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1. Legal aid final family consultation paper - 10 February 2012 [pdf, 816 KB]

   ...grant would be considered in cases where complexities are identified and additional work is justified. Fixed fee development and setting Activities appropriate for fixed fees Family proceedings suitable for conversion to fixed fee schedules include Care of Children, Domestic Violence, Guardianship, Relationship Property, Mental Health and matters under the CYFS Act 1989. Some matters unsuitable for conversion to fixed fee schedules include Hague Convention and Intellectual Disability pr...

2. Nelson Standards Committee v Downing and Reith [2022] NZLCDT 7 (17 February 2022) [pdf, 241 KB]

   ...practitioner engage in “unfair and professionally irresponsible fee-charging and security arrangements” with the client, such as to be (a) disgraceful and dishonourable conduct or (b) a wilful or reckless breach of the rules of conduct and client care? 1 And the lesser alternative of unsatisfactory conduct, which was accepted by them. 2 Section 7(1)(a)(i) of the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006 (the Act). 3 Section 7(1)(a)(ii). 4 Lawyers and Conveyancers Act (Lawyers: Con...

3. Family legal aid fees - consultation paper [pdf, 816 KB]

   ...grant would be considered in cases where complexities are identified and additional work is justified. Fixed fee development and setting Activities appropriate for fixed fees Family proceedings suitable for conversion to fixed fee schedules include Care of Children, Domestic Violence, Guardianship, Relationship Property, Mental Health and matters under the CYFS Act 1989. Some matters unsuitable for conversion to fixed fee schedules include Hague Convention and Intellectual Disability pr...

4. BORA Employment Relations Amendment Bill [pdf, 308 KB]

   ...principal Act to specified groups of employees in situations where their employer loses a contract for services to a new contractor (subsequent contracting). This will ensure the integrity of subpart 1 of Part 6A of the principal Act in providing protection to specified employees in all change of employer situations. The nature of this protection is the right for affected employees to elect to transfer to the new employer on their existing terms and conditions of employment. 5. The Bill...

5. Hawkes Bay Standards Committee v McKay [2014] NZLCDT 57 [pdf, 173 KB]

   ...the lady”. He considered that he had been misunderstood and not fairly listened to. He regarded himself as a good person and competent lawyer and that his note of the original meeting which he contended took 55 minutes and at which he kept careful notes was the accurate version rather than that which had been found by the Tribunal on the basis of the complainant’s evidence. He did not make further submissions concerning the offending itself except that he asserted the public...

6. BORA Land Transport (Enforcement Powers) Amendment Bill [pdf, 297 KB]

   ...following aspects of the Bill raise issues under that Act: 2.1. Clause 6, which concerns the offence of breaching bylaws against certain forms of driving, places an evidential onus on the accused and so is contrary to the presumption of innocence protected by s 25(c). In the context of those particular offences, however, I consider that the onus is justifiable. Clause 16 of the Bill adds a further ground for the impoundment of a motor vehicle for 28 days under s 96 of the Land Transport...

7. BORA Credit Contracts and Financial Services Law Reform Bill [pdf, 165 KB]

   ...The policy objective of the Bill is to revise and update the law that governs consumer credit and broader financial markets so that it: • ensures creditors lend to consumers and manage consumer credit contracts responsibly • provides improved protection for vulnerable consumers, including from unscrupulous lenders • provides for consumer credit law to be dealt with holistically in one Act, and is consistent with other financial sector legislation, and • promotes and facilita...

8. ENV-2016-AKL-000199 Self Family Trust v Auckland Council [pdf, 856 KB]

   ...Earthmovers Ltd, in particular the following: "[232J It is important to recall that, even for outstanding natural landscapes and also for the preservation of the natural character of the coastal environment, section 6{ aJ and (b J provide for protection from inappropriate subdivision, use and development; not absolute protection. " (10) The reference in the staff report to "prime soils" was unsupported by any direct evidence. The evidence produced to the Inde...

9. M (C M Trust) v Tower Insurance Ltd [2019] CEIT-2019-0012 [pdf, 213 KB]

   ...party has yet to, or has failed to, fully disclose all documents in its possession or control that are relevant to the claim. The Documents sought [11] The Applicants seek further discovery of specified documents from Tower. They have taken care to particularise those documents they seek. They say that such documents are or may be relevant to issues before the Tribunal because they relate to their claim that Tower wrongly declined their requests to take steps to protect the dwell...

10. [2014] NZEmpC 63 Bracewell v Richmond Services Ltd [pdf, 81 KB]

    ...non-publication in Bracewell v Richmond Services Ltd [2013] NZEmpC 245 at [28], this District Health Board cannot be identified. 3 Richmond Services Ltd v Bracewell [2013] NZERA Auckland 481. [2] Ms Bracewell is concerned that a client in the care of the defendant (client A) has been permitted to engage in abusive prostitution by the defendant, members of its senior management and a registered medical practitioner (L). The plaintiff and her advocate, Dr Cook, assert that th...