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1. Legal aid - limited approvals Operational Policy & application form draft [pdf, 888 KB]

   ...Overview of Limited Approvals 4 Purpose 4 Regulatory framework 5 Applications for Limited Approval 7 Process 7 Application Assessment, Decision and Review 9 Application assessment and recommendation 9 Criteria for approval 10 Secretary for Justice’s decision 10 Review of Secretary for Justice’s decision 12 Appendix 1– Glossary of Terms 13 Appendix 2 – Application Form 15 DRAFT 4 Overview of Limited Approvals Purpose This policy outlines the circu...

2. Grants-Handbook-v4.80.pdf [pdf, 17 MB]

   ...enactment. Helping legal aid applicants find a lawyer Legal aid staff will refer callers to the list of lawyers on the Ministry of Justice website or provide a few names of local legal aid lawyers without showing any preferences. For criminal matters, the current rotational assignment process for PAL1 and PAL2 cases will be explained. The above process will be referred to where the caller is seeking a preferred lawyer for a case requiring a PAL3 or PAL4 provider. Where to send a...

3. RN v Accident Compensation Corporation (Claims process – application for recall of judgment and reinstatement of appeal) [2025] NZACC 009 (21 January 2025) [pdf, 191 KB]

   ...that, each individual appellant needed to arrange alternative representation for themselves. To facilitate individual appellants making alternative arrangements for representation and to ensure that they were informed on an ongoing basis about the matters they had before the Court, the Registry was directed to provide a copy of the Minute to the appellant herself and parties involved in other appeals. There was no response received by the Registry from the appellant. [20] On 18...

4. Review of Courts (Remote Participation) Act

   The Ministry of Justice has been undertaking a first principles review of the Courts (Remote Participation) Act 2010. The Government decided to review the Act in December 2023 as part of its 100-Day-Plan commitment to enable more virtual participation in court proceedings. The review is part of a wider work programme to improve the efficiency, timeliness and performance of the courts system. The key objective is to achieve a modern, fit-for-purpose regime that increases remote participation, sup...

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5. Ministry-of-Justice-June-2022-BIM-to-Minister-Allan-FINAL.pdf [pdf, 5.9 MB]

   ...why we are prioritising policy and operational work to improve the operations of the courts (e.g. addressing backlogs in jury trials, better utilising community magistrates), alongside Ministerial priorities. 9. This briefing outlines a number of matters on which you will receive further briefings. They are disparate, ranging from appointments and extraditions to substantive policy matters, to funding approvals for ICT expenditure. The breadth of topics reflects the span of the Justic...

6. Ron-Mansfield-submisisons-for-Mr-Tarrant.pdf [pdf, 322 KB]

   ...status should be “revisited” after the issues for the inquiry are settled. This is a concerning development that threatens the very fairness of this inquiry and its findings. Such an approach would be entirely inconsistent with any modern justice principles and offend Mr Tarrant’s rights and principles of natural justice. 3 2. MR TARRANT’S INABILITY TO ACCESS DOCUMENTS 2.1 By letter dated 7 January 2022, the Coroner wrote to the Chief Executive of the Depa...

7. OIA-121293.pdf [pdf, 4.8 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 14 May 2025 Ref: OIA 121293 Tēnā koe Official Information Act request: Consent law reform Thank you for your email of 13 April 2025 to the Ministry of Justice (the Ministry) requesting, under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act), information about consent law. Specifically, you requested: … official information relating to the po...

8. Responding-to-the-Waitangi-Tribunal-recommendations-for-claimant-funding.pdf [pdf, 3.2 MB]

   Hon Ginny Andersen Minister of Justice Proactive release - Cabinet paper and minutes: Responding to the Waitangi Tribunal recommendations for claimant funding Date of issue: 22 August 2023 The following documents have been proactively released in accordance with Cabinet Office Circular CO (23) 4, "Proactive Release of Cabinet Material: Updated Requirements". Some information has been withheld on the basis that it would not, if requested under the Official Information Ac...

9. [2011] NZEmpC 92 Katz v Mana Coach Services Ltd [pdf, 75 KB]

   ...Employment Relations Act 2000 (the Act), for a rehearing of her challenge to the determination 1 of the Employment Relations Authority which was the subject of my substantive judgment. 2 The stated ground for the application is a miscarriage of justice. It is claimed that I misdirected myself in reviewing and relying upon authorities, particularly Canadian authorities, which were not referred to by counsel or discussed at the hearing; that I misinterpreted and misapplied New Zea...

10. [2023] NZEmpC 176 Carrington Resort Jade LP v Roy [pdf, 167 KB]

    ...CARRINGTON RESORT JADE LP v STACEY ROY [2023] NZEmpC 176 [12 October 2023] IN THE EMPLOYMENT COURT OF NEW ZEALAND AUCKLAND I TE KŌTI TAKE MAHI O AOTEAROA TĀMAKI MAKAURAU [2023] NZEmpC 176 EMPC 40/2023 EMPC 82/2023 IN THE MATTER OF a challenge to a determination of the Employment Relations Authority AND IN THE MATTER OF an application for recall of interlocutory judgment BETWEEN CARRINGTON RESORT JADE LP Plaintiff AND...