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1. Jury service - response to jury summons previously deferred form [pdf, 1.5 MB]

   ...(Explain your reason below and if possible attach proof, like a letter from the court). In the last 5 years, I have been sentenced to imprisonment or home detention for 3 months or more (If you are on home detention, please give us a letter from your Probation Officer. No explanation or proof is needed if you have been imprisoned in the last 5 years). I have been sentenced to imprisonment for 3 years or more, or to preventive detention (No explanation or proof is needed). My job m...

2. Chief Justice Media Statement COVID-19 Alert Levels 3 and 4 21 08 27 [pdf, 533 KB]

   ...its other civil business as reasonably possible by remote means, including habeas corpus, civil appeals, judicial review, summary judgments, interlocutory applications, urgent injunctions, caveat applications, liquidation and bankruptcy proceedings, probate matters and originating applications. All documents for the High Court can be filed electronically. Arrangements for all other courts under Alert Levels 3 and 4 The Court of Appeal will continue to hear appeals remotely under Al...

3. Get your own criminal record

   ...concealed under the Clean Slate scheme. However, sometimes you need to give your full record, including convictions that have been concealed. For example, you might need a full record when you’re: applying for some jobs (such as police, prison or probation roles) involved in court cases or tribunal hearings travelling to certain countries – check with the embassy or consulate of the country you want to travel to. In most cases it is against the law for anyone to ask or make you reveal you...

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4. MLC-MAC - Retention & disposal appraisal report [pdf, 1 MB]

   ...In other registries deceased estate management records have been managed as separate file series and there may be more than one series of records to do with deceased estates. Registries have a variety of records called estates files, wills files, probate files, letters of administration files, and war gratuities files, all of which concern the winding up of a deceased person’s estate and the succession to the interest. Wills files may contain original wills or only copies of wills. In...

5. Retention and disposal appraisal report - Māori Land Court and Māori Appellate Court [pdf, 1.1 MB]

   ...In other registries deceased estate management records have been managed as separate file series and there may be more than one series of records to do with deceased estates. Registries have a variety of records called estates files, wills files, probate files, letters of administration files, and war gratuities files, all of which concern the winding up of a deceased person’s estate and the succession to the interest. Wills files may contain original wills or only copies of wills. In...

6. Justice Sector Corrections forecast 2013 to 2023 [pdf, 1.1 MB]

   ...Numbers of non-custodial sentences and orders. Forecasts are presented for both numbers starting these sentences and orders, and for the numbers subject to them at any one time (the ‘muster’) Number of pre-sentence reports provided to courts by probation officers Numbers of reports from the Department of Corrections providing information to courts and to the Parole Board These forecasts cover the period September 2013 to June 2023. 2. Justice Sector Forecast Since 2006 t...

7. Justice Sector Corrections forecast 2013 to 2023 [pdf, 1.1 MB]

   ...Numbers of non-custodial sentences and orders. Forecasts are presented for both numbers starting these sentences and orders, and for the numbers subject to them at any one time (the ‘muster’) Number of pre-sentence reports provided to courts by probation officers Numbers of reports from the Department of Corrections providing information to courts and to the Parole Board These forecasts cover the period September 2013 to June 2023. 2. Justice Sector Forecast Since 2006 t...

8. BORA Evidence Bill [pdf, 406 KB]

   ...expressly provided for in the bill, courts are directed to have regard to the purposes set out in clause 6, the fundamental principle in clause 7 that relevant evidence is admissible and the overriding power in clause 8 to exclude evidence if its probative value is outweighed by its unfair prejudicial effect or would needlessly prolong the proceeding. 4. The nature of the Bill is such that the majority of provisions necessarily engage rights contained in the BORA, particularly: 4.1 In...

9. Inia v Julian [2019] Māori Appellate Court MB 333 (2019 APPEAL 333) [pdf, 441 KB]

   ...6 [2014] Chief Judge’s MB 520-529 7 For convenience now referred to in this judgment as Judge Fox. 8 [2018] Chief Judge’s MB 125-163 2019 Māori Appellate Court MB 336 (b) The will was never subject to a grant of probate and thus there was never any opportunity for her children to challenge its contents; (c) The Court failed to consider the moral duty of the deceased to provide for all her children under the Family Protection Act 1955; (d) The Court...

10. 2018 archive

    ...from 14 January 2019 when the next roster commences. We will be implementing the procedures in other regions during 2019. Thank you for your support while we implement the new procedures. Pre-sentence reports 29/11/2018 - A reminder that reviewing a probation officer’s pre-sentence report is included in the sentencing fixed fee. It should not be claimed separately as a sentencing report. The granting notes expressly exclude probation reports from the fixed fee for expert witness/reports. The...

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