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   The Ministry of Justice provides a range of advice to our Ministers on topics relevant to our work programme, Ministerial priorities and around ongoing legislation. This page provides a list of advice that has been sent. Items below are listed from newest to oldest.  Please note that this is not a complete list, items may have been withheld, the most common grounds for withholding this information are under the following sections of the Official Information Act. Section 9 (2)(f)(iv) - main

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2. 2022-02-11 Statement of Evidence of Rachel Ozanne dated 11 February 2022 incl appendices [pdf, 2.9 MB]

   ...Indicators of freshwater quality based on deposited sediment and rapid habitat assessment. Prepared for the Ministry for the Environment. Cawthron Report No. 3402; (n) Mills, G.N.; Williamson, R.B., 2008. The Impacts of Urban Stormwater in Auckland’s Aquatic Receiving Environment: A Review of Information 1995 to 2005. Prepared by Diffuse Sources Ltd and Geosyntec Consultants for Auckland Regional Council. Auckland Regional Council Technical Report 2008/029; (o) Stewart, M.,...

3. [2009] NZEmpC AC 49/09 Norske Skog Tasman Ltd v Manufacturing and Construction Workers Union & Anor [pdf, 135 KB]

   NORSKE SKOG TASMAN LTD V MANUFACTURING & CONSTRUCTION WORKERS UNION & ANOR AK AC 49/09 9 December 2009 IN THE EMPLOYMENT COURT AUCKLAND AC 49/09 ARC 71/08 IN THE MATTER OF a challenge to a determination of the Employment Relations Authority BETWEEN NORSKE SKOG TASMAN LIMITED Plaintiff AND MANUFACTURING & CONSTRUCTION WORKERS UNION INC First Defendant AND BRIAN BOYLEN Second Defendant Hearing: 28 May 2009 (Heard at Auckland) with addit

4. [2023] NZEnvC 270 Port of Tauranga Limited [pdf, 3.3 MB]

   ...contribute to degradation of Te Awanui. This is required to enable us to assess the cumulative effects of the proposal. [62] Many factors have contributed to the degradation of Te Awanui. Professor C N Battershill, the Chair of Coastal Sciences at the University of Waikato and an expert in marine biology, marine ecology and environmental toxicology, who was called by POTL to give evidence, identified these factors as including sedimentation, nutrients and other pollutants in catchme...

5. He Waka Roimata - Transforming our Criminal Justice System [pdf, 5 MB]

   ...ADVISORY GROUP “It was a privilege to be asked by Te Uepū Hāpai i te Ora to name its first report. This task was too important to perform alone, and so I discussed possibilities with friends and colleagues. My colleague Dr Karena Kelly, of Victoria University of Wellington, suggested 'He Waka Roimata', which translates as ' A Vessel of Tears'. This seemed to me to reflect in a Māori way the purpose, indeed the burden, of this volume: to accurately convey to its...

6. Social Wellbeing and Perceptions of the Criminal Justice System Report [pdf, 1.6 MB]

   1 Social wellbeing and perceptions of the criminal justice system Cycle 2 (October 2018 – September 2019) 2 Contents List of figures .................................................................................................................. 3 List of tables .................................................................................................................... 6 Acknowledgements ....

7. NZCVS topical report Cycle 2 (2019) - Social wellbeing and perceptions of the criminal justice system [pdf, 1.4 MB]

   1 Social wellbeing and perceptions of the criminal justice system July 2020 Results drawn from Cycle 2 (2018/2019) of the New Zealand Crime and Victims Survey 2 Contents List of figures .................................................................................................................. 3 List of tables ..........................................................................................

8. E67 Vaughan Smith - Planning - EIC - VHHL [pdf, 1.3 MB]

   ...Fax: 09 358 5215 PO Box 1509 DX CP22003 AUCKLAND 2065 1 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. My name is Vaughan Arthur Smith. I hold the qualifications of Master of Planning Practice (First Class Honours) and Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) from the University of Auckland. I am a sole practitioner resource management consultant. 1.2. Since obtaining my planning degree in 2004, my experience as a planner has encompassed a wide range of projects with an emphasis on the preparation of re...

9. NZCVS Cycle 3 (2020) Section 6 Reporting to the Police [xlsx, 160 KB]

   ...areas with the most deprived scores. Disability In the report, adults with disability are defined using the Washington Group Short Set (WGSS) of disability questions. The questions ask if the respondent has experienced difficulties performing basic universal activities (walking, seeing, hearing, cognition, self-care and communication). Someone who reports “a lot of difficulty” with at least one of the six basic activities covered is defined as a person with a disability using this classif...

10. [2023] NZEnvC 068 Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand Incorporated v West Coast Regional Council [pdf, 827 KB]

    ...Conservation; (h) Mr Chinn, a technical advisor at the Department of Conservation; (i) Dr Smith, a principal ecologist with Wildland Consultants, appearing for Forest and Bird; (j) Dr Craig, a retired professor of environment management at Auckland University. Ecological context [90] To provide a meaningful description of a site, it is useful to place it within its broader ecological context, particularly its status within the ecological district.20 The Te Kuha mine site is...