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1. Recommendations recap - issue 7 [pdf, 1.4 MB]

   ...coroner endorsed the recommendations made in the Police Dive Squad Report that all recreational divers be made aware of the following instructions: • Ensure that persons are medically fit to dive. • Ensure that those who are required to complete application forms for dives et cetera should always answer dive medical questionnaires honestly. • Seek medical advice if diving with prescription drugs and seek medical advice if your health changes. • Ensure equipment must be ser...

2. Youth Court offending rates [pdf, 54 KB]

   ...2002 parliamentary elections, politicians reported rises in youth offending by making comparisons with 1990 or 1991 when, for various reasons, apprehensions of young people were down. Had the writers chosen another point in time, they could easily have claimed that young offending was decreasing – for instance, if they had quoted population adjusted rates over the last three years. There are other problems with the Police offences data: • The actual number of offenders is not available �...

3. [2023] NZREADT 1 - CAC 1904 v Bright (16 January 2023) [pdf, 129 KB]

   ...https://legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2008/0066/latest/whole.html#DLM1152078 5 (g) where it appears to the Tribunal that any person has suffered loss by reason of the licensee’s misconduct and the order is one that a court of competent jurisdiction could make in relation to a similar claim in accordance with principles of law, an order that the licensee pay to that person a sum by way of compensation as is specified in the order, being a sum not exceeding $100,000. … [13] Th...

4. CAB An Anti-Corruption Work Programme for New Zealand [pdf, 188 KB]

   ...example, as part of efforts to measure savings to government from fraud prevention, the UK has created an expert panel to review public sector prevention methodologies. The expert panel is responsible for signing off 98 percent of prevention savings claimed by public service agencies. 20 Outreach to local government and the private and not for profit sectors recognises that the risks of fraud and corruption are not limited to central government. Specifically, the Serious Fraud Office wil...

5. [2015] NZSSAA 42 (1 July 2016) [pdf, 48 KB]

   ...debt relates to the payment of Domestic Purposes Benefit, Accommodation Supplement, Temporary Additional Support and Temporary GST Assistance and has arisen as a result of the appellant’s earnings during the period in question. [3] The appellant requests that the Authority take into account her personal circumstances and direct that the debt not be recovered. Background [4] In 2007 the appellant separated from her husband and moved with their four children from the family home....

6. Dixon v CAC 20004 & Anor [2014] NZREADT 98 [pdf, 42 KB]

   ...older home. However in this case we consider the advertisement was in the nature of puffery rather than a 5 representation about the state of the property. The evidence did not show Ms Dixon was misled by the advertisement nor did she claim to be. Further she was protected by the agreement being conditional upon a builder’s inspection clause. However had Ms Dixon been misled then this may have been a breach of R 6.4. The Piles [20] In Wright v CAC and Woods [...

7. [2016] NZSSAA 64 (30 June 2016) [pdf, 187 KB]

   ...Corporation then reimbursed the Ministry for the net amount of benefit paid. Adjustments in relation to tax occurred in accordance with the interdepartmental procedures in place to deal with these circumstances. [6] In addition, the Chief Executive requested reimbursement from the appellant of Accommodation Supplement, Disability Allowance and GST Assistance paid to him. At various times, the amount it required the appellant to repay was stated to be $18,003.55. The Ministry’s...

8. CAC 20005 v Austin [2013] NZREADT 108 [pdf, 95 KB]

   ...office discussion with Mr Umbers on 26 January 2012 is illuminating. Mr Austin says that he knew about the issues but considered that as long as he told everybody who came to the house to get a Building Report then he had discharged his duty. He also claimed to have told every attendee of the property about the repairs which had been done on the property. The Whites deny that they knew that there had been any repairs carried out on the property. They were not challenged in this eviden...

9. [2019] NZEmpC 172 Cowan v Idea Services Ltd [pdf, 356 KB]

   ...Services Limited (IDEA) considered she had hit a service user (SU), that she had a short fuse and yelled at SUs, and that she had called a SU a baby. [2] Ms Cowan raised a personal grievance, asserting she had been unjustifiably dismissed. Her claim was dismissed by the Employment Relations Authority (the Authority).1 1 Cowan v IDEA Services Ltd [2018] NZERA Wellington 114. [3] She then brought a de novo challenge to the de...

10. Making Aotearoa Safer and more Inclusive Summary of engagement [pdf, 1.4 MB]

    ...operating for more than 20 years. This community is constantly engaged with, and therefore some are sceptical and pessimistic of any value of their engagement being utilised to make meaningful change. Takatāpui took leadership from the outset; firstly, requesting their own hui, rather than being included with Māori and/or rainbow communities’ hui. This was their recommendation, as they are in a “double bind”, being tangata whenua and LGBTQIA+. Takatāpui led and ran the h...