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1. Canterbury Westland Standards Committee 1 v Williams [2019] NZLCDT 33 [pdf, 317 KB]

   ...happened. I let it happen. The milk was spilt. I couldn’t do anything about it”. [19] Mr Williams also accepted that the payments were made without authority and that the payments should not have happened.7 [20] We find, having listened carefully to the evidence of Mrs Z and observed her demeanour, that she did not consent to the loan nor have knowledge of the level of indebtedness. In any event Mr Williams admission of Conduct Unbecoming appears to concede in part that the...

2. Holmes v Commissioner of Police [2012] NZHRRT 17 [pdf, 80 KB]

   ...Our scrutiny was rigorous and took into account that s 87 of the Privacy Act places on the Commissioner the onus of proving exceptions to the Principle 6 right of access to personal information. Nevertheless, having given the redactions close and careful scrutiny, we are satisfied that the information withheld under s 27(1)(c) has been properly withheld under that section. Given the nature of the information we have seen, it is difficult to give precise reasons for our conclusion on an...

3. BORA Te Hiku Claims Settlement Bill [pdf, 280 KB]

   ...recipients of the entitlements under the Bill. No differential treatment for the purpose of s 19 therefore arises by excluding others from the entitlements conferred under the Bill. 5.Clauses 150, 332, 535 and 745 reserve a special right of access to protected sites on certain licensed land transferred to the respective iwi. This right of access applies to Maori for whom the protected sites are of special spiritual, cultural or historical significance. It is conceivable that this c...

4. BORA Ngāti Apa (North Island) Claims Settlement Bill [pdf, 277 KB]

   ...have the right to be consulted and to participate in various government decision making processes, including under the protocols provided for in Part 2 of the Bill. A further example is cl 82 of the Bill, which confers a right of access across land to protected sites on "Maori for whom the protective site is of a special spiritual, cultural, or historical significance. 10. Although the Bill confers assets and/or rights on claimants and certain other Maori that are not conferred on o...

5. BORA Ngāti Manuhiri Claims Settlement Bill [pdf, 286 KB]

   ...that perpetuates legal, social or political disadvantage faced by a marginalised group in our society. 5. Clause 107 reserves a right of access to wāhi tapu, on land transferred to Ngāti Manuhiri under the settlement, for “Māori for whom the protected site is of special cultural, spiritual, or historical significance.” It might be argued that this clause raises a s 19 issue in relation to a wāhi tapu site that also has, say, historical significance to non-Māori. However, the acce...

6. 2024 NZPSPLA 108.pdf [pdf, 93 KB]

   ...subject to the condition that he not come to the negative attention of Police. [b] Mr RK has now breached that condition as he has been convicted on a charge of assault. [c] Mr RK was sentenced to 3 months home detention and issued with a Protection Order. This is the fourth protection order that has been issued against him. [d] Mr RK now has several disqualifying convictions as follows: [i] Assault against a family member - 6/11/24. [ii] 2 x contravenes pr...

7. Evaluation of Victim Support Services [pdf, 810 KB]

   1 Evaluation of Victim Support services Alison Chetwin, Trish Young, Elaine Mossman, Sue Carswell with Sue Triggs Final report July 2018 2 Acknowledgements The evaluators would like to give special thanks to Victim Support’s clients and others who took part in interviews for this evaluation. We’d also like to thank the Victim Support staff in Christchurch, Hutt Valley, Lakes Hub/Bay of Plent

8. Wellington Standards Committee 2 v O'Connor [2023] NZLCDT 25 (9 June 2023) [pdf, 188 KB]

   ...So too is the opportunity to foster rehabilitation in appropriate cases. … [13] His Honour then went on to quote the following passage from Daniels,5 which we consider to be important in the present case: [22] ... Tribunals are required to carefully consider alternatives to striking off a practitioner. If the purposes of imposing disciplinary sanctions can be achieved short of striking off then it is the lesser alternative that should be adopted as the proportionate response. Tha...

9. [2018] NZEnvC 084 Director General of Conservation and Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of NZ v Invercargill City Council [pdf, 6.2 MB]

   ...Act 1991 of appeals under clause 14(1) of the First Schedule of the Act in relation to the Proposed Invercargill District Plan DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF CONSERVATION (ENV-2016-CHC-91 ) POWERNET LIMITED (ENV-2016-CHC-92) ROYAL FOREST AND BIRD PROTECTION SOCIETY OF NEW ZEALAND (ENV-2016-CHC-99) TRANS POWER NZ LIMITED (ENV-2016-CHC-100) Appellants INVERCARGILL CITY COUNCIL Respondent Court: Environment Judge J R Jackson (Sitting alone under section 279(1) of the Act) He...

10. Family violence and sexual violence work programme archived updates

    ...increases the likelihood of criminal offending.” Most criminal offenders have themselves been targets of violence: 80% of child and youth offenders have experience of family violence 87% of young offenders aged 14-16 years in 2016/17 had prior care and protection reports 75% of women in prison have reported family violence and sexual violence A history of sexual abuse is the strongest predictor of reoffending by young females. “Over the past 10-15 years there have been numerous calls for...

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