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1. QS v B Ltd [2024] NZDT 24 (4 February 2024) [pdf, 217 KB]

   ...$1,006.25, being the balance on the invoice that B Ltd said is still owing. What balance if any, is owing on the contract? 3. The common law of contract allows parties to enter into contracts that are legally binding. A contract can be written or formed verbally or inferred from the parties’ conduct. A contract is formed when both parties decide to exchange something of value and essential terms of the contract are agreed to. If a party breaches an essential term of a contract, t...

2. ST v F Ltd NS [2023] NZDT 563 (6 November 2023) [pdf, 179 KB]

   ...and did not get any bids. However, in case there is any residual value in the damaged vanity, I have given NS an opportunity to have it if he wishes. Referee: E Paton-Simpson Date: 6 November 2023 Page 3 of 3 Information for Parties Rehearings You can apply for a rehearing if you believe that something prevented the proper decision from being made: for example, the relevant information was not available at the time. If you wish to apply for a r...

3. DO v CH [2024] NZDT 576 (29 July 2024) [pdf, 189 KB]

   ...he has failed to prove that he has suffered a loss and that he is owed the sum claimed. 9. For these reasons, the claim must be dismissed. Referee: DTR Unasa Date: 29 July 2024 Page 3 of 3 Information for Parties Rehearings You can apply for a rehearing if you believe that something prevented the proper decision from being made: for example, the relevant information was not available at the time. If you wish to apply for a rehe...

4. TI & X v HT [2025] NZDT 250 (8 July 2025) [pdf, 175 KB]

   ...contributed to the purchase, which was a gift for the use of their parents although registered in the name of one brother. They did a check [online] before the purchase, which did not reveal any issues. 2. Just over six months later, the police informed TI and XI that the car was a stolen vehicle, and that it needed to be taken to a police station to be returned to its rightful owner. The brothers took the car to the [redacted] Police Station, and contacted HT for a refund of the purchas...

5. [2022] NZACC 161 – Hume Pack n Cool Ltd v ACC (18 August 2022) [pdf, 269 KB]

   ...by Hume in relation to the Corporation’s decision of 9 September 2019. [10] As a result of the review application, the Corporation developed an internal Operational Policy to provide guidance when exercising its discretion when an employer requested the retrospective application of MCUs. The policy was framed in the context of sections 170 and 237 of the Accident Compensation Act 2001 (the Act), and in light of the following organisational and operational considerations: Organi...

6. [2021] NZACC 131 - Jones (10 August 2021) [pdf, 219 KB]

   ...JUDGE C J McGUIRE [Treatment Injury – Causation s 26 Accident Compensation Act 2001] ____________________________________________________________________ [1] This is an appeal against a decision of the respondent dated 11 July 2018 declining a claim for cover for a treatment injury. Background [2] In April 2018 a claim was lodged on behalf of the appellant by his general practitioner Dr Stoney, diagnosing the appellant as suffering from a neck sprain. [3] In the consu...

7. HC v X Ltd [2023] NZDT 391 (13 September 2023) [pdf, 207 KB]

   ...showers were incorrectly installed so they each had the same leaking issue. 2. HC claimed the vendor’s breached the contract by failing to obtain building consent for the work on the showers. He claimed to be reimbursed for the work he had performed in both bathrooms. 3. The issues to resolve the claim are; (a) Did X Ltd breach the vendor’s warranty that it caused works to be done without obtaining a building consent when one was required? (b) If so, was the loss that H...

8. Waitangi Tribunal - Wai 2200 A186 Scoping report [pdf, 3.3 MB]

   ...actions of Ngāti Toa and in particular the chief Te Rauparaha. The one exception is a work completed in 1910 by ethnologist and surveyor Stephenson Percy Smith.6 Despite the usefulness of this work, there is a wider body of source material, in the form of Native Land Court minutes, that has the potential to provide a more complete account of Ngātiawa heke into the Inquiry District. A preliminary analysis of this source material has been conducted for the purposes of this scoping rep...

9. Waitangi Tribunal - issue 58 of Te Manutukutuku [pdf, 675 KB]

   ...improved Treaty-based relationship between Crown and Mäori. These fundamentals do not change, although processes, personnel and institutions do. In April, the Tribunal members and staff said their farewells to Morris ‘Morrie’ Te Whiti Love, the former Director of the Tribunal administration. Morrie’s con- tribution to the task of resolving Treaty grievances has been enormous over the past seven years, and that will not end with his change of job. He has left the Tribunal as a s...

10. [2016] NZEnvC 018 Waiheke Marinas Ltd [pdf, 607 KB]

    ...applications lodged by Auckland Council and s274 parties; also that the Brabants were on the Court record jointly as Counsel for WML; and that as liquidator Mr Whittfield needed to resolve the question of legal representation (if any) with respect to the claims for costs. [6] Messrs Brabant further recorded that Mr Whittfield had requested that the Court be advised that he had been appointed liquidator and that all further correspondence should be addressed to him (he indicated that he...