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1. Recommendations recap - issue 4 [pdf, 832 KB]

   ...The RCA panel identified that an error had been made by the unintended and inadvertent stapling of the right pulmonary artery and identified a number of factors that could have prevented what occurred. The report concluded that if a ‘trial’ clamping of the artery had taken place before actually stapling it, it would have been recognised that the wrong artery had been clamped. The surgeon accepted that this may have prevented what occurred and said that he now will clamp arter...

2. [2021] NZACC 7 - Stryder v ACC (12 January 2021) [pdf, 210 KB]

   ...sessions with no improvement. Ivan has spent over $3,000 on treatments for his chronic lower back pain since 16.4.2014 accident. He has purchased back braces, lumbar supports TENS machine, massage machines, Unisom sleep gels, and ankle clamps (for hanging upside down to relieve the back pain). Since Ivan’s lower back injury on 16.4.2014 Ivan has told me he has been unable to run, mountainbike, snowboard, weight train, play soccer, play rugby with his 8 year old boy Be...

3. [2021] NZACC 185 – Jurisich v ACC (22 November 2021) [pdf, 340 KB]

   ...bullet proof, I thought, until I lifted the wheel back onto – a back wheel back onto the tractor that was half full of water. … I turned up the wheels on the back of the tractor. … it had 10 nuts around it. These days, they just have to clamp it on with 10 nuts and the nuts fell off. The wheel fell off too and so I managed to get it up there. Once I got it above my head, I felt my back go because it was quite wet … on the paddock. The wheel dropped and I lay down for qu...

4. [2021] NZACC 7 - Stryder v ACC (12 January 2021) [pdf, 183 KB]

   ...sessions with no improvement. Ivan has spent over $3,000 on treatments for his chronic lower back pain since 16.4.2014 accident. He has purchased back braces, lumbar supports TENS machine, massage machines, Unisom sleep gels, and ankle clamps (for hanging upside down to relieve the back pain). Since Ivan’s lower back injury on 16.4.2014 Ivan has told me he has been unable to run, mountainbike, snowboard, weight train, play soccer, play rugby with his 8 year old boy Be...

5. [2021] NZACC 102 – Broad v ACC (16 November 2021) [pdf, 632 KB]

   ...interventions were available given the appellant’s history and at risk delivery. (e) She did not diagnose the tear appropriately and began to attempt to repair the tear in the maternity ward. (f) She failed to report and apply treatment when she hit clamps attached to blood vessels by the registrar to stop bleeding driving them directly into the birth tear wound, and causing unknown damage to the wound. [54] Ms Mason says the obstetric registrar diagnosed a third degree tear an...

6. Young people & infringement fines: a qualitative study [pdf, 139 KB]

   ...them to pull out of their driveways and then pulling them over and ticketing them. They discuss Police ‘hot spots’, e.g. Queen Street (Auckland) and central Rotorua on Friday and Saturday nights where the authorities are considered to particularly clamp down on youth infringing. Many recall at key points in their infringing history, receiving multiple infringements in the one incident, or three sets of notices on the same stretch of road within a relatively short period of time. “It’...

7. Director of Proceedings v McMillan [2020] NZHRRT 18 [pdf, 379 KB]

   ...Manoeuvre, or “all fours” position. 18 shoulder dystocia before directing the aggrieved person to move onto her hands and knees. 97. The defendant applied some traction to Baby A’s head. Baby A was born at 10.20 pm. The cord was clamped. No cord gases were taken. 98. The core midwife took Baby A to the resuscitaire, where ventilation was commenced by ED doctors and an ED nurse. 99. Baby A’s birth weight was recorded as 4,870 grams.37 Her Apgar scores38 wer...

8. Starik v Auckland Council [2016] NZWHT Auckland 5 [pdf, 491 KB]

   ...then another strip of decking laid against the cladding. [92] The strip of cladding between the ribbon plate and the boundary joist was left unstopped, un-plastered and unpainted. Water ingress occurred through the unsealed cladding joints clamped between the ribbon plate and the boundary joist and through the membrane where it either failed to adhere to the substrate, was not adequately applied or was punctured by the cladding fixings into the bottom plate. [93] According...

9. Advice on consistency of Bills with the Bill of Rights Act

   The Ministry of Justice, and the Crown Law Office in the case of Bills developed by the Ministry of Justice, advise the Attorney-General on the consistency of all Bills with the Bill of Rights Act (with the exception of appropriation Bills, which are not scrutinised). The Attorney-General retains legal professional privilege in respect of unpublished advice written before January 2003, as well as unpublished advice written since January 2003 on Bills on which the Attorney-General has tabled a se

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10. Abraham v Auckland City Council [pdf, 111 KB]

    ...reproduce below: (i) Upper parapet flashings $17,475.16 (ii) Boundary parapet flashings $ 9,662.45 (iii) Rainwater outlets $ 7,315.63 (iv) Window flashings, including the large window and roof light $20,059.02 (v) Entrapment at the base or at clamping points, such as boundary joists $ 6,201.78 (vi) Failed junctions of balustrade flashings and wall cladding flashings $11,757.92 (vii) Failure of control joints $ 5,850.11 (viii) The lack of adequate ground clearance at th...