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1. [2025] NZLVT 031 - Mursell v Wellington City Council (2 July 2025) [pdf, 194 KB]

   ...The onus of proof on the objection lay on Mr Gilbert as the objector. The initial revaluation signed by a registered valuer in the name of the Valuer- General was presumptively correct. Mr Gilbert - both before the Tribunal, and before this Court on appeal - had the affirmative burden. It was not enough for Mr Gilbert - through Mr Robinson - to show that the scales were even at the end of the hearing. He had to show that the Valuer-General was wrong. [8] In this case, the parties have...

2. [2025] NZEmpC 155 Manuka Health New Zealand Ltd v Kalic [pdf, 140 KB]

   ...was granted to Manuka Health New Zealand Ltd.1 The company challenged a determination of the Employment Relations Authority where Mr Kalic succeeded in his claim for an unjustified disadvantage.2 The stay was sought to preserve the company’s appeal rights while it pursued an application to reopen the investigation in the Authority. 1 Manuka Health New Zealand Ltd v Kalic [2024] NZEmpC 78. 2 Kalic v Health New Zealand Ltd [2024] NZERA 107. [2] The challenge was confi...

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4. ENV-2020-AKL-000084

   Appeal ENV-2020-AKL-000084 Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited v Waikato Regional Council s274 interested parties Auckland/Waikato Fish and Game Council Beef+Lamb New Zealand Limited CNI Iwi Land Management Limited Dairy NZ Limited Director-General of Conservation Federated Farmers of New Zealand G Pinnell Graeme Gleeson Hamilton City Council Hancock Forest Management (NZ) Limited Horticulture New Zealand Lochiel Farmlands Limited Matamata-Piako District Council Mercury NZ Limited Miraka Limited...

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5. ENV-2020-AKL-000096

   Appeal ENV-2020-AKL-000096 Director-General of Conservation v Waikato Regional Council s274 interested parties Bathurst and BT Beef+Lamb New Zealand Limited Contact Energy Limited Dairy NZ Limited Federated Farmers of New Zealand Genesis Energy Limited Genetic Technologies Limited G Pinnell Graeme Gleeson Hamilton City Council Hancock Forest Management (NZ) Limited Horticulture New Zealand King Country Energy Limited - Interest withdrawn 22/01/2021 Lochiel Farmlands Limited Matamata-Piako D...

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6. Disputes Tribunal jurisdiction

   ...specific features that make it less formal than a Court, quicker and cheaper, including: Cases are heard in private and there is no standard right to legal representation, creating an even playing field for both parties and eliminates legal fees; Limiting appeals to issues of unfairness or prejudice, promoting the finality of decision making, and the statutory basis for the Tribunal’s decision-making, including that it shall have regard to the law, but not be bound to give effect to strict l...

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7. [2025] NZLVT 46 - Robinson v Palmerston North City Council (30 September 2025) [pdf, 195 KB]

   ...The onus of proof on the objection lay on Mr Gilbert as the objector. The initial revaluation signed by a registered valuer in the name of the Valuer- General was presumptively correct. Mr Gilbert - both before the Tribunal, and before this Court on appeal - had the affirmative burden. It was not enough for Mr Gilbert - through Mr Robinson - to show that the scales were even at the end of the hearing. He had to show that the Valuer-General was wrong. [8] In this case, the parties have...

8. About the Tribunal

   ...Assessment Committee (a Committee) of the Real Estate Authority (the Authority). The Tribunal also hears and determines applications for a real estate agent’s or agency’s licence to be suspended until the charges have been heard.  It also deals with appeals against a committee’s decisions and reviews the decisions of the Registrar not to grant or renew a real estate licence.  Powers of the tribunal If the Tribunal finds a licensee guilty of misconduct it can make any of the...

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9. [2011] NZEmpC 13 Carter Holt Harvey Ltd v EBIIWU [pdf, 118 KB]

   ...The Authority referred to the two approaches suggested by counsel for the defendants and then proceeded to apply what counsel for the plaintiff has referred to as the “Binnie analysis”, a reference to the approach sanctioned by the Court of Appeal in Binnie v Pacific Health Ltd. 5 [14] Without making any express reference to the Binnie decision, the Authority rejected the daily tariff approach and proceeded to fix an award in the sum of

10. [2011] NZEmpC 33 Tertiary Education Union v Western Institute of Technology [pdf, 116 KB]

    ...be a significant in-road into what is otherwise a matter to be negotiated freely between the parties to the bargaining. He suggested this would be wholly inconsistent with both the statutory scheme as interpreted by this Court and the Court of Appeal. In the Service & Food Workers Union case, this Court found at para 96 that the Act “contemplates one set of negotiations for the same parties initiated either by a union or unions or by an employer or employers.” Mr Cook also...