Search Results

1. Butcher v NZ Transport Agency [2022] NZHRRT 21 [pdf, 586 KB]

   Reference No. HRRT 019/2017 UNDER THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT 1993 BETWEEN STEPHEN GILBERT BUTCHER PLAINTIFF AND NEW ZEALAND TRANSPORT AGENCY FIRST DEFENDANT AND ATTORNEY-GENERAL IN RESPECT OF THE MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT SECOND DEFENDANT AT WELLINGTON BEFORE: Mr RPG Haines ONZM QC, Chairperson Ms MG Coleman, Deputy Chairperson Dr NR Swain, Member Sir RK Workman KNZM QSO, Member REPRESENTATION: Mr SG Butcher in person Mr P Rishworth QC and Mr M McKi...

2. Taylor v Corrections [2018] NZHRRT 35 [pdf, 308 KB]

   ...DECISION OF TRIBUNAL1 INDEX INTRODUCTION [1] The role of the Privacy Commissioner [4] Delay [6] 1 [This decision is to be cited as Taylor v Corrections [2018] NZHRRT 35.] IN THE HUMAN RIGHTS REVIEW TRIBUNAL [2018] NZHRRT 35 2 Open and closed documents [7] Order in which issues to be addressed [10] THE CASE FOR MR TAYLOR [11] THE VIEW TAKEN BY THE PRIVACY COMMISSIONER [22] THE CASE FOR CORRECTIONS [27] The wa...

3. [2013] NZEmpC 85 Aarts v Barnados New Zealand [pdf, 328 KB]

   ...Third Defendant AND THE PRIVACY COMMISSIONER Fourth Defendant AND THE OMBUDSMAN Fifth Defendant AND MINISTRY OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT Sixth Defendant AND THE SERIOUS FRAUD OFFICE Seventh Defendant AND THE DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RIGHTS PROCEEDINGS Eighth Defendant AND THE INDEPENDENT POLICE CONDUCT AUTHORITY Ninth Defendant AND LANCE LAWSON BARRISTERS & SOLICITORS Tenth Defendant Hearing: 11 and 13 March 2013 And by memoranda file...

4. OIA-94638.pdf [pdf, 7 MB]

   ...list of excluded offences. 41. In Kapi v Ministry of Transport ( 1992) 8 CRNZ 49 the Court of Appeal held that, in addition to compulsion, the common law defence of duress of circumstances may be available in NZ when the source of a threat is non-human (because section 24 relates to human threats). For example, the defence might apply if a crane is about to drop a concrete slab on A, who falls and breaks an arm when pushed out of the way by B. 42. However, the existence and scope of the...

5. 2021-03-24 OWRUG - DOC v ORC (C28-2002) [pdf, 1.2 MB]

   ...user groups, water allocation committees and other water users to assist with the gathering of information that supports future management decisions. 15.9.1.2 The Otago Regional Council will encourage research to improve knowledge about the natural and human use values of Otago’s water resources. Principal reasons for adopting These methods ‘are adopted to assist with making decisions on resource consent applications, and for the monitoring and review of the Plan’s provisions. With many...

6. Marshall v IDEA Services Ltd (Privacy Act) [2020] NZHRRT 13 [pdf, 353 KB]

   1 IN THE HUMAN RIGHTS REVIEW TRIBUNAL [2020] NZHRRT 13 Reference No. HRRT 015/2017 UNDER THE PRIVACY ACT 1993 BETWEEN EAMON HENNING MARSHALL PLAINTIFF AND IDEA SERVICES LIMITED DEFENDANT AT NAPIER BEFORE: Mr RPG Haines ONZM QC, Chairperson Ms GJ Goodwin, Deputy Chairperson Ms LJ Alaeinia JP, Member Mr MJM Keefe QSM JP, Member REPRESENTATION: Mr GW Marshall as agent for his son Ms I Reuvecamp for defe...

7. 2020-04-09-Plan-Changes-1-8-s-32-Evaluation-Report.pdf [pdf, 737 KB]

   ...Statement .............................................................. 60 5.3. National Environmental Standards ................................................................................... 60 5.3.1. National Environmental Standard for Sources of Human Drinking Water ......... 61 5.4. National Environmental Standards for Plantation Forestry .............................................. 61 5.5. National Planning Standards ............................................................

8. Directory of Official Information S-U [pdf, 1.1 MB]

   ...Bureau, New Zealand Defence Force and New Zealand Police to facilitate their functions and co-operating with other agencies to respond to an imminent threat to life or safety. In exercising its functions, the NZSIS acts in accordance with the law and human rights obligations, independently and impartially, and in a manner that facilitates democratic oversight. Oversight The Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) is the parliamentary oversight mechanism for the intelligence agencies...

9. ENVC Hearing 6Oct14 TGKL lay attach 2 treated timber [pdf, 1.8 MB]

   University of Wollongong Research Online Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive) Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts 2005 Treated Timber, Toxic Time-bomb: The Need for a Precautionary Approach to the Use of Copper Chrome Arsenate (CCA) as a Timber Preservative N. Lansbury University of Wollongong Sharon Beder University of Wollongong, sharonb@uow.edu.au Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the University of Wollongong. For further information contact the UOW Libra...

10. [2006] NZEmpC AC 39/06 Epic Packaging Ltd v NZ Amalgamated Engineering Printing & Manufacturing Union [pdf, 123 KB]

    ...agreements between employers’ and workers’ organisations. The convention makes no mention of multi-party collective agreements, let alone multi- employer collective agreements or mechanisms for subsequently joining them. [43] Other international human rights instruments are also relevant. These include the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, both United Nations covenants. Although human rights by their very nature...