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The article offers a selection of outstanding cases for 2012 from the NZ Supreme Court, the NZ court of final appeal.

These cases provide helpful guidance on the scope of the ground of unreasonableness and on powers of search and seizure.

In its report Delivering Justice for All - A Vision for New Zealand Courts and Tribunals (NZLC R85, Wgtn.,.2004) the Law Commission addresses the issue of name suppression in the criminal courts, and recommends changes.

The New Zealand Employment Court has ruled that an employee was not made redundant because the new role proposed by his employer was not substantively different to his existing position.

In the recent "Leaky Homes" case of Dicks v Hobson Swan Construction Limted & Ors, Baragwanath J, HC Auckland, CIV 2004-404-1065, 22 December 2006, the High Court awarded Hobsonville homeowner Colleen Dicks a total of $250,900 to meet the cost of repairing her 12 year old house, to compensate her for three years of distress and to meet the costs of her expert witnesses ($29,684.43).

The Supreme Court has once more confirmed that litigation funding agreements are not themselves objectionable.