HRRT hearing cancelled until further notice:

Just received, email from Human Rights Review Tribunal, cancelling hearing scheduled for tomorrow and Wednesday:

Dear Mr Mihaka, Ms Raue, Ms Cuncannon and Ms Shaw
As you know, a 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck New Zealand at 12.02am today.  As a consequence, all Ministry of Justice sites in Wellington have been closed until further notice while buildings are checked by engineers.  In addition members of the public have been asked to stay away from central Wellington until at least this evening.  No trains are running and there are no replacement bus services.

At the time of writing it is not known when these circumstances will change sufficiently to allow the resumption of hearings at the Tribunals Unit.

In these circumstances the Chairperson has directed that I give formal notification that the hearing scheduled to commence at 10am tomorrow, Tuesday 15 November 2016 is of necessity cancelled.

I hope to be in touch with you shortly to arrange a new date of hearing.

If you or your witnesses have availability issues between now and March 2017 please let me know by 5pm on Wednesday 16 November 2016.

Yours sincerely
Helen

 Which is just as well - the Office of Human Rights Proceedings are still, as of this morning, trying to claim that they haven't received our application for assistance, despite admitting that they HAVE received it, they just can't access it - still - because of the incompetence of their Information Technology department, who have admitted that they - still - can't access ten whole days worth of emails 'since they moved to the cloud' - incompetence is bad enough but blaming others is completely unacceptable!

We will be applying for a prerogative writ of certiorari to confirm that they HAVE received it!