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1. CM-Position-Profile-2024 [docx, 41 KB]

   ...expands upon that of Justices of the Peace. Community Magistrates have jurisdiction to conduct defended hearings for a wide range of non-imprisonable offences. Community Magistrates can also impose sentences on persons who have been found guilty of or pleaded guilty to certain minor imprisonable offences. Community Magistrates do not have the power to imprison offenders, but they may impose a range of other sentences, such as reparation, community-based sentences (such as community detention o...

2. CM-Position-Profile-2025LwrNrth [docx, 42 KB]

   ...expands upon that of Justices of the Peace. Community Magistrates have jurisdiction to conduct defended hearings for a wide range of non-imprisonable offences. Community Magistrates can also impose sentences on persons who have been found guilty of or pleaded guilty to certain minor imprisonable offences. Community Magistrates do not have the power to imprison offenders, but they may impose a range of other sentences, such as reparation, community-based sentences (such as community detention o...

3. CM-Position-Profile-2025Northisland [docx, 42 KB]

   ...expands upon that of Justices of the Peace. Community Magistrates have jurisdiction to conduct defended hearings for a wide range of non-imprisonable offences. Community Magistrates can also impose sentences on persons who have been found guilty of or pleaded guilty to certain minor imprisonable offences. Community Magistrates do not have the power to imprison offenders, but they may impose a range of other sentences, such as reparation, community-based sentences (such as community detention o...

4. Three strikes law

   ...the three strikes law will only apply to sentences above 24 months; extend the use of the “manifestly unjust” exception to allow some judicial discretion to avoid very harsh outcomes and address outlier cases; provide a limited benefit for guilty pleas to avoid re-traumatisation of victims, and to improve court delays; and ensure that people who commit murder at second or third strike receive an appropriately lengthy non-parole period. Following public feedback, the Government asked the Ju...

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5. Whats New for lawyers providing Legal Aid

   ...the CDCJ in May 2025, outlines the judicial approach to ensure that cases are in the best state for trial. It includes establishing a practice where the prosecutor schedules a Case Management Memorandum (CMM) discussion within 10 days after not guilty plea, a requirement for the prosecutor to indicate at the case review hearing how they will prove the case (via the Memorandum of Proof which may be filed together with the CMM), and a checklist to be added to the file to ensure case readiness. Th...

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6. AD v Secretary for Justice 2 April 2012 NZRA 000006 [pdf, 92 KB]

   ...senior counsel since 2006 for offences of aggravated robbery, rape, drugs and serious assaults. She has had active involvement in Category 4 matters the most important and extensive of which was a manslaughter trial which resulted in a guilty plea after the jury had been empanelled and there had been prior extensive legal argument over a day and a half resulting in the Crown making a concession for sentencing purposes. [8] It appears that the applicant sought approval as a Categor...

7. X v B LCRO 11 / 2008 (26 March 2009) [pdf, 16 KB]

   ...delay was addressed as part of the original investigation and decision of the former Complaints Committee. Clients X accept that they did raise delay in their original complaint when they included a complaint that their lawyer had ignored their pleas to “get on with our case”. But it seems that they considered this to be incidental to the other heads of complaint. The second complaint focused solely on the matter of delay, that Lawyer B had failed to “start the case” and �...

8. CM-Position-Profile-2021.docx [docx, 31 KB]

   ...expands upon that of Justices of the Peace. Community Magistrates have jurisdiction to conduct defended hearings for a wide range of non-imprisonable offences. Community Magistrates can also impose sentences on persons who have been found guilty of or pleaded guilty to certain minor imprisonable offences. Community Magistrates do not have the power to imprison offenders, but they may impose a range of other sentences, such as reparation, community-based sentences (such as community detention o...

9. CM-Position-Profile-Updated-2021.docx [docx, 31 KB]

   ...expands upon that of Justices of the Peace. Community Magistrates have jurisdiction to conduct defended hearings for a wide range of non-imprisonable offences. Community Magistrates can also impose sentences on persons who have been found guilty of or pleaded guilty to certain minor imprisonable offences. Community Magistrates do not have the power to imprison offenders, but they may impose a range of other sentences, such as reparation, community-based sentences (such as community detention o...

10. Community Magistrate Position Profile - Auckland - May 2022 [docx, 31 KB]

    ...expands upon that of Justices of the Peace. Community Magistrates have jurisdiction to conduct defended hearings for a wide range of non-imprisonable offences. Community Magistrates can also impose sentences on persons who have been found guilty of or pleaded guilty to certain minor imprisonable offences. Community Magistrates do not have the power to imprison offenders, but they may impose a range of other sentences, such as reparation, community-based sentences (such as community detention o...