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1. Legal aid review of criminal legal aid fixed fees - 2013 [pdf, 627 KB]

   1 | P a g e Review of criminal legal aid fixed fees – operational policy changes The review of criminal legal aid fixed fees has already raised a number of operational policy matters, the majority of which can be addressed immediately. These are discussed below. 1. Assignment of urgent (same day) cases Private providers and the Public Defence Service (PDS) have raised the issue of how Legal Aid Services (LAS) assigns urgent (where the court requires counsel on the same day...

2. Duty lawyer instructions for Tauranga District Court [pdf, 87 KB]

   Tauranga final duty lawyer instructions – January 2012 1 of 6 Tauranga District Court: Duty Lawyer Instructions applicable from 6 February 2012 Authority for the duty lawyer service 1. Under section 68(2)(b) of the Legal Services Act 2011, the Secretary for Justice has gazetted by notice the duty lawyer service as a specified legal service. 2. The Gazette notice specifies that the object of the duty lawyer service is to ensure that a sufficient number of lawyers...

3. OIA-120191.pdf [pdf, 861 KB]

   Legal Services Commissioner Justice Centre I 19 Aitken Street I DX SX10125 I Wellington T 04 918 8800 I F 04 918 8820 lsc@justice.govt.nz 30 April 2025 Ref: OIA 120191 Tēnā koe Official Information Act request: Legal aid data Thank you for your email of 11 March 2025, requesting legal aid data on the preparation of PAL 1 cases, under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act). Specifically, you requested: Please provide for each year, for the last five years, the...

4. OIA-97180.pdf [pdf, 612 KB]

   ...to request the Court hear or receive a report on their cultural background, how it may have related to the offence and how it could contribute to sentencing. We can, however, provide the number of section 27 cultural report invoices approved by Legal Aid for the 2021/2022 financial year. Please see Table 1 appended below. We can also provide the number of section 27 cultural reports commissioned by PDS for the 2021/2022 financial year. This data cannot be broken down into court t...

5. 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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   1. Justice sector & policy >
   2. Have your say

6. 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...

7. 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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   2. Legal aid

8. 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...

9. [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...

10. 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...