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1. [2024] NZREADT 10 - IH v REAA (12 April 2024) [pdf, 215 KB]

   ...preliminary issue, being the nature of the consent referred to by the licensee when he wrote the warning on the disclosure form that “the deck and spa areas do not have con[s]ent”. This might be a reference to a lack of building or planning/resource management consent, as the Authority suggests,18 or to the pool fencing/barrier requirements or both. The purchaser has explained that the deck did not need building (or presumably any other planning) consent at the time it was built...

2. OIA-109631.pdf [pdf, 3.4 MB]

   ...exceptional cases, the Tribunal can grant an application for an urgent inquiry into claims. This may include strict timetables for filing of evidence, hearings and cross-examination. If this were to occur, it would require a significant investment of time and resources from the Ministry. 18. We will advise the Government on how best to respond to these issues should they arise. Options for the use of unspent section 27 funding 19. The Government has committed to end funding for section 27 r...

3. MOJ0047_NOV22_FINAL_WEB.pdf [pdf, 533 KB]

   ...and financial family and whānau arrangements. The CIDG investigation can take many months. Genetic tests take about two to three months. Organising the clinics and all the cardiac tests sometimes takes longer, depending on the health service resources and where family and whānau members are located. Do family and whānau members have to take part? No. This is a clinical service designed to help people find a cause of death for their family and whānau member, and to assess whet...

4. Austin v Accident Compensation Corporation (Treatment Injury) [2023] NZACC 59 [pdf, 257 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. (3) The fact that treatment did not achieve a desired result does not, of itself, c...

5. [2023] NZEmpC 179 Pyne v Invacare New Zealand Ltd [pdf, 255 KB]

   ...workplace culture report. It is apparent that the report was prompted by a range of issues within the company’s Auckland office. The report writer spoke to a selected group of staff, including Ms Lincoln, the staff member and Mr Cotter (the human resources manager). Mr Pyne was not spoken to by the report writer. [8] Ms Lincoln had a meeting with Mr Pyne about the 2019 events and other issues on 6 January 2020. She prepared a file note of her discussion and followed up with...

6. LCRO 103/2022 RP v DQ (25 September 2024) [pdf, 272 KB]

   ...report was only provided after she had indicated she would be making a complaint about Mr FG.32 • Ms RP’s assertion that Mr FG was biased against her. • Comments that Mr FG approached his task through the lens of a big firm with more resources available than were available to her. • Mr FG had not taken into account the contributing conduct of Ms DQ and Ms CY. [80] Overall, Ms RP rejected Mr FG’s report, and stood by her invoice as rendered. Discussion [81]...

7. LCRO 167/2023 UG v XY and EP (17 July 2025) [pdf, 255 KB]

   ...Dr Ord, you have received a painful lesson in why it is important for all practitioners to remain within their areas of expertise. While you were well intentioned to assist a client who you saw as in a very difficult situation and with little resources available to her, from her perspective, your interventions only made matters worse. It is important, for the reputation of the profession to be upheld, that lawyers exercise better judgement than their clients. We admonish you to be...

8. Recommendations recap - issue 2 [pdf, 1.7 MB]

   ...retailers and identify those where abusers are obtaining inhalants; that an annual audit process is implemented whereby compliance with the retailer code of conduct can be measured. The Victorian Department of Human Services developed a suite of resources titled Responsible Sale of Solvents – A Retailer’s Kit in 2002 which addressed retailers obligations under the Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Act 1981 (Vic), as well as strategies for how to store solvents in s...

9. Wall v Fairfax New Zealand Ltd [2017] NZHRRT 17 [pdf, 1.1 MB]

   ...child poverty that pose distinctive policy challenges and require distinctive responses, including being mindful of whānau dynamics. It is important to recognise the impact of the experience of colonisation on Māori. The alienation of land and resources has seen the loss of a cultural and spiritual base and the loss of an economic base (Cram, 2011). Any analysis of the financial and material deprivation of whänau today is incomplete without understanding this context (Baker K., et....

10. Common Bundle Volume 6 [pdf, 3.3 MB]

    ...for this publication is held by the Otago Regional Council. This publication may be reproduced in whole or in part, provided the source is fully and clearly acknowledged. ISBN [get from Comms Team] Report writer: Adam Uytendaal; Rachel Ozanne, Resource Scientists Reviewed by: Dean Olsen, Manager, Resource Science Published CB1690 State of the Environment – Surface Water Quality in Otago 2006 to 2017 i Executive summary This report summarises compliance with Sch...