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1. Compensation Guidelines for Wrongful Conviction and Imprisonment - Including Home Detention and Military Detention [pdf, 288 KB]

   ...non-Māori, Māori are disproportionately sentenced to both imprisonment and home detention, although the disproportionality is a little lower for home detention. Māori are likely to comprise a significant proportion of potential applicants. 57.3. Disability – While people in the justice system are more likely to have disabilities and experience mental health issues than in the general population, including home detention in the compensation scheme is not expected to have a direct o...

2. NZCVS-Cycle-4-Core-Report-Section-7-Reporting-to-the-Police-fin.pdf [pdf, 520 KB]

   ...Police, by broad offence groups (pooled data) 7.4 Reporting to the Police by population groups (pooled data) Using pooled data, we also analysed reporting rates over the last four cycles by personal factors like sex, sexuality, age, ethnicity, disability status, psychological distress, relationship status, regions, deprivation, employment status, and financial pressure. No significant differences in reporting rates were observed for sex, sexual identity, age, ethnicity, disabilit...

3. [2021] NZACC 177 – Williams v ACC (5 November 2021) [pdf, 454 KB]

   ...haemorrhagic lesion. [g] By way of conclusion, Dr Johnson commented: Mr Williams underwent successful surgery to decompress his cervical cord in a timely fashion and without that surgery it is most likely (he would have) been left severely disabled and possible tetraplegic. Some residual neurological symptoms can be expected after such severe spinal cord compression but it is clear to me from the records and the correspondence of Mr Edward Mee that there was no additional inj...

4. Griffiths v Accident Compensation Corporation (Treatment Injury) [2023] NZACC 201 [pdf, 285 KB]

   ...The form indicated that Ms Griffiths’ son, Ryker, was stillborn as a result of injury. The date of death was 1 March 2015. [10] Mr Garry subsequently corresponded with the Corporation and provided documentation generated during a Health & Disability Commissioner (“HDC”) investigation. This included a report from the HDC dated 11 March 2016, which assessed the treatment provided by Mr Neil Maidment, Osteopath. The letter details: You received treatment from Mr Maidment o...

5. Friesen v Accident Compensation Corporation (Personal Injury) [2024] NZACC 46 [pdf, 449 KB]

   ...symptomatic that which previously was asymptomatic does not alter that basic principle. The accident did not cause the degenerative changes, it just caused the effect of those changes to become apparent and of course in many cases for them to become the disabling feature. [64] Mr Light notes that there is no issue about the relevant diagnosis, ie. that Mr Friesen has left the medial compartment osteoarthritis and there is no issue that the surgery (a partial knee replacement) is re...

6. 8 October 2024 MEP King Shag & IBA Preliminiary Issue [pdf, 314 KB]

   ...be produced to the Court at the hearing. 4 MĀORI LANGUAGE AND SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS If any party or witness: 1. wishes to speak Māori at the hearing under the Māori Language Act 1987, or 2. has special needs (for example in relation to disability and access, deafness, difficulties with the English language), or 3. has any special arrangements for the hearing are required, e.g. transport for site visits, storage space for bulky exhibits, video playback https://www.justice....

7. NZCVS 2023 Cycle 6 Reporting to Police Corrected [xlsx, 70 KB]

   ...ethnicity 37.5 (20.4-54.6) # 35.0 (19.9-50.1) # 21.8 (9.4-34.1) # 29.9 (10.4-49.4) # S # 32.8 (22.0-43.5) # 33.0 (25.8-40.2) Other ethnicity S # 48.5 (33.0-64.0) # S # 19.0 (5.0-32.9) # S # 42.3 (24.0-60.7) # 44.9 (37.2-52.6) Disability Disabled adults 36.5 (24.6-48.5) # 45.0 (33.0-56.9) # 49.5 (36.1-62.8) # 34.8 (21.3-48.2) # 30.4 (19.8-41.0) # 39.9 (29.2-50.5) # 38.7 (33.6-43.8) Non-disabled adults 38.7 (35.9-41.6) 36.2 (33.5-39.0)...

8. Proactive-release-Increasing-revenue-from-courts-and-tribunal-fees-_FINAL.pdf [pdf, 650 KB]

   ...grounds that the economic, social, or environmental impacts are limited and easy to assess. COLLINS Cross-Out COLLINS Cross-Out I N C O N F I D E N C E 6 I N C O N F I D E N C E Population Implications 33 Māori, Pacific Peoples, disabled people and those on low incomes (including those supported by a benefit and superannuation) are more likely to experience legal issues. While proposed inflation adjustments are relatively low value, any increase in fees may dispro...

9. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - government reply to issues 6th report [pdf, 624 KB]

   ...10. In Atkinson v Ministry of Health 1 the Court of Appeal recognised that “[O]ne of the purposes of NZBORA is to affirm New Zealand's commitment to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights”. The respondents were adult disabled children and their parents who were affected by a Ministry of Health policy excluding family members from payment for providing disability support services. They claimed the policy discriminated on the basis of family status. The Cour...

10. [2010] NZEmpC 69 Minhinnick v NZ Steel Ltd [pdf, 15 KB]

    ...superannuation provider. Mr Wicks in his memorandum of behalf of Mr Minhinnick indicates that the sum received by Mr Minhinnick was substantially less than that specified in Mr Skelton’s submissions. In addition, Mr Minhinnick has commitments to a disabled daughter. He and his wife have made substantial borrowings against the equity in their family home in order to modify it to enable them to care for their daughter. Mr Wicks makes the submission that Mr Minhinnick and his wif...