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1. 2021-03-24 OWRUG - DOC v ORC (C28-2002) [pdf, 1.2 MB]

   ...6.4.1 To allocate Otago ‘s water resources in a sustairzable manner which meets the present and reasonablyforeseeable needs of Otago ‘s people and com7nunities. 6.4.3 To safeguard the life-supporting capacity of .Otago ‘s water resources through protecting the ‘quantity and quality of those water resources. , 6.4.4 To maintain and enhance the ecological, intrinsic, amenity and cultural values of Otago ‘s water resources, 6.4.8 To protect areas of natural character, outstanding na...

2. Directory of Official Information 2019 D-F [pdf, 890 KB]

   ...Authority ...........................................................................................................28 Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority ................................................................30 Environmental Protection Authority .................................................................................34 Ministry for the Environment .............................................................................................39 Institute of En...

3. Directory of Official Information 2019 D-F [pdf, 695 KB]

   ...Authority ...........................................................................................................28 Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority ................................................................30 Environmental Protection Authority .................................................................................34 Ministry for the Environment .............................................................................................39 Institute of En...

4. [2024] NZEnvC 017 Aarts v Waikato District Council [pdf, 1.8 MB]

   ...and ECO-P1 as it will result in a gain in indigenous biodiversity due to the proposed enhancement of the ecological values of the farm pond and constructed wetland. Even if the further wetland assessment should show that these features are indeed protected natural wetlands, the proposed scheme has great opportunities to enhance the environment on site and thus produce enhanced ecological outcomes; • The proposal is consistent with UFD-O1 as it will result in positive social and en...

5. Final Submissions Summary Report [pdf, 1.1 MB]

   ...examine the facts of this document, talk about it, celebrate it, teach it in our school, ensure migrants to our country understand it, and base our laws on it. Individual submission The premise is founded in Te Tiriti – principles of partnership, protection, participation and the right to development. Mataatua District Māori Council While talk of Te Tiriti may not have been common in Pākehā society and in Parliament over the past 178 years, it is constantly upheld on every Ma...

6. LCRO 80/2021 A LN and B LN v QG (9 November 2021) [pdf, 265 KB]

   ...fair and reasonable. Breach of professional obligations? [22] The Committee noted that a lawyer has an obligation to “always act competently and in a timely manner consistent with the terms of their retainer and the duty to take reasonable care.”3 [23] The Committee considered that matters between the parties were reasonable until Mr LN indicated his intention to instruct another lawyer. [24] It was the Committee’s view that Ms QG’s work prior to then had been conducted...

7. UK v VL LCRO 142/2013 (2 September 2016) [pdf, 257 KB]

   ...[VL]’s name as one of the f lawyers quoted in the [ABC], the complaint said: 3 I write to lodge formal complaints against the above-named practitioners for breach of rule 2.8 of the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act (Lawyers: Conduct and Client Care) Rules 2008. Basically, all-of-the-above colleagues in circa early As such, they obviously felt Dr [YB] had acted improperly, but instead of reporting him to the New Zealand Law Society Lawyers Complaints Service as they were obl...

8. LCRO 194/2017 MA v NB, OC and PD (20 September 2019) [pdf, 344 KB]

   ...Assn Ltd [1966] (UKCA) 1 All ER 309 at 338. 8 [33] In the course of providing regulated services to their client, a lawyer must act competently, and in a timely manner consistent with the terms of the retainer and the duty to take reasonable care.6 [34] A lawyer’s conduct may be deemed to be unsatisfactory if, in the course of providing regulated services to their client, their conduct falls short of the standard of competence and diligence that a member of the public is ent...

9. NZLS Predictions in an Uncertain World [pdf, 957 KB]

   ...emphasised by the Act’s description of the functions of local authorities. The functions of territorial authorities (district councils) under s 31 RMA include:9 (a) … achiev[ing] integrated management of the effects of the use, development, or protection of land and associated natural and physical resources of the district: (b) the control of any actual or potential effects of the use, development, or protection of land, including for the purpose of — (i) the avoidance or...

10. LCRO 9/2024 & 12/2024 QB v WF and SY & WF and SY v QB (27 June 2024) [pdf, 1.3 MB]

    ...clients together as the respondents, to respondent Ms SY as “Ms X” and to respondent Mr WF as “Mr Y”. I will also refer to the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006 as “the Act”, to the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act (Lawyers: Conduct and Client Care) Rules 2008 as “the Rules” and to the New Zealand Law Society as the NZLS. Background [4] The respondents worked for the same employer and in the same area of work. From mid-2015, the employer advised staff of a restructuring p...