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Employment Relations Act 2000

Institutions - Judges of the court

208: Sittings

You could also call this:

“This explains how and when judges hold court sessions to hear cases”

You should know about how the Employment Court works when it comes to judges and court sittings. Usually, one judge will hear a case by themselves. This is called the court’s jurisdiction. But there’s an exception to this rule in section 209.

The court decides when and where it will hold its sittings. These are the times when the court meets to hear cases. The court can set these sittings for just one case or for a group of similar cases that are ready to be heard.

Sometimes, the court might need to change when or where it meets. The judge or the court’s Registrar can change the time or place of a sitting. They can do this during a sitting or even before the set time for a sitting.

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Part 10 Institutions
Judges of the court

208Sittings

  1. Subject to section 209, the jurisdiction of the court is to be exercised by a Judge sitting alone.

  2. Sittings of the court are to be held at such times and places as are from time to time fixed by the court.

  3. Sittings may be fixed either for a particular case or generally for a class of cases then before the court and ripe for hearing.

  4. The court may be adjourned from time to time and from place to place by the Judge or by the Registrar of the court, whether at any sitting or at any time before the time fixed for the sitting.

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  • 1991 No 22 s 117