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1. 2021-03-11 Transcript of 8-9 March 2021 - E&OE - not complete [pdf, 1 MB]

   ...Limited R Dixon for Minister for the Environment M Baker-Galloway for Otago Fish & Game Council and Central South Island Fish & Game Council P Page and B Irving For Otago Water Resource Users Group P Anderson for Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand Inc J Winchester and S Lennon for Te Rūnanga o Moeraki, Kāti Huirapa Runaka ki Puketeraki, Te Rūnanga o 2 OTAGO REGIONAL COUNCIL PLAN CHANGE 7 – ENV-ENV-2020-CHC-127 (08 Mar 2021) Ōtākou, Hokon...

2. 2019-10-01-MfE-Professor-Skeltons-Report.pdf [pdf, 1.9 MB]

   ...Freshwater package includes a revised NPS-FM and a new NES for freshwater, which together will: • strengthen Te Mana o Te Wai as the framework for freshwater management • better provide for ecosystem health (water, fish and plant life) • better protect wetlands and estuaries • better manage stormwater and wastewater, and protect sources of drinking water • control high-risk farming activities and limit agricultural intensification • improve farm management practices. Reso...

3. Conviction & sentencing of offenders in New Zealand 1996 to 2005 [pdf, 844 KB]

   ...Research Adviser) and Nina Kazakova for the initial work on this report; and Kelda Bindel, Sue Triggs, Angela Lee, Todd Nicholson and Jannah Terpstra of the Ministry for their input to this publication. The draft version was reviewed by Su Wuen Ong, Carey Hibbert and Anna Duncan. Your comments and suggestions were very much appreciated. I would like to thank Judith Spier, who formatted the report to the Ministry standards, and Katie Boyle, who proofread the report and provided other...

4. ISR Evaluation Synthesis Report [pdf, 2.1 MB]

   ... more efficient case management; and  better understanding of capacity issues and mobilisation of resources in response. These improvements in processes were accompanied by emerging evidence that: adult victims and children were better protected; and safer; and perpetrators were better supported to stop their violent behaviour; and as a result, more families and whānau (and those from diverse backgrounds) were living in non-violent homes. The first evaluation report also poin...

5. OTAGO REGIONAL COUNCIL v NGA RUNANGA NOE.pdf [pdf, 1.3 MB]

   ...the world and my 10 respect for the privilege of being alive in this age and in this country. Our business began investing in risk proofing in 2009. Some $3 million has been spent to date in hard infrastructure: dam water storage, bridging, protecting waterways and sensitive soils, pivot application of water, matching 15 irrigation quantity to soil type and to the land use, scheduling of irrigation to soil moisture, precision tillage, precision fertilizer application and precisi...

6. Research on the effectiveness of police practice in reducing residential burglary part 4: case study of Manurewa Local Police Area [pdf, 588 KB]

   ...and provides a ‘wrap around’ service for highly recidivist youth offenders. The Manurewa Police also had officers based part-time in three local high schools. Their role was to deal with the range of petty offending at the school and also with care and protection issues. Key partners in crime prevention in the area are Manukau City Council, Housing New Zealand, and Counties/Manukau Sports Foundation. 15 Conclusions In the first years of the case study Manurewa was hindered in its bu...

7. Heta v Ministry of Social Development [2013] NZHRRT 8 [pdf, 117 KB]

   ...from Immigration New Zealand and Sky. [22] Mr Norman said that he had never made a mistake like this before. In this regard his evidence was supported by other witnesses from the Ministry who told the Tribunal that Mr Norman was an experienced and careful investigator who was not known to make mistakes. [23] The complaint referred to is recorded in a letter from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner dated 22 June 2010 in which the Ministry was, for the first time, given 7 not...

8. Bell v Churton - Mataimoana (2019) 410 Aotea MB 244 (410 AOT 244) [pdf, 352 KB]

   ...repetition of an earlier error, no matter how many times repeated, can never make that first inaccuracy correct. So, while it is important to cross reference for the purposes of corroborating Native Land Court materials with external sources, care also has to be taken that the external source relied on is not simply a variation of the original Native Land Court record. The evidence in this case [25] The Native Land Court and its records have been referred to extensively during...

9. LCRO 57/2014 IW v PP [pdf, 279 KB]

   ...charged”.3 [56] The Committee referred to Mr IW’s reliance on the word “estimate” or “estimates” and agreed that there had been those references in correspondence from Mr S. The Committee considered however that:4 there was an element of carelessness in the correspondence from Mr S – there was a lack of clarity in his response to his clients request for a firm quote; he referred to an estimate while also explicitly stating that fees would not exceed a certain figure....

10. Katipa v Dobbs - Harataunga 2C1 [2015] Chief Judge's MB 635 (2015 CJ 635) [pdf, 338 KB]

    ...Court, or by present circumstances, but simply that if one were going to change the definition of beneficiaries, what such a change would look like or entail. Counsel submitted that in articulating the direction in that way, the Chief Judge was careful to avoid having the hui deliberate the very issue that was live before him, which was whether there was a s 44 error, because it was sub judice. [22] However, counsel submitted that given Mr Johnson’s open discussion of the matter,...