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1. Freedom Camping (Infringement Offences and Other Matters) Amendment Bill [pdf, 2 MB]

   ...generally permitted unless restricted or prohibited and creates an infringement regime for prohibited behaviours. 5. The Act's purpose is to target the negative effects of freedom camping, such as littering, and the inappropriate disposal of human waste and effluent - which causes environmental degradation and poses risk to public health. The explanatory note states that the Bill's purpose is to make it easier to address these negative behaviours and to make the rules more cons...

2. Paterson - Ahiateatua A8B (2013) 31 Tairawhiti MB 109 (31 TRW 109) [pdf, 154 KB]

   ...the lease was renewed and that this matter would be discussed at the meeting. 7. A Land Suitability Report obtained by the applicant from the Gisborne District Council indicates that the land may be located within an area associated with human activity prior to 1900, and thus the applicant must alert the Historic Places Trust if any archaeological material is uncovered. It also has a Heritage Alert Layer over the block, but not within the area that is subject to this applicati...

3. [2014] NZEmpC 28 Harvery Norman v Boult [pdf, 51 KB]

   ...filed by Friday 9 August 2013. The matter will then be decided on the papers. Any claim for costs will be addressed at the same time. [5] Mr Edwards then provided a memorandum of submissions and an affidavit of Ms Van Niekirk, the plaintiff’s Human Resources Manager, in support. Offer of settlement without prejudice as to costs [6] The defendant lodged his statement of problem with the Authority on 30 June 2011. The plaintiff has not provided a copy of that statement to the Cou...

4. Young-Adult-List-Operating-Guidelines2.pdf [pdf, 5.8 MB]

   ...Research shows that participants have a high prevalence of neurodiversity and exposure to trauma and abuse. Processes in the Young Adult List have been redesigned to adjust for the following characteristics and needs: Executive Functioning The human brain continues developing beyond turning 18 and usually fully develops at around 25 in most individuals. This includes the frontal lobe which is responsible for executive functioning that includes impulse control, emotional regulat...

5. [2023] NZEmpC 175 Carrington Resort Jade LP v Maheno [pdf, 235 KB]

   ...faith report, there is perhaps more merit in the suggestion that the proceedings may be in some way an abuse of the Court’s processes for the purposes of r 15.1(1)(d) of the High Court Rules. However, the right to access justice is an important human right.16 Therefore, the Court of Appeal has 15 Attorney-General v Prince [1998] 1 NZLR 262 (CA) at 267; and Couch v Attorney-General [2008] NZSC 45, [2008] 3 NZLR 725 at [33]; see also Carrington Resort Jade LP v Maheno [2023] NZ...

6. [2018] NZEnvC 171 Genera Limited v Bay of Plenty Regional Council [pdf, 3.1 MB]

   ...educated and had participation rights into the use of methyl bromide in the region. It seeks to ensure that fumigant users adhere to the limits in the Montreal Protocol due to the significant adverse effects of methyl bromide on the environment and on human health. I understand this to be a reference to The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, being a protocol to the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer, to both of which New Zealand is a par...

7. IT & NH v UN Ltd [2022] NZDT 163 (25 October 2022) [pdf, 257 KB]

   ...dimensional printed models is a skill which is at a relatively early phase in its development. It has come a long way in the last five years, as Mr O pointed out, but it was not and could not yet be considered to be a “perfect” representation of human models. The materials used for constructing the model are such that the skin of a model may well have superficial differences with actual skin which as yet cannot be compensated for. I accepted Mr O’s evidence about this. I also acc...

8. E44 Richard Simonds - Groundwater - EIC - Council [pdf, 753 KB]

   ...CB149, page 3897, paragraph 5.1. 1694 6 were no matters of disagreement between me and Mr Ware. As paragraph 2.6 of the JWS records15: The experts agreed that the effects on groundwater level, ground settlement, air quality and odour, human health with relation to contaminated land, and the environment in relation to contaminated soil and groundwater, can be appropriately mitigated via the controls put forward within the Construction Environmental Management Plan Rev B...

9. [2016] NZEmpC 131 A Labour Inspector v Taste of Egypt Ltd [pdf, 89 KB]

   ...proceedings. All that the current proceeding does is to freeze assets pending further enforcement proceedings. This judgment does not require the second or third respondents to meet the debts of the first respondent but recognises that, as the human operatives of their company, Mr Awad and Ms McFarlane are responsible for what it does or does not do. Further, I consider that there is a realistic possibility that the company’s assets may have been transferred to either or both o...

10. Auckland Standards Committee 1 v Ravelich [2020] NZLCDT 22 (16 July 2020) [pdf, 112 KB]

    ...misconduct and unsatisfactory conduct made in the January 2020 decision. Rehabilitation [16] One of the primary purposes of penalty – once protection of the public is assured – is that of rehabilitation of the practitioner. Not only is this a human response by the disciplinary process, but it is also a sensible and practical factor given the years and cost of training of a lawyer and the loss to the public if a good lawyer is no longer able to continue to practice. It is pro...