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1. Briefing for incoming Minister 2017 - Votes Justice and Courts [pdf, 1 MB]

   ...improve New Zealanders’ welfare and prosperity. As the Minister of Justice, you are responsible for the policy and legislation that underpins the justice system; for example, sentencing, parole and bail; family law; civil law; youth justice; legal aid and access to justice; reducing crime and victimisation. You are also responsible for providing, through the Ministry of Justice, the administration of legal aid and the Public Defence Service, and for funding important justice service...

2. Discussion document diagrams (English) [pdf, 544 KB]

   Adoption law reform Connections to culture Legal effect Child participation Family & whānau involvement Information and identity No defined purpose or guiding principles Child-centred purpose of adoption Guiding principles ensure that children’s rights are upheld Birth parents are replaced with the adoptive parents Adoptive parents get guardianship rights, responsibilities and duties Birth parents and adoptive parents are all legal parents Adoptive pa...

3. Community Law Centre client survey – report on findings [pdf, 926 KB]

   ................................................................................................................................................. 24 Impacts of problem .......................................................................................................................................... 26 Awareness of CLC and legal aid ...................................................................................................................... 28 Awareness of CLC ....................

4. [2006] NZEmpC AC 60/06 Kapadia v PRP Auckland Ltd (formerly Axiom Rolle PRP Valuations Services Ltd) [pdf, 25 KB]

   ...although presently resident in India, he says that he wishes to return but does not know when he will be in a financial position to do so. The plaintiff has said that because he is not resident in New Zealand he is no longer eligible for legal aid to enable him to pursue his challenge. [4] Mr Patterson summarised his written submissions with reference to a number of the leading cases and made the following points. [5] He invoked the Court’s express power to make or...

5. Respond to a Separation Order

   ...have a set time to ask the Family Court to not make the Separation Order. The set time is usually: 21 days if the documents are served in New Zealand 30 days if they are served in Australia 50 days for anywhere else in the world. You may want to get legal advice to help you. You may be able to get: legal aid free community legal help Back to top Option 1: Letting the Separation Order go through If you don’t respond once you have been served, the judge can make a Separation Order without h...

   Located in:

   1. Family >
   2. Separation & divorce >
   3. Separation agreements & Orders

6. Respond to divorce papers

   ...Court not to grant the divorce. This is called defending the application. The set time is usually: 21 days if the documents are served in New Zealand 30 days if they are served in Australia 50 days for anywhere else in the world. You may want to get legal advice to help you. You may be able to get: legal aid free community legal help Back to top Option 1: Let the divorce go through If you don’t respond once you’ve been served, the court can make a Dissolution Order and approve the divor...

   Located in:

   1. Family >
   2. Separation & divorce >
   3. Apply for a divorce

7. RIA Terrorism Suppression Act part 1 [pdf, 949 KB]

   ...foreign terrorist fighters and lone actors. 2 UNSCR 2178 (2014) at [6a]. 3 Funds (as defined in s 4 of the TSA)— (a) means assets of every kind, whether tangible or intangible, moveable or immoveable, however acquired; and (b) includes legal documents or instruments (for example, bank credits, travellers’ cheques, bank cheques, money orders, shares, securities, bonds, drafts, and letters of credit) in any form (for example, in electronic or digital form) evidencing title...

8. OIA-108338.pdf [pdf, 144 KB]

   ...information does not exist. I can, however, provide you with the following information that may be of assistance. While the Ministry is involved in the collection of several types of debt, it does not lodge them with credit reporting agencies. Legal aid debt is owed to the Legal Services Commissioner, which is collected by the Ministry on behalf of the Commissioner. Legal aid debt is not lodged with credit reporting agencies. Fines and Reparations are collected by the Di...

9. Youth Justice minimum dataset: data integration pilot [pdf, 269 KB]

   ...free-text case notes, which means it is very difficult, if not impossible, to analyse. Police collect information on the outcomes of apprehensions, although it is not known how accurate the information is. For cases that are dealt with by the Youth Aid Section or at FGC’s, this includes the actions that the young person had to undertake e.g. apology letter to victim, reparation, community work, counselling etc. For cases dealt with by the courts, the outcome of prosecutions, including orde...

10. Instructions for ordering legal aid forms from baseline [pdf, 1.1 MB]

    MINISTRY OF JUSTICE (MOJ) ONLINE ORDERING MOJ orders can be placed by fax, email or online. Online is the preferred method. LOGIN PAGE To place your orders ONLINE click on the below link. https://moj.baseline.co.nz/Orders/Products.aspx ORDER PAGE Click required category ‘Forms’ or ‘Publications’. To see a list of publications by language click the ‘+’ next to the title ‘Publications’ PRODUCT SELECT PAGE (FORMS AND PUBLICATIONS) All Forms and Pu