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1. [2018] NZEmpC 151 Ovation New Zealand Ltd v The New Zealand Meat Workers and Related Trades Union Inc [pdf, 1.3 MB]

   ...Relations (Breaks and Infant Feeding) Amendment Bill. The Explanatory note accompanying the Bill provides a general policy statement to this effect: This Bill implements government policy to make legislative provision for the promotion and protection of infant feeding through breastfeeding and for rest and meal breaks. The Bill amends the Employment Relations Act 2000 (the Employment Relations Act) to require employers to provide facilities and breaks for employees who wish to...

2. Ms L v REAA Registrar [2013] NZREADT 47 [pdf, 168 KB]

   ...likely to manufacture methamphetamine on her premises. We are conscious that, as set out below, she was sentenced on the basis of having turned a blind eye to the likely criminal offending of the said two males. [24] Of course, the applicant was carefully and thoroughly cross-examined by Mr McCoubrey and, inter alia, she insisted that she was not trying to minimise the material events or her involvement (if any) in them. [25] Also, Mr McCoubrey took the applicant through her testimon...

3. [2021] NZEnvC 168 Director-General of Conservation v Thames-Coromandel District Council [pdf, 454 KB]

   ...for Rule 5.5 to matters 1, 8 and 9 in Table 5 at the end of s 54. Matter 8 appears to be of no relevance (it deals with light spill). [78] [79] [80] [81] [82] 24 Conclusion We have not mentioned every submitter by name but have carefully considered all input. Some either chose to try to re-litigate our main decision, or to ignore it. We have had to disregard such input. Others did not or chose not to accept the importance of dealing with the scourge in the pu...

4. Auckland Standards Committee 1 v Arman [2020] NZLCDT 17 (22 June 2020) [pdf, 289 KB]

   ...conviction, Mr F attended the Practitioner’s office to swear an affidavit in support of the application for a discharge without conviction. In the affidavit dated 8 December 2017, Mr F said the following about the offending: I am a kind, generous, caring person who made a huge mistake on the day of the offending. I am extremely sorry that I made the victim of my offending feel so uncomfortable and scared. I never had any intention of touching her or anything of that nature and I am s...

5. LCRO 52/2017 BL v JC (30 November 2018) [pdf, 332 KB]

   LCRO 52/2017 CONCERNING an application for review pursuant to section 193 of the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006 AND CONCERNING a determination of the [Area] Standards Committee [X] BETWEEN BL Applicant AND JC Respondent DECISION The names and identifying details of the parties in this decision have been changed. Introduction [1] Ms BL has applied for a review of a decision by the [Area] Standards Committee [X] to take no furth

6. Tabram v Slater [pdf, 99 KB]

   IN THE WEATHERTIGHT HOMES TRIBUNAL TRI 2007-100-000041 BETWEEN RICHARD TABRAM and HAYLEY TABRAM Claimants AND ARRAN SLATER and MICHELLE SLATER First Respondent AND OJO LIMITED Second Respondent AND BRUCE TINDALE (Removed) Third Respondent AND MINERAL PLASTER TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED Fourth Respondent Hearing: 23, 24, 25 February 2009; 5, 11 March 2009 Appearances: T.J. Rainey and A. Parlane for the claimants E.J. Taia for the first respondents A. M

7. TB v KP LCRO 174/2016 [pdf, 167 KB]

   ...recently engaged by Mr KP’s firm, sent a reply in terms contending that Ms CT’s letter had asserted “unsubstantiated threats”.1 The letter went on to refer to various provisions of the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act (Lawyers: Conduct and Client Care) Rules 2008 so as to suggest breaches of those by Ms CT. The letter ended with a suggestion that Ms CT should “seek independent legal advice regarding legal professional ethics”. [4] Mr TB’s initial reaction to this lette...

8. Director of Proceedings v Rolston [2021] NZHRRT 35 [pdf, 449 KB]

   ...the defendant breached the Health and Disability Commissioner (Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights) Regulations 1996 in respect of: [6.1.1] Right 4(2) by failing to provide services to the aggrieved person with reasonable care and skill. [6.1.2] Right 6(1) by failing to provide information to the aggrieved person that a reasonable consumer, in the aggrieved person’s circumstances, would expect to receive. [6.1.3] Right 7(1) by failing to obtain the aggrieved...

9. Preventing the prison pipeline Professor Ian Lambie report [pdf, 223 KB]

   ...favoured by small but vocal interest groups who push for harsher punishments and longer sentences. Tough on crime dogma is widely known as ‘penal populism’ where politicians promise vote-winning, overly simplistic solutions for a narrow set of carefully chosen law-and-order problems (Pratt & Clark, 2005). As well as in New Zealand and Australia, this phenomenon has also been seen in the United States (Enns, 2014) and in the United Kingdom (Jennings et al., 2017). Knee jerk po...

10. Southland Standards Committee v P [2022] NZLCDT 12 (28 April 2022) [pdf, 215 KB]

    ...cross-examination was to enable us to determine whether there was any basis for the Standards Committee to gainsay P’s explanation that F had given full instructions to P on relevant issues and that P had communicated with medical and residential care officers merely as a conduit, due to his inability to write. That was done with the agreement of both counsel. After considering the evidence elicited under cross-examination, the Tribunal was satisfied that there was no basis for...