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1. Education and Training Bill Advice [pdf, 275 KB]

   ...removes redundant provisions, and gives effect to policy changes including: Early childhood education • requiring police vetting of all adults who live, or may be present, at a home in which children are receiving early childhood education and care; • providing the Education Review Office with the power to enter homes where home- based early childhood education is taking place; • allowing the Minister of Education to approve or decline applications to open new early learning se...

2. Youth Justice Indicators Counting Rules and Limitations April 2018 [pdf, 262 KB]

   ...relatively small numbers and changes in the recording of ethnicity over time. YJI 1.6. Proportion of 10-13 and 14-16 year olds referred for a FGC who have previously been the subject of a report of concern to Oranga Tamariki relating to their care and protection Counting Rules Section 2(2) of the Children, Young Persons, and their Families Act 1989 states that jurisdiction for proceeding against a child or young person is based on the person’s age when they allegedly offended...

3. EA v NR LCRO 130/2015 (31 October 2016) [pdf, 174 KB]

   ...over the “Conveyancers Code of Conduct” (presumably the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act (Lawyers: Conduct and Client Care) Rules 2008) as well as correspondence and discussions between the new lawyer and Ms NR’s firm and NZLS. [56] I have carefully considered the attendances recorded in the invoice. I am not satisfied that it was necessary for Mrs EA to incur fees of $4,488 (plus GST and disbursements) to be able to make a complaint. All she needed to do was find out that t...

4. National Standards Committee 2 v Mr Q [2023] NZLCDT 14 (2 May 2023) [pdf, 213 KB]

   ...• Do two of the assaults each amount to unsatisfactory conduct or misconduct? • What is the appropriate penalty? • Should we order compensation? • Should Mr Q’s name be suppressed? [4] In describing Mr Q’s conduct, we have thought carefully about whether we should use the word “assault”. We have considered alternatives, such as “exploitative sexual contact” which was the term used by the High Court in Gardner-Hopkins (although counsel for the Standards Commi...

5. Auckland Standards Committee 1 v Jindal [2024] NZLCDT 45 (24 December 2024) [pdf, 197 KB]

   ...National Standards Committee [2019] NZHC 2268. 8 services. Conduct which was “connected to” the regulated services also fell within the professional role, because a wide interpretation of the definition was justified, having regard to the protective purposes of the legislation. [37] Orlov is also authority for the proposition that Parliament intended that there be no gap between the two roles of personal and professional through which a practitioner could escape. [38...

6. BORA Te Arawa Lakes Settlement Bill [pdf, 349 KB]

   ...as having breached the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi. 4. The vesting of the fee simple estate under clause 22 is subject to a number of qualifications. The Crown retains ownership of the water and airspace above the bed. There are various protections of recreational activities, existing structures and commercial activities, a category of "public utilities". 5. The Bill provides for other forms of "cultural redress". These include the issuing of "protocols...

7. CJARS Guide to Filing a Claim [pdf, 224 KB]

   ...may include supporting statements from the police as well as other proof of the existence of the property being claimed for, its current value, and its loss. The Scheme will not meet losses incurred after a witness is accepted onto the Witness Protection Programme. Where a claimant is on, or has been on, the Witness Protection Programme administered by the New Zealand Police, any losses incurred after that claimant was placed on the Witness Protection Programme will not be met by the...

8. 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...

9. 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...

10. 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...