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1. NI v QQ Ltd [2023] NZDT 577 (26 November 2023) [pdf, 187 KB]

   ...NZDT 577 APPLICANT NI RESPONDENT QQ Ltd The Tribunal orders: QQ Ltd is to pay $873.83 to NI by the 18th December 2023. Reasons 1. In January 2021 NI and [his wife] entered into a contract with QQ Ltd in the form of an Agreement for Sale and Purchase to buy a section and a building contract for a completed building on the land. The contract provided for a completion date to be “16-20 weeks after the floor is laid.” Settlement was to be upon the...

2. Harawira v New Zealand Management Academies Limited & McAuley (Strike Out) [2024] NZHRRT 59 [pdf, 249 KB]

   ...Member Dr M Koloamatangi, Member REPRESENTATION: Mr H Harawira (Puriri) in person Mr A Shankar for the defendants DATE OF HEARING: On the papers DATE OF DECISION: 13 November 2024 2 [1] Hone Puriri William Harawira, who has requested to be referred to as Puriri, filed this claim against New Zealand Management Academies Limited (NZMA) and Nigel McAuley on 12 February 2024. [2] Puriri claims both defendants discriminated against him on the grounds of his age...

3. SH v TS [2021] NZDT 1656 (27 October 2021) [pdf, 179 KB]

   ...liable to contribute in equal proportions to work on a fence.” 4. The provision of the Act that is relevant is section 10. Under section 10 an occupier who wishes the adjacent occupier to contribute to the fence “shall serve him a notice in form 1 of Schedule 1 or to the like effect.” 5. Where immediate work is not required section 10(4) states that “in the absence of an agreement to the contrary the occupier of the adjoining land shall not be liable to contribute to the co...

4. [2019] NZEmpC 41 Renaissance Assets Management Ltd v Ge [pdf, 350 KB]

   ...to Mr Li, and that he threatened to damage its business. Mr Ge denies having done so. [25] The Authority held that the company had required a premium to be paid. To reach that conclusion it heard from Mr Ge, and his father, about the alleged request and what steps were taken to pay money into a bank account in China. In the Authority the company denied requesting a premium. It maintained having no knowledge of the bank account into which the money was deposited or, for that ma...

5. Symes v Wairau - Mahanga 2Y (2005) 161 Gisborne MB 19 (161 GIS 19) [pdf, 567 KB]

   ...$12,000.00. She took over all the burdens of the lease. A draft transfer of lease and deed of covenant was in fact drawn up and handed to the respondent. It V',fas the evidence of Mr Wairau that he never saw a formal transfer document. Mrs Symes requested assistance from Mr MacGregor to get the transfer of shares completed. Mr MacGregor efforts to this end were successful and an order of the Maori Land Court (See 104 WR 176-177) was made in 2002 vesting those shares in Mrs Symes aft...

6. [2013] NZEmpC 76 George v Auckland City Council and vice versa [pdf, 126 KB]

   ...by its solicitor, at a mediation conference held on 26 April 2010, at which time the plaintiff threatened to make the accusation against the defendant in a legal action unless the defendant agreed to withdraw and abandon her personal grievance claims against the plaintiff. [3] Paragraph 57 (set out above) is part of Ms George’s defence to the Council’s counterclaim for damages for breach of her employment contract. That defence seeks to dismiss the Council’s claim against her...

7. [2021] NZACC 8 - Stryder v ACC (12 January 2021) [pdf, 165 KB]

   ...advising that the appellant’s weekly compensation would stop as of Monday, 17 June 2019. [6] The circumstances in which payment of those entitlements would be recommenced was explained in that letter. [7] On 17 June 2019 the appellant gave the requested consent, with the result that the payments of weekly compensation were not stopped at that time. [8] However, late on Friday 21 June 2019, the appellant sent an email to the Corporation indicating that they no longer had co...

8. DD v B Ltd [2022] NZDT 258 (20 December 2022) [pdf, 185 KB]

   ...charged) and a visit carried out in 2022 will need to be the subject of a separate claim as they had not been lodged via a counter-claim for today’s hearing. Referee Perfect Date: 20 December 2022 Page 2 of 2 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 reh...

9. Wai 2800 2.5.1 [pdf, 106 KB]

   ...discretion to defer its inquiry into any claim for sufficient reason (sections 6AA(2) and 7(1A) of the Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975). This does not limit the ability of claimants to particularise their existing grievances or the Tribunal’s ability to request them to do so. Districts 18. The standing panel will consider remaining historical claims, as specified above, that arise in the south-western North Island, the South Island and the Chatham Islands, comprising the following inquir...

10. [2015] NZEmpC 34 Rodkiss v Carter Holt Harvey Ltd [pdf, 349 KB]

    ...production of a considerable amount of documentation and transcript. The complexity, to a large extent, resulted from a sharp divergence of views over the relevance and application in practice of key parts of the defendant's disciplinary and performance management policies. The hearing was hard-fought throughout and the respective contentions of both parties were well presented. Background [4] Mr Rodkiss is 58 years of age. He qualified in production and mechanical enginee...