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1. [2021] NZACC 124- Singh v ACC (4 August 2021) [pdf, 355 KB]

   ...Choy and Mr Leigh agree there is some causal link between the lifting event and the pathology, when the evidence is carefully considered, it is far from compelling. [iii] Mr Choy’s reasoning is not persuasive. It is based entirely upon the flawed reliance on a temporal link and improperly giving the appellant the benefit of doubt. It is also inconsistent with an earlier opinion that the appellant’s symptoms were caused by the 2018 lifting event.21 [75] Mr Leigh’s evidenc...

2. Māori Land Court National Pānui November-2021.pdf [pdf, 353 KB]

   ...Peter Thomas, Mavis Te Awhe, David Thomas Pio and Wairere Family Trust - Replace Harry Leaf, Pat Thomas, Cecil Thomas, Ben Thomas and Add David Thomas, Samuel Leaf, Richard Thomas, Jo-Ann Anderson, Taane Thomas, Mavis Te Awhe, Mereana Pawa and Lawrence Martin as Trustees TAITOKERAU continued 18 NATIONAL PÄNUI - Whiringa-ä-Rangi / NOVEMBER 2021 PÄNUI NO: TIME: APPLICATION NO: SECTION: APPLICANT: SUBJECT: 83 10:00AM A20210007468 113/93, 118/93 Michael Abraham Erihe Peata...

3. Memorandum of Counsel for Wellington International Airport Limited (dated 07 May 2018) [pdf, 1.7 MB]

   ...reviewed the Director's decision to the High Court. In her judgment. delivered on 6 July 2016, her Honour Justice Clark dismissed NZALPA's concerns, and held that the Director's decision and the process leading to that decision was lawful. On 28 July 2016, NZALPA appealed the High Court Decision to the Court of Appeal. In their judgment delivered on 28 February 2017, the Court of Appeal set aside the Director's decision, and ordered that it be reconsidered. In part...

4. Legal aid grants June 2019 [xlsx, 98 KB]

   ...Tribunal 155 112 95 113 65 63 129 152 206 296 44% Total 88,062 82,831 76,986 74,987 70,819 69,339 74,146 75,127 76,807 77,058 <1% Table 1b: Total legal aid expenditure, by legal aid type, 2011/2012 - 2018/2019 This table excludes expenditure on the Duty Lawyer services, the Police Detention Legal Assistance service and the Family Legal Advice Service as these services are not delivered through grants of legal aid. Expenditure on criminal legal aid excludes grants assigned to the Public D...

5. [2007] NZEmpC WC 29/07 Hawkins v Commissioner of Police [pdf, 91 KB]

   ...consented is a matter of fact judged against that test. [18] I do not accept the submission for the defendant that because s114 statutorily imposes the need for consent such consent must be expressly given. The section does not abrogate the common law tests for consent. The narrow interpretation proposed by the defendant does not accord with the authority in Phillips v Net Tel Communications5 where the Court recognised that an employer could impliedly consent to the late submissio...

6. [2007] NZEmpC CC 21/07 Gorrie Fuel (SI) Ltd v Gittoes [pdf, 108 KB]

   ...there are a number potentially relevant in this field. How some should be defined precisely is a matter no doubt still open to debate: see the discussion in the Auckland Shop Employees case. But in our view it can now safely be said in New Zealand law that one relevant implied term is that stated in the judgment of the Employment Appeal Tribunal, delivered by Browne-Wilkinson J, in Woods v W M Car Services (Peterborough) Ltd quoted in the Auckland Shop Employees case. As the Judge put it...

7. Legal aid grants December 2023 [xlsx, 84 KB]

   ...Tribunal 42 115 118 223 205 252 182 94 220 153 -30% Total 69,162 71,775 75,043 75,997 76,531 78,373 77,850 68,102 70,306 78,708 +12% Table 1b: Total legal aid expenditure, by legal aid type, 2014 - 2023 This table excludes expenditure on the Duty Lawyer services, the Police Detention Legal Assistance service and the Family Legal Advice Service as these services are not delivered through grants of legal aid. Expenditure on criminal legal aid excludes grants assigned to the Public Defence Ser...

8. [2016] NZEmpC 123 Henderson v Nelson Marlborough District Health Board [pdf, 229 KB]

   ...occurred between 22 August 2014 and 11 September 2014 when an unsuccessful attempt was made by Mr Fleming to complete a performance review of Dr Henderson’s work. Those events culminated in Dr Henderson’s resignation, conveyed to the DHB in her lawyer’s letter of 26 September 2014. [3] On 7 December 2009, Dr Henderson and the DHB entered into an individual employment agreement with effect from 8 February 2010. As well as containing a detailed description of her position an...

9. Blueskin Amenity and Landscape Society (BALS) (dated 1 June 2017) [pdf, 850 KB]

   ...that the Appellant may need to satisfy the Court that the transport of the turbine to the site is achievable [and] should be satisfied that the turbine materials can be delivered to the site lawfully and safely” (Sycamore §107). On the “lawfulness” of this activity, we assume that he was alluding to the probable need for the turbine transporter to have access to private land adjacent to the road. 48. All of these matters were raised by BALS at the Pre-Hearing Conference and...

10. [2007] NZEmpC AC 61/07 Fonterra Cooperative Group Ltd v van Heerden [pdf, 76 KB]

    ...of finding alternate positions in the restructuring. He contended the Authority was also wrong to determine that their respective terms and conditions of employment were not reconcilable, and contended that they were reconcilable in fact and in law. [22] Mr Pollak relied on Fonterra’s general human resources policy regarding non-DWU members which, where relevant, states: Where organisational structural changes are required, consideration will be given to alternativ...