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1. Welcome Guide Information for court and tribunal interpreters v4 [docx, 1.7 MB]

   ...qualifications and training · delivering interpreter services in courts and tribunals · how the Ministry will manage ongoing quality improvement for the interpreter service. We expect you to be familiar with the quality framework. It can be a useful resource to check if you are unsure of how to manage any situation that arises. If anyone asks you to behave in a way that contradicts the standards in the quality framework you can let them know what the quality framework says, and that you are...

2. ZA v YB LCRO 135/2014 Recusal (31 August 2016) [pdf, 99 KB]

   ...described in Ebner. By these standards, I am satisfied that I am not compromised in my impartiality, or in my capacity to discharge my duties conscientiously as a Review Officer. [76] The issue of practicability, and the effective use of scarce resources, is also relevant. A substantial part of the workload of this Office involves Mr [ZA] as a party. Relinquishing conduct of all reviews involving him as a party would have a number of undesirable consequences, not least of which would...

3. Foreman v Sanders – Estate of Rachel Ngeungeu Zister (2013) 63 Waikato Maniapoto MB 286 (63 WMN 286) [pdf, 191 KB]

   ...the definition people for the word whenua. The closest he comes to it is when he indicates that philosophically people do not see themselves as separate from nature, humanity and the natural world being descendants of the earth mother, thus the resources of the earth do not belong to humankind but rather humans belong to the earth. [47] Ms Sanders also attaches an extract from a well known Māori academic Dr Ranginui Walker, being exhibit “M” to her affidavit. Again that artic...

4. Wellington Standards Committee v Laglolago [2015] NZLCDT 25 [pdf, 325 KB]

   ...judgment, not just for the balance of the loan contract, but for far greater sums in costs, apart altogether from their own legal costs – all this despite some clear warnings from the defendants. 26. While noting the F’s lack of financial resources to meet a costs award, His Honour stated: [49] … I have great sympathy for them because I do not think they ever understood the legal weakness of their case or the great financial risk to them in taking the matter to trial. 27...

5. LCRO 127/2017 EZ v UO [pdf, 265 KB]

   ...within her more expansive criticisms of the justice system. [30] She is critical of the fact that she was required to respond to a claim that she considers was fabricated and lacking in merit. [31] She is concerned that so much of her time and resources had to be spent on defending what she perceived to be an entirely spurious claim. [32] In her submissions, she frequently returns to suggestion that the lawyers engaged in the proceedings (including Mr UO) failed to identify that the...

6. Trustees of the Horina Nepia and Te Hiwi Piahana Whanau Trust v Ngati Tukorehe Tribal Committee & Tahamata Incorporation (2014) 314 Aotea MB 159 (314 AOT 159) [pdf, 231 KB]

   ...foreshadowed, his principal concern was that on the available evidence NTTC did not appear to display the usual accountability, reporting and transparency mechanisms expected of a land holding entity acting on behalf of beneficiaries of communally owned resources. However, those concerns would no longer be relevant if the shares were transferred to a trust created under the Māori Affairs Act 1953. Ohau Pā Reserve is just such a trust that is legally accountable to the beneficiarie...

7. Williams v Trustees of Parahirahi C1 (2005) 37 Kaikohe MB 212 (37 KH 212) [pdf, 6.5 MB]

   ...the reservation trust never owned the kohanga reo building. The arrangement ended when the kohanga reo building was sold by the National Trust. • The payment of $5000 was a financial contribution towards the legal costs ofthe appeal under the Resource Management Act 1991 against the building of the prison on Ngawha Waikaukau lands - within the same tupuna whenua. She noted her view that the payment \vas authorised by the constitution of the trust (its aim, objectives and secti...

8. Updated EC Topic Structure incl party comments and Council response 17 November 16 [xls, 93 KB]

   ...modelling in relation to this topic. The modelling proposed relates to plan enabled capacity and updated modelling is now required because some of the base information has changed. In relation to the timetable proposed, the Council is working through resourcing constraints and will advise the Court whether the timetable proposed can be met as soon as possible. ENV-2016-AKL-000206 Cato Bolam Consultants Ltd [5]; [8] (re 011) Cabra Rural Developments Ltd Federated Farmers of New Zealand Fo...

9. NZCVS-Cycle-5-Impact-of-COVID-Distribution-of-crime.xlsx [xlsx, 366 KB]

   ...Repeat victimisation of offences by family members by demographic factors – Estimates and Sampling error 1 New Zealand Crime and Victims Survey (NZCVS) Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on crime and victimisation – Cycle 5 (2021/22) (available at Resources and results) Enquiries Contact us for further information about these and related statistics Suggested citation Ministry of Justice. 2023. New Zealand Crime and Victims Survey. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on crime and victimi...

10. [2020] NZREADT 37 - Eade v Real Estate Agents Authority (25 August 2020) [pdf, 335 KB]

    ...of a lifestyle block at Waihi that a mining company owned neighbouring land, but that there was no intention to mine at or near to the land being sold. Some months after the purchase, the purchasers learned that a mining company had applied for resource consent to mine under the property. The Tribunal found that the licensee was unaware of the potential risk of mining in the area. The Tribunal found that the misrepresentation was innocent, but nonetheless constituted unsatisfacto...