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1. [2019] NZEnvC 116 Te Runanga o Ngati Awa v Bay of Plenty Regional Council [pdf, 11 MB]

   ...tikanga. I. There's commonly held tikanga and there are tikangas that are disparaged. Q. Thank you. Thank you. And in your evidence Dr Mason you talk about the Te Kahui Kaumatua o Ngati Awa and you've explained that its main role is to protect the mauri of Ngati Awa and to provide leadership and guidance on matters of tikanga and kawa, reo and korero. That's right isn't it that's the role of Te Kahui Kaumatua? A. Ae, koina te kaupapa ate kaumatua. I. Those ar...

2. [2020] NZREADT 34 - Hammond v Real Estate Agents Authority (11 August 2020) [pdf, 386 KB]

   ...to potential weather tightness issues. The Committee’s decision [36] The Committee recorded in its decision that it considered the complaint by reference to the following rules in the Real Estate Agents Act (Professional Conduct and Client Care) Rules 2012 (“the Rules”): rr 6.2 (under which licensees must act in good faith and deal fairly with all parties engaged in a transaction), 6.3 (under which licensees must not engage in any conduct likely to bring the real estate indu...

3. Ashmore v Armstrong - Te Huruhi 12B (2021) 232 Waikato Maniapoto MB 219 (232 WMN 219) [pdf, 522 KB]

   ...Rogers submits Māori land is taonga tuku iho and should be retained within Māori whakapapa lines. 232 Waikato Maniapoto MB 241 [66] Those who oppose the partition together hold 4.013% of the shares in the block. I have considered carefully their grounds of opposition. I do not accept that partition will erode whakapapa links to the block. They will always remain. Nor do I consider that there are insurmountable access issues, which I address later. [67] In reaching m...

4. [2012] NZEmpC 166 Li v Haung [pdf, 237 KB]

   ...your cars, house and shop for me. I told them not doing these now and it’s illegal. If my visa has been [cancelled], I have to send the recorded videos to the related departments, which shows seventy or eighty kids playing games. I do not care about how serious the result is because I am going back to China anyway. But I won’t do these if I could stay in New Zealand. People leave home for making money and nobody wants to hurt the others. You are the only one can let me...

5. [2024] NZEmpC 127 Carrington Jade LP v Grant [pdf, 385 KB]

   ...withhold pay, as relayed to Ms Waters and the payroll staff member, was not the action of a fair and reasonable employer. As Ms Grant promptly told Mr Tan, this was not a legal option. Such a step would have been contrary to s 4 of the Wages Protection Act 1983. Nor were Mr Tan’s suspicions as to the fabricating of timesheets justified. Second issue: meeting with Mr Tan [129] The second issue relates to what occurred on 18 May 2022 when Ms Grant and her partner, Mr Co...

6. Māori Trustee v Forde – Section 186 Block V Longwood Survey District (2013) 17 Te Waipounamu MB 152 (17 TWP 152) [pdf, 206 KB]

   ......this Act shall be exercised, as far as possible, in a manner that facilitates and promotes the retention, use, development, and control of Maori land as taonga tuku iho by Maori owners, their whanau, their hapu, and their descendants, and that protects wahi tapu. 17 General objectives (1) In exercising its jurisdiction and powers under this Act, the primary objective of the court shall be to promote and assist in— 17 Te Waipounamu MB 161 (a) the retention of Maori land and...

7. 1_Amendments-Refinement-to-Application-21-March-2023-v2.pdf [pdf, 2.7 MB]

   ...Regional Council to confirm an alternative source. c) Where the offsetting measures required by clause (a) are subject to a ‘Flood Control Drainage’ value in Schedule B of the One Plan, consultation must be undertaken with the Horizons flood protection engineer. Groundwater RGW3 Groundwater monitoring a) Groundwater must be monitored to confirm compliance with Condition RGW2 as follows: i. at all existing groundwater monitoring bores installed as part of the Project, except thos...

8. Evesham v Auckland Standards Committee LCRO 136 / 2009 (5 November 2009) [pdf, 190 KB]

   ...email of 4 September 2008 from Mr Hastings to the Law Firm X querying the use of the funds. [14] Mr Saltcoats has stated that the funds were placed in an account in the joint names of Mr Chesterfield and Ms London rather than that of XX Limited to protect the funds from possible attachment by creditors of that company. [15] On 8 September 2005 Mr Arbroath referred to the funds again in a letter to the Law Firm X. He appears to be responding to a suggestion that the funds be used t...

9. [2018] NZEmpC 79 Hines v Eastland Port Ltd [pdf, 513 KB]

   ...employment relationship, thus justifying dismissal. What must be evaluated is the nature of the obligations imposed on the employee by the employment contract, the nature of the breach that has occurred, and the circumstances of the breach. Thus, a careless act can lead to dismissal for serious misconduct, but the matter needs to be considered in light of all the circumstances and ultimately must revert back to the primary consideration to be made under s 103A of the Act.13

10. RIS - Referendum Advertising at the 2020 General Election [pdf, 830 KB]

    ...Election: Impact Statement | 10 Exemption for personal views The proposed definition of advertising should include an exemption for the (unpaid) publication of personal views expressed by an individual on the internet or other social media. This protects individuals’ rights to free speech, and to share and trade views on social media where no payment is being made or received. However, this exemption for unpaid personal views could not apply to community or online groups or organi...