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1. IACDT annual report 2017 [pdf, 181 KB]

   ...the Act came into force often involved practitioners who lacked appreciation of professional standards. An area of concern regarding practitioners with poor awareness of professional standards are licensed immigration advisers providing services offshore. Some achieve high standards, often reflecting the standards required in their local jurisdiction. However, others are professionally isolated, and less aware of New Zealand’s professional service delivery expectations. In my vi...

2. IACDT annual report 2018 [pdf, 183 KB]

   ...the Act came into force often involved practitioners who lacked appreciation of professional standards. An area of concern regarding practitioners with poor awareness of professional standards are licensed immigration advisers providing services offshore. Some achieve high standards, often reflecting the standards required in their local jurisdiction. However, others are professionally isolated, and less aware of New Zealand’s professional service delivery expectations. In my vi...

3. [2023] NZEnvC 138 McCallum Bros Limited v Auckland Council [pdf, 2.1 MB]

   ...ENVIRONMENT COURT _________________________________________________________________ Mahia i runga i te rangimarie me te ngākau māhaki.1 A: The Environment Court grants an interim/temporary consent for the identified activities within parts of the offshore areas as marked in Appendix 5 to Annexure B, this being a sub-area of the application area. The Resource Consent authorises the Consent holder to: (1) Remove sand from and disturb the seabed of the common marine area by way of...

4. INZ v Soni [2018] NZIACDT 6 (9 March 2018) [pdf, 315 KB]

   ...of a qualified professional. [4] This Tribunal, unfortunately, has been required to address a series of complaints concerning a practice known as “rubber-stamping”. Typically, this has arisen where a licensed immigration adviser has used off-shore agents who recruit clients, prepare immigration applications, send them to the licensed immigration adviser to sign off, and then the adviser or agent files the applications with Immigration New Zealand (INZ). This Tribunal has made...

5. [2023] NZEnvC 034 McCallum Bros Limited v Auckland Council [pdf, 168 KB]

   ...time for the Director-General of Conservation to join the proceeding ENV- 2022-AKL-121 as a s 274 party is granted. B: Costs are reserved. REASONS Introduction This appeal relates to an declined application for sand mining in the Pakiri offshore area. There are associated appeals relating to the inshore and midshore areas. The Director-General of Conservation has filed a late s 274 notice and sought a waiver of time under s 281 RMA. The interested party period ended on 20...

6. Keep our money clean: Case study factsheet [pdf, 5.8 MB]

   ...law changes to protect New Zealand and everything we love about it. Together, we can keep our money clean. NOT FOR MONEY LAUNDERERS. KEEP OUR MONEY CLEAN kia mā ā tātau moni WHAT IS MONEY LAUNDERING? EXAMPLE 2: USING TWO LAWYERS AND AN OFFSHORE COMPANY EXAMPLE 1: INVESTMENT OF PROCEEDS IN REAL ESTATE WHAT CAN I DO? To put it simply, money laundering is a crime. It’s the process criminals use to ‘clean’ the money they make from crimes such as fraud, dealing in...

7. [2024] NZEnvC 266 McCallum Bros Limited v Auckland Council [pdf, 373 KB]

   ...applications for consent to remove sand from the seabed within the Mangawhai – Pākiri embayment. The applications related to different bathymetric depths or distances from shore. McCallum Bros Ltd appealed against refusals to both the inshore1 and offshore2 applications. Four appeals were filed in relation to the grant of the midshore application.3 [2] The situation is somewhat complicated in that the McCallum Bros previously held consent to extract from the inshore area and w...

8. [2024] NZEnvC 075 McCallum Bros Limited v Auckland Council [pdf, 12 MB]

   ...Residents’ Association Incorporated, Te Ārai South Holdings Limited (Te Ārai Interests) Date of Decision: 11 April 2024 Date of Issue: 11 April 2024 DECISION OF THE ENVIRONMENT COURT A: The appeal on the application for offshore consent is refused and the decision of the Commissioners is confirmed. B: Costs are reserved in respect of this appeal, the strike out application, the withdrawal of the midshore application, and inshore surrender/temporary offshore...

9. BORA Taxation (Base Maintenance and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill [pdf, 86 KB]

   ...Tax Administration Act 1994, and the Goods and Services Tax Act 1985. Examples of significant changes contained in the Bill include amendments to: • limit the extent to which foreign banks can debt fund their New Zealand operations, and their offshore investments out of New Zealand; • exempt from tax non-resident companies with drilling rigs and seismic ships involved in exploration of offshore oil or gas fields; • address concerns raised about tax deductions available for busin...

10. OIA-107110_FINAL.pdf [pdf, 1.6 MB]

    ...sovereignty and jurisdictional risk is location of data in Aotearoa New Zealand. a) Does the management of jurisdictional risk require access to the Te Au Reka information to be determined under New Zealand laws only? b) In addition to data located off-shore, will the existence of an offshore parent (or offshore company that otherwise has control of a vendor) also be treated as a jurisdictional risk for the purpose of the proposals? Based on a legal opinion we have received from Dr James Ev...