig...

4. Proactive release – Orders in Council: Electoral (Expenditure Limit) Order 2021 [pdf, 840 KB]

   ...adjustment to that expenditure limit made the following year must be based on the unrounded figure. 4us110oq65 2021-05-27 08:00:01 Proa cti ve ly Rele as ed  the rights and freedoms contained in the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 and the Human Rights Act 1993  the principles and guidelines set out in the Privacy Act 1993, and  the Legislation Guidelines. Regulations Review Committee 10. There are no grounds on which the Regulations Review Committee should draw the O...

5. Cook v Manawatu Community Law Centre [2021] NZHRRT 10 [pdf, 261 KB]

   ...2016, on a fixed term, one-year contract. While at MCLC Ms Cook alleged that she had been the subject of workplace bullying and sexual harassment. 1 [This decision is to be cited as Cook v Manawatu Community Law Centre [2021] NZHRRT 10.] IN THE HUMAN RIGHTS REVIEW TRIBUNAL [2021] NZHRRT 10 I TE TARAIPIUNARA MANA TANGATA 2 [2] Against this backdrop Ms Abraham, who was employed by MCLC as its Work and Income New Zealand (WINZ) advocate, made two requests to WINZ for Ms Cook’s...

6. COVID-19 Public Health Response Amendment Bill [pdf, 130 KB]

   ...scope for cost recovery regulations made under proposed new s 33A of the principal Act, which may prescribe classes of persons liable to pay charges, to have disproportionate impacts on certain groups protected from discrimination under s 21 of the Human Rights Act 1993. 27. While we consider that the power to make regulations that might apply differently to different groups is justifiable on public health grounds, we would expect these impacts to be taken into account when considering...

7. [2020] NZREADT 57 - Buchanan v The Real Estate Agents Authority (8 December 2020) [pdf, 229 KB]

   ...being relevant. Any obligation that they might have would have to be one that was reasonable to impose on the licensees in the circumstances. We do not consider that disclosure of the presence of methamphetamine levels which were not harmful to humans would constitute a relevant matter that the licensees were obliged to disclose. [29] Nor is the fact that the property had been tested but found not to have harmful methamphetamine levels. Even assuming that this fact was widely know...

8. [2021] NZEmpC 160 Wilson v Manukau Institute of Technology [pdf, 216 KB]

   ...Hollings” OR (“Joanne Verry” OR “Kirsten Sargent”). [23] Those directions resolved the reg 52 application. Admissibility issue [24] The second issue relates to certain paragraphs to be given in evidence by Carolyn Pene, Human Resources Business Partnering Manager for MIT, employed by it since late 2018. [25] In four paragraphs of her brief of evidence, she intends to give evidence about Mr Wilson’s circumstances at the time of his employment in 2011; sh...

9. Electoral-Expenditure-Limit-Order-2022.pdf [pdf, 859 KB]

   ...IS TE R OF JU ST IC E I N C O N F I D E N C E Compliance 9 The Order complies with the following: 9.1 the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi; 9.2 the rights and freedoms contained in the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 and the Human Rights Act 1993; 9.3 the principles and guidelines set out in the Privacy Act 2020; 9.4 relevant international standards and obligations; and 9.5 the Legislation Guidelines. Regulations Review Committee 10 There are no grounds on whic...

10. Evaluation of New Zealand court-referred restorative justice pilot [pdf, 181 KB]

    ...agreements reached. The pilot evaluation concludes that there are many reasons to feel encouraged. Overall, it found a small but statistically significant reduction in reoffending and that restorative justice can more than adequately respond to the human and emotional costs of offending for some victims. New Zealand Court-Referred Restorative Justice Pilot: Evaluation New Zealand Court-Referred Restorative Justice Pilot: Evaluation To purchase copies of this publication, please comp...