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1. Legal-Services-Waikato-AODT-Court.pdf [pdf, 298 KB]

   ...Court website. 1.2 Purpose The Waikato AODT Court is planned to be operational in mid-June 2021. This document provides information on the Court and legal services in the Court. If you have any questions or need any additional information, please get in touch with us at admin.AODTC@justice.govt.nz. https://www.districtcourts.govt.nz/criminal-court/criminal-jurisdiction/specialist-criminal-courts/alcohol-and-other-drug-treatment-court/ mailto:admin.AODTC@justice.govt.nz PA...

2. [2015] NZEmpC 220 Wellington Free Ambulance Service Inc v Austing costs [pdf, 67 KB]

   ...significant, if not excessive. 1 Wellington Free Ambulance Service Inc v Austing [2015] NZEmpC 164. [2] In his submissions, Mr McBride, counsel for the plaintiff, appropriately referred to the plea made by the Court of Appeal in 2001 for counsel practising in the employment field to “reflect on the consequences of conducting litigation without proper focus on the issues and without tight control on the escalation of costs.�...

3. CAC 20004 v Wotherspoon [2014] NZREADT 27 [pdf, 58 KB]

   ...Defendant is guilty of misconduct, CAC 20004 further alleges that the Defendant has engaged in unsatisfactory conduct and seeks a finding under s 110(4) of the Act. Discussion [2] Mr Wotherspoon came to the Tribunal today and indicated that he would plead guilty to unsatisfactory conduct in respect of this charge. [3] It is for the Tribunal to determine if the charge has been established and then, if it finds that there has been some level of professional misconduct, whether this...

4. Justice Sector Crown Law forecast 2015 to 2019 [pdf, 347 KB]

   ...giving the numbers of disposals of each type over the forecast period is in Table 2 in the Appendix. District Court “committal guilty” cases (the residue of pre-CPA cases involving Crown Law in sentencing serious charges arising from a guilty plea in the pre-CPA pre-committal stage), included in previous forecasts, have now declined to zero. Each category of case has an assumed inflow, and an expected average time to dispose. However, the forecast reports only on disposals as th...

5. Mullane v Attorney-General (Request for Transcript) [2021] NZHRRT 31 [pdf, 143 KB]

   ...directive from person/s unknown, (but it is my educated guess that it is GCSB and Prime Ministers Department) to stop the truth of this scandal being revealed to the public, hence a total media ban and why Politicians, from day one, have ignored my pleas for help and also why senior respected officials, such as Edwards, Judge Sir David Carruthers, Judge Peter Boshier and his corrupt side-kick Leo Donnelly, have deliberately misled me, delayed investigations of my complaints to their Agenci...

6. McGregor v Hutchison - Mangamaire B13A Trust (2015) 40 Tākitimu MB 19 (40 TKT 19) [pdf, 176 KB]

   ...Discussion [8] This is an uncomplicated case. The respondent has been convicted, as described by Judge Davis in the Napier District Court, “of receiving in terms that he knew required him to account to the Mangamaire B2 Ahu Whenua Trust”. 4 He pleaded guilty to the charges so there is no dispute as to the facts. In short, he knowingly received money that was the 1 141 Napier MB 80-81 2 196 Napier MB 48-49 3 [2013]...

7. Canterbury Westland Standards Committee 2 v Healy [2020] NZLCDT 4 [pdf, 106 KB]

   ...Conveyancers Act 2006 (the Act), that he has been convicted of an offence punishable by imprisonment and the conviction tends to bring his profession into disrepute. [2] The conviction was entered at the Royal Court of Jersey following a guilty plea by the practitioner on 21 December 2018. It was of a charge of grave and criminal assault, following which the practitioner was sentenced (and has served) 180 hours of community service, ordered to pay compensation to the victim of £...

8. [2020] NZEmpC 238 Neil v New Zealand Nurses Organisation [pdf, 211 KB]

   ...MAHI O AOTEAROA TĀMAKI MAKAURAU [2020] NZEmpC 238 EMPC 191/2020 IN THE MATTER OF a challenge to a determination of the Employment Relations Authority AND IN THE MATTER OF an application to strike out part of the pleadings BETWEEN ANGELA NEIL First Plaintiff AND TINA WEST Second Plaintiff AND NEW ZEALAND NURSES ORGANISATION Defendant Hearing: On the papers Appearances: A Halse and Dr J Bishop,...

9. Auckland Standards Committee 3 v Shand [2013] NZLCDT 56 [pdf, 94 KB]

   ...[13] Finally costs of the prosecution were sought by the Standards Committee and reimbursement of the Tribunal costs in due course. Penalty Submissions for the Practitioner [14] The practitioner accepted responsibility for his conduct by his plea and by making in the course of the hearing a direct apology to the complainant. He accepted openly that his conduct was below the standard expected of lawyers in the particular circumstances. In mitigation he raised the fact that his cl...

10. Auckland Standards Committee v Davidson [2013] NZLCDT 14 [pdf, 69 KB]

    ...further offences under the same section of the Act that between 21 December 2006 and 6 July 2007 when a Director of Bridgecorp Limited and Bridgecorp Investments Limited that you distributed advertisements which included untrue statements. Your pleas of guilty were entered on the basis, that your conduct in this matter was unreasonable but that you were not in fact dishonest and you have categorised your involvement in these matters as the actions of a naïve man trusting those who sho...