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1. [2022] NZEmpC 190 Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand v Culturesafe NZ Ltd (in liq) [pdf, 252 KB]

   ...directions which are the subject of the proceeding; he says that it lacked jurisdiction to take such steps. 36 Sibly v Christchurch City Council [2002] 1 ERNZ 476 (EmpC). 37 Abernethy v Dynea New Zealand Ltd (No 1) [2007] ERNZ 271 (EmpC); Udovenko v Offshore Marine Services (New Zealand) Ltd [2013] NZEmpC 174. 38 Bay of Plenty District Health Board v Culturesafe New Zealand Ltd , above n 11. [42] That, however, is not the point when a protest to jurisdiction is to be c...

2. [2022] NZEmpC 134 CultureSafe NZ Ltd v Employment Relations Authority [pdf, 211 KB]

   ...efficient and effective administration of justice.6 [21] Here, CultureSafe has not looked after the grievants. The Authority records that they are visa-dependent workers for whom English is a second language and that one of them is currently offshore. As the Authority notes, their personal circumstances 5 Employment Relations Act 2000, s 236. 6 Ward v Concrete Structures (NZ) Ltd [2019] NZEmpC 111 at [12]. may put them in a category of employees who are inherently vu...

3. [2023] NZIACDT 27 BT v Li (2 November 2023) [pdf, 209 KB]

   ...at two addresses (though with a joint tenancy at the second) but by August 2021, there was solid evidence that they had been living in the second address for 12 months. She gave the client the option to leave New Zealand and apply for a visa offshore. In the future, she would make sure clients confirmed their awareness of the risks by email. (3) After the first s 61 request was declined, she offered to do the second for $800. A new agreement was not signed since the second requ...

4. [2019] NZEmpC 139 Zara’s Turkish Ltd v Kocaturk [pdf, 372 KB]

   ...including cleaning the toilets. 15 Section 179(1). See the discussion in Abernethy v Dynea New Zealand Ltd [2007] ERNZ 271 (EMPC) at 31-33; Bourne v Real Journeys Ltd [2011] NZEmpC 120; and Udovenko v Offshore Marine Services (NZ) Ltd [2013] NZEmpC 174. [27] Paragraph [11] reads: Given that Mrs Kokcu said that Mr Kocatürk was not granted a visa to work for the respondent until March 2010, the Authority obtained from Immigr...

5. 2017 NZSSAA 056 (9 October 2017) [pdf, 122 KB]

   ...based on his shareholder salary. [8] In all respects, the appellant was a compliant taxpayer and paid tax on all his income under the structure. In the year ending 31 March 2007, the appellant received a relatively similar amount of income from an offshore entity, where tax was paid at source. This was, accordingly, credited against his New Zealand tax liability. The balance of his income came from his shareholder salary and it was taxed fully in New Zealand. After that year, it...

6. [2022] NZIACDT 1 - ZI v Wan (19 January 2022) [pdf, 208 KB]

   IMMIGRATION ADVISERS COMPLAINTS AND DISCIPLINARY TRIBUNAL Decision No: [2022] NZIACDT 1 Reference No: IACDT 015/21 IN THE MATTER of a referral under s 48 of the Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007 BY THE REGISTRAR OF IMMIGRATION ADVISERS Registrar BETWEEN ZI Complainant AND JIALE WILLIAM WAN Adviser SUBJECT TO SUPPRESSION ORDER DECISION Dated 19 January 2022 REPRESENTATION: Registrar:

7. Canterbury Westland Standards Committee v Tee [2013] NZLCDT 34 [pdf, 43 KB]

   ...allow payment of any costs order by Mr Tee. We accept that mention was made of Mr Tee’s bankruptcy in New Zealand, but we have no knowledge of when he might be discharged from that bankruptcy, nor do we have any information regarding Mr Tee’s off-shore assets and liabilities, now that he is resident in Malaysia, which might have assisted in assessing any inability to meet a costs order. For Mr Tee it was indicated that he now works as a partner in a large accountancy firm in Mal...

8. Family Court statistics: An overview of Family Court statistics in New Zealand 2004 to 2008 [pdf, 1.4 MB]

   ...courthouse. Nearness is measured as the shortest road distance from the geographical centre of the mesh-block to the courthouse. Court area populations are estimated by summing 2006 census data on the size of the usually resident population for the mesh-blocks within each court area. For presentation purposes, offshore mesh-blocks are not displayed. Because of rounding, percentages shown in the figures may not add up to 100 percent. The terms “parenting of children” and “family viole...

9. Kavyu-Munalula v Standing [2012] NZIACDT 45 (24 August 2012) [pdf, 103 KB]

   ...overseas clients $635,769.49 are less than the total fees Mr Standing received. [63] Mr Standing is facing complaints before this Tribunal that he procured the payment of fees and failed to perform work; in many cases those fees were deposited into offshore bank accounts. [64] This information is sufficient to raise a concern that Mr Standing has received a substantial body of fees which have not been accounted for. [65] Accordingly, the Tribunal puts Mr Standing on notice that if he...

10. Stanimirovic v Levarko [2018] NZIACDT 8 (22 March 2018) [pdf, 119 KB]

    ...victims of his rubber-stamping operation had no agreements, and had not undergone a client engagement process. It is implausible that Mr Levarko informed a staff member of the Authority that he was planning to provide immigration services to an offshore service provider who would then engage clients without complying with the Act, and he would sign off documents the unlicensed person completed. That is in fact what he was doing; and it was patently obvious to the least experienced p...