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1. Sale-and-Supply-of-Alcohol-Community-Participation-Amendment-Bill.FINAL.pdf [pdf, 3.3 MB]

   ...breastfeeding people (and their children); and rangatahi. Further information about the alcohol harms experienced by these groups is set out in the paper Reforms to the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012 considered by Cabinet on 19 October 2022. Human Rights 51 The proposals in this paper preserve the right for parties to be heard and for DLCs to ask questions of parties during hearings. As such, we consider that the proposals do not limit any rights of freedoms provided in the Ne...

2. Evaluation of programmes for Māori adult protected tersons under the Domestic Violence Act 1995 [pdf, 4.3 MB]

   ...Strait Islander Women’s Task Force on Violence Report, 1999, Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy and Development, Queensland, Australia. 24 ibid. 25 ibid. 26 Henare, M. (1995). Te Tiriti, te tangata, te whänau: the Treaty, the human person, the family. In Rights and responsibilities. Papers from the International Year of the Family Symposium on Rights and Responsibilities of the Family held in Wellington, 14 to 16 October 1994. Wellington: International Year of the Fam...

3. BORA Wanganui District Council Prohibition of Gang Insignia Bill [pdf, 215 KB]

   ...of Rights Act and Standing Order 266. A draft report for this purpose is attached for your consideration and signature, if you agree. Jeff Orr Chief Legal Counsel Office of Legal Counsel Stuart Beresford Manager, Bill of Rights/Human Rights Public Law Group In addition to the general disclaimer for all documents on this website, please note the following: This advice was prepared to assist the Attorney-General to determine whether a report should be made to...

4. [2008] NZEmpC AC 35/08 Webb v New Zealand Tramways and Public Passengers Transport Union Inc [pdf, 30 KB]

   ...submitted that a headnote summary of the determinations prepared by the Authority for publication on the Department of Labour’s website would be a better way of informing interested union members. Such summaries are, however, prepared for legal and human resources practitioners and tend to emphasise the legal outcomes and the Authority’s reasoning. There are other parts of the Authority’s determinations that should be available to members so that, put succinctly, mor...

5. [2009] NZEmpC CC 18/09 Grey v Director-General of Conservation [pdf, 34 KB]

   ...departmental solicitor and as solicitor on the record in proceedings against the Attorney-General. [4] The first documents that Ms Grey asks to be disclosed are “All advice, file notes etc recording communications between the Director-General, and his human resources team…”. Counsel for the defendant assures the Court that there are no such documents other than those which have already been disclosed to the plaintiff. Such an assurance from counsel is usually determinative o...

6. [2015] NZEmpC 212 Go Bus Transport Ltd v Hellyer interlocutory [pdf, 99 KB]

   ...heard on the challenge. The minute was to be served on those parties as well as counsel for Go Bus. Chief Judge Colgan will preside over a directions conference on these matters on 7 December 2015. Evidence and submissions of Go Bus [13] The Human Resources Manager of Go Bus, Mr Bardsley, filed an affidavit in support of the company’s application for stay. He deposed that Go Bus is in a financial position to pay the sum ordered by the Authority to Mr Hellyer; and that it woul...

7. [2015] NZSSAA 102 (18 December 2015) [pdf, 47 KB]

   ...had his own business designing wireless networks. He is not specifically looking for work at the present time but hopes to be able to do so in the future. [13] The appellant submits that the United Nations regards access to the internet as a basic human right. Following the hearing, he provided a variety of information from the internet which he says supports his claim. [14] A further matter affecting his finances is the cost of travel to Masterton. The appellant said that petrol and...

8. [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...

9. IT v KRR [2015] NZIACDT 66 (28 May 2015) [pdf, 99 KB]

   ...breach of duty in a professional setting, by measuring the breach against real world standards where perfection is not attainable. A responsible body of a practitioner’s peers gives weight to the realities of day-to- day professional practice, and human error. Accordingly, a necessary element of the test is to determine whether any lapse is sufficiently serious to warrant upholding the complaint as a professional disciplinary matter. Though the statutory context is quite different, a rele...

10. 2017 NZSSAA 037 (17 July 2017) [pdf, 214 KB]

    ...started confiscating property from the Jews), perhaps quite acceptable in the atmosphere of the times then. Those attitudes do not provide a decent foundation for interpreting the law in the 21st Century. However we need not argue the matter of human rights or discriminatory law in this Tribunal hearing; the Ministry’s case falls apart elsewhere. Going on ahead, it is necessary to lay out some overarching principles, so that the appellant and the Tribunal do not have to go back to...