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Tēnā koe Peter,

Thank you for your request for information of 8 January 2025. We apologise
for the delay in acknowledging your request. 

In your email, you have requested information under the Official
Information Act 1982 (the Act), regarding your Disputes Tribunal (the
Tribunal) case. However, I must advise that Courts and Tribunals are a
separate and independent arm of government and are specifically excluded
from the Act under section 2(6)(a). Therefore, any information regarding
your case is likely to be refused under section 18(g) of the Act, as the
information requested is not held by the Ministry and there are no grounds
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-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Duncan <[4][FOI #29703 email]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2025 2:03 PM
To: [5][Ministry of Justice request email]
Subject: Official Information request - Reason why disputes allowed this
to continue

 

Dear Ministry of Justice,

I am requesting a reason why this disputes tribunal case escalated our
dispute with nz post to the point of we no longer get any mail and have no
way of getting our mail,  your referee allowing nz post contractors to
file with the police a harassment claim , yet there is a perfectly good
restraining order application which allows a response.  Now in september
28 2023 nz post file states they were concerned for their well-being,  yet
nz police served a trespass notice,  why would there be two different
stories?. Nz post when they signed as the recipient in june , were they
worried then? What about july? Or August? Or even September?  They knew
due to not getting court documents they cost us $22600 Now as the referee
did in fact state in the hearing as we have a recording of the entire
hearing we have rights under the consumer guarantees act,  yet still threw
it out. This made nz post more aggressive and now we no longer can receive
any mail from the courts, winz, ird, police, or anyon  e.  Now before this
hearing we had a po box , after this hearing we were forced by police to
hand key back due to alleged harassment.  Who is harassing who please? Has
the court been negligent?  Perhaps this needs to be responded to by Janet
Robertshaw.  Now harassment needs to be proven we have dates, but no
times. Our bank statement says different as you don't head to a shop and
buy nothing. 

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Peter Duncan

 

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