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1. MfE - EiC - K S Kohere - Planning Policy (5 Feb 2021) [PDF, 254 KB]

   ...being of water first. 3. The 2019 Skelton investigation1 found the current ORC planning framework was not fit for purpose and a new regional policy statement and regional plan needed to be developed to appropriately manage the expected deemed permit replacement applications. Following the investigation, the Minister for the Environment (Minister) wrote to Otago Regional Council (ORC) recommending both a new freshwater plan and an interim planning and consenting framework. 4. The...

2. 2021-05-17 Balquhidder Farming Ltd - R A Armstrong and M J MacGregor - Supplementary Submission 17 May 2021 [pdf, 187 KB]

   ...environment with any real certainty. We as farmers, need more certainty so that we can adapt and move forward with the changing times, with confidence that what we have undertaken in terms of investment and progress will remain within current permit conditions. A longer time frame is necessary so that financial and productivity plans can be made. We purchased Rockburn - a property requiring a major amount of development on the irrigation scheme to be done to establish it as a profi...

3. [2020] NZEmpC 152 Mataura Valley Milk Ltd v Scott [pdf, 147 KB]

   ...respondent Judgment: 25 September 2020 INTERLOCUTORY (NO 2) JUDGMENT OF JUDGE K G SMITH (Application to further vary search order) [1] Mataura Valley Milk Ltd has applied to vary the search orders made on 2 September 2020 to permit the inspection of emails, and attachments, found in Graham Scott’s Yahoo email account.1 [2] In summary terms, the application seeks to vary the existing orders by authorising the independent computer expert, Campbell McKenzi...

4. BORA Immigration Amendment Bill (No.2) [pdf, 106 KB]

   ...issues that we wish to draw to your attention. OVERVIEW OF THE BILL 3. The Bill amends the Immigration Act 1987 in three ways: • The Bill makes explicit that any policy of the Government dealing with temporary or limited purpose visas and permits is not to be treated as Government residence policy (Part 1, Clause 3, new subsection (1A) of Section 13B of the Act). • The Bill provides that the order and manner of processing any application for a visa or permit is a matter for th...

5. Hahn v Walke [2019] NZIACDT 19 (8 April 2019) [pdf, 306 KB]

   ...direct business competitor. According to Mr Chang, there was no evidence that anyone other than Mr Walke was involved in the seminars. They had been exclusively delivered in Germany only. In that country, no person or immigration adviser was permitted to give immigration advice unless licenced by the German Federal Office of Administration. Mr Walke was one of the few licensed people under German federal law to give New Zealand immigration advice. Mr Hahn was engaging in charac...

6. [2021] NZREADT 28 - New Zealand LJ International Limited & Zeng (15 June 2021) [pdf, 327 KB]

   ...New Zealand LJ International Ltd (which at all relevant times traded as LJ Hooker Metro City Branch) (“the Agency”), is a licensee agent real estate company. The Agency was first registered on 30 November 2012, and voluntarily suspended its licence on 23 October 2020 for the period to 23 October 2021. The second defendant, Mr Zeng, is a licensed agent and was the principal officer and contact person for the Agency. He was first licensed as an agent on 11 May 2011. Mr Zeng vo...

7. 2021-02-19 Tom de Pelsemaeker - Reply - Planning (19 Feb 2021) [pdf, 605 KB]

   IN THE ENVIRONMENT COURT OF NEW ZEALAND CHRISTCHURCH REGISTRY I TE KŌTI TAIAO O AOTEAROA ŌTAUTAHI ROHE ENV-2020-CHC-127 UNDER the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) IN THE MATTER of the Water Permits Plan Change - Plan Change 7, being part of a proposal of national significance directed by the Minister for the Environment to be referred to the Environment Court under section 142(2)(b) of the RMA AND IN THE MATTER of an application under section 149T of the RMA...

8. Territorial Authorities - EiC - P R Greenwood -Planning (4 Feb 2021) [pdf, 1.6 MB]

   ...Otago Region. 6. The purpose of my evidence is to provide information on CODC’s current community water supplies and the implications that PC7 will have on existing and new supplies. My evidence is set out as follows: (a) Status of water permits held by CODC; (b) New or amended water permit applications; and (c) Implication of PC7 provisions. 7. In my evidence I discuss examples specific to CODC. However, the issues are equally applicable to other TA’s within the Otago Reg...

9. Napier v Registrar of the Real Estate Agents Authority [2019] NZREADT 7 (25 Feb 2019) [pdf, 264 KB]

   ...revocation ruling”).2 Except where it is necessary to refer to these rulings separately, we will refer to them collectively as “the rulings”. Brief background [2] Mr Napier was a licensed salesperson. On 2 May 2016 he applied to renew his licence. The Registrar declined to do so, on the basis that his fitness to hold a licence had been called into question by a judgment entered against him in 2015 for the sum of $1.418m in civil proceedings in the High Court at Auckland, an...

10. Ashcroft v Phillips - Mohaka A4 (2005) 179 Napier MB 254 (179 NA 254) [pdf, 1.2 MB]

    ...Applicant seeks an order requiring Bessie Phillips, Rihi Moore, Sam Gemmell, and Nicky Gemmell to vacate and not re-enter upon the Mohaka A4B Block and a further order requiring Bessie Phillips to remove any livestock which she may have placed, or permitted to be placed, upon the Block. 2. The orders are sought upon the following grounds: (i) That on 3 April 2005 Bessie Phillips handed the Applicant a trespass notice requiring the Applicant to refrain from entering upon any part of the...