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1. Directory of Official Information G-I [pdf, 830 KB]

   ...30 May 2022 Governing statutes Wildlife Act 1953. Functions and responsibilities • Primarily to improve game bird habitat, and secondarily, to improve the habitat of other wildlife. • Receive and evaluate applications for funding the protection, restoration, improvement, creation or procurement of habitat. • Identify and evaluate areas for protection, restoration, improvement, creation, or procurement of habitat. • Negotiate with landowners and other agencies for th...

2. Directory of Official Information G-I [pdf, 834 KB]

   ...30 May 2022 Governing statutes Wildlife Act 1953. Functions and responsibilities • Primarily to improve game bird habitat, and secondarily, to improve the habitat of other wildlife. • Receive and evaluate applications for funding the protection, restoration, improvement, creation or procurement of habitat. • Identify and evaluate areas for protection, restoration, improvement, creation, or procurement of habitat. • Negotiate with landowners and other agencies for th...

3. ABN Ltd v ZYR & ZYQ [2013] NZDT 61 (17 May 2013) [pdf, 68 KB]

   ...advised ZYR and ZYQ of that. [38] There has been no evidence given that the argument of ABN Ltd was not correct. [39] Therefore, I find that there has been no breach by ABN Ltd of the guarantee that the service will be provided with reasonable care and skill (s 28, Consumer Guarantees Act 1993). [40] I also find that there has been no breach by ABN Ltd of s 29 of the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993, which states that the product of a service provided should be fit for its i...

4. LCRO 12/2021 OH v GC (25 May 2021) [pdf, 131 KB]

   ...not determine the outcome of the complaint. It only determines which body should be seized of it.”2 • “… the imposition of a threshold test3 is an unwarranted gloss on s 152…”4 • “The oversight of the LCRO should … assist in protecting the resources of the Tribunal and prevent it from being overwhelmed by petty or trivial cases.”5 • “… it is in our view important that the Tribunal be able to determine some complaints even though the likely sanction w...

5. BORA Motor Vehicle Sales Amendment Bill [pdf, 377 KB]

   ...4. The penalty for this offence, prescribed in section 118 of the Act, is $50,000 for an individual and $200,000 for a body corporate. 5. We have considered whether this clause is a prima facie breach of section 9 of the Bill of Rights Act, which protects the right not to be subjected to disproportionately severe punishment. We note that the penalty is high for an offence which we consider is regulatory in nature. We further note that, while other sections in the Motor Vehicle Sales Act a...

6. McCreath v Attorney-General (Interim Non-Publication Order) [2014] NZHRRT 59 [pdf, 46 KB]

   ...granted the court or tribunal must identify and weigh the interests of both the public and the individual seeking publication. [11] In the present case the affidavits by Nurse A and Nurse B establish: [11.1] They provided immediate and appropriate care to Mr McCreath and appear to have been named as defendants simply because their initials appear in the Controlled Drugs signing sheet as having administered controlled medication to Mr McCreath on 21 April 2012. Their names were provided...

7. TL v NM LCRO 34 / 2012 (18 January 2013) [pdf, 77 KB]

   ...to the agent (CCD) who acted for the vendor and who had prepared it. [3] The Standards Committee found that this conduct was unsatisfactory as “a technical breach of Rule 8 (and associated footnote 9)” of the Rules of Conduct and Client Care for Lawyers (Rules). Rule 8 provides: 2 A lawyer has a duty to protect and to hold in strict confidence all information concerning a client, the retainer, and the client’s business and affairs acquired in the course of th...

8. LCRO 149/2023 HV v BQ (29 April 2024) [pdf, 136 KB]

   ...not warranted. [3] The unsatisfactory conduct finding I have already made was a cumulative one but I would have made it just for the breach of r 3.4(a). The requirement to explain the basis on which fees will be charged is an important consumer protection measure. [4] Where there is either a fee agreement or a unilateral commitment to charge fees by reference to a formula, it is even more important that an explanation be given and in a manner that complies with r 1.6 of the Rules....

9. LCRO 225/2015 MM v QK (24 July 2018) [pdf, 194 KB]

   ...Notice of Hearing issued by the Committee identified the issues to be addressed as follows: (a) “Whether Mr QK’s letter of 27 August 2014 … breached rules 2.3 and/or 2.7 of the” Lawyers and Conveyancers Act (Lawyers: Conduct and Client Care) Rules 2008 (the Rules). (b) “Alternatively, if there has been no breach of … rules 2.3 and/or 2.7 whether Mr QK’s conduct is nevertheless unsatisfactory conduct under section 12(b) and/or (c)” of the Lawyers and Conveyancers...

10. National Standards Committee 1 v Peters [2020] NZLCDT 34 (27 October 2020) [pdf, 86 KB]

    ...found that the breach incorporated a breach of s 4 of the Act of the obligation to “uphold the rule of law and to facilitate the administration of justice in New Zealand”. And, to “act in accordance with all fiduciary duties and duties of care owed by lawyers to their clients”. [2] At the same time the decision was released we made an order suppressing publication of the decision, out of an abundance of caution, in order to preserve the fair trial rights of the accused whom...