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1. CVA research report into use of restorative justice in family violence cases [pdf, 630 KB]

   ...guys to not just do enough to get through the boxes but actually to acknowledge that this is a bigger picture? This is a longer journey. When I said often perpetrators have been victims it means doing work longer term. … But are we sufficiently resourcing our men to get the support longer term so that they can continue the journey of change?’ • reinstating funding for the provision of free couple counselling • introducing victim advocates to court ‘to speak up for the wo...

2. Recommendations recap - issue 3 [pdf, 1.2 MB]

   ...potentially more damaging ways of using communication to harm others.’ They also note there are obstacles that include the difficulties for the public in accessing the law, the cost of bringing legal proceedings, the adequacy of investigative resources and tools, the problems in the way in which offences are defined and possible gaps in the types of offence currently included within the statute book. They rightly point out that many citizens are unaware of the range of crimina...

3. Recommendations recap - issue 10 [pdf, 1021 KB]

   ...design and management of such processes must ensure that the possibility of human error is decreased as much as possible by the provision of appropriate equipment, training (both initial and refresher), ongoing assessment and appropriate levels of resourcing. IV. In order to remind those involved in the administration of medication to elderly persons of the need for caution, a copy of this finding will be sent to the Health Quality and Safety Commission New Zealand, the New Zealand Aged C...

4. Inaia Tonu Nei - Hui Maori - Combined version PDF [pdf, 7.2 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...

5. Deputy Registrar v Moeahu – Lot 1 DP 17494 Part Section 2345 New Plymouth (Old Railway Station) (2021) 437 Aotea MB 3 (437 AOT 3) [pdf, 550 KB]

   ...funds. (e) The trustees also received fees and payments in the 2016 and 2017 years, further contributing to the loss suffered. (f) The trustees did not have sufficient information to make informed decisions on the management of the trust’s resources. Finance reports were intermittent and those that were did not contain all relevant information. Budgets were provided and adopted, albeit well into each financial year, but without the accompanying relevant financial information,...

6. Chapman v Aotearoa Resorts Ltd - Tokaanu Māori Township 2nd Residue Trust (2010) 257 Aotea MB 62 (257 AOT 62) [pdf, 245 KB]

   ...adjournment until the determination of the appeal. He submitted that there would be a real risk of the third and fourth respondents being drawn into costly satellite litigation to the appeal where he contended it would be a more efficient use time and resources to await the outcome of the appeal. For the applicants Mr Laurenson argued that his clients preferred that the second relief application proceed as soon as possible while recognising that there was some force in the argumen...

7. Tata v Katipa - Waiwhakaata 3E4C Lot 2A [2018] 170 Waikato Maniapoto MB 123 (170 WMN 123) [pdf, 692 KB]

   ...such relief. While there is specific statutory authority enabling the Court to grant relief, that remedy is not lightly given: in re: Tauhara Middle 4A2B2 C-Opepe Farm Trust. In this decision Judge Savage was critical of trustees who had used trust resources incorrectly even though they had relied on advice. [116] The respondents have not sought relief pursuant to this provision. Even if they had, I do not consider this provision applies. Nor do I consider the first respondents shou...

8. Green v EIT [2020] NZHRRT 24 [pdf, 985 KB]

   ...not as an employee. The claim that EIT took its obligations under the Privacy Act seriously [80] Ms Gillett-Jackson’s evidence to the Tribunal was that at the end of January 2015 she had told her senior manager (Ms Diane Friis) and EIT’s Human Resources Director (Mr Bill Kimberley) that there had been a meeting in EIT time (and on campus) with the Police and a group who had made a complaint to the Police about Jeremy and at which there had been a discussion about applying for a rest...

9. Morgan v The Real Estate Agents Authority (CAC 20003) NZREADT 82 [pdf, 331 KB]

   ...Chesterman emphasised that Mr Morgan is a licensed agent who, with his company Diagonal Holdings Ltd, operated as an independent contractor for PGG Wrightson and was not an employee, but there was a commercial relationship with both parties having the resources and opportunity to protect their own commercial interests. Their business relationship was governed by the terms of two contracts, one between PGG Wrightson and Mr Morgan and the other between PGG Wrightson and Diagonal Holdings L...

10. Barlow v Phillips - Rangitoto Tuhua 55B1B and other blocks (2012) 282 Aotea MB 75 (282 AOT 75) [pdf, 419 KB]

    ...Mangatoatoa Marae and Te Kuiti to Manu Ariki he had a very large following both for his healing practice, but also for the spiritual message he wished to share. Mr Phillips carried out his healing, which attracted his supporters, and they then provided resources to assist him to build the marae complex at Manu Ariki. I consider that during his lifetime he was a charismatic figure who influenced many people to join the Society and to seek to bring to fruition the vision he promoted...