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1. Justice Sector Prison population forecast 2007 to 2015 [pdf, 312 KB]

   ...remand. Most initiatives will take time to implement and bed down so we expect current trends to continue in the early forecast period. Factors driving the increase in the average time spent on remand include: increases in the numbers of not guilty pleas in court more complex cases in courts (such as methamphetamine cases which often involve scientific evidence and several accused being tried at the same time); and growing workloads of the courts generally. Numbers being remand...

2. Youth Court - Playing to win: youth offenders out of court (and sometimes in) [pdf, 241 KB]

   ...started informally to implement restorative justice processes at sentencing. This was later formalised in statute. And now there is a mandatory requirement that restorative justice be, at the very least, explored to all levels of offending after a guilty plea. Our schools, workplaces, and even some small cities, are drawing on the expertise and experience of restorative theory to underpin their processes. Restorative justice is spreading wide, and fast. Youth justice systems continue to...

3. [2017] NZEmpC 56 Nel v ASB Bank Ltd [pdf, 179 KB]

   ...the dispute, it is necessary to outline the relevant factual circumstances of the present proceedings. Before the Court is a challenge and cross-challenge to a determination of the Employment Relations Authority (the Authority). 1 The pleadings which each party have filed provide the context for the disclosure issues; the following facts are derived from those pleadings. [3] Mr Nel was employed by ASB Bank Limited (ASB) in 1997, remaining in the Bank’s employment for...

4. Love v Samuel and Sharon Gemmell Whanau Trust - Anatohia Section 90C Block XVIII Gore SD [2016] Chief Judge's MB 122 (2016 CJ 122) [pdf, 297 KB]

   ...practically adjoining the old woolshed. A search of titles here to obtain an accurate plan was to no avail. The section lies on a flat to easy slope immediately South of old woolshed and yards. Outlook across the bay and associated islands is pleas- ant. Frontage to Sounds is a good pebbly sandy beach and apart from the pre- sence of the rusty, dilapidated woolshed, the site is attractive. Natural water supply is poor. Location in Anatohia Bay is remote, but nevertheless no...

5. BORA Criminal Record (Expungement of Convictions for Historical Homosexual Offences) Bill [pdf, 8.6 MB]

   ...(Expungement of Convictions for Part 1 cl 5 Historical Homosexual Offences) Bill 5 Historical homosexual offence defined (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, historical homosexual of- fence or historical offence means (whenever the plea or finding of guilt, or conviction, was made or entered) an offence against, or involving, any of the relevant repealed sections as in force at any time— (a) on or after 4 August 1908 (which is the date on which the Crimes Act 1...

6. WT Te Manutukutuku Issue 70 [pdf, 1.6 MB]

   ...always been so for­ ward looking. That’s one of the excit­ ing things about New Zealand. It was a decision to embrace the modern. So there’s no point of being nostalgic, [but it is important] to remember what the values were. So I’m very pleased to see the success that everyone’s making. I just hope we keep faith with the noble ideas too. I’m sure we will. What of the Waitangi Tribunal in the future? I think the Tribunal will have to evolve. I think it has evolved eno...

7. Justice Matters July 2019 [pdf, 3.5 MB]

   ...support newly graduated police induction 2 2 4 6 7 8 9 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 18 CONTENTS Justice Matters is a quarterly newsletter produced by the Ministry of Justice’s Communications team. If you have any feedback on this publication, please let us know. commservices@justice.govt.nz | justice.govt.nz https://twitter.com/@justicenzgovt https://www.linkedin.com/company/new-zealand-ministry-of-justice mailto:commservices%40justice.govt.nz?subject= https://www.justice.govt.n...

8. Justice Matters - issue 15 - July 2019 [pdf, 3.5 MB]

   ...support newly graduated police induction 2 2 4 6 7 8 9 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 18 CONTENTS Justice Matters is a quarterly newsletter produced by the Ministry of Justice’s Communications team. If you have any feedback on this publication, please let us know. commservices@justice.govt.nz | justice.govt.nz https://twitter.com/@justicenzgovt https://www.linkedin.com/company/new-zealand-ministry-of-justice mailto:commservices%40justice.govt.nz?subject= https://www.justice.govt.n...

9. LCRO 239/2017 AB v CD (3 July 2019) [pdf, 250 KB]

   ...telephone call. He invited her to discuss the vendors’ offer “in the morning”, 7 October 16 Hall v R [2015] NZCA 403, (2015) 28 CRNZ 630 at [65]. Fundamental decisions are those "relating to plea, electing whether to give evidence and to advance a defect based on the accused person’s version of events". 17 R v Pointon [1985] 1 NZLR 109 (CA) at 112. 18 Hall v R, above n 16 at [77]. 13 2015. Until then, he asked h...

10. LCRO 188/2018 KB v WQ and LT (22 January 2021) [pdf, 264 KB]

    ...[2015] NZCA XX; and (d) BM v Q Law Ltd [2015] NZCA XXX. [103] In BM v Q Law Ltd [2014] NZHC XXX, the High Court considered an action against QLL and its directors brought by investors under the Fair Trading Act 1986. [104] In that action, it was pleaded that QLL held funds received as stakeholders, and were prevented from releasing funds without the joint instructions of the investors and developers. [105] The issue which is at the heart of Mr KB’s complaint was squarely before...