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1. Review of community-based sentences in New Zealand [pdf, 1.4 MB]

   ...Australia 114 Canada 129 United States 132 Finland 138 Netherlands 139 Germany 141 Appendix 2: Reviews of Community-based Sentences ................................................... 143 Periodic detention 143 Community service 147 Community care/community programme 154 Supervision 159 BIBLIOGRAPHY ............................................................................................................ 163 5 Tables Table 1: Total number of imprisonable...

2. Rec-Recap-2023-Q1-FINAL.pdf [pdf, 889 KB]

   ...Pattinson [2023] NZCorC 32 (28 March 2023) ....................................................................... 30 Shi [2023] NZCorC 24 (15 March 2023) ................................................................................. 33 Medical Care ............................................................................................................................ 35 Ali [2023] NZCorC 27 (22 March 2023) ..............................................................................

3. [2025] NZREADT 10 - CAC 2105 v Chen & Stevenson & Buy West Realty Limited (14 April 2025) [pdf, 379 KB]

   ...Chen with misconduct under s 73(c) of the Act in that her conduct constituted a wilful or reckless contravention of the Act by failing to meet the standards set by rr 5.1, 6.1 and 9.13 of the Real Estate Agents Act (Professional Conduct and Client Care) Rules 2012 (the Rules). In the alternative, Ms Chen was charged with misconduct under s 73(b) of the Act in that her conduct constituted seriously incompetent or seriously negligent real estate agency work. As a further alternative...

4. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 3rd report [pdf, 96 KB]

   ...Relations Amendment Act 1989 because it gave rise to difficulties identified in New Zealand’s most recent report to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (see CERD/C/184/Add.5, para. 14). The Human Rights Act 1993 contains a more carefully drafted provision attempting to avoid these difficulties. In particular, the new section 61 provides that it is not essential that words be used in a "public place", if the user knew or ought to have known that the words were r...

5. Zagorski v Wilkinson Building and Construction Limited [2012] NZWHT Auckland 4 [pdf, 234 KB]

   ...PURCHASE OF THE HOUSE? ................................................................. 21 WERE MR AND MRS WILKINSON ACTING AS DEVELOPERS? .................... 24 DID MR WILKINSON AND WILKINSON BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION LIMITED BREACH THEIR DUTY OF CARE TO FUTURE PURCHASERS AS BUILDERS? ....................................................................................................... 26 IS HITEX LIABLE FOR THE CREATION OF DEFECTS? .................................. 28 DID MR H...

6. LCRO 8/2014 HTO v AG [pdf, 216 KB]

   ...Correspondence was exchanged between the lawyers, then on 23 December 2011 Ms J, HTO’s office manager, wrote to Mr AG expressing HTO’s belief that Mr AG had contravened r 2.7 of the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act (Lawyers: Conduct and Client Care) Rules 2008 (the Rules). 1 Mr AG’s letter refers to the Copyright Act 2004 but he acknowledges that was an error. 2 Copyright Act 1994, ss 131 and 92C. 3 Letter AG to HTO (25 August 2011)....

7. LM v RB LCRO 332/2012 (15 June 2016) [pdf, 54 KB]

   ...applied for a review of the determination by Area Standards Committee 2, particularly the orders made by it against Mr RB following findings of unsatisfactory conduct for breaches of rules 2.3, 3 and 7 (more particularly 7.1) of the Conduct and Client Care Rules1 [2] Mr LM seeks an order of compensation against Mr RB. and for failing to follow instructions. The Committee imposed a fine of $500 and ordered Mr RB to pay the sum of $500 to the New Zealand Law Society by way of costs....

8. Guest v New Zealand Law Society [2009] NZLCDT 16 [pdf, 95 KB]

   ...Law Soc and Another Privy Council Appeal No.43 of 2002, 19 May 2003. In this decision their Lordships made particular mention of the dim view taken of argument put by the Law Society to support the abandonment of an undertaking given. We pay careful regard to those words, but do not consider they apply in the present instance. The information sought to be protected was in fact protected to the extent of the assurances which were given. We categorise those assurances as an under...

9. [2021] NZREADT 20 - Sheldon (5 May 2021) [pdf, 233 KB]

   ...relation to his conduct in marketing a property at Laingholm, Auckland (“the substantive decision”).1 [2] The Tribunal found that Mr Sheldon had acted in breach of rr 9.1 and 9.4 of the Real Estate Agents Act (Professional Conduct and Client Care) Rules 2012 (“the Rules”) by sending text messages to prospective purchasers of the property inviting expressions of interest at “around $1.1 million”, and in so doing misled prospective purchasers as to the vendors’ price e...

10. DH v EJ LCRO 207/2014 (13 April 2015) [pdf, 62 KB]

    ...changed. Introduction [1] Mr DH has applied for a review of a decision dated 29 August 2014 by the [Provincial] Standards Committee, in which the Committee found five breaches of the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act (Lawyers: Conduct and Client Care) Rules 2008, and that his conduct was unsatisfactory pursuant to s 12(b) and (c) of the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006 (the Act). [2] The Committee censured Mr DH, ordered him to pay a fine of $2,000, and $500 in costs and expenses...