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1. LA - practice standards for legal aid providers [pdf, 522 KB]

   ...Clients 25 Preparing for the Hearing 26 3 General Practice Standards These practice standards set out principles and procedures to assist lawyers in the effective, efficient and economic delivery of high quality legal aid services. For many lawyers the practice standards will reflect the way they currently practise. 1.1 The practice standards form two parts, namely: 1.1.1 General practice standards that are applicable to all areas of law, and 1.1.2 Addition...

2. Legal aid practice standards for all legal aid providers [pdf, 522 KB]

   ...Clients 25 Preparing for the Hearing 26 3 General Practice Standards These practice standards set out principles and procedures to assist lawyers in the effective, efficient and economic delivery of high quality legal aid services. For many lawyers the practice standards will reflect the way they currently practise. 1.1 The practice standards form two parts, namely: 1.1.1 General practice standards that are applicable to all areas of law, and 1.1.2 Addition...

3. [2024] NZEnvC 115 Anderson Branch Creek Limited v Queenstown Lakes District Council [pdf, 440 KB]

   ...implementation of all reviewed and accepted works detailed in Condition (12) above. d) The consent holder shall submit to the Subdivision Officer at Council Chemical and bacterial tests of the water supply that clearly demonstrate compliance with the Water Services Act 2021 and Water Services (Drinking Water Standards for New Zealand) Regulations 2022 and Aesthetic Values for Drinking Water Notice 2022 (or superseding legislation and standards and notices) with respect to the drinking w...

4. Pope v Human Rights Commission (Strike-Out Application) [2014] NZHRRT 3 [pdf, 88 KB]

   ...unintelligible and unhelpfully contains large tracts of irrelevant “evidence”. The document is almost impossible to follow. The three defendants are alleged to have failed Mr Pope in various ways in the course of providing him with disability services. [8] The primary grounds on which the strike out applications are based are: [8.1] The proceedings are fundamentally misconceived in that they rest on the untenable contention that the Human Rights Commission, the Health and Disab...

5. [2023] NZEnvC 245 The Adare Company Limited v Hamilton City Council [pdf, 1.3 MB]

   ...area.  The gully network and areas of open space are safe and accessible to the public.  Ensuring the ongoing integration, protection and restoration of ecology within the urban environment, providing habitat value and a range of ecosystem services such as amenity, open space, shading and cooling, carbon sequestration, connectivity, and water retention and storage. Sensitivity: General Development Area 1: Peacocke Structure Plan Page 2 Volume 1 Vision The visi...

6. National guidelines for crime prevention through environmental design in New Zealand - Part 2 [pdf, 1008 KB]

   ...with more specific analysis of identified hot-spots. Hot-spot analysis Hot-spot analysis is a process to confirm what partners may already know about crime in a specific area. It can also help to identify the causes of crime so that these can be addressed rather than focusing on the symptoms. A hot-spot analysis has a number of specific benefits: ■ It systematically tests anecdotal information and identifies changing and newly emerging trends to improve the knowledge and reliabili...

7. Kingi - Maungaroa No 1 Section 27 (2018) 194 Waiariki MB 268 (194 WAR 268) [pdf, 356 KB]

   194 Waiariki MB 268 IN THE MĀORI LAND COURT OF NEW ZEALAND WAIARIKI DISTRICT I TE KOOTI WHENUA MĀORI O AOTEAROA TE ROHE O TE WAIARIKI A20170006272 UNDER Section 231, Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993 IN THE MATTER OF Maungaroa No 1 Section 27 HINETAPORA KINGI, JENNY SWINTON, RAUKURA JOE NGATORO, FRANCES WIWI HINEHOU KINGI AND CAZNA TE ATA WAIARI Applicants A20180003565 UNDER Sections 231 and 244, Te Ture Whe...

8. LCRO 17/2021 NV v WQ (30 June 2021) [pdf, 167 KB]

   ...Firm A]. [7] At paragraph 7, the order said this: Upon receipt of written notice under paragraph 6, [Law Firm A] shall, within 14 days, engage a registered valuer appointed by the president or the equivalent office of the [Region] branch of the New Zealand Law Society to produce an opinion of the then current market value of the relevant block or blocks, including, for the avoidance of doubt, all improvements. The valuation report shall be provided to [Law Firm A] with a copy to [Law...

9. Wellington Standards Committee 2 v Tennet [2022] NZLCDT 37 (26 October 2022) [pdf, 183 KB]

   ...Tennet’s agent was not called upon to speak at all although he could have done so had he anything to add. [58] Mr Tennet was conflicted because M had allegedly been assaulted by her partner, another client of Mr Tennet. Whether or not the point was addressed directly in court on 18 August, Mr Tennet was at least inferentially granted leave to withdraw that day because new counsel was given audience for M. [59] The Standards Committee submits that the memorandum was misleading...

10. AR v ZI ZIZ Ltd [2014] NZDT 574 (26 May 2014) [pdf, 24 KB]

    ...liquidation? [14] I find that the first contract came to an end with the liquidation of the former employer. The liquidation changed what the agreement between AR and ZI had been so substantially that any subsequent action must have been the subject of a new arrangement. [15] However, AR have not established that a new contract was formed. There is no evidence of agreement for payment of any kind to ZI, either at the time or at some future time, even on a contingency basis. There...