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1. Regulatory Impact Statement Family Court Review [pdf, 174 KB]

   ...required to resolve a case if parties represent themselves in parts of proceedings • the time required to support self-representing parties. Where possible, assumptions have been drawn from historical Family Court data. Some assumptions about human behaviour – the choices people, including lawyers and parties, make about family disputes – are unable to be drawn from existing data. Government Statement on Regulation The Government Statement on Regulation requires there to be...

2. [2019] NZSAAA 1 (4 February 2019) [pdf, 417 KB]

   ...about the situation the parties are in. Continuing to provide parental contact and support into early adulthood after a lengthy period of foster care may only happen infrequently but when it does it is not exceptional. Rather it is the natural, human outcome of a successful placement. Accordingly I am satisfied that if Mr and Mrs M could be described as her parents in terms of the reg 2 definition the appellant’s ICG application would have to fail. [39] Once Mr and Mrs M are remove...

3. Proactive release - 2020 Cannabis Referendum [pdf, 4.2 MB]

   ...This may, however, conflict with public expectations that their vote on a particular regulatory model be respected. The subsequent RIA should detail how monitoring and review will be handled, and whether this should be signalled at the referendum. Human Rights 130. Establishing a minimum age of 20 to use and purchase cannabis limits the right to be free from discrimination under the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 (NZBORA). 131. I consider that the limitation is justified as it...

4. Legal aid grants December 2019 [xlsx, 102 KB]

   ...This includes debt recovery, breaches of contract, defamation, and bankruptcy proceedings. It also includes proceedings before tribunals or specialist courts such as the: • Employment Relations Authority • Employment Court • Environment Court • Human Rights Tribunal • Legal Aid Tribunal • Māori Land Court • Immigration & Protection Tribunal • Social Security Appeal Authority • Taxation Review Tribunal • Tenancy Tribunal • Waitangi Tribunal. Civil legal aid is not avai...

5. [2021] NZEnvC 187 The Canyon Vineyard Limited v Central Otago District Council [pdf, 1.5 MB]

   ...ensure that: (i) The supplier of any treatment equipment shall provide a certificate from a suitably qualified person confirming that the system operated in accordance with the operating and maintenance procedures, will supply water suitable for human consumption in compliance with Drinking Water Standards for New Zealand 2005 (revised 2008). (ii) A copy of the operating and maintenance instructions for any treatment equipment installed in terms of Condition 12(a) above and a copy...

6. [2024] NZEmpC 93 Television New Zealand Ltd v E Tu Incorporated [pdf, 327 KB]

   ...Fonterra, the statutory and common law context in which employment agreements are entered into and operate is relevant to the interpretative exercise.5 Employment agreements are not akin to arms-length business agreements; they involve people and human interactions (not the economic exchange of money for goods); they occur within the framework of multifaceted obligations, both statutory (such as mutual obligations of good faith) and common law (such as the obligation of fidelity an...

7. Canterbury Westland Standards Committee v Simes [2012] NZLCDT 4 [pdf, 194 KB]

   ...was able to give legal advice regarding the direction or management of proceedings that were reserved areas of work.18 In the case of an incorporated law firm employees would have to be involved in giving the advice (a company operates through its human employees) and there is no requirement that such employees be lawyers. The requirement is only that the incorporated law firm be controlled by a lawyer. [78] As a consequence, Mr Gorringe submitted, the purpose of Section 24 must be t...

8. [2012] NZEmpC 96 South Pacific Meats Ltd v Mohammed [pdf, 238 KB]

   ...upset by this revelation and told Mr Shanks that he would be returning on 3 August 2009 regardless. When questioned, Mr Shanks said that he could not recall such a conversation. [26] Mr Mohammed sought assistance from his friend and previous Human Resources Manager at another plant, Mr Small. Mr Mohammed and his son’s evidence is broadly consistent with what Mr Small had to say. His evidence was that he rang the company on 31 July 2009 and spoke to the receptionist, asking...

9. National Standards Committee v Young [2017] NZLCDT 41 [pdf, 315 KB]

   ...necessary to carefully consider the dicta in the two recent decisions of the High Court and Court of Appeal respectively in Deliu6 and Orlov.7 [45] In Orlov, the Court was considering the conduct of the practitioner in making a complaint to the Human Rights Review Tribunal, which was acknowledged to be a personal claim. At para [110] the Court had this to say: “But again, given that the person alleged to have discriminated is a Judge, the person complaining is a practitioner, a...

10. OIA-97276.pdf [pdf, 7.3 MB]

    ...considered when making an adequacy decision? Article 45 of the GDPR requires the European Commission to take into account the following when deciding whether a country offers an ³DGHTXDWH OHYHO RI SURWHFWLRQ´� x The rule of law, respect for human rights, including laws on public security, defence, national security and criminal law and the access of public authorities to personal data. x Data protection rules, professional rules and security measures, including rules for the onwa...