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Pool Owners Report Court Shambles
Wednesday, 15 June 2005, 11:30 am | Pool Owners Action Group
In 2003 a large number of pool owners in Waitakere City received prosecution notices. Some of them had recent compliance certificates. Some of those people had two or three adjournments. On 1 October 2004, Randerson J rejected the specific declaration ... More >>
Swimming Pool Fencing: Legal Impossibility
Friday, 1 April 2005, 11:00 am | Pool Owners Action Group
In a Press Release on 8 December 2004, I alluded to a looming logistics problem with the large number of cases Waitakere City Council has brought against its pool owners. More >>
Swimming Pool Fencing: Legal Impossibility
Thursday, 31 March 2005, 3:54 pm | Pool Owners Action Group
In a Press Release on 8 December 2004, I alluded to a looming logistics problem with the large number of cases Waitakere City Council has brought against its pool owners. More >>
THe BBQ And Pool Issue
Thursday, 17 February 2005, 9:59 am | Pool Owners Action Group
More than a year ago, some councillors were telling me we had their sympathy over the swimming pool fencing issue. Nearly a year ago POAG was claiming pool inspectors were acting ultra vires. Countless times comments from Jason Sheehan and Dean Nuralli ... More >>
Swimming Pool Fencing: Eleventh-hour Backdown
Monday, 7 February 2005, 10:48 am | Pool Owners Action Group
In less than 3 years Waitakere City Council has issued more than 644 prosecution notices to its swimming pool owners. More >>
Swimming Pool Fencing: Dinosaurian Progress!
Tuesday, 11 January 2005, 5:06 pm | Pool Owners Action Group
A couple of years ago Waitakere City Council embarked upon a very heavy-handed campaign against its pool owners. You're being unreasonable said the pool owners. Not so, said the Council "It's our job to enforce the law." That may be so, but WCC started ... More >>
Swimming Pool Fencing: Logistics Problem
Wednesday, 8 December 2004, 11:08 am | Pool Owners Action Group
A number of pool owners have been receiving letters from Warrick Brooks, Sundry Debtors, Waitakere City Council, advising that they have been, or are about to be, referred to debt collectors and "this action may affect your credit rating for the next ... More >>
Swimming Pool Fencing: New Law
Thursday, 2 December 2004, 1:22 pm | Pool Owners Action Group
When Pool Owners in Waitakere City cried that pool officers were being too officious, they were told "We have to uphold the law." More >>
Swimming Pool Fences
Tuesday, 9 November 2004, 5:18 pm | Pool Owners Action Group
Waitakere City Council has shown contempt for its ratepayers, contempt for the Court and contempt for common sense. More >>
Swimming Pool Fences: Common Sense
Tuesday, 5 October 2004, 1:52 pm | Pool Owners Action Group
Three cheers for the common sense of Justice Randerson. In his landmark decision on 1 October, keenly anticipated by thousands of pool owners throughout New Zealand, he has made it quite clear that bureaucrats can't interpret the law with an emporor's ... More >>
Swimming Pool Fencing: Judgement
Monday, 4 October 2004, 11:42 am | Pool Owners Action Group
In his judgement released on 1 October, Judge Randerson pointed out that the proper interpretation of "immediate pool area" was a key issue. Waitakere City Council had taken a restrictive view. More >>
Swimming Pool Fencing: 50% Exaggeration OK
Thursday, 2 September 2004, 1:33 pm | Pool Owners Action Group
On 2 June 2004 Waitakere City Council ran an inaccurate advertisement claiming 6 pre-school children drown each year in private pools. The figure should be 4 for the whole of New Zealand. More >>
Swimming Pool Fencing: Prosecution Notice
Tuesday, 17 August 2004, 3:04 pm | Pool Owners Action Group
Now, not everyone reads the daily newspapers, but there must be at least one person inside the Waitakere City Council that knows that there was a High Court Hearing on 2nd August at which Waitakere City Council sought a declaratory judgement in relation ... More >>
Pool fencing: Inaccurate Statistics
Monday, 2 August 2004, 12:09 am | Pool Owners Action Group
In relation to the Fencing of Swimming Pools Act 1987, on 2 June 2004, in an advertisement in the Aucklander entitled "swimming pool fences save lives", Waitakere City Council made the claim, "Every year, around six children drown in home ... More >>
Swimming Pool Fencing - Tardy Retraction
Friday, 11 June 2004, 5:41 pm | Pool Owners Action Group
In my last press release I mentioned a highly inaccurate advertisement placed by Waitakere City Council in the Aucklander on Wednesday 2nd June in relation to swimming pool drownings. The reaction from the Aucklander is that the responsibility for the ... More >>
Tardy Retraction
Friday, 11 June 2004, 1:28 pm | Pool Owners Action Group
Press Release from POAG (Pool Owners Action Group) Spokesperson Gary Osborne More >>
Swimming Pool Fencing - Believe It Or Not!
Monday, 7 June 2004, 10:09 pm | Pool Owners Action Group
Isn't it amazing how democracy and bureaucracy work! 8 months ago I was banned from mentioning swimming pools or stormwater ponds at Council Meetings. Waitakere City Council has sought a declaratory judgement set down for early August because it is ... More >>
WCC Not Involved????
Wednesday, 14 April 2004, 3:10 pm | Pool Owners Action Group
How can Waitakere City Council's legal services manager claim the Waitakere City Council is "not involved in conviction" against one of our members? More >>
