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1. Privacy Bill - additional policy decisions [pdf, 304 KB]

   ...ideas for reform have been put forward by submitters, including the Privacy Commissioner. Many of these ideas reflect emerging innovations in international privacy and consumer rights law, and aim to respond to new challenges to privacy and related human rights in the data driven age. These ideas include new rules on the de-identification and reidentification of personal information, a ‘right to erasure’, data portability, and algorithmic transparency. New Zealand ‘adequacy’...

2. SK and RM v GJ LCRO 36/2015 (14 December 2016) [pdf, 252 KB]

   ...survivorship”.9 Explanation of unsatisfactory conduct finding [35] The Standards Committee said the following:10 The Standards Committee accepted that Messrs [SK] and [RM] had failed to properly account for the assets of Mr [MT]’s estate. A human error clearly being 4 At [19]. 5 At [28]. 6 At [39] – [42]. 7 At [46]. 8 At [19]. 9 At [28]. 10 At [39]–[41]. 7 made by Mrs [HY] who appears to have misinter...

3. EMPC Old dogs new tricks conference presentation [pdf, 239 KB]

   ...13 Employment Relations Act 2000, s 50C(2). 14 [2012] NZEmpC 168. 15 Ian McAndrew “Collective bargaining interventions: contemporary New Zealand experiments” (2012) 23 International Journal of Human Resources Management 495. 10 have been sufficiently serious and sustained to significantly undermine the bargaining, that all other reasonable alternatives for reaching agreement have been exhausted, and that the fixing of the provi

4. Proactive Release - Cabinet Paper for arbitrating commercial lease disputes [pdf, 714 KB]

   ...scrutiny of proposals. These proposals are time dependent; they need to happen quickly and they need to apply retrospectively. If they are not made in this way, they will not achieve their intended purpose to support businesses through this time. Human Rights 69 The proposals in this paper do not engage significant issues of consistency with the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 and the Human Rights Act 1993. While there is no general protection for property under the Bill of Rights Act...

5. Compensation Guidelines for Wrongful Conviction and Imprisonment - Including Home Detention and Military Detention [pdf, 288 KB]

   ...discretion to require a payment to be funded through baselines. Legislative Implications 54. There are no legislative implications. Impact Analysis 55. The impact analysis requirements do not apply. 2s369xiwkj 2022-11-29 10:18:09 8 Human Rights 56. The proposals appear to be consistent with the rights and freedoms contained in the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 and the Human Rights Act 1993. Population Implications 57. The potential pool of persons wrongly c...

6. Rata - Succession to Paretuaoroa Paretekorae and Haki Rata [2021] Chief Judge's MB 106 (2021 CJ 106) [pdf, 424 KB]

   ...Bill of Rights. (Emphasis added) 27. Section 19 of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 (Freedom from discrimination) states: (1) Everyone has the right to freedom from discrimination on the grounds of discrimination in the Human Rights Act 1993. 28. While section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1999 further states: An enactment does not have retrospective effect. 29. Legislation generally has prospective and not retrospective effect. The Submissions...

7. 2017 Cabinet Paper updating progress on the Ministerial Group family violence work programme [pdf, 259 KB]

   ...Puni Kokiri. The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet has been informed Financial Implications 89 There are no direct financial implications in this paper. Funding is being sought for an extension of the ISR pilot through Budget 2017. Human Rights 90 Reducing family violence and sexual violence assists the Government to meet human rights obligations including the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Declar...

8. Proactive Release – Expiring Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act 2009 regulations: substantive and technical changes and new regulatory proposals [pdf, 954 KB]

   ...Team has determined that a Regulatory Impact Assessment is required for these proposals as they are expected to have only minor impacts on businesses, individuals or not-for-profit entities and repeal or remove redundant legislative provisions. Human Rights 60. The proposals in this paper appear to be consistent with the rights and freedoms contained in the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 and the Human Rights Act 1993. Treaty of Waitangi Implications 61. While the AML/CFT...

9. LCRO 193/2017 AA v BB and CC (29 November 2019) [pdf, 153 KB]

   ...employer, should be dealt with by the Police and other law enforcement agencies. [117] Agencies said by Mr AA to be actively dealing with his complaints included the New Zealand Police, the Serious Fraud Office, the office of the Ombudsman, The Human Rights Commission, the Financial Markets Authority, the Malaysian Securities Commission and the Australian Securities Commission. [118] The Court concluded that evidence given by Mr AA as to the apparent existence of various investiga...

10. [2018] NZEmpC 47 New Zealand Nurses Organisation v Waikato District Health Board [pdf, 366 KB]

    ...employment contract, effective 1 August 1994. 13 The New Zealand Nurses Association New Zealand Area Health Boards Nurse Award 1990/91. [27] Another change was prompted by the Human Rights Act 1993 (the HR Act).14 From 1 March 1999 until 30 June 2002 all collective employment contracts provided for the parties to review the retiring gratuities clause to ensure compliance with legal changes resulting from that Act....