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1. Interpreter Services Quality Framework [pdf, 1 MB]

   ...for Working with Interpreters in Courts and Tribunals’3, adapted for the Aotearoa/New Zealand environment. This quality framework applies to suitably qualified independent interpreters who are engaged directly by the Ministry and those engaged through an LSP. It also covers situations where a suitable (unqualified) multilingual or bilingual person provides language assistance services where a qualified interpreter cannot be found.4 The quality framework does not cover the followi...

2. Family violence & the pro-arrest policy: a literature review [pdf, 214 KB]

   ...(Maxwell, Garner & Fagan 2001, 2002). This later analysis also highlighted that arrest may have a different impact on different types of offenders, but showed no increase in violence compared to the other types of police response such as mediation or separation. Variables such as age and prior offender history were stronger predictors of repeat offending. The focus on offender demographic characteristics is ultimately not useful when considering the arrest response of police at domestic v...

3. Common Bundle Volume 5 [pdf, 14 MB]

   ...retaining minimum flow, residual flow or take cessation conditions where imposed on an existing permit. PC7 will also ensure that as many water permits as practicable are brought within the ambit of the revised resource management regime to be established through the LWRP. CB1380 Section 32 Evaluation Report – Proposed Plan Change 7 18 March 2020 Page 4 1. Introduction 1.1. Purpose ORC is required to prepare an evaluation report for Plan Change 7 in accordance with sectio...

4. Volume-II-Supporting-Information-and-AEE_1-November-22.pdf [pdf, 12 MB]

   ...government organisation engagement Table 34-3 Summary of other key stakeholder engagement Table 35-1 Community engagement and Waka Kotahi response Table 35-2 Community engagement and Waka Kotahi response Table 38-1 Adverse effects avoided or minimised through project shaping Table 38-2 Technical assessments that inform the assessment of effects Table 39-1 Summary of effects on the environment Table 40-1 Muaūpoko Tribal Authority residual effects management Table 40-2 Ngā Hapū o Kerer...

5. Proactive-release-Better-Outcomes-for-Victims-Work-Programme_FINAL.pdf [pdf, 1.7 MB]

   ...under the VRA, but it had limited effect – victims often continue to feel marginalised or that their views and needs are afterthoughts. 12 However, this Government has made interventions since 2018 to improve outcomes for victims, in particular through a concentrated focus on improving outcomes for victims of family violence and sexual violence. The Domestic Violence Act 1995 was replaced with the Family Violence Act 2018, and Te Aorerekura: the National Strategy to Eliminate Family Vio...

6. OIA-109795.pdf [pdf, 2.3 MB]

   ...Both the Criminal Law Reform Committee and the Law Commission have in the past called for a comprehensive statutory disclosure regime. Part 2 of the Criminal Disclosure Bill is the government’s response to that call. When enacted as a separate statute, Part 2 will establish a four-fold structure of disclosure as follows: • Initial prosecution disclosure: o triggered at the commencement of criminal proceedings o involving mandatory disclosure of initial information a...

7. [2014] NZEmpC 134 Booth v Big Kahuna Holdings Ltd [pdf, 197 KB]

   ...that she wanted some time to herself and asked him not to contact her. It is apparent that he did not take this request on board and that some text exchanges took place over this two day period. [10] That weekend Ms A moved back in with her parents. On Sunday 28 April she advised Mr Booth by text message that she wanted to end the relationship. Mr Booth was very upset about this. Mr Bowling, by way of comparison, was not. He had never approved of the relationship, having part...

8. [2011] NZEmpC 27 C v Air Nelson [pdf, 229 KB]

   ...unjustifiable and that he had been unjustifiably disadvantaged by his suspension from flying duties during the course of ANL’s investigation. [4] The grievance in respect of the suspension was not pursued at the investigation by the Authority as a separate grievance. The plaintiff sought the primary remedy of reinstatement for the dismissal. The Authority held that there was no sustainable personal grievance arising from the dismissal. For the sake of clarity it made a simil...

9. Recommendations recap - issue 9 [pdf, 865 KB]

   ...Farm Vehicle 2015 NZCorC 13 Link to Summary and Recommendations http://www.nzlii.org/nz/cases/NZCorC/2015/13.html Response N/A Case Number Catch Words CSU-2013-PNO-000309 Unsafe Sleeping Environment, Infant, 3 weeks old, Shared Bed with Parents, Alcohol 2015 NZCorC 38 Link to Summary and Recommendations http://www.nzlii.org/nz/cases/NZCorC/2015/38.html Response N/A Case Number Catch Words CSU-2013-AUK-001233 Drowning, Swimming Pool, Fencing, Building Consent, Chi...

10. LCRO 13/2024 OB and HG v NC (12 June 2024) [pdf, 228 KB]

    ...their mother, Mrs RT and her husband, Mr WT. 2 [3] Mrs RT was Mr UG’s first wife. She is an experienced estate administrator, having worked in the field for some decades as well as [redacted]. [4] Mr UG’s second wife was Mrs EG. His parents were Mr KG1 and Mrs RG. Mrs RG died in 2001. [5] At the time of the events giving rise to the complaint, the respondent was a consultant to the incorporated law firm of [Law Firm A] (the Firm) and had been Mr UG’s solicitor for ov...