LCRO 215/2018 CONCERNING an application for review pursuant to section 193 of the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006 AND CONCERNING a determination of the [Area] Standards Committee [X] BETWEEN WN Applicant AND ZD Respondent The names and identifying details of the parties in this decision have been changed. DECISION Introduction [1] Mr WN has applied for a review of a decision by the [Area] Standards Committee [X] to take no further a...
...updates to the complainant, including when he terminated her services (see heads of complaint (4) and (5) under “Negligence”). She is remorseful and wishes to make a formal apology and voluntary offer of amends to the complainant. 6 Section 49(3) & (4). 7 Sparks v Immigration Advisers Complaints and Disciplinary Tribunal [2017] NZHC 376 at [93]. 8 Section 50. 9 Section 51(1). 10 Z v Dental Complaints Assessment Committee [2008] NZSC 55, [2009] 1 NZLR 1 at [97], [128]...
BEFORE THE ENVIRONMENT COURT I MUA I TE KOOTI TAIAO 0 AOTEAROA IN THE MAHER BETWEEN AND Decision No. [2018) NZEnvC 15 of an application pursuant to section 311 of the Resource Management Act 1991 PETER WILLIAM MAWHINNEY (AS TRUSTEE OF WAITAKERE FOREST LAND TRUST AND OF THE FOREST TRUST) (ENV-2017 -AKL-000090) Applicants AUCKLAND COUNCIL Respondent Court: Environment Judge J R Jackson (Sitting alone under section 279 of the Act) Hearing : at Auckland on 19 October 2
...may have that effect, but to ensure that appropriate standards of conduct are maintained in the occupation concerned. 4 Z v Dental Complaints Assessment Committee [2008] NZSC 55, [2009] 1 NZLR 1 at [97], [128] & [151] (citations omitted). 7 … The purpose of disciplinary proceedings is materially different to that of a criminal trial. It is to ascertain whether a practitioner has met appropriate standards of conduct in the occup...
...men.5 Overall, half (51%) of people charged with sexual offences were convicted for their most serious offence, however this percentage varies by victim type and offence type (Figure 3). In 2021, 38% of people charged with rape were convicted (128 people). While the proportion remains low, this was the highest proportion convicted since 2018. Figure 3: Half of people charged with sexual offences were convicted for their most serious offence In 2021, 56% of all people conv...
...appropriately protects the public and deters others; (b) facilitates the Tribunal’s important role in setting professional standards; (c) punishes the practitioner; 3 Z v Dental Complaints Assessment Committee [2008] NZSC 55, [2009] 1 NZLR 1 at [97], [128] and [151]. 4 Dentice v Valuers Registration Board [1992] 1 NZLR 720 (HC) at 724–725 and 727; Bolton v Law Society [1994] 2 All ER 486 (EWCA) at 492; and Z, above n 3, at [151]. 5 Patel v Complaints Assessment Committee HC Au...
...concerned and what may be required to ensure that, in the public interest, such standards are met in the future. The protection of the public is the central focus. 3 Z v Dental Complaints Assessment Committee [2008] NZSC 55, [2009] 1 NZLR 1 at [97], [128] and [151]. 9 … Lord Diplock pointed out in Ziderman v General Dental Council that the purpose of disciplinary proceedings is to protect the public who may come to a practitioner and to maintain the high standards and good...
81 Waikato Maniapoto MB 109 IN THE MĀORI LAND COURT OF NEW ZEALAND WAIKATO-MANIAPOTO DISTRICT A20140001513 UNDER Section 160, Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993 IN THE MATTER OF Part Parish of Whangape Lot 15B Block and Parish of Whangape Lot 15C (Urupā) AND JANICE MYRLENE SANDERS Applicant AND ESSIE KING, LUCY McCOLLUM, VIDA ALLEY, LOMA HESLOP, ROGER WILSON, LEIGH CAMP, WILSON ALLEY, CRAIG ALLEY, JEFFREY ALLEY, JOCELYN JAMES, MAVIS...
...Act 2000 (the Act) were not precisely met, they would provide assistance in determining the present case. c) Relying on earlier dicta from this Court in Telecom New Zealand Ltd v Morgan, it was argued that to qualify as “trauma” under the subsection, an employee would need to have suffered a “substantial injury” so that he or she was unable to properly consider raising the personal grievance.11 Further, the incapacity should exist for the whole of the 90-day period, and n...
SOAPI v PICK HAWKE’S BAY INCOPORATED [2025] NZEmpC 208 [15 September 2025] IN THE EMPLOYMENT COURT OF NEW ZEALAND WELLINGTON I TE KŌTI TAKE MAHI O AOTEAROA TE WHANGANUI-A-TARA [2025] NZEmpC 208 EMPC 197/2022 IN THE MATTER OF proceedings removed from the Employment Relations Authority BETWEEN LYN SOAPI First Plaintiff AND DANNY LAU Second Plaintiff AND MARY LAU Third Plaintiff AND PICK HAWKE’S BAY