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1. BORA Border Security Bill [pdf, 72 KB]

   ...met by a provision which provides that the existence of review proceedings by a person against whom a decline decision has been made, cannot be a reason for granting a visa or permit to enter New Zealand. Moreover, any fears about waste of legal resources by fruitless litigation could be met by a ban on making legal aid available to persons seeking to exercise the right to judicial review. Finally, the current s 10(3) Immigration Act was added to that Act without having been vetted for B...

2. Privacy Bill - additional policy decisions [pdf, 304 KB]

   ...de-sensitised to notifications and less concerned to take protective action. This undermines one of the purposes of the notification regime. 20. High volumes of notifications risk reducing the Privacy Commissioner’s effectiveness by diverting resources from the egregious or systemic breaches. A further concern for business submitters is that the threshold is considerably out of step with comparator jurisdictions, which, they suggest, could damage New Zealand’s international reput...

3. Practice Note: Family Court specialist report writers [pdf, 908 KB]

   ...separation and impact on children and adults; (iii) parenting skills; (iv) family violence and impact on children and adults; (v) child abuse and neglect; (vi) alcohol and drug misuse and abuse; (vii) psychopathology; (viii) local community resources for children and their families; and (ix) the responsibilities of the report writer in relation to the Family Court. (c) Cultural awareness, including an understanding of: (i) the need and ability to refer to/make use of specialis...

4. INZ (Gilray) v Singh [2019] NZIACDT 53 (29 July 2019) [pdf, 212 KB]

   ...provided false or misleading information to Immigration New Zealand. Eagle Migration had been contacted by the employer which was accredited with Immigration New Zealand. The law stated that the employer was his “main client”. The human resources manager at the employer had signed the client agreement in line with the Code. [13] Mr Singh explained that pursuant to the instructions received from the client employer, Eagle Migration emailed the employment agreement, the Code...

5. Tucker v Real Estate Agents Authority [2020] NZHRRT 50 [pdf, 157 KB]

   ...doing so was that he did not consider it significant at the time. He later added that since becoming aware that the time period could be extended, he does not consider it reasonable for the REAA to have done so, given it is (in his opinion) a well-resourced organisation with many employees and because much of the information was easily accessible. [25] Mr Tucker acknowledged the reasonableness of the extension had not formed part of his complaint to the Privacy Commissioner. It is al...

6. [2019] NZCAA 2 (26 February 2019) [pdf, 275 KB]

   ...cases. It appears the agent and the customs broker were involved in a number of similar matters, and the investigation is ongoing. I understand false declarations and underpayment of GST and duty occurred in the other cases too. Despite having the resources of Customs available, and being responsible for investigating what appears to be a serious fraud on the Revenue, Mr Muggeridge could not tell me whether there is a genuine group of XXXX companies. Accordingly, whether the agent...

7. Beef + Lamb NZ - EiC - J M Chrystal - Agricultural Science (5 Feb 2021) [pdf, 777 KB]

   1 IN THE ENVIRONMENT COURT OF NEW ZEALAND CHRISTCHURCH REGISTRY I TE KŌTI TAIAO O AOTEAROA ŌTAUTAHI ROHE ENV-2020-CHC-127 UNDER the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) IN THE MATTER of the Water Permits Plan Change - Plan Change 7, being part of a proposal of national significance directed by the Minister for the Environment to be referred to the Environment Court under section 142(2)(b) of the RMA AND IN THE MATTER of an application under section 149T o...

8. [2020] NZREADT 38 - Barfoot v Real Estate Agents Authority (26 August 2020) [pdf, 285 KB]

   ...which include protecting the interests of consumers in promoting public confidence in the performance of real estate agency work are to be achieved, agencies and their managers such as the appellants in this case must put the necessary time and resources into providing supervision and training which has a meaningful result. That would include identifying cases where a junior salesperson such as Ms Feng is carrying out their role without having a proper understanding of what they are...

9. Inaia Tonu Nei - Hui Maori - English version PDF [pdf, 6.4 MB]

   ...to understand the effect they have on the development of tamariki, to ensure they do not enter the justice pipeline. These sectors must work together and partner with Justice to reform the justice system. > Rangatahi courts need to be better resourced and their use expanded throughout Aotearoa. 18 > Oranga Tamariki is continuing to fail Māori. Recognition of this ongoing failure and leadership in this space must be central to any justice system reform. > Oranga Tamariki...

10. LCRO 187/2017 MO v FP (13 December 2019) [pdf, 163 KB]

    ...determinations by a Standards Committee (and this Office) where allegations and submissions by (in particular) complainants, are often made in a ‘scatter-gun’ manner and often without merit or substance. It would be an appalling misuse of the resources of Standards Committees and this Office, if the requirement is to specifically address every allegation and submission. [44] I agree with those observations. Review on the papers [45] With the parties’ agreement, this review has...