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1. [2010] NZEMPC 136 Postal Workers Union v NZ Post Ltd [pdf, 50 KB]

   ...October 2010 IN THE EMPLOYMENT COURT AUCKLAND [2010] NZEMPC136 ARC 28/09 CRC 11/09 IN THE MATTER OF a challenge to a determination of the Employment Relations Authority BETWEEN POSTAL WORKERS UNION OF AOTEAROA Plaintiff AND NEW ZEALAND POST Defendant CRC 11/09 AND BETWEEN POSTAL WORKERS UNION First Plaintiff AND LINDA STREET Second Plaintiff AND NEW ZEALAND POST Defendant Hearing: 20 September 2010 (Heard at Auckland) Counsel: Mr S...

2. Williams v Police (Strike-Out Application No. 2) [2020] NZHRRT 26 [pdf, 696 KB]

   ...this conclusion by the August 2019 guide published by the Chief Ombudsman in which the view expressed is that the question whether information is “held” should be interpreted as broadly as possible. Cited in support of this proposition is Common Services Agency v Scottish Information Commissioner [2008] UKHL 47, [2008] 1 WLR 1550, [2008] 4 All ER 851 at [15]. The following passage from the Chief Ombudsman’s guide Information not held: A guide to sections 18(e) and (g) of the OIA a...

3. Notes of CMR focus group with Maori Business and Social Enterprise on 3 April 2018 [pdf, 429 KB]

   ...participate needs an agile model of engagement from government. • Capability and skillset of officials – Māori businesses and social enterprises want to engage (where necessary) with government in the co-design, implementation, and evaluation of services. Māori businesses and social enterprises are able to contribute relevant advice, develop responsive policies, and anticipate changes but the current government engagement model does not provide for the co-development of, and...

4. Notes of CMR focus group with Human Rights Maori Business and Social Enterprise on 3 April 2018 [pdf, 429 KB]

   ...participate needs an agile model of engagement from government. • Capability and skillset of officials – Māori businesses and social enterprises want to engage (where necessary) with government in the co-design, implementation, and evaluation of services. Māori businesses and social enterprises are able to contribute relevant advice, develop responsive policies, and anticipate changes but the current government engagement model does not provide for the co-development of, and...

5. Director of Proceedings v Te Whatu Ora [2023] NZHRRT 32 [pdf, 461 KB]

   ...2(a) A declaration pursuant to section 54(1)(a) of the Health and Disability Commissioner Act 1994 (“the Act”) that Southern District Health Board (“DHB”) has breached the Health and Disability Commissioner (Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights) Regulations 1996 (“the Code”) in respect of Right 4(1) by failing to provide services to the aggrieved person with reasonable care and skill; and 2(b) A final order pursuant to s 107(3)(b) of the Human Rights Ac...

6. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - summary record 4th report [pdf, 51 KB]

   ...minimum thanks to the emphasis placed on achieving outcomes which were both timely and fair to all concerned. In the same period, 46 per cent of the alleged breaches of the Act concerned employment, and a further quarter the provision of goods and services. 14. The ground for discrimination cited most often was disability, with the second most frequent being sexual harassment. In the year 1999-2000, 3 per cent of complaints had related to discrimination on religious grounds. With 28...

7. KV v WC LCRO 102 / 2011 (15 February 2012) [pdf, 59 KB]

   ...for 30 September 2005. [2] Subsequently (some years later) the Applicant incurred further expense in dealing with the water problem which included installing a draining system. [3] In February 2011 the Applicant filed a complaint with the New Zealand Law Society (NZLS) against the Practitioner. She informed the NZLS that only in August 2010 did she realise that she could have had the sum of $1,000.00 deducted from settlement if the drain had not been put in at the rear of the...

8. 2022-03-18 Director-General of Conservation - Opening Submissions [pdf, 158 KB]

   ...framework, and in particular the Regional Plan: Water for Otago (RP: Water), to improve the management of specific activities likely to be adversely affecting water quality in Otago. 3. One of the gaps relates to sediment from residential earthworks, addressed in Part G of PC8. As notified by the Otago Regional Council (Regional Council, ORC), Part G would insert new Policy 7.D.10, new Rules at 14.5 dealing with Earthworks for residential development, with Rule 14.5.1.1 providing fo...

9. Director of Proceedings (EFG) v Commissioner Police [2012] NZHRRT 8 [pdf, 87 KB]

   ...focusing attention on the crucial question whether, in all the circumstances, the party is misusing or abusing the process of the Court by seeking to raise before it the issue which could have been raised before. [21] Against this background we address first the question whether, in making the disclosures to the counselling organisation, the Department for Courts and ACC, Principle 8 was breached once only by the Police and second, whether any remedies sought in these second proceedings...

10. Malcolm-Davies - Ngararatunua A2B3C and A2B3D (2012) 39 Taitokerau MB 293 (39 TTK 293) [pdf, 90 KB]

    ...Louisa Collier, Lissa Lyndon, Wilson Malcolm and Robert Malcolm – ask the Court to issue an injunction to prevent the burial of their uncle, William (Bill) Kaire, who died earlier this week, on his land. He is due to be buried following a funeral service commencing at 9:00am tomorrow morning. They ask for the injunction to be issued against Bill Kaire’s widow, Coral Kaire, Wayne Kaire, Sharon Kaire, Bill Kaire’s wider family, the taumata of the hui mate for Bill Kaire, those...