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1. Proactive release - Prisoner Voting [pdf, 2 MB]

   Hon Andrew Little Minister of Justice Proactive release - Prisoner Voting Date of issue: 17 April 2020 The following documents have been proactively released in accordance with Cabinet Office Circular CO (18) 4. Some information has been withheld on the basis that it would not, if requested under the Official Information Act 1982 (OIA), be released. Where that is the case, the relevant section of the OIA has been noted and no public interest has been identified that would outw...

2. Coroner Dunedin position description [pdf, 34 KB]

   POSITION PROFILE CORONER BASED AT DUNEDIN Title: Coroner Appointed by: Governor-General on the advice of the Attorney-General, after consultation with the Minister of Justice Term: Every coroner must vacate that office on attaining the age of 70 years Remuneration: Salary and allowances at the rates determined from time to time by the Remuneration Authority The Coroners Act 2006 The purpose of the Coroners Act 2006 is to help prevent deaths and to promote...

3. Proactive release - Criminal Investigations (Bodily Samples) Amendment Regulations 2019 [pdf, 1006 KB]

   ...ED B Y TH E M IN IS TE R OF JU ST IC E 3 Statutory requirements 14. These regulations are made pursuant to section 80 of the Act – in particular section 80(e) relating to prescribing forms and section 80(h) providing for such matters as are contemplated by or necessary for giving full effect to the Act and its due administration. Regulations Review Committee 15. I do not consider there are any grounds for the Regulations Review Committee to draw the regulations...

4. IACDT annual report 2021 [pdf, 276 KB]

   ...Chair Immigration Advisers Complaints and Disciplinary Tribunal 2 OVERVIEW It is my pleasure to provide the annual report for the Tribunal for the 2020/2021 financial year. I am pleased to report that the number of outstanding matters before the Tribunal continues to reduce, from 21 (at 1 July 2020) to 12 (at 30 June 2021). It was 64 at 1 July 2018. As the backlog reduced, so has the delay in determining complaints. The average period between a matter being r...

5. Phase II Anti-money laundering reforms - Business Compliance Impacts [pdf, 495 KB]

   i Ministry of Justice Phase II Anti-money laundering reforms Business Compliance Impacts September 2016 / Ministry of Justice | Contents ii Contents 1. Introduction 1 2. Executive summary 3 3. Methodology 9 4. Detailed Study Findings 15 5. Statement of Responsibility 25 Other than the Ministry of Justice, any person who obtains access to and reads this report, accepts and agrees, by reading this report, the following terms: 1. The...

6. Annual report IPT 2016/2017 [pdf, 768 KB]

   ...Introduction The Immigration and Protection Tribunal was established under section 217 of the Immigration Act 2009 (the Act). Section 224A of the Act requires the Chair of the Tribunal to provide an annual report to the Minister of Justice, the Minister of Immigration and the Minister for Courts on the performance of the Tribunal’s functions under the Act in the preceding financial year. The report must include details of the number and nature of the determinations mad...

7. Cabinet Paper Reforming the Privacy Act 1993 [pdf, 360 KB]

   ...may result in damages which address specific harm to individuals. 16. Under the Act currently, there is limited ability to address wider issues raised by a complaint. Currently the Commissioner can only make recommendations in regard to such matters, and has limited ability to act where wider concerns with systems or procedures are identified or where organisations are unwilling to comply. The Review of the Privacy Act 1993 17. The Ministry of Justice reviewed New Zealand’s pr...

8. Cambridge v Whitehaven LCRO 122 / 2009 (4 September 2009) [pdf, 20 KB]

   ...heard and considered by me. I there considered that there had been flaws in the process of the Standards Committee and directed it to reconsider the matter which it is proceeding to do. [2] At the outset of the hearing I noted that there were two matters that needed to be considered. The first is whether the decision of the Standards Committee that the matter will be heard on the papers is itself reviewable. The second is whether (if it is reviewable) in all of the circumstances it...

9. Complaints Assessment Committee 10020 v McDonald [2018] NZREADT 67 [pdf, 244 KB]

   ...which they are sought [2] In the informal application which the applicant has filed she states that she wishes the Tribunal to make an order removing the decisions which found her guilty of misconduct and suspended her license from the Ministry of Justice (READT) website. [3] Additionally, the applicant envisages that an order to restrain publication by the New Zealand Herald of what is contained in the READT website should be made. It is not clear what the response of the New...

10. Miscarriages of justice

    We provide advice to the Minister of Justice on matters involving miscarriages of justice. This includes applications for compensation for wrongful conviction and detention, and applications for the exercise of the Royal prerogative of mercy. From 1 July 2020, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) came into force as an independent Crown entity to investigate possible miscarriages of justice. For more information about the CCRC and the remaining role of the Royal prerogative of mercy,...

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