She is claiming compensation under the Protected Disclosures Act 2000, which protects whistleblowers. BNZ argues that the redundancy process was fair and genuine, and that there was no unjustifiable dismissal and no grounds for removing the case to another court.
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Melissa Bowen said a current member of the authority was at the bank when she was there. Bowen s request for special leave relied on two things: that it raised an important issue of law that was connected to her case and that there were other related proceedings before the courts. While Bowen was connected to another case before the courts, O Brien said there were other reasons to have Bowen s case heard outside the authority.
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The formation of Antarctic sea ice causes cold, salty water to sink to the sea floor, where it flows away and links to the global oceanic conveyor belt, the thermohaline circulation.
Recent studies reveal surprising changes in the Ross Sea region, a choke-point in ocean circulation. David Williams reports. As the three-masted British ship Erebus sailed south in Antarctic waters with the slightly smaller Terror in January 1841, commander James Clark Ross, the world’s most experienced polar explorer, saw a low white line extending as far as the eye could see. “It presented an extraordinary appearance,” he wrote, “gradually increasing in height, as we got nearer to it, and proving at length to be a perpendicular cliff of ice, between one hundred and fifty feet and two hundred feet above the level of the sea, perfectly flat and level at the top, and without any fissures or promontories on its even seaward face.”