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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
World
Caitlin Cassidy

New Zealand woman takes boyfriend to disputes tribunal because he didn’t take her to the airport

a plane taking off
According to an order from the tribunal, the woman’s boyfriend had agreed to take her to the airport and stay at her house while she was away, but he never arrived. Photograph: Greg Bajor/Getty Images

A New Zealand woman has taken her long-term boyfriend to a disputes tribunal for breaching a “verbal contract” by failing to take her to the airport, resulting in her missing a flight to a concert and forcing her to delay her travel by one day.

The woman told New Zealand’s disputes tribunal that she had been in a relationship with the man for six and a half years until the disagreement arose.

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