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1. 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...

2. Mitchell v Corrections [2024] NZHRRT 13 [pdf, 176 KB]

   ...Ms S Leslie for defendant DATE OF HEARING: 17 – 18 October 2023 DATE OF DECISION: 28 March 2024 DECISION OF TRIBUNAL1 [1] In late December 2019 and early January 2020, Ms Mitchell made five separate information privacy requests under the Privacy Act 19932 (‘the Act’) to the Chief Executive 1 This decision is to be cited as Mitchell v Corrections [2024] NZHRRT 13. 2 The Privacy Act 1993 was repealed and replaced by the Privacy Act 2020 on 1 December 2020...

3. Practice Note 5 2018 Final [pdf, 288 KB]

   ...parties as to the manner and form of publication of any research copy. If a party wishes to draw the Tribunal’s attention to any matter he or she considers relevant, it will have regard to what the party says but is not bound by it. Any such request may be directed to ipt@justice.govt.nz, for the attention of the member/s who heard the appeal. Order as to Depersonalisation, Abridgement or Prohibition on Publication [7.2] Where the research copy of a decision differs from th...

4. 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...

5. 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...

6. 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”....

7. 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...

8. TD v BT [2025] NZDT 256 (21 July 2025) [pdf, 174 KB]

   ...2025. Reasons 1. In August 2018, BT enrolled his son at TD for the 2019 and following academic years. TD is a state integrated high school and accordingly is entitled to charge attendance dues. 2. BT signed the Application for Enrolment Form but subsequently did not sign the Attendance Dues Agreement. 3. BT’s son was provided a secondary school education at TD from 2019 until 2022. 4. It appears that BT was in difficult financial circumstances during much of the time, a...

9. [2012] NZEmpC 63 Rooney Earthmoving Ltd v McTague Whiting and Bartlet [pdf, 304 KB]

   ...not become one of the directors of BMW until he took over the business some years later. [40] The contemporaneous notes that Mr Madden made of the initial and subsequent meetings with Mr McTague and the material provided by Mr McTague which formed the basis for the documents prepared at Capon Madden, all show a commencement date for the operations of BMW as 1 June. Further, the cash flow projections provided by Mr McTague to Mr Madden, which showed a substantial turnover for a s...

10. [2016] NZEmpC 77 Nisha v LSG Sky Chefs New Zealand Ltd [pdf, 301 KB]

    ...to disclosure of documents about support or funding of Ms Alim’s litigation; those directions were given in interlocutory judgment (No 6). 2 [12] I requested counsel for Ms Alim to consider these issues, and advise whether the requested information was able to be filed and served as soon as possible without further directions from the Court. I said that if this did not occur, then I would consider any necessary application. [13] On 12 February 2016, Mr O’Brien objected to t...