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1. Follow-up-report-to-the-United-Nations-Committee-against-Torture_FINAL.pdf [pdf, 384 KB]

   ...for young serious offenders. 23 The report notes that the Government’s overarching commitment is to the rule of law and public safety, even where this could lead to an increase in prison populations. Section on the Crown Response to the Abuse in Care Inquiry 24 The fourth section of the report provides an update on the Crown Response to the Abuse in Care Inquiry and New Zealand’s progress on implementing the Committee’s decisions in Zentveld v New Zealand and Richards v New Zealand....

2. KT & NT v N Ltd [2024] NZDT 374 (31 May 2024) [pdf, 178 KB]

   ...is liable to repair the door. 5. The concreting of a domestic driveway is a service that is ordinarily acquired for personal or domestic use or consumption and as such is subject to the guarantee that the service will be supplied with reasonable care and skill as provided in s.28 of the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993, the CGA. Where there has been a failure to so render a service the consumer is entitled to exercise the options set out in s.32 of the CGA. 6. Typically, a consumer wou...

3. [2012] NZEmpC 90 Walker v Procare Health Ltd [pdf, 313 KB]

   WALKER V PROCARE HEALTH LIMITED NZEmpC AK [2012] NZEmpC 90 [15 June 2012] IN THE EMPLOYMENT COURT AUCKLAND [2012] NZEmpC 90 ARC 72/09 IN THE MATTER OF a challenge to a determination of the Employment Relations Authority BETWEEN VICKI JANE WALKER Plaintiff AND PROCARE HEALTH LIMITED Defendant Hearing: 14, 15, 16, 19, 20 and 21 September 2011 and 7, 8, 9, 10 and 24 February 2012 (Heard at Auckland) Appearances: Vicki Jane Walker in person as...

4. Family Court rewrite submission: Save the Children [pdf, 165 KB]

   ...Our Organisation: Save the Children was founded in 1919 and is the world’s leading independent organisation for children. We work in 120 countries to save and improve the lives of children around the world. Vision: Save the Children’s vision is a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation. Mission: We work to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives....

5. Family Court Rewrite Submission - OCC [pdf, 591 KB]

   ...family justice decision-making models. Recommendation 2: The vision for the Family Justice Service be revised with Te Tiriti o Waitangi and tikanga Māori at the centre. This includes an explicit statutory commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi in the Care of Children Act. Recommendation 3: The vision for the Family Justice Service upholds children’s participation rights. This includes an explicit statutory commitment to honouring children’s rights in the Care of Children Act. Rec...

6. Adoption in Aotearoa New Zealand: Summary document - Easy Read [pdf, 3.6 MB]

   ...adoption is • when adoption should be used. This can make it hard to know when an adoption should happen. Some of the reasons adoption may happen are: • so a child can be part of a family / whānau who will always take care of them • to make sure a child whose birth parents cannot care for them still has a safe home. 8 Some more of the reasons adoption may happen are: • so people who cannot give birth can have a child...

7. SI v MO LCRO 241 / 2011 (7 November 2012) [pdf, 109 KB]

   ...public interest, all lawyers... must comply in providing regulated services.’ Fundamental obligations of lawyers [45] The fundamental obligations of lawyers include being required to act in accordance with all fiduciary duties and duties of care owed by lawyers to their clients, and to protect the interests of clients, subject to lawyers’ overriding duties as officers of the High Court, and to the duties under any enactment. RCCC Rules [48] The RCCC Rules expand on the fundame...

8. LCRO 77/2021 GS and VU v CN and SW (23 March 2022) [pdf, 149 KB]

   ...otherwise have been the case. Background [3] Mr CN and Ms SW are two of Mrs MM’s children. They became concerned about their mother’s conduct, putting herself at risk and in vulnerable situations. They applied to the Court, pursuant to the Protection of Personal and Property Rights Act 1988, for an order appointing Mr CN as manager of Mrs MM’s property. 2 [4] Mrs MM opposed the application and instructed Mr VU to act for her. Mr GS was Mr VU’s supervising partne...

9. PPPR8 Application for appointment of welfare guardian [pdf, 1 MB]

   Form PPPR 8 r 406 Application for appointment of welfare guardian Section 12, Protection of Personal and Property Rights Act 1988 In the Family Court PPPR no: ............ at .................................................... [place] Applicant ……………………………………………………………………………………….. [full name] ……………………………………………………………………………………….. [address] …�...

10. Finau v Tangilanu [2014] NZIACDT 50 (15 April 2014) [pdf, 110 KB]

    ...Code of Conduct in relation to ceasing her services, in that she: [4.1.1] Did not take reasonable steps to ensure her clients’ interests were represented when she could not continue as their representative; in doing so she breached her duties of care, diligence, respect and professionalism under the Code of Conduct (clause 1.1(c)); and [4.1.2] Failed to confirm in writing when work ceased part way through an immigration process (clause 3(b) of the Code of Conduct). [5] In outline,...