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1. [2016] NZEmpC 123 Henderson v Nelson Marlborough District Health Board [pdf, 229 KB]

   ...constructively dismissed? [41] The parties concentrated their submissions on what happened at the meetings of 22 August 2014 and 11 September 2014, and the consequences of what happened. There is no disagreement about the legal test to apply. [42] In Auckland Shop Employees Union v Woolworths (New Zealand) Ltd the Court of Appeal described three non-exhaustive situations where constructive dismissal may occur: 3 1. An employer gives an employee an option of resigning or be...

2. Kaupapa Maori Report [pdf, 1.7 MB]

   ...and Dr Catherine Savage, Hēmi Te Hēmi, Letitia Goldsmith and John Leonard of Ihi Research in Christchurch in 2018. Thank you to the expert research methodology group - Paula Mato and Kim Aiomanu from Te Puni Kōkiri, Dr Neville Robertson (Waikato University), Professor Denise Wilson (Auckland University of Technology) and Dr Michael Roguski (Kaitiaki Research and Evaluation) for their contribution to the design and conduct of the evaluation. Thank you to the whānau, ISR providers and...

3. Evaluation of Parenting Through Separation programme [pdf, 2.8 MB]

   ...to settle custody and access disputes (p40). There has been relatively little research on parent-education programmes for separating couples in New Zealand. In 2004 a parent-education programme was trialled at the North Shore Family Court by the Auckland Family Courts Association and the University of Auckland. ‘Children in the Middle’, based on overseas programmes, consisted of two, two- hour evening sessions for parents held one week apart. Participants on the programme complete...

4. [2012] NZEmpC 186 Walker v Procure Health Ltd [pdf, 153 KB]

   WALKER V PROCARE HEALTH LIMITED NZEmpC AK [2012] NZEmpC 186 [1 November 2012] IN THE EMPLOYMENT COURT AUCKLAND [2012] NZEmpC 186 ARC 72/09 IN THE MATTER OF a challenge to a determination of the Employment Relations Authority BETWEEN VICKI JANE WALKER Plaintiff AND PROCARE HEALTH LIMITED Defendant Hearing: (on the papers by way of submissions filed 13 July 2012, 7, 17 and 20 August 2012 and affidavits dated 19 July 2012, 15 August 2012 and 26 Oct...

5. Te Wini v Askelund [2015] NZHRRT 21 [pdf, 97 KB]

   1 IN THE HUMAN RIGHTS REVIEW TRIBUNAL [2015] NZHRRT 21 Reference No. HRRT 021/2013 UNDER THE PRIVACY ACT 1993 BETWEEN RICKEE TE WINI PLAINTIFF AND GRAEME ASKELUND DEFENDANT AT AUCKLAND BEFORE: Mr RPG Haines QC, Chairperson Mr RK Musuku, Member Mr BK Neeson JP, Member REPRESENTATION: Mr R Te Wini in person Mr G Askelund in person DATE OF HEARING: 7 April 2015 DATE OF DECISION: 15 June 2015 DECISION OF TRIBUN...

6. Henderson v Brooking - Wharekahika A47 [2023] Māori Appellate Court MB 17 (2023 APPEAL 17) [pdf, 335 KB]

   ...Paikea - Otara 5D2 (2022) 252 Taitokerau MB 210 (252 TTK 210); Wynyard v Waata - Manawakore C1 and D (2022) 247 Taitokerau MB 4 (247 TTK 4); Nikora v Trustees of Tuhoe - Tuhoe Te Uru Taumatua Trust (2021) 252 Waiariki MB 157(252 WAR 157); Rihari v Auckland - Takou (2021) 240 Taitokerau MB 42 (240 TTK 42); Bloor v Karaitiana - Runanga 2E (2021) 259 Waiariki MB 286 (259 WAR 286). https://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1993/0004/latest/link.aspx?id=DLM319569 https://www.legislation.g...

7. [2015] NZEmpC 54 Goel v Director-General for Primary Industries [pdf, 266 KB]

   ...India of about $150 per week, all but $20 of which is taken up with essentials such as board and lodging and food. Mr Goel has spent his days since his dismissal attempting to advance himself educationally (albeit, I infer, informally) at Victoria University of Wellington, and preparing for these proceedings at the University’s Law School library. [17] Even now, the circumstances in which Mr Goel spent four or five days in Wellington Hospital’s psychiatric unit after his dismis...

8. Attitudes to crime & punishment: a New Zealand study [pdf, 541 KB]

   ...stayed with the sentence they had given based on the one-line description and those who gave a less serious sentence. Respondents who were most likely to give a less serious sentence based on more information were women, older people, those without a university education and those not in the paid labour force. Aims of sentencing Survey respondents wanted to achieve a mix of aims when sentencing offenders. Among the most popular aims were individual rehabilitation, deterrence and retribution...

9. [2007] National Distribution Union Inc v General Distributors Ltd AK AC 7/07 [pdf, 269 KB]

   ...arose in relation to an employment agreement and were therefore covered by the good faith dealing requirements of s4(4), and in particular paragraphs (b) and (g) of s4(4), of the Act. We also agree that the judgment of this Court in Association of University Staff Inc v Vice- Chancellor of the University of Auckland4 has set a high standard of good faith behaviour in bargaining including bargaining for variations of existing individual agreements....

10. Guest v New Zealand Law Society [2009] NZLCDT 12 [pdf, 390 KB]

    ...Otago. Mr Guest has three brothers who have all become lawyers. Mr Guest is married with four children, two of whom are practising lawyers. Mr Guest has the support of his wife, his children and his wider family. Mr Guest had a successful university education, and was admitted as a barrister and a solicitor when aged 23 years. After what was for those times an unusually short period of employment as a lawyer Mr Guest commenced practice on his own account as a sole practitioner...