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1. MFE-You-Mediation-and-the-Environment-Court.pdf [pdf, 673 KB]

   ...feel forced to stick with mediation. Try not to be pressured. Ask yourself, is the agreement worth making? If another process (for example, a Court hearing) will better achieve your objectives, leave the mediation. 6. Remember the other parties are human too. They are likely to be feeling the same frustrations, anxiety, anticipation and pressure as you may be. Allow them to express their emotions without taking it personally. 7. Respect each other’s right to speak without interruption. Don�...

2. Legal aid grants June 2020 [xlsx, 90 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...

3. 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...

4. Motiti Rohe Moana Trust and Royal Forest Bird Protection Society Inc. Submissions - 27 November 2017 [pdf, 295 KB]

   ...decision in Glenharrow Holdings Ltd [2003] 1 NZLR 236 (HC); affirmed on different grounds by the CA in Glenharrow Holdings Ltd v A-G [2003] 2 NZLR 328. 41 Casebook tab 3 11 Unlawful purposes involve control of fisheries and fishery resources for human utilisation now or in the future, 42 the latter being Fisheries Act purposes. 36 The RMA is familiar with overlapping functions and purposes: both intra-Council43 and inter-Council.44 It is also familiar with functional overlap as b...

5. BORA - APEC 2021 Bill [pdf, 199 KB]

   ...New Zealanders can participate in the shaping of society and public opinion. They are the essential building blocks to a free and democratic society.1 In relation to these rights, we note the following: a. freedom of expression is “as wide as human thought and imagination”.2 The right has been interpreted to include the right not to be compelled to say certain things or to provide certain information.3 A person’s conduct may amount to expression where the conduct is intended t...

6. [2022] NZEnvC 043 Marine Farming Association Incorporated v Marlborough District Council [pdf, 5.3 MB]

   ...and heritage values, and shared and recognised values; and. (d) consultation with Marlborough’s tangata whenua iwi. Multiple characteristics and values contribute to landscape. Primarily, landscape is the expression of natural processes and human activity in and on the land. However, it is also a function of how people perceive the results of this interaction. Those values considered relevant in a Marlborough context are identified in (a) to (c) of the policy. Landscapes may have...

7. Legal aid grants December 2021 [xlsx, 85 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...

8. [2021] NZEmpC 215 Stewart v AFFCO NZ Ltd [pdf, 318 KB]

   ...provisions in the offered documents. [22] The Court was advised that the Authority held an investigation meeting into these issues in November 2020, but the Authority’s determination has yet to issue. [23] On 24 August 2020, AFFCO’s National Human Resources Manager, Mr Dane Gerrard, sent a communication to workers at Imlay as to a proposed rate review, and as to availability provisions. AFFCO wished the recipients to sign an attached schedule, which would bring about variat...

9. Legal aid grants June 2021 [xlsx, 84 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...

10. [2021] NZEnvC 075 Ngati Paoa Trust Board v Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga [pdf, 1.3 MB]

    ...the modification or destruction of an archaeological site unless an authority for doing so is obtained from HNZPT. "Archaeological site" is relevantly defined ins 6 of the Act to mean any place in New Zealand that was associated with human activity that occurred before 1900 and provides or may provide, through investigation by archaeological methods, evidence relating to the history of New Zealand. [18] Part 3 of the Act contains provisions for the protection of places a...