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1. X v Secretary for Justice [2023] NZRA 002 (26 April 2023) [pdf, 242 KB]

   REVIEW AUTHORITY NEW ZEALAND [2023] NZRA 002 Applicant: X Respondent: Secretary for Justice Date of Decision: 26 April 2023 ___________________________________________________________________ DECISION ___________________________________________________________________ Application for Approval as a Provider of Criminal Legal Aid Services [1] On 5 November 2022, the Applicant applied to the Secretary for Justice (“the Secretary”) for approval to pr...

2. Jain v CAC 20007 & Martin [2014] NZREADT 51 [pdf, 55 KB]

   BEFORE THE REAL ESTATE AGENTS DISCIPLINARY TRIBUNAL [2014] NZREADT 51 READT 073/13 IN THE MATTER OF an appeal under s.111 of the Real Estate Agents Act 2008 BETWEEN PRADEEP JAIN Appellant AND THE REAL ESTATE AGENTS AUTHORITY (CAC 20007) First Respondent AND ANDREW AND ROBIN MARTIN Second Respondents MEMBERS OF TRIBUNAL Ms K Davenport QC – Chairperson Mr J Gaukrodger – Member Ms C Sandelin – Member HEARD at Auckland on 4 Jun...

3. [2018] NZEmpC 42 P v A [pdf, 287 KB]

   ...or not at all cited in the judgment, which is inconsistent to the guidelines of the Honourable Supreme Court. (please refer paragraphs 69-71 of EMPC 170/2017 for cited case by ERA earlier). 6 There has been a gross and serious miscarriage of justice by allowing the judgment to be published without due diligence. Matter of fact for me the experience has been worse than ERA, even though names are anonymised. 7 involved an improper admission of evidence via apparently an affidavi...

4. Youth Court - It’s all relative: the absolute importance of the family in youth justice [pdf, 444 KB]

   1 It’s All Relative: the Absolute Importance of the Family in Youth Justice (a New Zealand Perspective) Paper to be delivered at the World Congress on Juvenile Justice Geneva, Switzerland: 26-30 January 2015 by His Honour Judge Andrew Becroft1 Principal Youth Court Judge for New Zealand Te Kaiwhakawā Matua o te Kōti Taiohi...

5. Stirling - Opape No 1A No 1B [2020] Chief Judge's MB 526 (2020 CJ 526) [pdf, 323 KB]

   ...greater alienation in section 216 where there is not just a personal benefit to the whanau or to the individual beneficiaries but the wider group, which under this order is not defined, becomes beneficiary. It is not fair under the rules of natural justice that the beneficiaries who were determined at that same sitting be immediately deprived of those interests, without consultation, by the vesting of the land in a trust for the benefit of others. The beneficiaries had no prior kno...

6. Proactive-Release-Prisoner-Voting_FINAL.pdf [pdf, 1.7 MB]

   © Crown Copyright, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Hon Paul Goldsmith Minister of Justice Proactive release – Prisoner Voting Date of issue: 30 April 2025 The following documents have been proactively released in accordance with Cabinet Office Circular CO (23) 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...

7. [2022] NZEmpC 27 Courage v Attorney-General [pdf, 232 KB]

   ...published.1 Before exercising its discretion the Court must be satisfied that there is an appropriate basis for doing so. That is because an order of non-publication, either interim or permanent, marks a departure from the fundamental principle of open justice. [4] An applicant must establish that sound reasons exist for the presumption to be displaced. This generally involves pointing to specific adverse consequences which would justify a departure from the principle of open ju...

8. OIA-98262.pdf [pdf, 1.8 MB]

   Justice Centre | 19 Aitken Street DX SX10088 | Wellington T 04 918 8800 | F 04 918 8820 contactus@justice.govt.nz | www.justice.govt.nz 16 September 2022 Our ref: OIA 98262 Tēnā koe Official Information Act request: Nature of democracy and the evolution of democracy Thank you for your email of 10 August 2022 requesting, under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act), information related to the nature of democracy. Specifically, you requested: “…...

9. [2017] NZEmpC 94 Crimson Consulting Ltd v Berry [pdf, 268 KB]

   ...Harrison QC, counsel for the plaintiffs, stated that he had recently become involved in the proceeding and had advised that an application for removal of the proceedings from the Authority to the Court should be made. He said this was because, as matters stood, there would be a common issue as to the circumstances of Ms Berry’s resignation which would arise in both the High Court proceeding and the Authority’s investigation meeting. The main ground for the application for remov...

10. Archived Compensation Guidelines for Wrongful Conviction and Imprisonment 19 Aug 2020 [pdf, 732 KB]

    ...guidelines are called the Compensation Guidelines for Wrongful Conviction and Imprisonment. They replace previous guidelines that were agreed by Cabinet in 1998 and amended in 2000 and 2001. The Compensation Guidelines were issued by the Minister of Justice on 19 August 2020 and came into force on that date. For the full text of the Guidelines, see from the next page (pages 2 – 7). For a summary of the step-by-step process for calculation of compensation under the Guidelines, see p...