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1. Reducing residential burglary: what can police do? [pdf, 1.1 MB]

   ...reports on the basis of completed curfew sheets and discuss at training sessions and crime meetings. • Design bail conditions for youth offenders to correspond with other efforts to rehabilitate them. • Initiate senior police meetings with local judges to discuss police objectives in seeking bail conditions and prosecuting breaches. • Ensure a good transfer of information on breaches at handover of shifts for immediate follow-up. 5 • Accompany applications for bail conditions...

2. Trends in child and youth prosecutions in New Zealand 2002 to 2011 [pdf, 289 KB]

   ...15 If a child or young person committed a more serious offence or did not stick to their plan, a section 283 order is made. This is recorded as a ‘Youth Court Proved (s283)’ outcome and is used when young people admit their offending, or the judge determines that the charges are proven and are serious enough to warrant an order under section 283 of the Children, Young Persons, and Their Families Act 1989. that were agreed at their Family Group Conference. A section 282 discharge si...

3. Justice Sector prison population forecast July 2010 update [pdf, 339 KB]

   ...in the development of the next forecast. Data Notes Released on conditions is a count of the numbers released on conditions in the given month. The vast majority of cases are for sentences of less than two years, with conditions being set by the judge. A small number of cases are for longer sentences. These are cases where the Parole Board has no discretion to release an offender. The offender must be released by law, and the Board’s only role is to set the conditions of the offende...

4. Recording Industry Association of New Zealand v TCLE-A-T5877102 [2013] NZCOP 2 [pdf, 75 KB]

   ...uploaded tracks can be disseminated widely to downloaders using specialised P2P software. [42] In this particular case, the specialised P2P software used by the Respondent was BitTorrent. In Roadshow Films Pty Ltd v iiNet Ltd [2012] H.C.A. 16, three judges of the High Court of Australia2 noted that a user of the BitTorrent system who downloads a work (in that case it was a film) will automatically make the work available online on the user’s computer for downloading by other Bi...

5. Your guide to legal aid [pdf, 774 KB]

   ...if you might have a defence to the charge • tell you about the usual range of sentences the courts give for the charge • explain what happens after you plead guilty or not guilty • enter a guilty plea if that’s what you want • tell the judge about your personal circumstances and your point of view about the offence (a plea in mitigation) if you are pleading guilty to a minor charge • ask for your case to be remanded (put off) so that you can get more advice or information...

6. Request for proposals: Statistical modelling to support the Investment Approach to Justice [pdf, 534 KB]

   ...frontline decision tools: o There are a number of decision-makers in the Justice Sector who could benefit from having automated information about expected future offending and victimisation provided to them in the course of their work, including judges and police. o We want support to build frontline versions of the statistical models that could be used in this way. Page 10 of 17 As should be clear from these requirements, the focus is very much on the technical end. We primar...

7. Linton v Keswick LCRO 95 / 2009 (25 August 2009) [pdf, 94 KB]

   ...clarification as to whether Mr Keswick was prepared to act for her further in the matter. [42] Mr Keswick responded promptly (on 13 October at 10 00 a.m.) stating that he could not wait until after judgment to be paid. He also advised Ms Linton that the Judge had scheduled a chambers hearing for 12 noon the following day to determine whether certain evidence would be admitted. It appears that as counsel Mr Keswick had agreed to have the matter discussed at that time. Mr Keswick con...

8. Munro-Anderson & Ors as Trustees of the Munro-Anderson Trust v Reed [pdf, 62 KB]

   ...of general damages. This was in a judgment by Stevens J in Hartley v Balemi & Ors, Auckland High Court, CIV 2006-404-002589, 29 March 2007. This judgment considered an appeal against a WHRS adjudication Determination, in which the learned judge held that general damages claims for mental stress did not fit comfortably within the overall scheme of the WHRS legislation and its underlying policy considerations. He concluded that WHRS adjudicators had no jurisdiction to make awa...

9. AN v TC LCRO 381/2013 (4 August 2015) [pdf, 88 KB]

   ...lawyer from an adverse conduct finding arising from a breach of professional standards. Mr TC’s apparent inability to see the possible benefits in accepting Mr AN’s offer of dealing with matters promptly on the basis of an apology was ill-judged. [61] Having heard from Mr TC at the review hearing I am not confident that he has learned from his experience of the disciplinary process, or that he understands the impropriety of the views he expressed about Mr AN and his conduct....

10. EV v IG LCRO 111/2013 (8 September 2015) [pdf, 100 KB]

    ...(the Act). Background [2] During November 2012 Mr IG, a practitioner, was appearing in court as a defendant to face charges of careless driving and driving with excess blood alcohol. Media reporters were present. After his appearance before a Judge, in which the case was adjourned, he left the courtroom and made his way to an adjacent courtroom where he was appearing as counsel for a client. 2 [3] Between the two courtrooms a reporter asked Mr IG some questions and he is...