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1. DS v NS [2018] NZDT 1454 (7 May 2018) [pdf, 130 KB]

   ...dog, injuring that dog. DS was also bitten by the dog. A car drove past and NS got out, called the attacking dog off, and put it in the car. NS came back to DS to ask if she was ok. NS then left. He confirmed to the [Council], who followed the matter up on DS’s complaint, that it was not his dog, but belonged to a person he had met that day. DS incurred $779.10 in vet’s bills for the treatment of her dog, and she filed a claim in the Disputes Tribunal against NS for this expense....

2. Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa Tāmaki nui-ā-Rua Claims Settlement Bill [pdf, 962 KB]

   ...Is'-ahungunu ki Wairarapa Tamaki nui-a-Rua Claims Settlement Act or the Te Rohe o Rongokako Joint Redress Act 2018. 6. Legislative determination ought not conventionally to fall within the scope of judicial review.' However, to the extent any excluded matters could be susceptible to judicial review, c115 constitutes a justified limit under s 5 of the Bill of Rights Act on the right affirmed by s 27(2). Excluding subsequent challenge is a legitimate incident of the negotiated se...

3. Auckland Standards Committee 3 v Park [2024] NZLCDT 6 (14 March 2024) [pdf, 108 KB]

   ...English – but, in the context, he should have yielded to the beneficiary’s request as acceptance of her cultural identity. [8] We find that the level of contribution to costs (20 per cent) advanced by Ms Mok appropriately balances the needs of justice in this case. That amounts to $12,504.08. We adopt the same percentage in relation to the Tribunal costs payable by the New Zealand Law Society under s 257 LCA.2 [9] Mr Park has taken new employment since the events that gave ri...

4. People involved in the Coronial Inquiry

   ...predominantly representing the Crown across all courts and tribunals. He has been a crown prosecutor and worked in the Crown Law Office. His principal areas of practice are criminal law, public and administrative law, professional regulation and disciplinary matters, and Health and Safety-related offending.  Ian gained his law degree with honours from the University of Otago in 1993 and was admitted to the bar in 1994.   Wendy Aldred KC Wendy is a barrister practising in public law...

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   1. Coroners Court >
   2. Christchurch Masjidain Attack Inquiry

5. [2025] NZSSAA 16 (27 May 2025) [pdf, 76 KB]

   Reference no: SSAA 54/25 [2025] NZSSAA 16 UNDER the Social Security Act 2018 IN THE MATTER of a late appeal by XXXX of Auckland against a decision of the Chief Executive that has been confirmed or varied by a Benefits Review Committee. DECISION DECLINING EXTENSION OF TIME TO FILE LATE APPEAL Background [1] XXXX wishes to appeal against a Benefits Review Committee decision dated 2 April 2024. [2] The proposed appeal concerns a decisi...

6. 2025 NZPSPLA 040 pdf [pdf, 120 KB]

   ...The decision is of limited public interest. 7 c) After taking into account the presumption in favour of publication the Licensing Authority considers the decision should not be published because it would be contrary to the interest of justice. [32] None of the above apply to this decision. There is a public interest in this decision being released and it is not contrary to the interest of justice for it to be published. Accordingly, no suppression orders are made in res...

7. Baigent v ACC [2014] NZACA 18 [pdf, 58 KB]

   ...of law must be capable of bona fide and serious argument; (iii) care must be taken to avoid allowing issues of fact to be dressed up as questions of law; (iv) where an appeal is limited to questions of law, a mixed question of law and fact is a matter of law; (v) a decision-maker’s treatment of facts can amount to an error of law. There will be an error of law where there is no evidence to support the decision, the evidence is inconsistent with the decision or the true and only r...

8. BORA National Animal Identification and Tracing Bill [pdf, 205 KB]

   ...privacy interests should be taken [...]."1 9. The Bill provides for a wide range of inspection, search and seizure powers (with or without warrant), many of which duplicate those contained in the Search and Surveillance Bill as reported by the Justice and Electoral Committee. The overall purpose of these powers is to ascertain, secure and enforce compliance with obligations under the Bill. 10. The Bill contains the following inspection, search and seizure powers: • to require...

9. Cooney and Dempsey TRI 2022-100-001 Procedural Order 6 [pdf, 152 KB]

   ...fact that the wrongs were separate but caused the same damage to the claimants (being economic loss) is sufficient to provide a route to relief against Mr Milne as a contributor or indemnifier to the Council. [45] In Hotchin, the learned Chief Justice observed that the “same damage” need not be “substantially or materially similar”, nor need it arise out of the same circumstances or fault, nor be the same measure. Nor does it turn on the cause of action. 5 Hotchin...

10. Hawke v ACC [2013] NZACA 5 [pdf, 86 KB]

    ...the proceeding is to be heard under Part 5 of the 2001 Act or Part 9 of the 1982 Act, which involves the proper construction of s 391 of the 2001 Act. The public interest/general importance component is that it is in the interests of 3 justice that the effect and operation of s 391 is determined by the High Court, as a litigant must have clarity over the process of litigation. [6] The question of law argued by Mr Hlavac in later submissions and pursued at the hearing r...