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1. Canterbury Westland Standards Committee 2 v Healy [2020] NZLCDT 4 [pdf, 106 KB]

   NEW ZEALAND LAWYERS AND CONVEYANCERS DISCIPLINARY TRIBUNAL [2020] NZLCDT 4 LCDT 025/19 IN THE MATTER of the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006 BETWEEN CANTERBURY WESTLAND STANDARDS COMMITTEE 2 Applicant AND DANIEL ROBERT HEALY Practitioner CHAIR Judge DF Clarkson MEMBERS Ms S Hughes QC Mr H Matthews Ms M Scholtens QC Prof D Scott ON THE PAPERS DATE OF DECISION 31 January 2020 COUNSEL Mr P Collins for the Standards Committee...

2. Law Firm A v Standards Committee LCRO 319/2012 (31 May 2016) [pdf, 72 KB]

   ...debit on three occasions, none of which were referred to in the monthly certificates issues by the partnership pursuant to reg 17(1). [3] The Committee imposed a fine of $500 on each applicant and ordered each of them to pay the sum of $200 to the New Zealand Law Society on account of costs. [4] The Committee also determined to take no further action in respect of breaches of reg 12(7) (failing to account to clients at no more than 12 monthly

3. New chief executive takes the reins at Justice

   Andrew Kibblewhite was welcomed to his new role as Chief Executive of the Ministry of Justice at a pōwhiri in Wellington this morning (1 February 2019). Mr Kibblewhite formally began his role as Secretary of Justice and Chief Executive today, replacing Andrew Bridgman, who will take up a new role as Secretary of Defence later this year.   Mr Kibblewhite has been Chief Executive of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet since 2012. Mr Kibblewhite thanked everyone for the pōw...

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4. GU v Hakaoro [2013] NZIACDT 68 (9 October 2013) [pdf, 135 KB]

   ...said she was not allowed to see it, refused to refund the money, and said: “Don’t ever come back here small lady”. 3 Mr Hakaoro’s response [14] Mr Hakaoro responded to the complaint in correspondence dated 9 October 2012 addressed to the Authority. [15] He produced articles he had written. One of them was contemptuous of persons of the complainant’s nationality. The articles are not relevant to the complaint, except to the extent that they raised a concern r...

5. Marshall v IDEA Services Ltd (Costs) [2021] NZHRRT 28 [pdf, 141 KB]

   1 IN THE HUMAN RIGHTS REVIEW TRIBUNAL [2021] NZHRRT 28 I TE TARAIPIUNARA MANA TANGATA UNDER THE PRIVACY ACT 2020 015/2017 BETWEEN EAMON HENNING MARSHALL Plaintiff AND IDEA SERVICES LIMITED Defendant CONT. AT NAPIER BEFORE: Mr RPG Haines ONZM QC, Chairperson Ms GJ Goodwin, Deputy Chairperson Ms LJ Alaeinia JP, Member Mr MJM Keefe QSM JP, Member REPRESENTATION: Mr GW Marshall as agent for his son Ms I Re...

6. Family Court Rewrite Submission - Portia Law [pdf, 443 KB]

   ...Ebborn, was invited to meet with the panel in person and Portia submitted a written submission for the first part of the review. 1. ABOUT THE SUBMITTER - PORTIA Ebborn Law Ltd trades as ‘Portia’. Portia is the 4th largest provider of legal aid services in New Zealand1 and the largest provider by volume of family legal aid services in New Zealand. In the 2017-2018 year Portia averaged 6 FTE lawyers. Recently our capacity has increased to 10.5 FTE lawyers. Two of those lawyers have...

7. [2022] NZEnvC 214 Palmerston City Council [pdf, 335 KB]

   ...the gully network, poor urban form outcomes with extensive use of culs-de-sac and right of ways, poor connectivity between developments (including three waters and transport infrastructure), and a lack of accessible community infrastructure and services to meet local needs.5 [6] The Council has prepared and notified PCG to address these issues. The Council's application is supported by an affidavit of Michael Duindam, Principal Planner at the Council. 6 Legal basis [7] The...

8. LCRO 138/2015 AZ, VY and CX v DW and EV [pdf, 260 KB]

   ...contemporaneous correspondence. If that requirement had not been the intention, HS did not correct that interpretation. … Ultimately the Committee concluded that Mr BY had been unnecessarily obstructive in his dealings with the complainants’ new lawyers, particularly in the context of work not having been carried out for many months. It seems that Mr BY had taken charge of termination and post-termination of retainer matters and the Committee considered that the overall conduct...

9. Waikato Bay of Plenty Standards Committee 2 v W [2014] NZLCDT 14 (1 April 2014) [pdf, 81 KB]

   NEW ZEALAND LAWYERS AND CONVEYANCERS DISCIPLINARY TRIBUNAL [2014] NZLCDT 14 LCDT 025/11 IN THE MATTER of the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006 BETWEEN WAIKATO BAY OF PLENTY STANDARDS COMMITTEE No. 2 Applicant AND W Practitioner CHAIR Judge D F Clarkson MEMBERS OF TRIBUNAL Mr W Chapman Mr A Lamont Mr P Shaw Mr S Walker HEARING at Auckland DATE OF HEARING 1 April 2014 APPEARANCES Mr M Hodge for the Standard...

10. Director of Proceedings v Emms [2013] NZHRRT 5 [pdf, 165 KB]

    ...Later that day she had acupuncture therapy but the pain in her back was not relieved. On the evening of 6 November 2009 she went to talk with friends at a pub and was there referred to Mr Emms whom she had met at that pub on previous occasions and knew that he was a Shiatsu practitioner. She approached him at the pub, told him of the intense pain in her 3 back and arranged an appointment for 10.30am on the following day, Saturday 7 November 2009. [8] Mr Emms has been one hundre...