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1. Budget 2020 Family Violence and Sexual Violence - Summary of Initiatives [pdf, 680 KB]

   ...costs associated with delivering the assessments and reporting on those assessments.  Police funding ($2.3 million) will enable medical experts to attend court as expert witnesses. Timeliness and robust evidence will help secure earlier guilty pleas, thereby reducing re- victimisation.  Justice funding ($6.4 million) relates specifically to medical or strangulation experts attending court as expert witnesses for the defence. This funding is important to ensure that any judic...

2. Mullane v Attorney-General (Request for Documents) [2020] NZHRRT 14 [pdf, 621 KB]

   ...directive from person/s unknown, (but it is my educated guess that it is GCSB and Prime Ministers Department) to stop the truth of this scandal being revealed to the public, hence a total media ban and why Politicians, from day one, have ignored my pleas for help and also why senior respected officials, such as Edwards, Judge Sir David Carruthers, Judge Peter Boshier and his corrupt side-kick Leo Donnelly, have deliberately misled me, delayed investigations of my complaints to their Agenci...

3. B Tarrant Memo Chief Coroner 02-11-21-V2 [pdf, 114 KB]

   ...Blackstone Chambers Cooper Legal PO Box 302 PO Box 12063 Kawakawa 0243 Thorndon Wellington 6144 Telephone: (09) 601 2143 Telephone: (04) 499 9025 or (04) 473 1952 Email: ellist@tonyellis.co.nz Email: sonja@smcooperlaw.co.nz 1 May it Please Your Honour 1. I have recently been instructed to act, together with Graeme Edgeler, Barrister as my junior, for Mr Brenton Tarrant in respect to a number of matters in respect of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the terroris...

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

   ...diversions when formal recording of these introduced, the numbers for the proposed proxy increased after 2003 rather than falling when the formal Diversion code was introduced. Second, it is difficult to be sure which codes to use to cover Guilty pleas before 2004; the pattern of numbers over time suggests that around 200,000 charges with plea codes of X (Not Recorded) in years before 2004 may have been recorded as G (Guilty) in the years after 2004. Besides, creating a complication for...

5. Young-Adult-List-Operating-Guidelines2.pdf [pdf, 5.8 MB]

   ...court should continue to be considered pursuant to the Criminal Procedure Act and Rules. The transferring of proceedings from other courts to a Young Adult List is not supported unless the young adult lives in that court jurisdiction and has either pleaded guilty or intimated a guilty plea. Depending on volumes and case types, there may be some minor variations for some courts. Overnight arrests for 18 to 25-year olds will continue to be heard the next court day regardless of list...

6. Young-Adult-List-Operating-Guidelines.pdf [pdf, 5.8 MB]

   ...court should continue to be considered pursuant to the Criminal Procedure Act and Rules. The transferring of proceedings from other courts to a Young Adult List is not supported unless the young adult lives in that court jurisdiction and has either pleaded guilty or intimated a guilty plea. Depending on volumes and case types, there may be some minor variations for some courts. Overnight arrests for 18 to 25-year olds will continue to be heard the next court day regardless of list...

7. Applying-be-a-Legal-Aid-Provider-Step-by-Step-Guide-Feb-2025 [pdf, 655 KB]

   ...set out in the Legal Services (Quality Assurance) Regulations 2011 (Regulations). If you intend to return to provide legal aid services after a period of absence, you may not need to go through the full application process. For further information, please refer to page 19. When to use the application form Relevant legislation Legal Services Act 2011 Legal Services (Quality Assurance) Regulations 2011 Applying for the first time whether as a lead provider, supervised provider, pro...

8. Hawkes Bay Standards Committee v Heaphy [2014] NZLCDT 61 [pdf, 343 KB]

   ...Heaphy Sent: Wednesday, 18 April 2007 12:21 p.m. To: ‘Mike Porter’ Subject: RE: Investment opportunity It has now been done, following negotiations yesterday i.e. 80k to be 109k in 15 months. If there is desire to do further lending please advise. Regards Jonathan 8 From: Mike Porter Sent: Tuesday, 5 June 2007 5:29 p.m. To: ‘Jonathan Heaphy’ Subject: trust account Please urgently invest surplus funds as per the recent high return investmen...

9. Auckland Standards Committee v Andersen [2012] NZLCDT 17 [pdf, 122 KB]

   ...Practitioner 2 DECISION ON PENALTY Introduction [1] The practitioner faced, initially, 10 charges of professional misconduct. At the beginning of the hearing Charges 5 and 7 were withdrawn by leave and the practitioner entered pleas of guilty to the remaining eight charges. Charges Charge 1 in relation to AK [2] In May 2009 the practitioner was acting for herself as trustee, as vendor in relation to the sale and purchase of a property occupied by herself...

10. Justice Sector Projections 2020 report [pdf, 1 MB]

    ...court inflow4. As the composition of cases entering courts becomes more serious, the rate at which people are remanded into custody is projected to increase unless other system changes occur over the next 10 years. Since 2014, defendants have been pleading guilty later in the criminal court process. This means criminal cases now require more court hearings and more resources to be resolved. This trend is projected to continue without further system changes. With less court time avai...