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1. 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...

2. [2022] NZEmpC 227 Chen v WNY Group Ltd [pdf, 358 KB]

   ...Authority which found that he was not an employee of WNY Group Limited (WNY).1 He says that he was employed in a sales role in May 2019, that he worked for two weeks, but that he then could not do any more until he received documentation that he had requested but was never forthcoming. He received $3,206.08 (net of PAYE) per month, which was then immediately repaid to Mr Wu, a director of the 1 Chen v WNY Group Ltd [2021] NZERA 369 (Member Urlich). company, until Octo...

3. [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...

4. Hale v Chester Burt Funeral Home Ltd [2012] NZHRRT 10 [pdf, 76 KB]

   1 IN THE HUMAN RIGHTS REVIEW TRIBUNAL [2012] NZHRRT 10 Reference No. HRRT 009/2011 IN THE MATTER OF A CLAIM UNDER THE PRIVACY ACT 1993 BETWEEN GRAEME FREDERICK HALE PLAINTIFF AND CHESTER BURT FUNERAL HOME LTD DEFENDANT AT PALMERSTON NORTH BEFORE: Mr RPG Haines QC, Chairperson Ms S Ineson QSM, Member Hon K Shirley, Member APPEARANCES: Mr JR Reid, agent for Plaintiff Mr MB Ryan for Defendant DATE OF HEARING: 1 February 2...

5. [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...

6. 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...

7. Te Manutukutuku issue 76 [pdf, 14 MB]

   ...in-person events while allowing Kia ora tatou. It is with great pleasure that I once again provide an update on the work of the Waitangi Tribunal Unit. For the past year, I have been working on the Whenua Māori Programme and Te Ture Whenua reforms. Having returned to my role as director in April, I am impressed with the progress made on the work pro- gramme over this time and I want to acknowledge and thank Renee for her leadership of the unit in my absence. I also want to acknow...

8. 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...

9. MO & SO v QC Ltd [2022] NZDT 157 (28 September 2022) [pdf, 142 KB]

   ...up slightly under the tanks. 8. Based on all the evidence provided by all parties, I find that there is no clear single cause of the pool’s collapse. The pool is 22 years old and TI’s insurance company, WJ Ltd, has provided evidence in the form of independent assessor reports that includes descriptions and photographs of the condition of the steel posts that support the pool lining, including rust at the base of some of the vertical steel posts. The report by CL, who also represen...

10. XK v Q Ltd & KT [2023] NZDT 720 (14 December 2023) [pdf, 196 KB]

    ...her intention to book [Band 2], because of the email communication with KT, that she had not made any enquiry about [Band 1] and she mistakenly assumed [Band 1] must be the name of a downsized [Band 3] band. She said her text to B from [Band 2] informing him she had just booked his band is further evidence of a mistake made. 9. KT from Q Ltd did not answer 3 calls I made to join him to the hearing. However, XK provided recent emails (October 2023) between her and KT where KT sets out...