Welcome to the Ministry of Justice Media Centre where you can find media contacts for the Ministry of Justice and New Zealand’s judges.
If you have media questions about the Ministry, policy, specialist courts and tribunals, fines, reparation. See below for inquiries about:
Email: media@justice.govt.nz
Antony Paltridge
Team Leader Media and External Relations
Phone: 04 918 8980
Mobile: 027 689 0667
Julia Goode
Senior Media Adviser
Phone: 04 918 8836
Mobile: 021 636 416
If you have media questions about historic Treaty of Waitangi claims and the Marine and Coastal Areas Act.
Email: otsmedia@justice.govt.nz
Pete Huggins
Strategic Communications Advisor
Phone: 04 494 9800
If you have media questions about the work of the judges of the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, and the High Court.
Cate Brett
Chief Advisor Judicial Development and Communications
Judicial Office for Senior Courts
Phone: (04) 466 3437
Email: cate.brett@courts.govt.nz or judicialoffice@courts.govt.nz
If you have media questions about the judges of the District Court, including the judges of the Family Court and Youth Court:
Email: media@justice.govt.nz
Marie McNicholas
Strategic Communications Adviser to the Chief District Court Judge
Phone: 04 466 1323
Mobile: 027 882 2225
If you have media questions about coroners, coronial inquiries and inquests, and coronial findings:
Email: media@justice.govt.nz
Julia Goode
Senior Media Adviser to the Chief Coroner
Phone: 04 918 8836
Mobile: 021 636 416
We work with a number of other justice sector agencies who are responsible for investigating crime, crime prevention, prosecuting people who break the law, and then implementing the sentences given by the court. If you have media questions about these issues you need to call:
