Restrictions OK
Jurisdiction Employment Relations Authority - Auckland
Reference No [2015] NZERA Auckland 202
Determination date 03 July 2015
Member A Fitzgibbon
Parties Te Reo Irirangi O Nga Raukawa Trust Board t/a Raukawa FM v Hauiti
Summary PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – Authority considered removal of matter to Employment Court (“EC”) on own motion on ground important question of law likely to arise and whether in all circumstances matter should be removed – Whether Authority had jurisdiction to issue compliance order to enforce parties’ settlement agreement (“SA”)
Abstract AUTHORITY FOUND –PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE: Important questions of law likely to arise concerning whether Authority had jurisdiction to issue compliance order in relation to particular SA, whether Authority could order compliance if relevant judgment recording terms of settlement is not stated to be order or requirement of EC, and how recent Court of Appeal decision fits in with overriding objects of Employment Relations Act 2000 concerning resolution of problems. EC needed to consider what was intended by those provisions if SA entered into following EC proceedings could only be enforced in civil courts. In all circumstances matter should be removed to EC. Matter removed to EC.
Result Orders made ; No order for costs
Main Category Practice & Procedure
Statutes ERA s3(a)(v);ERA s137;ERA s137(2);ERA s143(a);ERA s143(b);ERA s149;ERA s149(3;ERA s151;ERA s161;ERA s 178(1);ERA s 178(2)(a);ERA s 178(2)(d)
Cases Cited JP Morgan Chase NA v Lewis [2015] NZCA 255;Te Reo Irirangi o Nga Raukawa Trust Board t/a Raukawa FM v Hauiti [2015] Auckland 10;Te Reo Irirangi o Nga Raukawa Trust Board t/a Raukawa FM v Hauiti [2015] Auckland 108
Number of Pages 6
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