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1. 4. Roebeck affidavit (with exhibits) [pdf, 7 MB]

   ...matters by the Maori Land Court, in 2009. Those orders have not been overturned, and the Board has not surrendered or transferred its mandate (including to the Trust). The Board was further confirmed on 29 June 2011 as the mandated entity to engage (through appointed negotiators) with the Crown on behalf of Ngati Paoa to settle Ngati Paoa’s historical Treaty claims. The Board continues in that role today. (b) In comparison, the Trust was established in 2013 as a post settlement...

2. Final-Technical-Assessment-E-Social-Impact-Assessment-v2.pdf [pdf, 1.6 MB]

   ...The methodology employed for this assessment consisted of the following steps: (a) Step 1- Scoping and contextualisation: understanding the proposal and the ‘social area of influence’ of the Project. (b) Step 2- Information gathering: through desktop data analysis, site visits, and stakeholder and community engagement. (c) Step 3- Community Profiling: building a demographic profile of the regional, local, and sub-local communities located along the Project length using c...

3. OIA-111066.pdf [pdf, 11 MB]

   ...disclosures to an appropriate authority at any time If a discloser is not confident about making the disclosure within the Ministry, they may report serious misconduct to an “appropriate authority” at any time, rather than having to go through their organisation first. An “appropriate authority” includes: (a) The head of any public-sector organisation; (b) Any officer of Parliament; (c) The persons or bodies listed here; (d) A membership body of a particular professi...

4. [2006] NZEmpC CC 7/06 NZ Meatworkers Union Inc v Alliance Group Ltd [pdf, 156 KB]

   ...volume of work available increases and decreases, workers are progressively taken on or laid off. [7] At some plants there are groups of workers such as freezer hands, rendering workers, yard gangs and pallet store workers who continue working throughout the year. It is also common for some staff who would otherwise be laid off to be retained to do cleaning and maintenance work. However, the majority of the workers are laid off on a seasonal basis. Many find alternative emplo...

5. Child witnesses in the New Zealand criminal courts [pdf, 795 KB]

   ...to the current adversarial process and in particular the trial. As such, it does not consider options such as a shift to an inquisitorial process nor to an alternative dispute resolution process. Nor does it consider the possibility of providing separate legal representation for complainants or witnesses, nor its prerequisite (according complainants separate legal status within 7 the trial). These ideas are well outside the conventional conception of the adversarial criminal trial...

6. Waitangi Tribunal - Mangatū Remedies Report [pdf, 3.8 MB]

   ...to negotiate their full redress with the Crown and undertake further discussions with the other claimants to arrive at a satisfactory settlement . The claimants represented by TAMA also require wide-ranging redress, besides what they would receive through a binding recommendation . TAMA previously held the mandate for the other applicants to undertake settlement negotiations with the Crown . If all applicants reconfirm TAMA’s mandate to represent them, then TAMA can return to the Tribuna...

7. [2010] NZEmpC 84 Secretary for Justice v Dodd [pdf, 126 KB]

   ...with it. There is, however, no evidence about how that minute was caused to be made or even whether Ms Dodd was aware of it. [17] Unfortunately, non-publication orders made during the hearing of this case and affecting the complainant and her parents, one of whom I describe as “the other Ministry [of Justice] employee”, tend to make more enigmatic the identification of the persons just referred to and their relationships with the defendant. [18] Ms Dodd is not the on...

8. MLC - 150 years of the Māori Land Court [pdf, 11 MB]

   ...FOUNDATIONS OF THE COURT 1862–1890s The government’s response was to set up the Hawke’s Bay Commission of 1873, one of the first of the many government-mandated reviews and inquiries into the Court’s actions which have been so influential throughout its history. The Hawke’s Bay Commission was a bicultural body and comprised four commissioners, two Māori (Wiremu Hikairo, of Rotorua, and Major Te Wheoro, from the Waikato) and two Pākehā (C W Richmond and F E Maning). Richm...

9. Electoral-Voting-Age-Legislation_FINAL.pdf [pdf, 6.6 MB]

   ...Section 9(2)(f)(iv) to maintain the constitutional conventions for the time being which protects the confidentiality of advice tendered by Ministers of the Crown and officials. Section 9(2)(g)(i) to maintain the effective conduct of public affairs through the free and frank expression of opinions by or between or to Ministers of the Crown. Section 9(2)(h) to maintain legal professional privilege. Section 18(d) information requested will soon become publicly available. Additiona...

10. Curtin v ACC [2012] NZACA 11 [pdf, 581 KB]

    ...cannot speak for other apprenticeships at the time, but I can state with absolute certainty that it was a primary requirement of the Plumbing and Gasfitting apprenticeship (signed by the employer, the apprentice an if under 18 the apprentice's parents) that formal training and qualification take place. The apprentice was required to attend night classes if they lived within a certain distance of a provider, or to undertake distance learning if not. In addition, they were required t...