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1. Legal aid factsheet on changes to manage legal aid spending - April 2011 [pdf, 114 KB]

   ...July 2011. They are expected to be effective from 2012. This document sets out key information about the changes. The three main changes are: Adjusting the eligibility criteria for legal aid. Implementing a new purchase approach for legal aid services. Improving the level of repayments received from legal aid clients. Eligibility criteria Eligibility tests currently look at whether the proceedings are eligible, the merits of the case and the means of the applicant. The tests...

2. M v C LCRO 62 / 2009 (28 May 2009) [pdf, 18 KB]

   ...AND CONCERNING A determination of the Auckland Standards Committee No 1 BETWEEN CLIENT M of Auckland Applicant AND LAWYER C of Auckland Respondent DECISION Background [1] Client M complained to the New Zealand Law Society regarding the conduct of Lawyer C. The matter was referred to the Auckland Standards Committee 1 for consideration. On 20 March 2009 the Auckland Standards Committee 1 resolved to take no action on the complaint. That d...

3. Legal aid civil consultation paper [pdf, 583 KB]

   ...setting approach The fixed fees for ACC proceedings are derived from the average approved payment per activity in the sampling described above. The results were then moderated by the Ministry’s specialist advisors. Any anomalies arising would be addressed post-implementation through ongoing monitoring of the new framework. This would ensure that fixed fee schedules remain viable, and that provider services are delivered in line with the Legal Services Act 2011. This monitoring would...

4. Legal aid civil (ACC) consultation paper [pdf, 583 KB]

   ...setting approach The fixed fees for ACC proceedings are derived from the average approved payment per activity in the sampling described above. The results were then moderated by the Ministry’s specialist advisors. Any anomalies arising would be addressed post-implementation through ongoing monitoring of the new framework. This would ensure that fixed fee schedules remain viable, and that provider services are delivered in line with the Legal Services Act 2011. This monitoring would...

5. [2022] NZEnvC 010 Northport Limited v Whangarei District Council [pdf, 1.3 MB]

   ...space land and regionally significant infrastructure. It also introduced several district wide chapters; subdivision, strategic direction, transport networks, sign lighting and three waters management. This was collectively known as the urban and services plan change. Part of Plan Change 144 introduced a new zoning PORTZ. The PORTZ zone relates to approximately 145.5 hectares of land. Northport Limited (Northport) currently owns and operates within some 48.5 hectares associat...

6. [2016] NZEmpC 153 Spotless Facility Services NZ Ltd v Mackay [pdf, 272 KB]

   SPOTLESS FACILITY SERVICES NZ LIMITED v ANNE MACKAY NZEmpC CHRISTCHURCH [2016] NZEmpC 153 [21 November 2016] IN THE EMPLOYMENT COURT CHRISTCHURCH [2016] NZEmpC 153 EMPC 125/2016 IN THE MATTER OF a challenge to a determination of the Employment Relations Authority BETWEEN SPOTLESS FACILITY SERVICES NZ LIMITED Plaintiff AND ANNE MACKAY Defendant Hearing: 27 October 2016 (heard at Christchurch) Appearances: G Ballara, c...

7. BORA Equal Pay Amendment Bill [pdf, 291 KB]

   ...employers to give notice to an employee of whether they view the employee’s pay equity claim as being arguable; c. s 13H requires employers, where pay equity claims have been consolidated, to provide all claimants with one another’s names and addresses (except where a claimant has requested confidentiality); d. s 13I requires employers, where pay equity claims against multiple employers have been consolidated, to provide all claimants with the name of, and name and address of repre...

8. MLC - 2011 May - Māori land today [pdf, 311 KB]

   ...access to all necessary information in relation to this land in our mutual work to enable the retention and utilisation of their whenua. Today Māori freehold land comprises a little over 1.4 million hectares – that is, approximately 5.5% of New Zealand’s land mass. 12% of the North Island is Māori land, including about 23% of the land in the Waiariki district, 18% in the Tairāwhiti district and 28% in the Aotea district. Most of the Māori freehold land in New Zealand is theref...

9. Te Manutukutuku Issue 13 [pdf, 3.1 MB]

   ...assistance to those Tribunals currently engaged in report writing. Public relations and information service Requests for Tribunal members and staff to attend speaking engagements continued throughout the year, both at home and overseas. Organisations addressed ranged from Rotary clubs to universities. The Tribunal's library holdings have now been placed on a database enabling a faster response to information THE WAITANGI TRIBUNAL, Seabridge House, 110 Featherston Street, PO Bo...

10. [2013] NZEmpC 150 McConnell v Board of Trustees of Mt Roskill Grammar School [pdf, 155 KB]

    ...from its text and in the light of its purpose. Even if the meaning 2 [2013] NZEmpC 55. 3 Central Clerical Workers IUOW v Victoria University Students’ Association [1990] 2 NZILR 294 at 300 and New Zealand Public Service Association v Electricity Corporation of NZ Ltd, Marketing Division [1991] 2 ERNZ 365 at 376-377. 4 Interpretation Act 1999, s 5. 5 [2007] 3 NZLR 767 (SC) at [22]. of the text may appear plain in isola...