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1. [2020] NZIACDT 44 - Registrar v Yoon (8 October 2020) [pdf, 259 KB]

   ...Authority had been directed at the advocate with the cancellation of his licence. A vendetta had been waged against him. This had led him to appoint an associate for all immigration matters for his clients. [19] The advocate contended that the human rights of the couple had been breached by the findings made by the agency concerning the client’s health, character, marriage and the timing of the decision. A High Court Judge had rejected or totally ignored the affidavits presen...

2. Government Response to Law Commision Report on New Issues in Legal Parenthood [pdf, 36 KB]

   ...profiling); and - Powers of parents and the courts to undertake or compel parentage testing. (ii) Assigning legal parenthood, including recommendations about: - Allocating legal parenthood status (and consequent rights and responsibilities) where assisted human reproductive (AHR) procedures have been used; and - Processes for assigning and transferring legal parenthood status, for example to a known sperm or egg donor or to implement surrogacy arrangements. (iii) Information about genetic...

3. [2019] NZEnvC 159 Auckland Council v Noe [pdf, 826 KB]

   ...resource consent. 2. The interim enforcement order sought under ss 314(1)(a)(ii) and 314(1)(da) is sought on the basis that it is necessary to avoid, remedy or mitigate actual or likely adverse effects on the environment, including: a. risks to human health associated with the placement of contaminated fill, including asbestos containing material; b. the immediate risk to soil and water quality associated with the placement of uncertified contaminated fill containing a combination of...

4. Justice Matters - issue 13 - December 2018 [pdf, 2.2 MB]

   ...Tribunals Bills will have a broad impact for our people across Operations and Service Delivery as well as Court Security. Most amendments came into effect upon receiving Royal Assent. These include: • the ability to appoint deputy chairpersons to the Human Rights Review Tribunal • new standard powers and procedures for 21 tribunals. For example, the Legal Complaints Review Officer will be able to dismiss claims without merit, and to decide more matters on the papers • reversing...

5. ORC - Joint Supplementary Statement of Evidence - Felicity Boyd & Kerstin Strauss - 8 November 2021 [pdf, 233 KB]

   ...is consistent with the Policy Assessment Sheet used by Consent Officers when assessing applications for effluent discharges contained in Appendix 1B of Ms Strauss’s evidence. 19 The policies in section 7.C are only applicable to discharges of human sewage, hazardous substances and wastes, specified contaminants, and stormwater, and discharges from industrial or trade premises and consented dams. They are therefore not relevant to discharges of animal effluent. 5 20 Section...

6. C v Accident Compensation Corporation [2020] NZHRRT 3 [pdf, 193 KB]

   ...information was collected. It is necessary for the Tribunal to determine whether ACC’s actions breached the Health Information Privacy Code 1994. 1 [This decision is to be cited as C v Accident Compensation Corporation [2020] NZHRRT 3.] IN THE HUMAN RIGHTS REVIEW TRIBUNAL [2020] NZHRRT 3 2 Background [2] In 1994 Mr C was in a severe car accident which resulted in serious injuries including a head injury and multiple fractures, including an L1 vertebral compression fracture...

7. Greenslade v Commissioner of Police (Privacy Act) [2021] NZHRRT 54 [pdf, 184 KB]

   ...Police. He was attracted to a career with the Police because he thought it would be exciting, active and a community-based position. 1 [This decision is to be cited as Greenslade v Commissioner of Police (Privacy Act) [2021] NZHRRT 54.] IN THE HUMAN RIGHTS REVIEW TRIBUNAL [2021] NZHRRT 54 I TE TARAIPIUNARA MANA TANGATA 2 [2] To be eligible to be appointed as a Police constable an applicant must first graduate from the Royal New Zealand Police College (Police College). Acco...

8. [2012] NZEmpC 90 Walker v Procare Health Ltd [pdf, 313 KB]

   ...raising the same ‘crap’ over and over again and it doesn’t matter how many times it is all explained to him (not by me anyway).” [18] The second email was one dated 16 June 2006 from Ms Walker to Mr McLean (copied to Ms Penny Smythe the Human Resources Manager, and one other) which related to staff feedback at a POPS refresher course. In the first part of the email, Ms Walker is highly critical of Ms Scott for what she (Ms Walker) perceived to be an undermining of the PO...

9. ENVC Hearing 6Oct14 s274 evidence chief Janet Moore Appendix 3 Makgill [pdf, 303 KB]

   ...Transition” in Memon, P.A. & Perkins, H. (eds.) Environmental Planning & Management in New Zealand, Dunmore 2000, p. 216. 7 It is thought that about 30 per cent of the total marine environment experiences some degree of disturbance from human activities. This is sobering when the size of our population (i.e. measured by Statistics New Zealand as at December 2007 to be 4,291,900) is considered against the size of our coastal environment (i.e. at 4.4 million square kilometres it...

10. David Bain appendices tabs A to E [pdf, 1.6 MB]

    ...six documentary sources, three of the authors being examined before the court. The court said, in paragraph 22 of the judgment: "The key question is whether the blood in which David Bain's fingerprint marks were found on the rifle was human blood. There was no suggestion at the trial that the blood was not human. Hence the jury will undoubtedly have proceeded on the basis that it was." 1 1 As a result of subsequent inquiries, tests and analyses there was now a sug...