Paul Heath and Mike Whale

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ISBN: 9781988598888 (book)

Publication date: December 2024

Brenda Midson

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ISBN: 9781988598345 (book)

Publication date: October 2024

Andru Isac (editor)

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ISBN: 9781988598901 (book)

Publication date: December 2024

Service 127 is now available online

This service includes updates to the Privacy Act 2020 commentary, as well as commentary updates to the Banking and Finance tab and the Law Enforcement tab. 

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Service 99 is now available online

This service includes updates to the following chapters: Chapter 2: The Grievance Process, Chapter 3: Unjustifiable dismissal, Chapter 4: Procedural fairness, Chapter 5: Grounds for dismissal, Chapter 7: Unjustifiable action, Chapter 11: Remedies, and Chapter 12: Alternatives to the Personal Grievance Process. 

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Service 289 is now available online

This service includes commentary updates to Part 9A of the Employment Relations Act 2000. Updates have also been made to the following areas: Employment Court Regulations; The Holidays Act 2003; the Minimum Wage Act 1983; and the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015.

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Volume 20 Part 6 is now available online.

Sentencing — Whakaari/White Island eruption — Breaches of duty of care by owners and tour operators — Failing to ensure proper or adequate risk assessments undertaken — Death and serious injury resulting — Reparation — Significant emotional harm — Fines — High and very high culpability — Guilty pleas — Co-operation and remedial action — Previous good character — Actions in aftermath of eruption — Financial position of defendants — Insurance cover — Liquidation — Health and Safety at Work Act 2015, ss 36(1), 36(2), 37(1), 48 and 49.

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Mount Cook Airline Ltd v E Tū Inc — (2024) 20 NZELR 415

Appeal — Employment Court — Interpretation of minimum wage legislation — Part-time workers.

Minimum wage legislation — History — Purpose.

Interpretation — Meaning of text and purpose — Subordinate legislation consistent with Minimum Wage Act 1983.

“Rate” of pay — Proportional relation of monetary amount and time — Prorate actual hours worked to time period in Minimum Wage Order 2021 — Minimum Wage Act 1983, ss 4(2) and 6(1) — Minimum Wage Order 2021, cl 4.

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BGH v Kumar (also known as Bala) — (2024) 20 NZELR 438

Human rights — Unlawful discrimination — Sexual harassment — Language, visual material or physical behaviour of sexual nature in employment — Proper approach to assessment of evidence — Proper approach to determination of available relief — Proper approach to non-publication orders — Human Rights Act 1993, s 62(2).

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Singh v McKee — (2024) 20 NZELR 462

Discrimination — Racial harassment — Victimisation — Choice of procedure — Indian employee — Employer commenting on and making fun of employee’s accent — Employer insisting employees speak in English at work — Language used by employer — Whether language used brought employee into ridicule and contempt on grounds of race — Hostility — Whether language hurtful or offensive — Whether detrimental effect on employment — Employer treating employee differently to other employees — Employer not investigating formal complaint by employee — Whether matter already before Employment Relations Authority — Remedies — Declaration — Damages — Human Rights Act 1993, ss 63, 66, 79A, 92I(3), 92I(4), 92M(1)(c) and part 2 — International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 660 UNTS 195.

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Volume 20 Part 7 is now available online.

A Labour Inspector of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment v Prisha’s Hospitality (2017) Ltd (t/as Royal Cambridge Indian Restaurant) — (2023) 20 NZELR 480

“Penalties — Purpose — Method of assessment — Relevant factors to consider — Sequence of assessing them — Proportionality check — Application of penalties and compensation — Minimum Wage Act 1983 — Holidays Act 2003 — Wages Protection Act 1983.

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Team Group Realty Ltd (t/as Harcourts Paremata) v Cardno — (2024) 20 NZELR 495

Interim injunction — Restraint of trade — Relational contracts — Legitimate interest to be protected — Public interest in maintaining consumer choice.

Serious question to be tried — Use of confidential information — Failure to comply with restraint — Protection of goodwill.

Balance of convenience — Damages not adequate where restraint enforceable — Strength of applicant’s case — Respondents knew risks.

Form of order — Modification of restraint — Claim against employee for Employment Relations Authority rather than injunction.

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Hu v Passion Fresh Ltd — (2024) 20 NZELR 515

Employment — Personal grievance — Notification to employer — Indirect notification — Employer must know what has to respond to — Service of statement of problem.

Employment — Joinder of controlling third party — Requirement for complaint against employer — Arguable case third party’s actions led to grievance — Notification — Employment Relations Act 2000, ss 103B, 114 and 115.

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Al-Bustanji v Corrections Association of New Zealand Inc — (2024) 20 NZELR 529

Judicial review — Interim injunction — Proposed disciplinary investigation by union of two members of national executive — Whether interim orders necessary to preserve position of two members pending substantive hearing — Union president interested party in complaint against members — Risk of bias or predetermination by other members — Communications from president of union to other members of national executive — Whether allegations constituting offence — Whether raising such allegations breach of union’s duty of good faith — Correct union rule to pursue complaint — Employment Relations Act 2000, ss 4 and 194 — Incorporated Societies Act 1908 — Judicial Review Procedure Act 2016, s 15.

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Osborne v Callaghan Innovation — (2024) 20 NZELR 545

Personal grievance — Unjustifiable dismissal — Challenge to dismissal of claim — Breach of good faith complained of post-employment.

Protected disclosure — Confidentiality — No evidence of communication — Act does not guarantee confidentiality — No retaliatory action alleged — Protected Disclosures Act 2000, ss 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 17 and 18.

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E tū Inc v Singh — (2024) 20 NZELR 554

Personal grievance — Unjustified dismissal — Unjustified disadvantage — Suspension — Harassment allegations — Union organiser — Rushed disciplinary process — Concern over media attention — Unclear reasons for dismissal — Employer putting aside and not investigating allegations of sexual harassment — Whether sexual harassment allegations taken into consideration in decision-making — Unclear as to identity of decision-maker — Lack of opportunity to respond — Compensation — Lost wages — Contribution — Employment Contracts Act 1991 — Employment Relations Act 2000, ss 103A, 123(1)(c)(i), 124, 128(2) and 128(3).

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Rob Batty & Kevin Glover

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ISBN: 9781988598628 (book)

Publication date: July 2024

Thomas Gibbons & Charlotte Muggeridge

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ISBN: 9781988598567 (book)

ISBN: 9781988598574 (eBook)

Publication date: August 2024

Jason Goodall KC

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ISBN: 9781988598918 (book)

Publication date: December 2024

Volume 2024 Part 7 is now available online.

Muaūpoko Tribal Authority Inc v Minister for the Environment — [2024] NZRMA 285

Consultation — Appeal — Freshwater — Vegetable exemption — Planning — Resource management — Horticulture — Pollution — Taonga — Meaningful opportunity for input — Public consultation — Treaty principles — Property rights — Lake Horowhenua — Hōkio Stream — Whenua — Kaitiaki — Te Mana o te Wai — National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management 2020, cls 1.3(3), 1.3(4), 1.3(5), 2.1, 2.1(1), 2.2, 3.1(1), 3.1(2), 3.2(1), 3.2(2)(a), 3.2(2)(b), 3.3, 3.4, 3.5(1), 3.5(1)(c), 3.5(2), 3.7, 3.7(2), 3.11, 3.20, 3.31, 3.32, 3.33, 3.33(3)(b), 3.33(6) and 3.33(6)(b) — Resource Management Act 1991, ss 5, 5(1), 6, 7, 8, 15(1)(a), 15(1)(b), 24(a), 30(1)(c), 30(1)(f), 32, 45(1), 45A, 45A(1), 45A(2), 45A(3), 46A, 46A(3)(a), 46A(3)(b), 46A(4), 46A(4)(c), 46A(5), 47A(1)(b), 48, 49(2), 50(2), 51(1), 52, 52(1)(a), 52(1)(b), 52(1)(b)(ii), 53, 59, 66(1)(a), 67(3), and 72 — Horowhenua Block Act 1896 — Horowhenua Lake Act 1905 — Reserves and Other Lands Disposal Act 1956, s 18 — New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 — Resource Legislation Amendment Act 2017, ss 36 and 37.

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John Earles, Greg Kelly, Chris Kelly & Kevin Lenahan

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ISBN: 9781988598949 (book)

Publication date: December 2024

Textbook, Red, & Online Precedents will be available in 2025

The New Zealand Supreme Court: The Second Ten Years, 1st edition

Michael Littlewood & Janet McLean (editors)

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ISBN: 9781988598147 (book)

Publication date: December 2024

Due to be a Textbook Online and Red Book in 2025

Ross Carter

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Publication date: December 2024