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1. Flawn v Accident Compensation Corporation (Individual Rehabilitation Plan) [2024] NZACC 142 [pdf, 587 KB]

   IN THE DISTRICT COURT AT WELLINGTON I TE KŌTI-Ā-ROHE KI TE WHANGANUI-A-TARA [2024] NZACC 142 ACAR 125/23 UNDER THE ACCIDENT COMPENSATION ACT 2001 IN THE MATTER OF AN APPEAL UNDER SECTION 149 OF THE ACT BETWEEN AMBER FLAWN Appellant AND ACCIDENT COMPENSATION CORPORATION Respondent Hearing: 8 July 2024 Heard at: Invercargill/Waihōpai Appearances: P O’Sullivan for the appellant F Becroft for the respondent Judgment: 26 August 2

2. Rec-Recap-2023-Q2-FINAL.pdf [pdf, 1013 KB]

   Recommendations Recap A summary of coronial recommendations and comments made between 1 April and 30 June 2023 Office of the Chief Coroner | 2023 (2) i Coroners’ recommendations and comments Coroners perform essential functions within our society. They inquire into a range of unexpected deaths to establish the identity of the person who has died and the cause and circumstances of their death. While inquiring into a death,

3. Ministry-of-Justice-Annual-Report-2021-22.pdf [pdf, 5 MB]

   Te Tāhū o te Ture Annual Report Including the Annual Report for Te Arawhiti, The Office for Ma-ori Crown Relations And Ministers’ reports on Non-Departmental Appropriations: Minister of Justice (Vote Justice), Minister for Courts (Vote Courts), Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations and Minister for Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti (Vote Te Arawhiti) 1 July 2021 - 30 June 2022 E.64, B14 AR (2022) In accordance with the Public Finance Act 1989, this Annual Report presents:

4. Rec-Recap-2023-Q3-FINAL.pdf [pdf, 790 KB]

   Recommendations Recap A summary of coronial recommendations and comments made between 1 July and 30 September 2023 Office of the Chief Coroner | 2023 (3) i Coroners’ recommendations and comments Coroners perform essential functions within our society. They inquire into a range of unexpected deaths to establish the identity of the person who has died and the cause and circumstances of their death. While inquiring into a dea

5. Measuring reoffending with court data: proposed tier 1 specification [pdf, 750 KB]

   JUSTICE SECTOR Working paper Measuring re-offending with court data: Proposed Tier 1 specification Charles Sullivan & Lynley Povey 24 November 2015 Summary This paper is a proposed specification for a Tier 1 measure of re-offending using reconviction data as recommended by the 2009 Review of Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics (Statistics New Zealand, 2009). Tier 1 statistics are the most important statistics for understanding how well New Zealand is performing. The spe

6. Who is vulnerable or hard-to-reach in the provision of maternity, Well Child and early parenting support services? [pdf, 467 KB]

   ...low birthweight, injury and adverse outcomes There is increasing evidence that neurological damage is an important mediating mechanisms which leads to offending. Damage to the pre-fontal cortex through head injury, birth complications, disease or environmental toxins (such as alcohol), is linked to anti-social behaviour. Risks to the developing brain arise even before birth, in the form of agents such as tobacco, alcohol and other drugs, which may damage the foetus. A recent New Zeal...

7. [2021] NZEnvC 007 JJ Limited v Dunedin City Council [pdf, 246 KB]

   ...business currently operates across three separate sites adjacent to Gladstone Road South and the East Taieri Primary School. The applicant’s existing operations are on sites zoned Industrial and uses a temporary site zoned Rural and subject to Designation D419 in the 2GP. The existing site configuration requires the applicant to use the public road network for the delivery, testing, and demonstration of agricultural machinery. The applicant seeks a site in the Rural Zone on which a...

8. MK v Accident Compensation Corporation [2024] NZACC 45 (8 March 2024) [pdf, 460 KB]

   ...provided by the Act”, a claimant is nevertheless “responsible for his or her own rehabilitation to the extent practicable having regard to the consequences of his or her personal injury”. [62] Counsel submits that s 70 is reflective of a scheme designed to cushion the effects of the accident and not to provide a full indemnity. She refers to ACC v Nelson1 and the fact that s 70(b) mandates that the claimant is responsible for his or her own rehabilitation to the extent practi...

9. Victims of crime in the adult criminal justice system: a stocktake of the literature [pdf, 1.1 MB]

   Commissioned by Ministry of Justice Victims of crime in the adult criminal justice system: A stocktake of the literature by Dr Elaine Mossman October 2012 Contents Executive summary .................................................................................................... i Structure of the report ....................................................................................................... vi Part one: In

10. Proactive-release-OIA-review-Aug22.pdf [pdf, 30 MB]

    Hon Kris Faafoi Minister of Justice Proactive release – Briefing: Official Information Act 1982 – report back on targeted engagement and next steps Released: 7 December 2021 Initially released: 22 August 2020 The following documents have been proactively released by the Ministry of Justice. The initial release of this information in March 2020 included the Briefing and Attachment to the Briefing (documents 1& 2). The subsequent release in December 2021 included the Submis