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1. BC v Accident Compensation Corporation (Cost of Treatment) [2025] NZACC 40 (4 March 2025) [pdf, 246 KB]

   ...Result [66] The appeal is dismissed. [67] There is no issue as to costs. Suppression [68] At the hearing the appellant applied for suppression orders. The Corporation did not object. I consider it is necessary and appropriate to protect the privacy of the appellant. This order, made under s 160(1) of the Act, forbids publication of the name, address, occupation, or particulars likely to lead to the identification of the appellant. As a result, this proceeding shall henceforth...

2. Directory of Official Information A-C [pdf, 1.6 MB]

   ...As a public sector organisation, ACC must ensure its records are managed appropriately in line with relevant legislation, which includes: • Accident Compensation Act 2001 • Public Records Act 2005 • Official Information Act 1982 • Privacy Act 2020 • Health Information Privacy Code 2020 • Health (Retention of Health Information) Regulations 1996 • Legislation applicable to standard corporate functions such as personnel, finance, legal, etc. Documents rela...

3. Directory of Official Information A-C [pdf, 1.6 MB]

   ...As a public sector organisation, ACC must ensure its records are managed appropriately in line with relevant legislation, which includes: • Accident Compensation Act 2001 • Public Records Act 2005 • Official Information Act 1982 • Privacy Act 2020 • Health Information Privacy Code 2020 • Health (Retention of Health Information) Regulations 1996 • Legislation applicable to standard corporate functions such as personnel, finance, legal, etc. Documents rela...

4. Directory of Official Information A-C [pdf, 1.6 MB]

   ...As a public sector organisation, ACC must ensure its records are managed appropriately in line with relevant legislation, which includes: • Accident Compensation Act 2001 • Public Records Act 2005 • Official Information Act 1982 • Privacy Act 2020 • Health Information Privacy Code 2020 • Health (Retention of Health Information) Regulations 1996 • Legislation applicable to standard corporate functions such as personnel, finance, legal, etc. Documents rela...

5. LCRO 47/2021 BQ v ZG (16 December 2024) [pdf, 665 KB]

   ...the basis that the whole of the Committee’s complaint file constituted personal information about the applicant because Ms PW formerly worked for him. [136] The Committee declined that request for reasons explained in an email from the NZLS Privacy Officer dated 2 October 2024 that the applicant subsequently copied to the LCRO’s office. [137] The applicant then asserted that the NZLS’s refusal to provide him with a copy of the Committee’s file on the PW complaint was “ill...

6. Cree v Accident Compensation Corporation (Interest on Compensation) [2023] NZACC 195 [pdf, 288 KB]

   ...interpreted in Miller to treat a claimant’s earnings and bank account details as always available to the Corporation and not 32 Section, s 32(1). 33 Kirk v Accident Compensation Corporation [2016] NZACC 48 at [16]. 34 Sections 100 and 103. 35 Privacy Act 2020, s 22, information privacy principle 1. “necessary to enable” payment of weekly compensation. It was not disputed that by 6 September 2021 the Corporation had received all necessary financial information and no...

7. LCRO 74/2017 SD v TM (31 January 2019) [pdf, 218 KB]

   ...Regulation 30(2) requires that a Committee, “[w]hen deciding whether to publish the identity” of a lawyer who has been censured “must take into account the public interest and, if appropriate, the impact of publication on the interests and privacy of – (a) the complainant; and (b) the clients of the censured [lawyer]; and (c) relatives of the censured [lawyer]; and (d) partners, employers and associates of the censured [lawyer]; and (e) the censured [lawyer]”. [94] Under r...

8. [2006] NZEmpC WC 23/06 Spotless Services (NZ) Ltd v Morrison [pdf, 81 KB]

   ...problems before she had a chance to get advice from her lawyer. The requests for these matters caused her to become upset. [47] After the meeting, having talked to her lawyer, she told Mr Starling she had been advised it would be an invasion of her privacy for Spotless to see her gynaecological report, that she would give permission to Mr Starling to correspond in writing with her GP, and that she would speak to her specialist on 16 August 2005 about him writing to Mr Starling....

9. [2023] NZREADT 7 - CAC 2002 v Sun (6 April 2023) [pdf, 309 KB]

   ...disclosure is necessary to answer or defend any complaint, claim, allegation, or proceedings against the licensee by the client; or (c) the licensee is required by law to disclose the information; or (d) the disclosure is consistent with the information privacy principles set out in section 22 of the Privacy Act 2020. ... [31] The Committee is required to prove the charge against Ms Sun on the balance of probabilities.1 [32] We turn now to consider each of the particulars relatin...

10. Safer Sooner: Strengthening New Zealand’s Family Violence Laws [pdf, 7.9 MB]

    ...violence and to prevent further violence. The agencies and individuals will be required to consider sharing where there are family violence concerns, and apply the principle that victim safety should take precedence over confidentiality and privacy. If the agencies appropriately share the information in good faith, they will be immune from legal proceedings (for example, breach of privacy). Align approaches to service delivery WHY CHANGE? There’s no national guidance to...