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1. Greymouth-District-Courthouse-DSA-Report-WSP-August-2024.pdf [pdf, 4.6 MB]

   ...performance of the ground floor timber walls is dependent on the ability of the connection at the ceiling to restrain the walls and transfer in plane loads. This connection has been covered within an assessment report by Davis Ogilvie (dated February 2023) and is discussed further 5.3.8 below. The upper floor timber walls were assessed for their ability to transfer their self-weight and tributary area of roof weight. The walls were rated 55%NBS (IL2) in both the longitudinal and transver...

2. Tuhaka v Samuels - Succession to Kahukuranui Piwari [2025] Chief Judge's MB 728 (2025 CJ 728) [pdf, 586 KB]

   ...Chief Judge's MB 728 Tuhaka v Samuels- Succession to Kahukuranui Piwari [2025] Chief Judge's MB 728 (2025 CJ 728) I TE KOOTI WHENUA MĀORI O AOTEAROA I TE ROHE O AOTEA In the Māori Land Court of New Zealand Aotea District AP-20230000027478 A20200013963 CJ 2020/57 WĀHANGA Under Section 45, Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993 MŌ TE TAKE In the matter of Succession to Kahukuranui Piwari in relation to the interests of Albert Nuku also known as...

3. Pratt v General Distributors Limited [2025] NZHRRT 5 [pdf, 337 KB]

   ...Anderson KC, Deputy Chairperson Ms NJ Baird, Member Ms SB Isaacs, Member REPRESENTATION: Mr G Pratt in person Ms K Dunn and Ms M Lister for defendant Communication Assistants Ms S Kedge and Ms A Paulin DATE OF HEARING: 21-24 November 2023 DATE OF DECISION: 20 February 2025 2 intoxicated and therefore refuse to sell him alcohol. He says he is regularly discriminated against and that this is unfair. [2] On 6 October 2019 a staff member at Countdown’s Spotsw...

4. [2025] NZEmpC 76 Vegepod NZ Ltd v Lowe [pdf, 291 KB]

   ...Vegepod business; those shareholders are Mrs and Mr Lowe and their company, Vegegardenz Ltd. [23] Mrs and Mr Lowe each signed an employment agreement with Vegepod NZ Ltd in May 2019; new employment agreements were presented to them on 1 August 2023, but they say they did not sign these, and there is no record that they did so.7 The signed agreements contained a provision relating to redundancy, namely cl 18. Clause 18 included a requirement for the employer to use its best endeav...

5. Morison v New Zealand Association of Counsellors [2024] NZHRRT 46 [pdf, 362 KB]

   ...Counsellors Inc HRRT 5/2002,, 17 March 2003 (Waugh) at [20(c)]; and was affirmed by the High Court in Edwards v Capital and Coast District Health Board [2016] NZHC 3167 at [45] (Edwards). See also Van Wey Lovatt v Health New Zealand (Strike-Out) [2023] NZHRRT 37 at [24] upheld in Van Wey Lovatt v Health New Zealand -Te Whatu Ora [2024] NZHC 2538. 12 The exception being where the Commissioner decides under PA 2020 s 77(2)(a) not to investigate the complaint. That circumstance can only ari...

6. OIA-115102.pdf [pdf, 3.6 MB]

   ...possession and use of firearms and other weapons. 1 296 non-pistol clubs are approved and operating, and seven are not yet approved, but continue to operate because they existed before the legislative changes and made an application by 24 June 2023 for approval (the transitional arrangement for clubs and ranges operating at 24 June 2022 – see further below). 2 92 pistol clubs have been recertified and are operating, and one pistol club is a new club that has not yet been approved....

7. [2024] NZREADT 40 - CAC v Tafilipepe (25 October 2024) [pdf, 367 KB]

   ...this may have added to the delay, we find there is no reason to believe it added to the Committee’s external legal costs, so it is not a material factor. [104] We have sighted the invoices of the Authority’s external solicitors from 31 March 2023 until 25 July 2024, presumably amounting to the claimed total of $33,568.34. We note they were accompanied by “time transactions” (unseen by us), which we presume set out the professional time supporting the invoices. [105] As...

8. Rapana v Anderson - Te Kōmiti Matua o te Haahi Rātana (2024) 492 Aotea MB 95 (492 AOT 95) [pdf, 335 KB]

   492 Aotea MB 95 Rapana v Anderson - Te Kōmiti Matua o te Haahi Rātana (2024) 492 Aotea MB 95 (492 AOT 95) I TE KOOTI WHENUA MĀORI O AOTEAROA I TE ROHE O AOTEA In the Māori Land Court of New Zealand Aotea District AP-20230000022844 A20210007549 WĀHANGA Under Section 30, Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993 MŌ TE TAKE In the matter of Te Kōmiti Matua o te Haahi Rātana I WAENGA I A Between LANCE RAPANA, PIKI-TE-ORA MANUEL, ANDRE MEIHANA, HA...

9. [2025] NZEmpC 157 Allied Investments Ltd v Jones [pdf, 282 KB]

   ...Although he would have been entitled to paid sick leave pursuant to cl 14.2 of his employment agreement had he still been employed, he would have had to account to Allied Security for any earnings-related accident 15 New Zealand Steel v Haddad [2023] NZEmpC 57, [2023] ERNZ 218, at [162]–[164]; cf Davidson v Christchurch City Council [1995] 1 ERNZ 172 at 204. compensation. This means the amount he received for accident compensation should be deducted from any loss of ea...

10. [2021] NZEnvC 111 Weston Lea Limited v Hamilton City Council [pdf, 23 MB]

    IN THE ENVIRONMENT COURT AT AUCKLAND I TE KOTI TAIAO O AOTEAROA KI TAMAKI MAKAURAU Court: Hearing: Appearances: Decision [2021] NZEnvC \ \ \ IN THE MATTER OF the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) AND BETWEEN of appeals under to s 120 of the RMA WESTON LEA LIMITED (ENV-2019-AKL-308) AND AND Appellant DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF CONSERVATION (ENV-2019-AKL-310) Appellant HAMILTON CITY COUNCIL Respondent Judge] A Smith Commissioner S K Prime Commissioner AP Gy