[2007] NZEmpC CC 8/07 Employee v Employer [pdf, 87 KB]
...substantial and, in most cases, fatal to the application. Where the application is for an extension of time to a file statement of defence, the importance of this factor is very much less. This is because the interests of justice are different. Permitting a party to participate in the resolution of a dispute which is already properly before the Court is fundamentally different to permitting a party to renew a dispute before the Court which the other party is entitled to beli...