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1. [2017] NZEnvC 198 Lau v Auckland Council [pdf, 292 KB]

   ...which appeared to be intended to scandalise or possibly intimidate the Council's witnesses. At no stage did he present any evidence to address the grounds of the Council's application for security for costs in a substantive way. His first request for an adjournment was completely unsubstantiated. His second request, while accompanied by a doctor's certificate, was made at the last minute in a manner which suggested that it was more a delaying tactic than based on genuin...

2. LCRO 9/2020 SC v KB and ZR (30 April 2020) [pdf, 110 KB]

   ...refer the complaint for early resolution. [8] It would appear to be the case that the complaints were managed through the Early Resolution Process. That process involves a Standards Committee completing an initial assessment of a complaint and forming a preliminary view as to outcome. [9] The Standards Committee delivered its decision on 25 November 2019. The decision issued addressed the complaints made against both Mr ZR and Ms KB. [10] The Committee determined, pursuant to s...

3. Waitangi Tribunal Bibliography Part 1 [pdf, 177 KB]

   ...information and insight into Crown-Maori relations from 1840 to the present day. This version of the bibliography is complete until the end of 2011. As we finish our large district historical inquiries and move our focus to contemporary and kaupapa claims it will continue to be updated to include further reports and evidence produced as part of our ongoing inquiry programme. Official Tribunal reports can already be viewed on our website soon after they are released. It is intended that...

4. Waitangi Tribunal Bibliography Part 1 [pdf, 177 KB]

   ...information and insight into Crown-Maori relations from 1840 to the present day. This version of the bibliography is complete until the end of 2011. As we finish our large district historical inquiries and move our focus to contemporary and kaupapa claims it will continue to be updated to include further reports and evidence produced as part of our ongoing inquiry programme. Official Tribunal reports can already be viewed on our website soon after they are released. It is intended that...

5. Waitangi Tribunal bibliography 2018 part 1 [pdf, 403 KB]

   ...information and insight into Crown-Maori relations from 1840 to the present day. This version of the bibliography is complete until the end of 2011. As we finish our large district historical inquiries and move our focus to contemporary and kaupapa claims it will continue to be updated to include further reports and evidence produced as part of our ongoing inquiry programme. Official Tribunal reports can already be viewed on our website soon after they are released. It is intended...

6. WHT - Guidelines for self represented claimants on documents required for hearing [pdf, 78 KB]

   1 A Particulars of Claim The following information should be included in the final particulars of claim filed to support the claim. If this information has already been filed with the claim documents and does not need changing or adding to there is no need to provide it again. More often however there has been the addition and / or removal of parties or changes to the amounts being claimed. In addition additional information has become available throughout the a...

7. Matuku Ngati Maru Wharanui Pukehou Trust (2009) 245 Aotea MB 15 (245 AOT 15) [pdf, 306 KB]

   ...registration form, along with the nomination or voting form, and have that registration confirmed by a whakapapa validation committee. The new Ngāti Maru register was to comprise the existing CPT register plus those individuals submitting registration forms. [27] Mr Milner also noted that the draft trust order provides for the establishment of a whakapapa validation committee to review applications for registration and determine whether applicants have a whakapapa to Ngāti Maru....

8. LCRO 157/2024 TA v YQ (25 June 2025) [pdf, 327 KB]

   ...brother’s court proceedings; (f) the $25,000 was a cost to the brother and not to the other siblings; (g) the siblings “…did not sign any paperwork…” agreeing for the firm to deduct any money from their “inheritance”. [35] As to the requested outcome of her complaint, the applicant wrote: [Our brother] has taken the majority of our inheritance and he did that on his own. There was 6 siblings to take what our mother inheritance to be shared. The other siblings do n...

9. ET v DG [2022] NZDT 46 (23 May 2022) [pdf, 105 KB]

   ...had not waived payment, I would be unable to find an enforceable contract between the parties. An agreement is only legally enforceable as a contract if the parties intended it to give rise to legally binding obligations. Taking into account the informal nature of the arrangement, the personal relationship between the parties, and the uncertainty of the terms (such as how much DG was to pay in total and when ownership would be transferred), I find that the parties only ever intended to mak...

10. EF v CQ & BQ [2022] NZDT 233 (29 November 2022) [pdf, 105 KB]

    ...do not allow the full cost of a new tub because the test for damages is the cost of an equivalent age and type of tub that is in “reasonable working order”. The cost of a new tub was $670.86+GST and in the absence of any second-hand tub cost information, I set the cost of an older second-hand tub that works for hot and cold water at $200.00. Kitchen tap 10. The claim about the kitchen tap is that its handle is shredded and therefore moves about loosely in its fitting. During the...