New Zealand Case Law: Decisions & Judgments

Topic

Complaints procedure

Legal area

Court

8 Dec 2020

HUDSON v A-G [2020] NZHC 3231

Citation

[2020] NZHC 3231
Court

High Court

The application is dismissed because the altered unlock hours constituted an operational prison management decision rather than an unlawful deprivation of statutory minimum entitlements or a disciplinary forfeiture of privileges; the temporary change in hours lasted effectively one day and was therefore moot, and the prison and Inspectorate processes, including assistance and investigation, did not breach statutory requirements.
11 Dec 2019

TEACHER Y v EDUCATION COUNCIL OF AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND [2019] NZCA 637

Citation

[2019] NZCA 637
Court

Court of Appeal

The Court held that the principal had a triaging power to deal with an oral complaint by restorative justice without automatically referring it to the board, but her exercise of that power was objectively unreasonable and constituted serious misconduct under s 139AB because her cumulative decisions and omissions adversely affected the student's wellbeing and reflected adversely on her fitness to teach; r 9(1)(o) is a broad catch‑all that includes acts or omissions bringing discredit to the profession and should not be read down to require deliberate misfeasance.
23 Feb 2018

HANDLEY v THE REAL ESTATE AGENTS AUTHORITY [2018] NZHC 231

Citation

[2018] NZHC 231
Court

High Court

The Committee and Tribunal were entitled to conclude the agent's errors were short, inadvertent and immaterial; the appellant failed to prove causation between the delays and her unsuccessful tender and accordingly the conduct did not meet the statutory threshold for unsatisfactory conduct under s72; the appeal is dismissed.

New Zealand Case Law

HUDSON v A-G [2020] NZHC 3231

TEACHER Y v EDUCATION COUNCIL OF AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND [2019] NZCA 637

HANDLEY v THE REAL ESTATE AGENTS AUTHORITY [2018] NZHC 231