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1. Youth Court - 10 suggested characteristics of a good youth justice system [pdf, 188 KB]

   ...responses than adults. A good system recognises their vulnerability and includes protections that enable them to desist from offending in the future. It is beneficial to young people to offer them a response, interventions and treatment that is separate to that of adults. Why is this? What is a “youth specific” justice system? What is it that can be offered to young people through these processes that is so beneficial to them? What is it that makes a youth justice system effecti...

2. Paniora v Kereopa - Waipoua 2B3D2A2A and Waipoua 2B3D2A2B2C (2015) 99 Taitokerau MB 227 (99 TTK 227) [pdf, 568 KB]

   ...of Court proceedings I address four key factual issues to bring the application to a conclusion. [7] First, what is the boundary between the Birch and Paniora blocks? Given the fact that Mrs Kereopa appears to deny the fact of the partition and separate title orders, and claims unfairness in that historic division, it is necessary to recount the title history in some detail. [8] Second, what is the status of the fence between the two blocks? [9] Third, what rights, if any, do the...

3. Deputy Registrar - Taupo 24A and Taupo 24B (2011) 25 Taitokerau MB 296 (25 TTK 296) [pdf, 123 KB]

   ...Taupo 24B, being the balance of the block that was said to comprise 909.3.04 acres. 1 The Court did not define the boundaries of Taupo 24A other than to describe it by reference to the burial place of the applicant’s (Motukiwi Hone Tua II) parents: 1 57 Northern MB 81 (57 N 81). However, the certificate of title (NAPR 115/31) shows Taupo 24 as containing 937.1.24 acres. 22 Taitokerau MB 72 Applicant states that his father...

4. Panapa - Ngawhare rāua ko Merepapuha Raukura Maika Te Rangipuawhe Whānau Trust (2017) 159 Waiariki MB 277 (159 WAR 277) [pdf, 228 KB]

   ...Maika’s 1/15 th share and vest it in the Frank and Ngarangimihi Maika whānau trust. 1 . The underlying reason being disharmony within the whānau. [3] Huru Maika, chairperson of the Whānau trust opposes the application. He says that it was his parents’, Ngawhare and Mere Maika’s, intentions that the lands be held in trust and not fragmented. Background [4] Ngawhare Maika died on 16 August 1989. His Māori land interests were vested in Te Rangipuawhe Maika, Frankie Ma...

5. [2016] NZSSAA 100 (24 November 2016) [pdf, 208 KB]

   ...contaminated blood products, as income when assessing the appellant’s entitlement to Supported Living Payment. Background [2] The appellant suffers from Haemophilia. As a seven-year-old child, while travelling in the United Kingdom with his parents, he received contaminated blood products. This was not discovered until he was 13 years old and back in New 2 Zealand. As a result of receiving the contaminated blood products, the appellant developed an HIV infection an...

6. Questions and answers

   ...eligible people? No. Expungement does not happen automatically. An application needs to be made by or on behalf of a convicted person, and granted by the Secretary for Justice. Who can apply? The convicted person can make an application themselves, or through someone (such as a lawyer) they have authorised to act on their behalf.  If the convicted person has already died, a representative of the person may be able to make an application for them. The following people have the right to act...

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7. Heta - Taiharuru 4C3B (2010) 13 Taitokerau MB 203 (13 TTK 203) [pdf, 146 KB]

   ...The land has 11 owners holding 50 shares in total. Eric Heta holds 10 shares and has applied to the Court to partition his interests into a 2000m² section. He wishes to build a house on the land for himself and his family and says that he needs a separate title in order to obtain mortgage finance. [3] The owners of the land have met and support Mr Heta’s request for partition but have stipulated that “...a clause is made to never allow the land to be sold out of the family.”...

8. [2012] NZEmpC 4 Haig v Edgewater Developers Ltd and Others [pdf, 127 KB]

   ...Developers Limited. In addition, although he claims also to have been a director and the Managing Director of Carrington Farms Limited, only his directorship of this company is admitted. [6] PH II Incorporated is a United States corporation which, through subsidiaries, is the parent and controller of the New Zealand companies Edgewater Developers Limited and Carrington Farms Limited. [7] Mr Haig first issued proceedings in the High Court against the defendants. Summary jud...

9. LCRO 200/2020 SK and WP v AQ (27 October 2023) [pdf, 292 KB]

   ...by the [Area] Standards Committee [X] about their professional conduct. [3] The matter relates to the fairness and reasonableness of fees charged by the Firm to the respondent, Ms AQ, for preparing and filing a without notice application for a parenting order under the Care of Children Act 2004 and a without notice application for a protection order under the Domestic Violence Act 1995 and related attendances. 2 Background [4] The respondent met with the applicants on the mo...

10. Government-Response-to-Te-Aka-Matua-o-te-Ture-Law-Commission-report.pdf [pdf, 1.1 MB]

    ...succession law follows its review of the Property (Relationships) Act 1976 which took place from 2016 to 2019. The Property (Relationships) Act sets out how relationship property should be divided when a marriage, civil union or de facto relationship ends by separation or death. 10. In its 2019 report, Review of the Property (Relationships) Act 1976 – Te Arotake i te Property (Relationships) Act 1976 (the relationship property report) the Commission made 140 recommendations...