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1. Improving-Access-to-Legal-Assistance-for-Low-Income-New-Zealanders-Final.pdf [pdf, 4.3 MB]

   ...50,580 $ 52,720 $ 57,751 $ 55,865 $ 64,797 $ 58,885 $ 71,969 3st0ekhxn1 2022-07-05 07:23:22 Appendix 3 - Current and new legal aid hourly rates Table 1 - Current rates Criminal --- Provider Approval Level PAL 1 PAL2 PAL3 PAL4 Court of Appeal/ Supreme Court Travel Time Supervised Providers Qualified legal executives Non-qualified legal executives & oaraleaals Law Clerks Provider Approval Level FC 1 (other Tribunal & Judicial Authorit FC 2 (District Court, Fam...

2. Koso v Chief Executive Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment [2014] NZHRRT 39 [pdf, 133 KB]

   ...has no right to apply for a visa, no right to work or study in New Zealand (IA, ss 20 and 21) and is liable for deportation (IA, s 154). A person unlawfully in New Zealand may, not later than 42 days after first becoming unlawfully in New Zealand, appeal on humanitarian grounds against his or her liability for deportation (IA, s 154(2)). [14] The foregoing account of the complexities of New Zealand immigration law is by no means comprehensive. It is illustrative only of the challenges...

3. [2020] NZEmpC 109 McCook v Chief Executive of the Inland Revenue Department [pdf, 333 KB]

   ...or (d) is referred to in any other relevant document and is itself relevant. … [24] The role of pleadings in assessing relevance is important. The leading authority on this topic is Airways Corp of New Zealand Ltd v Postles, a Court of Appeal decision which considered the former reg 48 of the Employment Court Regulations 1991.1 [25] For the purposes of that regulation, the Court of Appeal said: [5] With respect we consider the judge erred in law in drawing for present p...

4. Minute of the Environment Court (dated 17 March 2017) [pdf, 1.2 MB]

   BEFORE THE ENVIRONMENT COURT IN THE MATTER AND BETWEEN AND of the Resource Management Act 1991 of an appeal under section 120 of the Act BLUESKIN ENERGY LIMITED (ENV-2016-CHC-047) Appellant DUNEDIN CITY COUNCIL Respondent MINUTE OF THE ENVIRONMENT COURT (17 March 2017) I ntrod uction [1] The purpose of this Minute is to address the directions given at the pre-hearing conference on 10 March 2017. Scope [2] Given that no party has challenged the amendment made b...

5. LCRO 191/2019 UY v FB (26 November 2020) [pdf, 266 KB]

   ...right-minded person” would regard Ms FB’s conduct as “highly unbecoming”, and (k) the process of inviting Ms FB to provide a response in circumstances where Mr UY had assumed she had already responded to the complaint, provides further ground to appeal the Committee’s decision; and 2 Mr UY considered that the Committee had adopted a narrow view of the case it relied on in advancing its position. 3 Application for review at Part 7 (dated 19 December 2019). 5 (l) the...

6. [2019] NZEnvC 178 Chapel Road Partnership Trust v Auckland Council [pdf, 25 MB]

   BEFORETHEEN~RONMENTCOURT I MUA I TE KOOTI TAIAO O AOTEAROA Court: Hearing: Appearances: Date of Decision: Date of Issue: IN THE MATTER AND BETWEEN AND Decision No. [2019] NZEnvC 178 of the Resource Management Act 1991 (the Act) of an appeal pursuant to s120 of the Act 508 CHAPEL ROAD PARTNERSHIP TRUST AppellanUApplicant (ENV-2018-AKL-281) AUCKLAND COUNCIL Respondent Judge J A Smith Commissioner A C E Leijnen Commissioner M Mabin 7 and 9 October 2019...

7. Legal aid grants June 2022 [xlsx, 84 KB]

   ...is available at www.justice.govt.nz/courts/going-to-court/legal-aid/ Criminal grants Legal aid may be granted in respect of the following criminal matters: (a) criminal proceedings in the District Court, the Youth Court, the High Court, the Court of Appeal, or the Supreme Court: (b) appeals to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in criminal proceedings, where the Attorney-General certifies that a question of law of exceptional public importance is involved and that the grant of crimina...

8. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - summary record 4th report [pdf, 51 KB]

   ...assessed bills at the vetting stage with a view to preventing the adoption of legislation that contradicted the BORA. 6. In response to questions put by Mr. Lallah, Mr. Klein and Mr. Scheinin she said that, since the 1994 decision by the Court of Appeal in the case of Tavita v. Minister of Immigration, the courts had routinely taken international human rights instruments into account in judicial review cases - especially those involving immigration - and had also taken into account the...

9. Nathan v Accident Compensation Corporation [2022] NZACC 206 [pdf, 455 KB]

   IN THE DISTRICT COURT AT WELLINGTON I TE KŌTI-Ā-ROHE KI TE WHANGANUI-A-TARA [2022] NZACC 206 ACR 442/13 UNDER THE ACCIDENT COMPENSATION ACT 2001 IN THE MATTER OF AN APPEAL UNDER SECTION 149 OF THE ACT BETWEEN M NATHAN Appellant AND ACCIDENT COMPENSATION CORPORATION Respondent Hearings: 24 November 2021; 6 September 2022 Heard at: Auckland/Tamaki Makaurau Evidence and supplementary submissions completed: 5 September 202...

10. Dotcom v Crown Law Office [2018] NZHRRT 7 [pdf, 944 KB]

    ...Criminal Disclosure Act 2008 and the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990. The District Court made orders for disclosure of most of the information requested. The High Court upheld those orders but that decision was overturned by the Court of Appeal. [28] Mr Dotcom then appealed (unsuccessfully) to the Supreme Court. It is not intended to attempt a summary of the majority decision in Dotcom v United States of America [2014] NZSC 24, [2014] 1 NZLR 355. It is sufficient for prese...