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1. New Zealand Public Health and Disability (Restriction on Crown Funding Agreements and Unfunded Cancer Medicines) Amendment Bill [pdf, 232 KB]

   ...otherwise appears not permitted).8 Consistency with the Bill of Rights Act Section 19 – Freedom from Discrimination 13. Section 19(1) of the Bill of Rights Act affirms the right to freedom from discrimination on the prohibited grounds listed in the Human Rights Act 1993. Disability is a prohibited ground of discrimination, and is exhaustively defined as: a. Physical disability or impairment; b. Physical illness; c. Psychiatric illness; d. Intellectual or psychological disabilit...

2. [2023] NZEmpC 140 Taniwha v Te Runanga O Toa Rangatira Inc [pdf, 261 KB]

   ...2021, the Rūnanga had advised Mr Taniwha he would need to be vaccinated as a result of the promulgation of the Order. [9] Detailed reference was made to a conversation which took place on 10 November 2021 between Mr Taniwha and the Rūnanga’s human resources manager, Mr Tamaki, for which the Authority had a transcript. In summary, the Authority recorded that Mr Taniwha had been told the Rūnanga considered that relevant staff needed to be vaccinated by 15 November 2021 or have r...

3. [2024] NZREADT 12 – CAC 2106 v City Realty (24 April 2024) [pdf, 125 KB]

   ...mishandled its customers’ money held on trust. This was of significant risk to the public and the exact situation the Audit Regulations are designed to protect against. [26] The Committee submitted that whilst City Realty attributes its failures to human error and faulty systems, it has misused money held by it on trust. It submitted that the most egregious aspect of the offending was that City Realty used monies for other purposes than those for which it was received. [27] It...

4. [2024] NZEmpC 109 LDJ v EZC [pdf, 249 KB]

   ...they raised a personal grievance and sought three months’ lost wages. After negotiation, they were offered and accepted a sum of $20,000 in settlement of their claims. The settlement agreement was signed by the applicant and the respondent’s human resources director, but was not certified by an MBIE-employed mediator under s 149 of the Act. [4] The applicant’s position is that when they signed the settlement agreement, they did not have the requisite mental capacity to do...

5. Needham v Accident Compensation Corporation (Binding effect of review decision) [2023] NZACC 146 [pdf, 271 KB]

   ...them did not know what had happened or the seriousness of the injury. [36] She told the Court of being labelled as a “malingerer” on one occasion. [37] She says that at aged 82, she is “in pain up to my head”. [38] She said that her human rights had been breached and that her heart is in atrial fibrillation. [39] She spoke of her family having to disrupt their lives to look after her and her husband. [40] As to the functional capacity evaluation with Rebecca Wilson,...

6. Cheng v Serco New Zealand Limited [2025] NZHRRT 11 [pdf, 203 KB]

   ...New Zealand Limited (Serco) regarding matters relating to his treatment while he was in custody at the Auckland South Corrections Facility (ASCF). 1 This decision is to be cited as Cheng v Serco New Zealand Limited [2025] NZHRRT 11. IN THE HUMAN RIGHTS REVIEW TRIBUNAL [2025] NZHRRT 11 I TE TARAIPIUNARA MANA TANGATA REFERENCE NO. HRRT 061/2021 UNDER THE PRIVACY ACT 2020 BETWEEN THOMAS CHENG PLAINTIFF AND SERCO NEW ZEALAND LIMITED DEFENDANT AT WELLINGTON BEFO...

7. LCRO 36/2023 TL v RY and SK (4 July 2024) [pdf, 180 KB]

   ...Western society”; (d) abuse of privilege; 5 (e) historical cases of unnecessary imprisonment, impliedly because of the improper actions of Crown Prosecutors. (f) the Committee’s decision being “… the best example of sickness in the human species I have seen”; (g) an allegation of “… bias, predetermined outcomes, and potentially lying…” on the part of the Committee; (h) the abuse of absolute power by the Committee; (i) apparently pre-emptively, the LCRO being...

8. Gray v Accident Compensation Corporation (Personal Injury) [2025] NZACC 142 (2 September 2025) [pdf, 182 KB]

   ...which the person has cover. Section 25(1)(a)(i) provides that “accident” means a specific event or a series of events, other than a gradual process, that involves the application of a force (including gravity), or resistance, external to the human body. Section 25(3) notes that the fact that a person has suffered a personal injury is not of itself to be construed as an indication or presumption that it was caused by an accident. 6 [24] In Ambros,1 the Court of Appeal env...

9. Recommendations recap - issue 2 [pdf, 1.7 MB]

   ...groups and workers to work with retailers and identify those where abusers are obtaining inhalants; that an annual audit process is implemented whereby compliance with the retailer code of conduct can be measured. The Victorian Department of Human Services developed a suite of resources titled Responsible Sale of Solvents – A Retailer’s Kit in 2002 which addressed retailers obligations under the Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Act 1981 (Vic), as well as strategies...

10. [2021] NZEnvC 133 Woolworths New Zealand Limited [pdf, 1 MB]

    WOOLWORTHS NZ LTD v CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL IN THE ENVIRONMENT COURT AT CHRISTCHURCH I TE KŌTI TAIAO O AOTEAROA KI ŌTAUTAHI Decision [2021] NZEnvC 133 IN THE MATTER of the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) AND an application under s87G of the RMA BETWEEN WOOLWORTHS NEW ZEALAND LIMITED (ENV-2020-CHC-001) Applicant AND CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL Consent Authority Court: Environment Judge P A Steven Alternate Environment Judge L J Newhook Environment Commissione