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1. Previous consultations

   ...Laundering and Countering Financing Act 2009 [2021] Incitement of Hatred and Discrimination in Aotearoa New Zealand [2021]Review of adoption laws in Aotearoa New Zealand [2021]National Strategy and Action Plans - Have Your Say [2021] Proposed Legal Services Model - AODT Court, Auckland and Waitākere [2020] Legal Aid - PDLA Providers [2020] Cross-border disclosures under the Privacy Act 2020 [2020] Public consultation on a proposal for New Zealand to join the Budapest Convention on...

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2. OIA-121026.pdf [pdf, 785 KB]

   24 April 2025 Justice Centre | 19 Aitken Street DX SX10088 | Wellington T 04 918 8800 | F 04 918 8820 E contactus@justice.govt.nz | W www.justice.govt.nz Ref: OIA 121026 Tēnā koe Official Information Act request: legal aid employment court data Thank you for your email of 30 March 2025 requesting, under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act), further information about legal aid in response to the Ministry of Justice (the Ministry) letter on 28 March 2025 (re...

3. Review Authority

   The Review Authority reviews decisions the Secretary for Justice makes about legal aid provider approvals. You can apply for a review if you’re an approved legal aid provider or if you’ve applied to be a legal aid provider. You can apply to the Authority for a review of decisions about: declining your application to provide legal aid services or specified legal services imposing any condition on your approval to provide legal aid services or specified legal services imposing any interim res...

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4. What to expect from a legal aid audit [pdf, 177 KB]

   Introduction We audit all legal aid providers yearly to ensure they are meeting our quality and value expectations. This fact sheet gives you an overview of our audit programme and what to expect when you are audited. There are two types of audit - limited or full audit. • A limited audit involves Ministry staff checking five of your files against expectations set in the practice standards. • A full audit involves an auditor, who is an experienced lega...

5. [2018] NZEmpC 108 Butterfield v Alliance Group Ltd [pdf, 250 KB]

   ...in his challenge in respect of Alliance’s decision not to re-engage him.1 [2] Alliance now applies for costs for the Authority investigation, for costs for the Employment Court proceedings up until advice was received that Mr Butterfield was legally aided, and for an order from the Court pursuant to s45(5) of the Legal Services Act 2011 specifying what order for costs would have been made against Mr Butterfield with respect to the remainder of the proceedings, if his grant of legal...

6. OIA-123110-data.xlsx [xlsx, 143 KB]

   Sheet4 UNCLASSIFIED IN CONFIDENCE IN CONFIDENCE with endorsement SENSITIVE RESTRICTED Table 1 Table 1: Total number of approved and active legal aid providers, as at 19 June 2025 This data relates to Question 1 of the original OIA, namely 'Updated number of current legal aid providers vs active legal aid providers, like in the attached document (Spreadsheet: Active v Approved at 17 May 2021) but updated so current.' This data only includes standard legal aid provider appro...

7. Application for waiver (or refund) of fees for an individual (legal aid/benefit/previous) [pdf, 239 KB]

   Application for waiver (or refund) of fees for an individual LEGAL AID | BENEFIT | PREVIOUS WAIVER When to use this form Use this form if: • you have legal aid or have a legal aid application awaiting a decision • you depend financially on Jobseeker Support, Sole Parent Support, Young Parent Support, Youth Payment, Emergency Benefit or Supported Living Payment • you wholly depend on New Zealand Superannuation or Veteran’s Pension • you have previously been given a fee wai...

8. Criminal legal aid application form CPIP only 2024 [pdf, 799 KB]

   Legal Aid PAGE 1 / 6 Application for criminal legal aid If you have any questions call 0800 2 LEGAL AID (253 425) or go to: www.justice.govt.nz/legal-aid Personal details 1 Title Mr Ms Mrs Miss 2 Full name Have you ever used another name? Yes No If yes, your other names used: Date of birth dd / mm / yyyy 6 Your current address Postcode 7 Your postal address (if different from current address, or in custody) Postcode 8 Home phone 9 Work phone 10 Mobile phone 11 Other contact ph...

9. LA - Reference - Supervised provider - Part 3b [pdf, 536 KB]

   ...with people from different cultural backgrounds • undertaking court proceedings • engaging in peer review discussions • producing documents/correspondence. For further guidance please refer to the ‘Application for approval to provide legal services guidelines’. PART 3B – SeCTion 1 applicant details name Applying for the following areas of law as a supervised provider: Please ensure you mark your preferences clearly Legal Aid Services Civil Criminal Family Me...

10. Consultation paper enabling on site audits [pdf, 481 KB]

    Consultation Paper Proposed changes to the legal aid audit policy to enable greater use of on-site audits Table of Contents Purpose .................................................................................................................................................... 1 Current audit policy ................................................................................................................................. 2 Most audits are ‘off-site’ ..........