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1. National Standards Committee 1 v Gardner-Hopkins [2022] NZLCDT 2 (13 January 2022) [pdf, 211 KB]

   ...in Russell McVeagh (for instance he no longer owns his own home, but rents a two-bedroom one), we consider that his plight is not as dire as suggested. [43] In evidence Mr Gardner-Hopkins confirmed that there were professional roles within the Resource Management area which he could undertake without the need for a practising certificate. He had also made preliminary inquiries with a recruitment consultant. It would be surprising if a man of his talents could not obtain gainful em...

2. [2007] NZEmpC AC 57/07 CE of the Department of Corrections v Imo [pdf, 92 KB]

   ...acknowledged performance issues addressed rather than being summarily dismissed. [76] I conclude his dismissal was unjustified. Reinstatement [77] The reinstatement of Mr Imo was strongly resisted by the department. Helen Hurst, the human resources manager for the Probation and Offender Services Division of the department said that, given the findings made by the department, the reinstatement of Mr Imo would be completely impracticable and unacceptable to the departm...

3. Dotcom v Crown Law Office (Inherent Powers) [2018] NZHRRT 36 [pdf, 401 KB]

   ...consultation with counsel for Mr Dotcom, some agencies have indicated they will provide information on a staged basis. Some (but not all) have begun to do so. [14] Additional points made include: [14.1] Crown Law now claims to have insufficient resources to comply with the Tribunal’s order in a timely way. Yet the Crown had submitted to the Tribunal Crown Law had been best placed to aggregate all of Mr Dotcom’s information privacy requests because (among other grounds): [1...

4. HM v Accident Compensation Corporation (Personal Injury) [2024] NZACC 004 [pdf, 199 KB]

   ...treatment. (2) Treatment injury does not include the following kinds of personal injury: (a) personal injury that is wholly or substantially caused by a person's underlying health condition: (b) personal injury that is solely attributable to a resource allocation decision: (c) personal injury that is a result of a person unreasonably withholding or delaying their consent to undergo treatment. [14] Section 54 provides: The Corporation must make every decision on a claim on...

5. Proactive Release – Expiring Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act 2009 regulations: substantive and technical changes and new regulatory proposals [pdf, 954 KB]

   ...Regulations 2010. Addressing these issues through regulatory changes will improve the operation of the AML/CFT regime. Including limited partnerships in a designated business group 24. A designated business group (DBG) allows reporting entities to pool resources and reduce their compliance burden where they are operating in a larger group of entities as a collective. The AML/CFT Act treats the DBG effectively as a single reporting entity for most compliance obligations. This can si...

6. LCRO 193/2017 AA v BB and CC (29 November 2019) [pdf, 153 KB]

   ...reasons advanced to support the application. (b) The desirability of ensuring smooth progress of hearings that have been allocated a hearing date. (c) The length of time taken to bring the matter to hearing. (d) The impact of an adjournment on resourcing issues. (e) The interests of other parties affected. [73] The list described above is not intended to be exhaustive but touches on the matters of most significance when an application for adjournment is under consideration. [7...

7. Slinger v Zhou [2015] NZIACDT 38 (15 April 2015) [pdf, 242 KB]

   ...control and they will not trigger professional disciplinary consequences. The usual point of difficulty is what is controllable; proper control often requires that a professional person maintain effective control over 7 employees and resources within a practice. Regardless, there are occasions when professional persons are blameless victims of deception, or other circumstances, and that will not trigger professional disciplinary consequences. Ms Zhou’s working environment...

8. Reo v Reo - Whangaruru Whakaturia 1D9B1 (2015) 100 Taitokerau 156 (100 TTK 156) [pdf, 194 KB]

   ...operation development and utilisation of Lot 1, they would not be able to do so because of this encroachment which would have to be disclosed to any potential financier. Complications may also arise with respect to applications for building and resource consents. Estate planning options may be compromised and most certainly real difficulties would arise if the property were to be sold. [27] At paragraph 28 Mr Coutts submits that other options besides partition include the grantin...

9. ENVC Hearing 6Oct14 TGKL lay attach 2 treated timber [pdf, 1.8 MB]

   ...meeting EPR requirements within 12 months), or • to drop the waste from consideration (although this is unlikely). The EPR framework encourages industry to undertake voluntary action in order to seek waste solutions, but under the Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery Act (NSW), the Minister has the power to legislate if industry fails to adequately address the issue, and if the national initiatives recommended by the APVMA are not effective in NSW. This is supposed to put additional pressur...

10. [2020] NZREADT 42 - Stone v The Real Estate Agents Authority (14 September 2020) [pdf, 356 KB]

    ...setting aside of its first decision. The Tribunal hearing following remittal [26] Prior to the hearing that was convened pursuant to the requirements of the High Court judgement, Mr Stone who attended the hearing, advised that because his resources were exhausted, he would not be able to instruct counsel to appear on his behalf at the hearing. He said that he, personally, would be out of his depth in making submissions on the questions that arose from the Committee consideration...