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1. Legal assistance

   Find out ways to get legal advice if you're representing yourself plus how to apply to a fund to get legal assistance. Legal advice If you are thinking about lodging a proceeding in the Environment Court, or joining a proceeding under section 274 of the Resource Management Act 1991 you should consider seeking legal advice. You can find an environment lawyer through the New Zealand Law Society, Resource Management Law Association or your local Community Law Centre. Court staff can advise you on t...

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2. Legal-Aid-Provider-Internal-policy-File-Management-2024.pdf [pdf, 195 KB]

   PURPOSE The purpose of this document is to provide guidelines for the effective management and storage of provider files that are sent to the Legal Aid Providers team for the purposes of a limited or Family Legal Advice Service (FLAS) audit. This process is designed to ensure the highest care is taken with the information contained in these files and the risk of unauthorised access is minimised. SCOPE This process applies to all files requested and received by the Legal Aid Providers...

3. Full audit of legal aid providers in 2023 - 24 summary.pdf [pdf, 135 KB]

   Introduction Full audits evaluate the performance of selected legal aid providers and their compliance with professional, legislative, and contractual obligations. Full audits are carried out by external auditors who are experienced legal aid providers. In 2023/24 there were 32 full audits of legal aid providers completed. Of the 32 audits, 21 related to criminal cases, nine related to family cases and the remaining two were Waitangi Tribunal matters. Two full audits (r...

4. Form 12 Criminal legal aid application Court of Appeal or Supreme Court [pdf, 910 KB]

   Templates V11 – July 2017 page 1 07/17 form 12 Application for Criminal Legal Aid Court of Appeal or Supreme Court Legal aid file No. Court registered No. Personal details of applicant 1. What title do you wish to be known by? Mr Mrs Miss Ms Dr Please PRINT clearly 2. What are your first names? 3. What is your surname or family name? 4. Do you use or have you used other names? List other names you use now or in...

5. [2021] NZEmpC 144 Crossen v Yangs House Ltd [pdf, 191 KB]

   ...unsuccessful.1 [2] Yangs House and Ms Yang were unsuccessful in their separate challenge attempting to increase the costs awarded to them by the Authority.2 [3] Costs for these proceedings were reserved. The parties’ attention was drawn to the Legal Services Act 2011 because Mrs Crossen was legally aided. [4] Yangs House and Ms Yang have now applied for costs. Mr Brown, their advocate, submitted that Mrs Crossen should be ordered to pay costs because there are exceptional ci...

6. Regulatory Impact Statement Family Court Review [pdf, 174 KB]

   ...a few weeks to six months to prepare and reports often need to be updated by the time a matter is set down for hearing. • Children are required to tell their story to multiple professionals. Increasing expenditure on Family Court services and legal aid 16. Since 2005/06, direct operating costs in the Court have increased by 26 percent and professional services by 46 percent.5 Yet application numbers (across all case types) are effectively static overall. 17. The most significant...

7. 23 September 2014 Legal Aid News [pdf, 455 KB]

   September Legal Aid News Domestic violence changes from 1 October The Domestic Violence Amendment Act 2013 makes changes to Ministry-funded domestic violence programmes. These changes come into effect on 1 October and focus on the safety of children and vulnerable people affected by violence at home. Other changes extend the maximum sentence for breaching a protection order from two to three years’ imprisonment, and recognise financial or economic abuse as a form of psychological vi...

8. OIA-110849.pdf [pdf, 767 KB]

   Justice Centre | 19 Aitken Street DX SX10088 | Wellington T 04 918 8800 | F 04 918 8820 ContactUs@justice.govt.nz | www.justice.govt.nz 23 April 2024 Our ref: OIA 110849 Tēnā koe Official Information Act request: Legal Aid Provider applications Thank you for your email of 22 March 2024, to the Ministry of Justice (the Ministry), requesting information relating to Legal Aid Providers. Specifically, you requested: … a copy of any policies and processes relati...

9. Legal aid - latest news

   Criminal fixed fee review changes New criminal fixed fees for schedules A-C and D-F, Police and Crown prosecution proceedings respectively are being introduced on 4 July. All new grants of legal aid received by Legal Aid Services on or after 4 July 2016 will attract the new fee schedules. Existing grants under the 1 July 2013 fee schedules can move to the 4 July 2016 schedules if and when an amendment to grant is approved for any activity. These are the first set of changes resulting from the No...

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10. Forms

    This section has different ways that you can get legal aid forms. PDF forms This is the quickest option where you can download and print the form. Download PDFs of the legal aid forms Word template forms These templates take a little longer to set up for first use, but will save you time and effort. They make calculations easy for tax invoices, amendments and application forms. Enter the required details and the template does the calculations for you. You can edit them, save them as a Word docum...

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