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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. Fruean v Knuckey - Waitara West 52D (2023) 475 Aotea MB 284 (475 AOT 284) [pdf, 371 KB]

   ...I see this situation as a difference in management styles and approach that I am happy to keep discussing and working to resolve. I do not accept that I’ve breached my obligations as trustee. My conduct has always been aimed at furthering the protection of these urupā which are in our care. Josephine Moore [46] Josephine Moore is not a trustee but was appointed secretary to the Trust in 2016. She provided a brief of evidence dated 12 September 2023. [47] Ms Moore describes her...

3. AA v BK, BL & BM LCRO 264 / 2012 (25 July 2013) [pdf, 184 KB]

   ...her notice on the above basis so that settlement of the sale can proceed. 8 [31] Mrs AA’s lawyers responded:13 We have no difficulty, in principle, with the property being sold, however to ensure that our client's interests are protected we require full disclosure of the following: 1. Sale Price 2. Conditions of Sale 3. Purchasers name 4. Details of amount to be repaid pursuant to the mortgage. [Emphasis added by LCRO.] In such circumstances and with all due r...

4. Nelson Standards Committee v Ord [2025] NZLCDT 4 (17 January 2025) [pdf, 252 KB]

   ...without collegial support or access to a mentor, Dr Ord’s efforts to assist his client were ultimately unsuccessful and she felt very let down. [3] Dr Ord admitted one charge of misconduct comprising reckless breach of numerous rules of client care and conduct.1 At the hearing on 19 December 2024, the issue for determination was the proportionate penalty to be imposed, having regard to the legislative purposes of public protection and the upholding of the standards and reputati...

5. [2019] NZEnvC 195 Clevedon North Limited v Auckland Council [pdf, 11 MB]

   ...Judge J A Smith Commissioner R M Bartlett Hearing: 4 - 6 November 2019 Appearances: R E Bartlett QC for Clevedon North Limited S F Quinn for Auckland Council A Rennie for herself and J Rennie and A & J Keating M J Whitehouse for Clevedon Cares Incorporated N Henshaw for the Community and Business Association of Clevedon T Fitzgerald for O & T Fitzgerald and C Fleming L Duder in person C Green in person N Kington in person M & N Sharp for themselves No appearance for...

6. LCRO 106/2018, 107/2018, 170/2018 and 181/2018 SY, [SAL] and DT v [Area] Standards Committee [X] (22 August 2019) [pdf, 462 KB]

   ...would provide a seamless transition over to Mr DT for the carriage of the file from late March 2015. Doubtless this was because of the dysfunction between the two. [150] That dysfunction should not have been allowed to get in the way of orderly, careful management and oversight of a file in which one principal was the overall manager, yet another did initial and significant work. [151] As it happens – and perhaps this was more due to good luck than good management – no discip...

7. LS v TD LCRO 298/2012 (10 December 2014) [pdf, 82 KB]

   ...were unable to be fulfilled. If that were the 10 case, his subsequent conduct has compounded the potential problems that may arise from this. [52] Mrs LS asserts that Mr TD has breached rules 2, 7, 11, and 11.1 of the Conduct and Client Care Rules.18 [53] Rule 7 provides: I am not sure that rule 2 is applicable, but I agree that rules 7, 11 and 11.1 are. I also consider that rule 10 is applicable. Disclosure and communication of information to clients 7 A lawyer...

8. Hakaraia - Part Raetihi 2B2C3C2A1 (2007) 183 Aotea MB 2 (183 AOT 2) [pdf, 3 MB]

   ...One point, Mr Takarangi, I notice from I think it is Richard Hemara's affidavit, no it is Tamiaha Kumeroa. He says at paragraph six that his sister, Marama, assisted him by allowing the land to be used as security for a loan to purchase a child care centre in Whangamata and I mean that would tend to suggest that well at least one bank is prepared to use the land as security. Now we don't know the detail of course. We don't know how much the deposit was, how much equity was...

9. [2015] NZEmpC 228 NZ Meat Workers Union Inc v South Pacific Meats Ltd and Talley [pdf, 177 KB]

   ...to act for that client in that litigation. That is sometimes a particularly difficult role for an in-house lawyer to take, but those professional ethical obligations prevail even in those circumstances. [27] The relevant parts of The Client Care Rules promulgated under the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006 include the following: 13.9 A lawyer who acts for a party in a proceeding must, to the best of the lawyer’s ability, ensure that discovery obligations are fully complied wi...

10. Grindle v CAC 20005 & Davis [2014] NZREADT 84 [pdf, 60 KB]

    ...very clear to Ms Davis that it was important to ensure that the settlement period for the sale of her property also matched the settlement period for her purchase. 3 [11] Part of the Committee’s reasoning is as follows: “3.6 We have carefully reviewed the responses from both licensees. While we can understand that the complainant was in a competitive multiple offer situation when she made her offer to purchase the property we do find it unusual that a 10 day settlement c...