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1. [2021] NZEnvC 124 Upper Clutha Environmental Society Incorporated v Queenstown Lakes District Council [pdf, 1.7 MB]

   ...related Topic 2 decisions set out the statutory framework. Our determinations herein are in accordance with that framework. On any matters of minor error correction made on the recommendation of QLDC or other parties, we also rely on Sch 1 cl 16, through s290, RMA. Confirmation of final wording of Ch 3 and Ch 6 provisions [3] Decision 2.73 confirmed the substantive content of a number of Ch 3 and Ch 6 provisions, subject to directions for QLDC to:4 (a) provide clarification of s...

2. Qualitative components of the outcomes evaluation of the Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Court Pilot [pdf, 2.1 MB]

   ...had low awareness of the impact of their offending. Māori participants described a loss of identity and the impact of colonisation on their mental wellbeing. Graduates from the AODT Court experienced positive health and wellbeing outcomes Through being in the AODT Court, graduates built self-esteem, better understood recovery, and developed skills to stay in recovery (taha hinengaro). Graduates were more connected and capable of caring for and engaging with whānau (taha whānau)...

3. OTAGO REGIONAL COUNCIL v NGA RUNANGA & Ors NOE ENV 20210628 [pdf, 1.5 MB]

   ...ill-suited to the weather conditions, the environmental conditions, and actually our labour requirements, and that was because the irrigator has been severely damaged by a number of times we had very high wind conditions, north-westerly winds blowing through those areas and we had flood conditions at times where the irrigation tracks 10 have been repeatedly damaged due to flooding conditions, and there forced us to have limited use of that irrigator, and it really does need to be si...

4. ENV-2016-AKL-000xxx Man O'War Farm Limited v Auckland Council [pdf, 3.3 MB]

   ...Decisions reinstate or include objectives regarding Rural Subdivision that are not the most appropriate way to achieve the purpose of the Act, and in particular will: (a) Prevent opportunities for significant biophysical enhancement achieved through rehabilitation of degraded land. (b) Confine any incentive for revegetation of land through subdivision to areas contiguous with existing mapped Significant Ecological Areas (rather than ecological features that might become signif...

5. E74 Dr Malcolm Patterson - EIC - Ngāti Whātua Orākei [pdf, 2 MB]

   ...the land, lost souls with nowhere to attach ourselves.’ Professor Hirini Moko Mead The whenua of Auckland is part of the body of Papatūānuku, the earth mother, the sky above is Ranginui, the sky father – primal parents and human ancestors. Their children, such as Tāne and Tangaroa, are the progenitors of the life found in, on and around the land. Hence all living things are linked by whakapapa. Auckland can also be viewed as part of the great fish...

6. IHC New Zealand v Attorney-General (Strike-Out Application) [2020] NZHRRT 47 [pdf, 248 KB]

   ...accessing the curriculum at their local mainstream school by reason of disability...’. The complainants write, 'The complaint is aimed at government policy that impacts negatively on access to education for students with disabilities after parents have exercised or have attempted to exercise the right to enrol their sons or daughters at schools that operate within a mainstream setting. The complaint is concerned with access to education for all disabled students, regardless of type...

7. Kui - Estate of Te Paea Hami Oru [2019] Chief Judge's MB 577 (2019 CJ 577) [pdf, 475 KB]

   ...changes were made: The effect of intention of this order is that the schedule of owners is to be amended to record Hemi Atu Hone Pikari and John Pickery as different persons and Wherere Ti Salle and Minnie Salle as different persons with separate interests. c) Those findings have also been supported by two subsequent applications to the Chief Judge, namely: 1995 Chief Judge’s MB 196-198 (12 July 1995) re Frederick Salle i. Relevant extracts from the evidence given...

8. Hawkes Bay Standards Committee v Heaphy [2014] NZLCDT 61 [pdf, 343 KB]

   ...[2] Mr Porter had been, over that period, building (with others) a successful business of supplying labour for the horticulture and related industries in the North and South Islands of New Zealand. Most of the labourers were migrants and their apparently illegal status and tax status were the underlying reasons for the unexpected and wide ranging search warrants executed on Mr Porter’s premises. [3] Mr Porter had also been increasing his personal asset base, and therefore there w...

9. Transcript of speeches KG Smith [doc, 91 KB]

   ...Australia – means that submissions more closely resemble Tolstoy’s War and Peace in teams of their volume. An Associate Judge – not the one on the Bench – told me late last year that an application for summary judgment usually requires him to wade through no fewer than 500 pages of documents – so good luck! In the end the remedy for this over-the-top approach to litigation has to lie with the Judges. Something really needs to be done if litigation is to remain the primary means of...

10. [2014] NZEmpC 79 Brook v Macown Gainsford Crozier and Kennedy [pdf, 132 KB]

    ...Inc (NZFATD), also resigned from the Council in July 2011. Matters came to a head between NZDDC and Mr Brook around August 2011 over a disagreement relating to the disbursement of funds. Mr Brook took the step of transferring NZDRA funds to a separate savings account without the knowledge or authorisation of NZDDC. In doing so he paid $19,249 to an account set up under the name “NZDRA Savings Account” (on 19 August 2011) and $4,750 to “RM Brook” (8 September 2011)...