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1. [2022] NZEmpC 138 Pilgrim v Attorney-General [pdf, 247 KB]

   ...that there are considerations that go both ways. Ultimately an application such as this, which a party is fully entitled to bring, must be dealt with on its merits, applying the relevant legal test to the particular factual context. Having gone through that exercise I do not consider that the grounds for the application have been sufficiently made out, and the application is accordingly declined. My reasons follow. The applicable test – apparent bias [4] Apparent, not actual...

2. Family Court Rewrite Submission Birthright NZ [pdf, 187 KB]

   ...recommendation that a child lawyer be appointed who is best fit for the child. Translation services should also be provided where a child has English as a second language and would be more comfortable communicating in their native tongue. • Parenting Through Separation: we agree that PTS is an important part of the family justice system and has been positively received. Work needs to be done on reviewing the format and availability of PTS to meet the needs of all people engaging...

3. Youth Court research: experiences & views of young people, their families and professionals [pdf, 719 KB]

   Youth Court Research: Experiences and views of young people, their families and professionals Youth Court Research Experiences and views of young people, their families and professionals Research Team Justice Sector Strategy September 2011 Published September 2011 Ministry of Justice PO Box 180 Wellington New Zealand www.justi

4. Merso v Accident Compensation Corporation (Claim for Social Rehabilitation) [2024] NZACC 193 [pdf, 307 KB]

   ...Therapist, provided a backdated attendant care assessment. Ms Booker divided her assessment into three periods of time: 0 - 6 months; 6 - 12 months; and 12 months – 2 years 6 months. Ms Booker explained that, where the time period covered a client through childhood, the typical supports provided to a child at that age would be taken into consideration because it would not be covered as attendant care. [9] For the 0 - 6 month period, Ms Booker did not consider any additional inju...

5. NZCVS topical report - Offences against New Zealand adults by family members (data tables) [xlsx, 121 KB]

   ...boyfriend or girlfriend) or ex-partner (previous husband, wife, partner, boyfriend or girlfriend). Though we use the term ‘offences’, the information is based on survey respondents’ experiences and they may not reflect incidents that have been through a formal criminal procedure. Offences by family members The definition of offences by family members in this report is in line with offence coding used by Police. The following offence types are included (where the offender is a family...

6. NZCVS Cycle 4 Core Report FAQs [docx, 43 KB]

   ...opposed to ex-partners). The report provides some new results not included in previous reports. For example, looking at working age adults, disabled adults are four times as likely to be highly victimised compared to non-disabled adults. Females who are separated or divorced are significantly more likely to be victimised, while males who are married, in a civil union, or in a de facto relationship are significantly less likely to be victimised. Cybercrime is the least likely offence to be repor...

7. Mokena v Riwai Morgan Whānau Trust - Estate of Tamati Mokena [2014] Chief Judge's MB 314 (2014 CJ 314) [pdf, 183 KB]

   ...order was consistent with local Māori custom on whāngai rights on intestacy and referred to Willoughby v Panapa Waihopi 5 in support of this statement. In this case, the Court observed that children had long been capable of acquiring land rights through customary adoption and that it was Māori practice to give an adopted child the rights of a child by birth. 5 (1910) 29 NZLR 1123 (SC) 2014 Chief Judges’ MB 320 [33] T...

8. Parenting Through Separation - Hindi translation [pdf, 386 KB]

   अलग होन ेके बाद की जान ेवाली परवररश अपन ेबच्चों के लिए सर्वश्षे्ठ व्यरस्थाएँ करनथा यह केरि एक सथारांश है। अधिक वरररण के लिए, ऑनिथाइन JUSTICE.GOVT.NZ/FAMILY/CARE-OF-CHILDREN पर जथाएँ जब आप अिग होत ेहैं, तो आपके बच् ेपर

9. [2015] NZEmpC 206 Fox v Hereworth School Trust Board [pdf, 620 KB]

   ...employer; her demeanour which was not conducive to resolution of the employment relationship problem identified by it; her language which was destructive of the relationship of trust and confidence between the parties; and her apparent connection, through supply of information, to the authors of what are known to the parties as the critical and destructive “aromabadlaughs” emails, which breached her obligations of good faith and further eroded the relationship of trust and confi...

10. LCRO 47/2025 FI v SD (30 September 2025) [pdf, 236 KB]

    ...(a) the changes made to the “reasons letter” were simply alterations to remove Mr FI’s reference to himself in the third person and the insertion of the name of the judge that had been omitted from the document; and (b) attendances undertaken throughout December 2023 were not charged to Mr FI, including attendances relating to the filing of the memorandum dated 1 December 2023 and Mr FI’s reasons letter, and the subsequent memorandum dated 4 December 2023; and (c) the final inv...