Status hearings evaluation: New Zealand study of pre-trial hearings in criminal cases [pdf, 487 KB]
...Statutory provision, guidelines, or practice notes 108 6.10.1 Are existing guidelines or practice sufficient? 108 6.10.2 Statutory provision for status hearings 109 6.10.3 Advantages of statutory provision 109 6.10.4 Disadvantages of statutory provision 110 6.10.5 Views on nation-wide guidelines instead of statutory provision 110 6.11 Transferring features of status hearings to the indictable jurisdiction, e.g. sentence indications in pre-trial callovers 111 6.12 Offences or cases which ar...