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1. Recommendations Recap Issue 18 [pdf, 736 KB]

   ...Historic Places Act 1993. At 12.02am, on 14 November 2016, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Waiau, North Canterbury. Around 11.45pm, Mr and Mrs Edgar went to bed, and shortly after they felt the start of the earthquake. Mrs Edgar got up to check on her mother-in-law but got thrown sideways and was able to get out of the house, before the top storey collapsed. Mr Edgar’s body was later found in the rubble. He was on his knees, with a lot of rubble covering his back, which...

2. Hutt Valley Justice Sector innovation project phase 2 final report: Delivering better public services at the frontline [pdf, 1.9 MB]

   ...improvements being identified. The Working Party believe this approach has merit on a wider scale. 2.4. That the Leadership board consider commissioning work to explore approaches that enable shared management of sentence conditions and compliance checking (across Probation and Police), to further reduce reoffending. Where conditions are appropriate, compliance should be able to be ensured, and the Working Party believe that Probation and Police could be enabled to work together more eff...

3. 2024 NZPSPLA 087.pdf [pdf, 143 KB]

   ...with an intent to mislead the Authority or recklessness as to whether they were in fact doing so. They were entitled to rely on the NIA although it would have been prudent when the matter was raised in pre-hearing submission for that to have been checked. Evidence and findings [36] The evidence of the Police and Mr BF was tested thoroughly at the hearing. Having considered it very carefully, I do not find it established that Mr BF did anything other than act on his legal advice...

4. [2016] NZSSAA 013 (2 March 2016) [pdf, 27 KB]

   ...in her own right. Prior to this, the appellant was included in her husband’s New Zealand Superannuation as a non-qualified spouse. Following the grant of New Zealand Superannuation to the appellant, her entitlement to Disability Allowance was checked. It was determined that the joint income of the appellant and her husband was $47,699.92 per annum and, as this exceeded the income cut-off point of $957 per week, she was no longer eligible for Disability Allowance. [6] In March 2015...

5. 2022 NZPSPLA 008.pdf [pdf, 93 KB]

   ...members to reconnect with their tikanga Maori. He says they are all working together to try and turn their lives around. His evidence is also that through his work with Waiariki Whanau Mentoring he has a self-care plan and regular supervision and check-ins. This is, along with his chapter and whanau, a comprehensive support system for him. [16] He has recently completed a first aid course and has paid for his security training which he will undertake depending on the outcome of this...

6. 2022 NZPSPLA 049.pdf [pdf, 120 KB]

   ...[11] CSI’s website offered services which fit within the definition of private investigation work as defined in s 5 of the Act. Mr Casbolt’s business card purports to offer tracing services, photography and scene examinations, credit, and fraud checks. This together with his attire shows that Mr Casbolt was holding himself out to be a private investigator. Even if Mr Casbolt is correct in his assertion that he has never undertaken investigation work for hire or reward he was clearl...

7. BORA Arms Amendment Bill (No 3) [pdf, 176 KB]

   ...1 We have considered whether such a detention gives rise to an issue under section 22. However, we note that the Court of Appeal in Everitt v Attorney General [2002] 1 NZLR 82, 87 held that the concept of detention required more than a temporary check on a citizen's liberty, and that police work requires that officers make proper inquiries. The brief time involved in responding to an inquiry "could not sensibly be described as an unlawful detaining". We therefore conside...

8. Evaluation of Defendant-centred Courtroom pilot [pdf, 1.3 MB]

   EVALUATION OF THE DEFENDANT CENTRED COURTROOM PILOT PREPARED BY: MICHELE LENNAN and Dr SUE CARSWELL FOR THE: MINISTRY OF JUSTICE MARCH 2014 Evaluation of the Defendant-Centred Courtroom 2 March 2014 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Defendant Centred Courtroom (DCC) pilot trials a reconfigured District Court courtroom where defendants who are not in custody sit or stand beside their counsel

9. AVS Operating Guidelines for District Courts [pdf, 817 KB]

   ...to place on the defendant’s medical file. 6.6 Confirmation of Identity Corrections facilities must ensure that the movement practices and protocols are adhered to in the prison as per Prison Services Operations Manual. That is, ID must be checked before the remote participant is place in the AV booth. Other custodial facilities must ensure that the movement practices and protocols are adhered to in the facility. ID must be checked before the remote participant is placed in the...

10. 2023 NZPSPLA 041.pdf [pdf, 132 KB]

    ...will threaten their safety or the safety of any other person. [2] The request arose in the context of a complaint against A Security after its crowd controllers were not wearing their IDs in a readily visible position during a security compliance check. Police met with the owner of A Security, after which he advised his staff to wear their IDs in a visible position but with their certificate number taped over. [3] Police advised A Security’s owner that they did not consider this...