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1. [2012] NZEmpC 95 Strachan v Moodie [pdf, 323 KB]

   ...qualifications for Bar admission in New South Wales, Australia. Returning to New Zealand to care for her elderly mother in the Feilding area, Ms Strachan sought local employment in law whilst completing a post graduate degree in law at Victoria University and undertaking part time voluntary work in an advice bureau in Whanganui. There was not much opportunity for litigation specialisation in Feilding, even for a new lawyer wanting experience and supervision. [10] After careers a...

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

   ...Ms M Noble Ms G Phipps Prof D Scott HEARING HELD AT Wellington District Court DATE OF HEARING 17-21 May 2021 DATE OF ORIGINAL DECISION 22 June 2021 DATE OF REISSUED DECISION 24 June 2021 COUNSEL Mr D La Hood and Mr T Bain for the Auckland Standards Committee Mr J Long and Mr J Grimmer for the Practitioner 2 RESERVED DECISION OF THE TRIBUNAL ON LIABILITY Introduction [1] The events with which this decision is concerned took place five-and-a-half yea...

3. Appendix-6_Kerry-Pearce_87F-Report_Erosion-and-Sediment-Control_28-April-2023.pdf [pdf, 333 KB]

   ...Environmental Solutions Limited. I have been in that position since May 2005. 7. My role involves providing technical advice on earthworks and erosion and sediment control components of resource consent applications for Waikato Regional Council, Auckland Council, and Horizons, along with monitoring the erosion and sediment control components of land use resource consents for those regional councils. 8. I hold the Bachelor of Applied Science (Agriculture) degree from Massey Uni...

4. 2022-03-18 Remarkables Park - Legal submissions as to scope [pdf, 1.5 MB]

   ...LEGAL SUBMISSIONS FOR REMARKABLES PARK LIMITED AS TO SCOPE Dated: 18 March 2022 Rowan Ashton Senior Associate ashton@brookfields.co.nz Telephone No. 09 979 2210 P O Box 240 DX CP24134 AUCKLAND Page 1 2095028 / 704805 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 These submissions are on behalf of Remarkables Park Limited (RPL) on the issue of whether there is scope for “visitor accommodation” to be included within the ambit of th...

5. [2024] NZEmpC 226 Glenfield College BOT & Ors v Anderson [pdf, 272 KB]

   ...Labour Organisation (10 May 1944) (Declaration of Philadelphia). 12 Commissioner of Police v Coffey [2014] NZEmpC 194, (2014) 12 NZELR 315 at [47]; National Distribution Union Inc v General Distributors Ltd (2007) 4 NZELR 215 (EmpC); Association of University Staff Inc v Vice-Chancellor of the University of Auckland [2005] 1 ERNZ 224 (EmpC). to it by cl 2.5, if any such discretion existed in the circumstances. The point is underscored by cl 2.1.1, which, as Mr Cranney pointe...

6. [2024] NZEmpC 226 Glenfield College BOT & Ors v Anderson [pdf, 365 KB]

   ...Labour Organisation (10 May 1944) (Declaration of Philadelphia). 12 Commissioner of Police v Coffey [2014] NZEmpC 194, (2014) 12 NZELR 315 at [47]; National Distribution Union Inc v General Distributors Ltd (2007) 4 NZELR 215 (EmpC); Association of University Staff Inc v Vice-Chancellor of the University of Auckland [2005] 1 ERNZ 224 (EmpC). to it by cl 2.5, if any such discretion existed in the circumstances. The point is underscored by cl 2.1.1, which, as Mr Cranney pointe...

7. Youth Court - 10 suggested characteristics of a good youth justice system [pdf, 188 KB]

   1 A paper for The Pacific Justices’ Conference 5 – 8 March, 2014 –Auckland, New Zealand Principal Youth Court Judge Andrew Becroft Introduction A “good” youth justice system is a specialised system, created with the understanding that young people are not just “junior adults” but developmentally, almost a “different species of human being” with markedly different characteristics and responses than adults. A good system recognises their vulner...

8. Supplementary-Analysis-Report-Incitement-of-Hatred-Amending-the-Human-Rights-Act-1993-to-include-ground-of-religious-belief.pdf [pdf, 1.8 MB]

   ...personal safety.20 46. The recent Human Rights Review Tribunal’s decision in Hoban v Attorney-General21 also highlights that the incitement provisions do not currently protect certain characteristics from potentially inciting speech. In 2017, an Auckland newspaper published a report of a sermon delivered by a pastor in which he called for gay people to be shot if they married. The decision states Mr Hoban, a gay man, was horrified by 17 Williams. M. L., and others. (2020) H...

9. Issues with access to justice in the Environment Court of New Zealand [pdf, 477 KB]

   ...security of tenure for members amongst other things. Included are Boards of Inquiry, applications to the Environmental Protection Authority in the Exclusive Economic Zone of New Zealand (EEZ), and hearing panels established to determine the Proposed Auckland Unitary Plan and Christchurch Replacement District Plan. There are further processes in the wings being advanced by the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment, the NZ Treasury, and the NZ Productivity Commission. Two of the three...

10. Shi v REAA (reserved decision) [2013] NZREADT 2 [pdf, 62 KB]

    ...Estate Agents Act 2008 BETWEEN YANG SHI Applicant AND REGISTRAR OF THE REAL ESTATE AGENTS AUTHORITY Respondent MEMBERS OF TRIBUNAL Judge P F Barber - Chairperson Mr G Denley - Member Mr J Gaukrodger - Member HEARD at AUCKLAND on 5 December 2012 DATE OF DECISION 15 January 2013 APPEARANCES The applicant on her own behalf Mr M J Hodge, counsel for the respondent RESERVED DECISION OF THE TRIBUNAL The Issue [1] Should the applicant be grante...