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1. 2018 Ministry of Justice Annual Report [pdf, 4.3 MB]

   ...procuring and managing contracts with community-based and non- governmental providers. These services include family violence programmes, restorative justice services, victims’ services and the Victims Centre, Family Dispute Resolution mediation, and Parenting Through Separation programmes. In this way, we help to: • keep people safe and minimise the impact of harm • reduce offending and reoffending • uphold people’s rights • make it easier for people to access, understand a...

2. [2019] NZEnvC 208 Aratiatia Livestock Limited v Southland Regional Council [pdf, 11 MB]

   ...Therefore, the provisions of this plan do not introduce limits or targets for the six Freshwater Management Units recognised by the plan. The Regional Council intends to promulgate a plan change to introduce limits and targets and anticipates this separate process will be completed by December 2025.4 1 McCallum-Clark, EiC at [16]. 2 In addition to the ten appellants and the respondent, Southland Regional Council, nine parties joined the appeals pursuant to s 274 of the Act. The parti...

3. [2013] NZEmpC 212 Gunning v Bankrupt Vehicle Sales and Finance Ltd [pdf, 64 KB]

   ...Employment Contracts Act 1991 but is not an appeal and is therefore not subject to the common law restrictions on appeals, varying according to the nature of the appeal. While a challenge to an earlier decision, the proceeding before the Court is a separate proceeding. In this Court, it is an original proceeding, not a derivative proceeding: see Baguley v Coutts Cars Ltd [2000] 2 ERNZ 409. [8] The extent to which the Court will have regard to the Authority’s determination depends o...

4. EV v VJ LCRO 181 / 2010 (31 August 2011) [pdf, 129 KB]

   ...EW was 83 and had been married for over 60 years. The marriage had not been entirely happy, with EX having spent extended periods away from the family home in [Auckland]. However, both spouses had resisted suggestions that they should formally separate. [3] There were four surviving daughters of the marriage, one of whom (EY) lived with EW. [4] In 2005, EX and EW transferred the title to the [Auckland] property to themselves as tenants in common. This necessitated each of them...

5. Stewart v CAC10064 & Cooper [2013] NZREADT 58 [pdf, 58 KB]

   ...[22] One of his agents came to him, as branch manager, to advise that she was about to prepare an agreement for sale and purchase of the property. She advised him that the purchasers had told her they had previously been introduced to the property through Coopers some considerable time previously. That was about eight months previously. The buyers had advised the agent that they had previously entered into an agreement for sale and purchase of the property but it had “fallen over”....

6. [2024] NZEmpC 222  Courage & Ors v The Attorney-General & Ors   [pdf, 264 KB]

   ...v E Tū Inc [2024] NZCA 403. 7 Pilgrim (No 2), above n 2, at [41]. 8 At [53]. Where did the plaintiffs undertake their work? [12] The plaintiffs undertook work within the Gloriavale Community’s structure from a young age and moved through three distinct time periods. The overarching finding made in the employment status judgment was that it was the leaders (ultimately the Overseeing Shepherd) who decided who would go where, do what work, for whom and when. [13] As t...

7. Walters v CAC303 & Anor [2015] NZREADT 43 [pdf, 167 KB]

   ...of GST was not discussed on the sale of the apartment property. It noted that the sale was taking place in the context of a marriage breakdown between two of the four vendors (i.e. between Mr Munro and Ms T McLeay). The other two vendors were the parents of Ms T McLeay. The Committee found that it was clear that communication between the parties was strained at that time. [13] However, the Committee determined that the property was a managed investment and that alone should have alert...

8. [2011] NZEmpC 151 Penney v Fonterra Co-operative Group Ltd [pdf, 94 KB]

   ...two days after that interim determination was given, Mr Meyer sent an email to Ms Burson suggesting settlement discussions. Initially Mr Meyer sought reinstatement as part of a settlement package but that was immediately rejected by Fonterra. Through Ms Burson, Fonterra made an initial settlement offer of $4,000 on 19 June 2009. [11] Later in June 2009, Mr Meyer advised the Authority and Ms Burson that he no longer had instructions to represent Ms Penney in the substantive hearing...

9. LCRO 74/2018 PG v EJ (29 November 2019) [pdf, 149 KB]

   ...marriage, the other two children from that marriage being VW and OB. Ms PG says she has a half-brother, CT from Mrs SC’s second marriage, and a stepsister, HB. 2 [4] Ms PG explained that from a relatively early age she lived with her grandparents, Mrs SC’s parents, for 10 years or so. She says she married in 1975, and moved to [Country] with her husband in 1988. [5] Ms PG says her attempts, in her late teens/early 20s, to reconnect with Mrs SC were met without success...

10. LCRO 260/2013 CS v RV (18 July 2017) [pdf, 190 KB]

    ...and the barrister which appears to have involved the barrister paying some money to the firm. That is not relevant to this review. 3 11.3 A lawyer in practice on his or her own account must ensure that the conduct of the practice (including separate places of business) and the conduct of employees is at all times competently supervised and managed by a lawyer who is qualified to practise on his or her own account. [8] The decision contains a chronology beginning in 1969 when Mr...