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1. RIS Reforms to CPRA to better target illicit assets [pdf, 327 KB]

   ...current regime are inadequate against organised criminal groups. Further time to analyse the underlying issues and develop the organised crime proposal may have resulted in more proportionate options that do not infringe on the rights protected in the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act to the same extent as identified with the current proposal. These constraints do, to some extent, undermine the confidence that Ministers can place on the analysis in the RIA. Notwithstanding that these con...

2. [2017] NZEmpC 157 Johnston v The Fletcher Construction Co Ltd [pdf, 375 KB]

   ...[3] Mr Johnston was employed by Fletcher Construction for 29 years. The company engaged in a restructuring process, as a result of which Mr Johnston’s position as financial officer – corporate was disestablished. He was invited to apply for newly created positions within the company, which he did. He was offered a position as business performance manager – construction division. The parties were unable to reach agreement as to the terms and conditions attaching to the positi...

3. [2024] NZEnvC 091 Crafar v Taupo District Council [pdf, 355 KB]

   ...regarding rural character and visual impact of the Project, but these are acceptable given the policy and objective framework of the District Plan which recognises and provides for network utilities in the rural environment.4 [9] The decision also addressed the economic and financial effects of converting the land to solar farming from dairy use, and concluded that:5 While there will be a reduction in revenue from dairying due the conversion of the subject site to a solar farm,...

4. ENVC Hearing 6Oct14 WML suppl evidence Mark Apeldoorn [pdf, 1.7 MB]

   ...there is not expected to be a material suppressed demand due to this effect. The additional capacity provided at peak times may result in some passengers changing their current travel times, i.e.: moving forward or backwards half an hour to the new service. This is not suppressed demand, but rather simple competitive redistribution. There is no evidence of significant and forced peak period avoidance trip making, and the nature of these trips, by virtue of their timing is som...

5. [2021] NZEnvC 169 Prime Property Group Limited v Wellington City Council [pdf, 261 KB]

   ...IN THE MATTER BETWEEN AND AND Decision No [2021] NZEnvC J6CJ ENV-2020-WLG-000038 of an appeal under s120 of the Resource Management Act 1991 PRIME PROPERTY GROUP LIMITED Appellant WELLINGTON CITY COUNCIL Respondent WAKA KOTAHI NEW ZEALAND TRANSPORT AGENCY Section 27 4 Party Court: Alternate Environment Judge C J Thompson Environment Commissioner D J Bunting Hearing: at Wellington 27, 28 September 2021 Closing submissions: 6 October 2021 Counsel: S F Quinn and...

6. [2025] NZEmpC 36 Wilson Parking v Turner & Anor [pdf, 205 KB]

   ...order should not be excessive to the circumstances; consideration should be given to whether a less draconian alternative may suffice to meet the risks arising in a particular case. [45] I have considered whether the matter could adequately be addressed via other (less draconian) means (for example, disclosure, interrogatories and the like). I have concluded that it cannot. In the circumstances, including having regard to the forensic evidence before the Court of deliberate concea...

7. [2015] NZEmpC 28 Stevens v Hapag-Lloyd (NZ) Ltd [pdf, 307 KB]

   ...Centre in Chennai. The proposal emanated from Hapag- Lloyd’s headquarters in Hamburg. Mr Carter, the Managing Director of HL Ltd, was not involved in these early discussions. He was advised of a proposed pilot project involving Australia and New Zealand towards the end of November 2012. While a pilot project was proposed, together with a timeframe for its completion, I accept Mr Carter’s evidence that it remained open to HL Ltd to explore whether, and if so what, change was f...

8. [2009] NZEmpC AC 15/09 Air New Zealand Ltd v V [pdf, 95 KB]

   AIR NEW ZEALAND LTD V V AK AC 15/09 3 June 2009 IN THE EMPLOYMENT COURT AUCKLAND AC 15/09 ARC 35/08 AND IN THE MATTER OF a challenge to a determination of the Employment Relations Authority BETWEEN AIR NEW ZEALAND LTD Plaintiff AND V Defendant Hearing: 2 March 2009 (Heard at Auckland) Court: Chief Judge G L Colgan Judge B S Travis Judge C M Shaw Judge A A Couch Appearances: CH Toogood QC and Kevin Thompson, Counsel for Plaintiff Anne-M...

9. KI v Accident Compensation Corporation (Contribution to Cost of Treatment) [2024] NZACC 011 [pdf, 1.8 MB]

   ...re-training, and I imagine there will be a need to continue treatment for some considerable length of time. I have arranged to see her again in the near future. [8] The appellant commenced a rehabilitation programme with the Rotorua Rehabilitation Service in July 1992 “to retrain and compensate for cognitive disfunction to maintain her viability in the workplace”. [9] On 28 August 1992, she had a ceretec brain scan. The report on this noted: There are a couple of discrete...

10. Davis - Ahipara A8B (2014) 88 Taitokerau MB 186 (88 TTK 186) [pdf, 152 KB]

    ...the owners have had sufficient notice of the proposed extended roadway and easement and sufficient opportunity to discuss and consider them, and there is a sufficient degree of support for those orders among the owners. The orders will of course address an anomaly arising from the 1980 partition orders. [10] I therefore propose to invoke s 37(3) of the Act and make roadway and easement orders as part of this application. For two reasons I consider it preferable to cancel the roa...