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1. [2011] NZEmpC 151 Penney v Fonterra Co-operative Group Ltd [pdf, 94 KB]

   ...given shortly afterwards by email and confirmed the following day by letter. [19] On 12 August 2009, Ms Penney signed the settlement agreement and a letter to the Authority formally withdrawing her claim. The settlement agreement included a request to a mediator to sign the agreement. Ms Penney had signed that request separately. [20] The settlement agreement provided for $10,000 compensation to be paid within 7 days into a bank account nominated by Ms Penney. It then provide...

2. Waitangi Tribunal - issue 65 of Te Manutukutuku [pdf, 3.2 MB]

   ...ministerial portfolios, includ­ ing those of Associ ate Minister for Economic Develop ment, Associate Minister of Fi nance, Minister of Com­ merce, Minis ter of Com muni ca tions, Minis ter of Correc tions, Minister of Immi gra tion, Minis ter for Information Tech nology, Minis ter of Labour, Minis ter for State­Owned Enterprises, Minis ter of Sta tistics, and Minister of Transport. In 2009, he was made a Com pan ion of the Queen’s Service Order for services as a member of Pa...

3. IU v ND [2023] NZDT 455 (1 August 2023) [pdf, 181 KB]

   ...the same document originally submitted with the claim. 4. Clause 8.3 states that if anything should happen to the horse during the lease period, the Respondent is liable for 50% of the value of the horse, 50% being $15,000.00. No valuation information was provided. The Respondent states that she was unaware of such a clause and her copy contains no such clause. 5. The Respondent was 17 years of age at the time of the contract and was asked to sign it on the spot without seeking...

4. Ref: LCRO 99/2019 SQ v LP (27 October 2020) [pdf, 235 KB]

   ...ecologist's September 2007 report which concluded Mr SQ's property was "significant". 2 Soon after Mr SQ was informed by the Council that the regenerating native forest on the property had “high rarity distinctiveness”. He requested a review of the Council valuations from 1 September 2007. 3 Annulled a year later on 27 July 2015. 3 sign of illegality by the Council, and “there did not appear to be strong arguments for judicial review at [that] stage”....

5. [2013] NZEmpC 85 Aarts v Barnados New Zealand [pdf, 328 KB]

   ...document relating to his employment but, as a result of a difference of opinion about how his personal grievance should proceed, he terminated the lawyers’ instructions. Lance Lawson took appropriate steps to follow Mr Aarts’s instructions by requesting copies of the evidential videotapes from Police and then sought properly to refer his claims against Barnardos to mediation. Their instructions were terminated by Mr Aarts shortly thereafter. [65] Unusually for what amounted, i...

6. Peter and Tony Spooner Family Trust v Elle Cee Developments Ltd [pdf, 26 KB]

   ...reconsider the previous determination of the adjudicator of 31 May 2007 that the Tribunal has no jurisdiction to reconsider or to review eligibility. A second issue, dependent on the answer to the first issue framed above, is whether I should, as requested by Tauranga City, refer the issue of eligibility to the High Court pursuant to s 119 of the 2006 Act. Analysis 7. The original claim was filed under the 2002 Act and found to be an eligible claim by the evaluation pa...

7. OLL v NJK [2013] NZIACDT 34 (30 May 2013) [pdf, 127 KB]

   ...New Zealand. [19] Ms OLL then sought to have the $6,500 she had paid through Mr NJK refunded. The money had been lodged with the Public Trust; however only $5,000 was held in trust. On making further inquiries with the institution, Ms OLL was informed that Mr NJK had requested that he be supplied with a quotation for the sum of $6,500, which was $5,000 for tuition fees, and $1,500 for commission he was to be paid (but not disclosed). He later obtained an invoice for $5,000 which was t...

8. KM v S Ltd [2024] NZDT 624 (16 July 2024) [pdf, 224 KB]

   ...the rate of $250 a night, S Ltd put her in an unsafe and vulnerable situation in breach of S Ltd’s common law duty from Roman times as an Innkeeper because she had to walk around town looking for alternative accommodation. KM also says that the information on S Ltd’s website is misleading. 5. The hearing was conducted by teleconference. KM attended. BT (General Manager) attended for S Ltd Holdings Ltd. Issues 6. The issues for the Tribunal to consider are: (a) Whether S...

9. UN & QN v U Ltd [2023] NZDT 443 (9 September 2023) [pdf, 212 KB]

   ...January 2022 booking for site 129 be transferred to the following year, January 2023, to which Holiday Park agreed. 5. Holiday Park says its electronic booking system does not accept bookings more than 11 months in advance, so departing guests’ requests are noted on booking request forms and then entered later once the system allows. 6. When UN and QN arrived for their January 2023 holiday, they were allocated a different site to the one requested and not one of the waterfront sit...

10. [2013] NZEmpC 192 Gupta v Infosys Technologies (Australia) Pty Ltd [pdf, 113 KB]

    ...EMPLOYMENT COURT WELLINGTON [2013] NZEmpC 192 WRC 35/12 IN THE MATTER OF a challenge to a determination of the Employment Relations Authority AND IN THE MATTER of an application for an order striking out amended statement of claim BETWEEN NEEL GUPTA Plaintiff AND INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES (AUSTRALIA) PTY LIMITED Defendant Hearing: (by memorandum filed on 25 September 2013 and 9 October 2013) Representation: Gregory Bennett...