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1. National Standards Committee 1 v Gardner-Hopkins [2021] NZLCDT 21 (22 June 2021) [pdf, 360 KB]

   ...at two firm parties held by Russell McVeagh, Wellington branch. [2] The practitioner whose conduct is in issue is Mr James Gardner-Hopkins. At the time, he was a partner based at the Wellington office of Russell McVeagh, and the leader of its Environmental Planning and Natural Resources Team (the EPNR Team). The charges concern two social events in December 2015. [3] The first, was a Russell McVeagh Wellington Christmas party. All concerned understood that it was likely that th...

2. Traumatic Brain Injury and people in the justice system: Research paper [pdf, 847 KB]

   ...prevalence of TBI can support decisions about broader prevention and treatment interventions. Because of the impact of TBI in New Zealand, ACC has a TBI Strategy and Action Plan, with a focus on prevention of TBI40. The plan describes existing programmes designed to prevent TBI which focus on caregivers of infants, children and older people, alcohol and drug-related harm, and sport. In the plan, ACC outlines goals to increase their prevention efforts by focusing on sexual and family vio...

3. Reuben Fraser - Evidence in Chief [pdf, 875 KB]

   ...oorrjrni.Jriity. This could be expected to pose som.e real challenges for Council when seeking to enforce ,th_e regime. 15.5 I agr.ee with the ev.idence c;>f Dr $he~rs on behalf of the Appellant; which reco-gnis~s the. importance of ;a we(I d.esigned and enforced ,to tak_e r.egime if the benefits pf g rn$:rine protected atE3a are to .be realised (Shears prim9-ry evidence at p~ra 6). However, the Appellants evider:i'c:e does not 886 5 acknowledge the pot_entiaJ challe...

4. [2021] NZEnvC 007 JJ Limited v Dunedin City Council [pdf, 246 KB]

   ...business currently operates across three separate sites adjacent to Gladstone Road South and the East Taieri Primary School. The applicant’s existing operations are on sites zoned Industrial and uses a temporary site zoned Rural and subject to Designation D419 in the 2GP. The existing site configuration requires the applicant to use the public road network for the delivery, testing, and demonstration of agricultural machinery. The applicant seeks a site in the Rural Zone on which a...

5. Measuring reoffending with court data: proposed tier 1 specification [pdf, 750 KB]

   ...or not within the timeframe allowed for analysis (because many years sometimes elapse between the offence date and charges being reported or discovered and laid/filed in court, eg for sexual offending). Furthermore, the current measure is being designed as part of a group of measures where Police already plan to handle earlier parts of the offending process through measuring apprehensions. Using Charge_laid_date definitely has some conceptual appeal because it captures all subsequent...

6. [2019] NZEnvC 110 Western Bay of Plenty District Council v Bay of Plenty Regional Council [pdf, 1.7 MB]

   ...Policy NH 1 provides that activities may be considered appropriate if they meet the criteria of that policy, including, among other things, having a functional need to be located in the coastal environment and being of an appropriate form, scale and design to be compatible with the existing environment or will only have temporary and short-term effects. Policy NH4 requires adverse effects to be avoided on the values and attributes of ONFLs identified in Schedule 3. The bluntness of...

7. [2020] NZEmpC 230 Arachchige v Rasier New Zealand Ltd [pdf, 398 KB]

   ...device) and/or time amounts, as detailed at www.uber.com/cities for the applicable Territory. You can also charge the User for any applicable road, bridge, ferry, tunnel and airport charges and any other fees (including inner-city congestion, environmental or miscellaneous charges as reasonably determined by the Uber Services) (“Tolls”), taxes and/or fees incurred during the provision of Transportation Services, whether charged by a third party or Rasier NZ. Rasier NZ reserves...

8. Borst v ACC [2014] NZACA 8 [pdf, 232 KB]

   ...heading Summary of Validity Profile Mr Sellars stated: “Mr Borst passed 22/43 validity criteria during the FCE, 51% suggesting very poor, voluntary submaximal effort not related to pain, medical impairment or disability.” [25] The FCE is designed to test an injured person’s capacity to undertake various physical tasks and the results are evaluated under specific criteria and then assigned a validity rating under a set of evaluation criteria and formulae to produce a Validity...

9. MK v Accident Compensation Corporation [2024] NZACC 45 (8 March 2024) [pdf, 460 KB]

   ...we shared the same income. If [the appellant] had not had the accident, he would have been training as a nurse management and an occupational health nurse at the time of the blackouts, so he would have been earning good money. I was studying environmental management and working as well, so I was earning good money, or what would have been on my own account, not a joint one. We are individuals, we pay separate taxes, Work and Income are denying my right as a person and as a woman...

10. Waitangi Tribunal - Initiation Consultation and Consent [pdf, 1.4 MB]

    ...and enablers to their realisation’. 210 After the six hui, the authors analysed the results in light of the 1993 Act, ‘in order to inform any future review of the regulatory framework’. 211 Thus, the owners’ aspirations report was designed to serve as the basis for what became the current review of the Act. As such, it came in for significant criticism from the claimants, who considered it was based on anecdotal, one-sided, and statistically unreliable evidence. 212...