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1. W v Secretary for Justice [2023] NZRA 003 (5 May 2023) [pdf, 225 KB]

   ...employed barrister, taking out a practising certificate as a barrister at about that time. [2] For a little over 3 years since then, the Applicant has continued practising as a barrister. Application for Approval as a Provider of Appellate Legal Aid Services [3] Shortly after the fifth anniversary of his admission to the bar, the Applicant applied to the Secretary for Justice (“the Secretary”) for approval to provide appellate legal aid services (as defined in clause 14 of...

2. Family Court Rewrite Submission - ADL [pdf, 253 KB]

   ...Panel’s consultation process around rewriting the 2014 Family Justice System Reforms because improvements are needed in this area of family law. ADL is a community law centre (CLC). We are the only CLC in Aotearoa New Zealand which provides legal services and activities solely to Deaf and Disabled People on their disability related legal issues. This includes client casework, legal education and law reform work. We have experience in advising and assisting Deaf and Disabled Peop...

3. Justice Sector forecast 2011 to 2021 [pdf, 1.5 MB]

   ...orders ......................................................................................... 20 4.5. Prison population ................................................................................................................... 31 4.6. Legal aid expenditure ............................................................................................................ 36 5. Scenarios ......................................................................................................

4. Criminal legal aid assignments - information & criminal case reports

   Criminal assignments report The assignment reports show all criminal legal aid assignments made for the period. It includes preferred, reassignments and rotational assignments. The report is broken down by Provider Approval Level (PAL). This report should not be used to compare rotational assignments between providers. The Public Defence Service is assigned 50% of all rotational assignments for the courts in which they operate. Criminal case assignment report for 1 July 2023 to 30 June 2024 Crim...

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5. Decision Document - Mental Health Rosters [pdf, 448 KB]

   Legal Aid Services Mental Health Rosters Final decisions document November 2018 Foreword Thank you to everyone who has engaged and assisted us in our review of the way mental health rosters of legal aid providers are administered, and how mental health cases are allocated to providers nationwide. Your contributions have provided great awareness of current processes throughout the country, have...

6. AD v Secretary of Justice 10 October 2017 NZRA 003/2017 [pdf, 149 KB]

   ..._______________________________________________________________ INTRODUCTION [1] In a decision dated 28 June 2017, The Secretary for Justice (the Secretary) made the following decisions: (a) Cancelling the applicant’s approvals to provide legal aid services and specified legal services in Criminal PAL 1-3, Family, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court, Civil, PDLA, Duty Lawyer, and Refugee and Protected Persons: (b) Barring him from applying for approval to provide legal aid service...

7. 2017 NZSSAA 063 (20 October 2017) [pdf, 247 KB]

   ...Legal Aid Services grant. He referred to Marino v Chief Executive of the Department of Corrections [2016] NZSC 148, a decision of the Supreme Court. It accepted the principle that a costs award should not exceed the amount incurred, and for a legally aided person that was the amount approved for payment (ss 99(2)(a) and 105 of the Legal Services Act 2011). [18] Essentially, the position was that the costs should be up to the amount of the Legal Aid Services grant, and only to the...

8. Justice Sector Outlook December 2016 [pdf, 758 KB]

   ...Environmental factors are mixed 2 Emerging risks of upwards pipeline pressures 3 Criminal justice pipeline 4 Police proceedings have risen 5 Court volumes are rising, especially serious cases 6 Crown Law case volumes will rise slowly 7 Legal aid expenditure is projected to rise 8 Court-imposed fines are down slightly 10 Numbers of community sentences will rise slowly 11 Prison population continues to rise 13 Glossary of terms 15 1 Summary of the December quarte...

9. Justice Sector Outlook December 2016 [pdf, 882 KB]

   ...Environmental factors are mixed 2 Emerging risks of upwards pipeline pressures 3 Criminal justice pipeline 4 Police proceedings have risen 5 Court volumes are rising, especially serious cases 6 Crown Law case volumes will rise slowly 7 Legal aid expenditure is projected to rise 8 Court-imposed fines are down slightly 10 Numbers of community sentences will rise slowly 11 Prison population continues to rise 13 Glossary of terms 15 1 Summary of the December quarte...

10. Quality assurance framework

    Legal aid clients can expect to receive a high standard of service from their lawyer. A quality assurance framework for legal aid ensures that: the service provided to legal aid clients is consistent across the whole country everyone can have confidence in the quality of services provided by legal aid lawyers. Find detailed information about the legal aid quality assurance framework and its operation in legal aid: become a legal aid lawyer practice standards audits complaints performance rev...

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