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1. BORA Accounting Infrastructure Reform Bill [pdf, 214 KB]

   ...of association". It recognises people’s freedom to enter into consensual arrangements with others, and to promote their common interests and the objectives of the associating group. The right also extends to the right not to associate, and protects the right of individuals to decide freely whether they wish to associate with others. 6.Clause 46, new s 7A, provides that NZICA may make rules stating that a person may be a member of NZICA only if the person is also a member of �...

2. BORA Easter Sunday Shop Trading Amendment [pdf, 190 KB]

   ...work on Good Friday they cannot be required to work unless they have agreed in their employment agreement to do so. 6. Although trading on Easter Sunday is restricted, it is not a "public holiday" for the purposes of the Holidays Act. The protection described above with respect to Good Friday is not applicable to Easter Sunday. However, a person who is normally required to work on a Sunday and works for a shop to which this Bill applies has the ability to initiate the re- negoti...

3. BORA Central North Island Forests Land Collective Settlement Bill [pdf, 274 KB]

   ...claims, the deed of settlement or the Bill itself. 4. That exclusion may constitute a limit on the right to seek judicial review affirmed by s 27(2) of the Bill of Rights Act, which provides: "Every person whose rights, obligations or interests protected or recognised by law have been affected by a determination of any tribunal or other public authority has the right to apply, in accordance with law, for judicial review of that determination." 5. The term "determination...

4. BORA Ethical Investment (Crown Financial Institutions) Bill [pdf, 292 KB]

   ...the Guardians of New Zealand Superannuation and the Accident Compensation Corporation respectively. We have considered whether the reporting requirements in cls 7, 11 and 15 limit the right not to be compelled to provide certain information as protected by s 14 of the Bill of Rights Act. For an activity to fall within freedom of expression, the activity must attempt to express an idea or meaning. [2] The information that needs to be disclosed under these clauses relates to the extent...

5. National Standards Committee 1 v Grey [2024] NZLCDT 36 (15 November 2024) [pdf, 193 KB]

   ...duties of a lawyer is to “…uphold the rule of law and… facilitate the administration of justice in New Zealand”. [2] Ms Grey is before the Tribunal because (as she accepts) she breached the term of a suppression order. The order was to protect the identity of her clients’ infant child. [3] Ms Grey is adamant that she would never intentionally breach a suppression order, but that her errors arose as “slips” during two interviews following a high pressured and very...

6. BORA Crimes (Intimate Covert Filming) Amendment Bill [pdf, 288 KB]

   ...recording is made in good faith and is in relation to certain functions prescribed in the Bill (cl 3). Section 14 BORA Issue 7. These three new offences created by the Bill raise the issue of compliance with s 14 of the Bill of Rights. Section 14 protects the right to "freedom of expression, including the freedom to seek, receive and impart information and opinions of any kind and any form". 8. It is debateable whether criminalising intimate visual recording engages the Bill...

7. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - government reply to issues 6th report [pdf, 624 KB]

   ...The Treaty of Waitangi and the Waitangi Tribunal ............................................................. 31 Incarceration rates of Māori ................................................................................................. 32 Protection of the rights of children (Issues twenty-two to twenty-three) ................................ 35 Child abuse ........................................................................................................................... 35...

8. RQ & Anor v MZ LCRO 127 / 2011 (2 October 2012) [pdf, 108 KB]

   ...all parties. The agreement was never carried out nor honoured in the spirit in which it was entered into.” [21] These statements indicate that RQ and RR consider that MZ had a legal and moral obligation to ensure their interests were protected, and to ameliorate the poor 6 relationship that existed between them and RS. In adopting this view they disregard the fact that MZ acted for the Trust and that his duties and obligations extended primarily to the Trust....

9. MFAT report Human Rights in NZ 2010 [pdf, 4.7 MB]

   ...978-0-478-34985-0 – Printed 978-0-478-34988-7 – PDF 1 Te Kähui Tika Tangata is the korowai or cloak of the Human Rights Commission. Te kähui embraces those who gather together under the kaupapa of human rights and symbolises both their protective role and the Commission’s role in promoting them. Tika tangata refers to our human rights and responsibilities, suggesting the highest imperatives of respect and conduct. The design of the Commission’s logo derives from t...

10. Auckland Waikato and Eastern Fish and Game Councils [pdf, 504 KB]

    ...The decision-maker is required to have regard to the Sports Fish and Game Management Plans to the extent that they have a bearing on the resource management issues of the Region (section 66(2)(c)(i) of the Act), and to have particular regard to the protection of the habitat of trout (section 7); 3 7.4. The provisions the subject of this appeal do not adequately protect the habitat requirements of the Region’s sports fisheries, or provide for the compulsory value of ecosys...