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1. [2018] NZEnvC 205 Cossens v Queenstown Lakes District Council [pdf, 14 MB]

   ...Queenstown on 1 and 2 August 2018 Final submissions received 12 September 2018 Appearances: J Cossens for himself R J Wilson, Z T Burton and N Fraser (on 12 September 2018) for the Queenstown Lakes District Council J Haworth for the Upper Clutha Environmental Society Incorporated (section 274 party) Date of Decision: 16 October 2018 Date of Issue: 16 October 2018 INTERIM DECISION A: Under section 290 of the Resource Management Act 1991 the Environment Court: (1) declines to gr...

2. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - government report back 5th report [pdf, 242 KB]

   ...over-representation of Māori in the criminal justice system: (a) bias in the criminal justice system, such that any suspected or actual offending by Māori has harsher consequences for those Māori, and (b) a range of adverse early-life social and environmental factors resulting in Māori being at greater risk of offending as adults. 7. The report concluded that, although there were indications of a degree of over- representation that related solely to ethnicity, the disproportion...

3. Delivering better public services: reducing crime & reoffending result action plan [pdf, 500 KB]

   ...with the private sector to introduce situational crime prevention measures – such as insurance discounts for policy holders who target harden their property and coordination with private security providers. • Embed Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design principles into the rebuild of Christchurch. • Advance crime prevention standards for a range of products, so that consumers can make better choices. • Develop regulatory reform proposals that will reduce crime – f...

4. Waitangi Tribunal - issue 54 of Te Manutukutuku [pdf, 353 KB]

   ...running from 19 to 23 November. Hearings will start with a co- operative week of claimant evidence. Claimants will work together to pre- sent evidence relating to events after the signing of the Treaty up until 1873. A separate day is reserved for environmental matters. The subse- quent four weeks of claimant hear- ings will be used by the different claimant groups on their own marae. Overall, there is a high level of preparation among all parties. This bodes well for the hearing...

5. [2022] NZACC 55 – Griffith v ACC ( 5 April 2022) [pdf, 233 KB]

   ...independence and an ability to work at least 30 hours per week in either of the two work types identified by the Corporation. 10 [34] On 14 November 2017, a Notice of Appeal was lodged. [35] On 24 January 2019, Dr David Black, Occupational and Environmental Medicine Physician, having examined Mr Griffith on 17 December 2018 and reviewed his medical history, reported: … it is clearly not realistic to conclude that Joel Griffith is able to manage his pain in such a way as to...

6. [2020] NZEnvC 220 Napier City Council v McMillan [pdf, 2.9 MB]

   ...is sought and without holding a hearing. These provisions allow for the possibility that the need for action to deal with the contravention of the Act may be so urgent that the usual requirements for notice and a hearing could result in greater environmental damage. The issue is whether such risk outweighs the general desirability of adherence to the usual procedure of the Court and the principles of natural justice, including in particular hearing both sides to a case before making...

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

   ...alienation of the geothermal resource from Mäori ownership and control, and seri- ous damage done to the resource, � the Crown’s negotiation of unfair and inappropriate agreements about ownership of lakes, fish- eries, and rivers, and serious environmental damage done to waterways, � the Crown’s mismanagement of development schemes, its fores- try leases, and other twentieth- century land issues, resulting in loss of Mäori land, or prevention of Mäori from using their...

8. [2019] NZEnvC 017 Cossens v Queenstown Lakes District Council [pdf, 4.5 MB]

   ...for the water supply. 6. The drinking water supply is to be monitored for compliance with the Drinking Water Standard for New Zealand 2005 (revised 2008), by the management group for the lots/lot owner, and the -results forwarded to the Principal: Environmental Health at Council. The Ministry of Health shall approve the laboratory carrying out the analysis. Should the water not meet the requirements of the Standard then the management group for the lots shall be responsible for the provi...

9. [2017] NZEnvC 038 Gravatt v Pierau [pdf, 547 KB]

   ...Unitary Plan operative in part; the cumulative effects of amplified music and of people and traffic adjoining a conservation zone would have negative impacts on rare and endangered avifauna during vulnerable breeding seasons; and that negative environmental effects would likely to be noxious and objectionable such as to warrant the making of an enforcement order. [3] The application was accompanied by an affidavit of Mr Gravatt with extensive attachments, the latter including the...

10. [2023] NZEnvC 043 Minister of Conservation v Northland Regional Council [pdf, 419 KB]

    ...to include a new condition requiring that any discharge does not contain concentrations of contaminants which are likely to have any more than minor adverse effect on source water for human consumption, as per the Resource Management (National Environmental Standards for Sources of Human Drinking Water) Regulations 2007 (NES-DW). [16] The rationale for Northland DHB’s appeal is that the decisions version of Rule C.4.1.9 would allow activities that could have negative impacts on...