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The Natural Products Bill: will the remedy cure the problem?

  • Buddle Findlay
  • -
  • New Zealand
  • -
  • March 26 2013

The natural health products industry is a multi-million dollar enterprise encompassing a wide variety of products, from vitamin preparations through

Healthcare of New Zealand Ltd v CCDHB (14 December 2012)

  • Buddle Findlay
  • -
  • New Zealand
  • -
  • February 12 2013

Healthcare of New Zealand (Healthcare) took judicial review proceedings against a series of decisions by Capital & Coast District Health Board

Joint and several liability

  • Buddle Findlay
  • -
  • New Zealand
  • -
  • January 25 2013

There has long been concern (particularly in the building industry) that the joint and several liability rule leaves well-resourced defendants and

Decision to stop funding day services for over 65s was unjustified discrimination

  • Buddle Findlay
  • -
  • New Zealand
  • -
  • December 19 2012

In 2005, due to fiscal pressures, the Ministry of Health decided to stop funding day services for people with intellectual disabilities who were over 65. Idea Services successfully challenged this decision at the Human Rights Review Tribunal, with the Tribunal finding that the decision to stop funding was unjustified discrimination on the grounds of age

Nurse's dismissal for convictions justified notwithstanding process failures

  • Buddle Findlay
  • -
  • New Zealand
  • -
  • December 19 2012

A nurse set fire to her car in an attempt to take her life, and was charged with two counts of arson

Nurse successfully appeals against maximum period of suspension

  • Buddle Findlay
  • -
  • New Zealand
  • -
  • December 19 2012

A nurse, who was found guilty of professional misconduct for engaging in an inappropriate relationship with a patient, has had his period of suspension reduced from three years to 18 months

No personal grievance for suspension and dismissal from an aged residential care facility

  • Buddle Findlay
  • -
  • New Zealand
  • -
  • December 19 2012

A Facility Manager of an Aged Residential Care Facility who, among other things, threatened to tie a resident to a chair if she did not remain seated and called out "dinner time, jellimeat for tea", has had her unjustified disadvantage and unjustified dismissal claims dismissed by the Employment Relations Authority

Documentation, communication and coordination failures in community mental health service

  • Buddle Findlay
  • -
  • New Zealand
  • -
  • December 10 2012

The Commissioner has found both a psychiatrist and a DHB in breach of the Code for various documentation, communication, and service coordination failures in the care of a community mental health patient who committed suicide

Consultation on payments to family carers of disabled adults

  • Buddle Findlay
  • -
  • New Zealand
  • -
  • December 10 2012

Following the Court of Appeal decision in Ministry of Health v Atkinson and others, the Ministry of Health has decided to change its current policy of not paying family carers who provide support to their disabled adult family members

Dental technician who practised outside his scope of practice has registration cancelled

  • Buddle Findlay
  • -
  • New Zealand
  • -
  • December 10 2012

The Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal has cancelled the registration of a dental technician who provided and advertised services that were outside the dental technology scope of practice (including taking impressions and manufacturing dentures without a prescription) and who also practised dental technology without a current annual practising certificate

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