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1. O v I [2018] NZIACDT 23 (18 June 2018) [pdf, 231 KB]

   ...some other professions manage cases like this one. [3] I will take Mr I’s situation into account when deciding the complaint. He is not able to understand the complaint due to his health; family members have been cooperative, but they are not licenced immigration advisers. I am dealing with the complaint without any response from Mr I, but this is not due to any fault on his part. [4] The Registrar, as the Tribunal’s rules require, issued a notice of complaint. It sets out...

2. K v I [2018] NZIACDT 22 (18 June 2018) [pdf, 214 KB]

   ...some other professions manage cases like this one. [3] I will take Mr I’s situation into account when deciding the complaint. He is not able to understand the complaint due to his health; family members have been cooperative, but they are not licenced immigration advisers. I am dealing with the complaint without any response from Mr I, but this is not due to any fault on his part. [4] The Registrar, as the Tribunal’s rules require, issued a notice of complaint. It sets out t...

3. Q v I [2018] NZIACDT 18 (18 June 2018) [pdf, 213 KB]

   ...some other professions manage cases like this one. [3] I will take Mr I’s situation into account when deciding the complaint. He is not able to understand the complaint due to his health; family members have been cooperative, but they are not licenced immigration advisers. I am dealing with the complaint without any response from Mr I, but this is not due to any fault on his part. [4] The Registrar, as the Tribunal’s rules require, issued a notice of complaint. It sets out t...

4. McNab 26 November 2015 NZSHD 12 [pdf, 120 KB]

   ...MATTER of a complaint in respect of a certificate held by CLIFFORD WILLIAM GORDON McNAB BEFORE THE LICENSING AUTHORITY OF SECONDHAND DEALERS AND PAWNBROKERS HEARING at Wellington on 18 November 2015 APPEARANCES C W G McNabb (licence holder) with counsel S A Leith Constable C E Robson and D V Kumeroa – NZ Police DECISION [1] The Police have filed a complaint against Clifford McNab in respect to a licence issued to him under the Secondhand Dealers and...

5. [2025] NZIACDT 21 – KA v Wen (5 March 2025) [pdf, 197 KB]

   ...negligence/breaches of the Code, the Tribunal will deal with the alternative breaches of the Code first. The fourth head of complaint is the one from which the other breaches largely arise. The essential issue in this complaint is therefore whether Ms Wen permitted an unlicensed agent to perform work required to be undertaken by the licensed adviser, a practice known as ‘rubber stamping’. [47] Only a licensed immigration adviser may undertake “immigration advice” work.17...

6. Taueki v Horowhenua Sailing Club Ltd - Horowhenua (11) Lake (2013) 304 Aotea MB 288 (304 AOT 288) [pdf, 129 KB]

   ...Club”) who it is said continue to occupy a building, which I have previously determined is owned by the Lake Horowhenua Trust (“the Trust”), contrary to the terms of my judgment dated 18 December 2012. I had held that on the expiry of previous licences neither the Club nor any other person had any legal right to occupy the building. [3] Since then the Lake Horowhenua Domain Board (“the Board”) says it has granted a further lease to the Club. Counsel for Mr Taueki says this...

7. McLaren v Standing [2012] NZIACDT 56 (30 August 2012) [pdf, 134 KB]

   ...months. It should have been obtained at the application stage. [22] On 17 August 2011, Mr Standing wrote to Ms McLaren in a standard letter which appears to have been sent to his clients generally; it was not personalised. It said Mr Standing had his licence cancelled by this Tribunal on 15 August 2011, and Living New Zealand Ltd (the company through which he apparently ran his practice) had gone into liquidation. The letter suggested Mr Standing would continue to provide immigration s...

8. GZ v Lu [2019] NZIACDT 15 (15 March 2019) [pdf, 146 KB]

   ...clients. He was a director and shareholder in name only. He was not aware of Headsun providing any immigration advice to any of its clients. So far as he was aware, it provided student recruitment only. Nor did he ever authorise Headsun to use his licence or mention his name in any way. Mr Lu obtained his New Zealand licence in January 2014, but it was not for any purpose related to Headsun. He had only used his licence on three occasions, but never through Headsun. [27] C...

9. Lee v Couch - Rāpaki Marae 875 Sec 19 and others (2012) 12 Te Waipounamu MB 139 (12 TWP 139) [pdf, 209 KB]

   ...within Rāpaki Marae and the Ngāti Wheke community. The particular points of contention concern the activities, rights, duties and obligations between the two entities and the necessity for formalising their relationship through, for example, a licence to occupy. 12 Te Waipounamu MB 140 [2] Equally importantly, a dispute has arisen over the trusteeships for the Māori reservation. Kopa Lee, Te Whe Phillips and Tutehounuku Korako take the view that traditionally there have be...

10. [2020] NZEnvC 194 Clutha District Council v Otago Regional Council [pdf, 1 MB]

    ...application for costs is made, the court's order will be (without further decision of the court issuing) that there is no order as to costs. CLUTHA DC v ORC - DECISION Introduction 2 REASONS [1] Clutha District Council applied for a water permit to take and use surface water from the north branch of the Clutha River/Mata-Au. Water is needed for the Bruce Water Supply. The District Council has previously held permits for this scheme and this appeal concerns an applicat...