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1. Legal Aid Audit Report 2017-2018 [pdf, 367 KB]

   ...“Provider bent over backwards to protect and advise non-responsive client.” “[The provider] has very good relationships with her clients. She is consistently professional in respect to her dealing with clients, police prosecution, community probation and court registry staff.” Acceptable results Audits with acceptable ratings typically said providers achieved good outcomes for their clients. Negative comments were rare. Increasingly, comments regarding the quality of the s...

2. JK v SY LCRO 271/2013 (9 September 2016) [pdf, 76 KB]

   ...summarised as follows: (a) Mr [SY’s] response to the complaint only addressed the actions he took when drafting the statement of claim. Mr [JK] says that deceit could never properly be alleged at any stage of the proceedings because there has to be probative evidence of actual fraud, not a mere suspicion of fraud to permit an allegation of deceit to be properly pleaded. (b) As the proceedings continued it became apparent that there was no evidence to allege fraud. In particular:...

3. LCRO 148/2023 ZJ v PE (16 June 2025) [pdf, 200 KB]

   ...partner had applied for a protection order against the applicant. That part of the statement was nevertheless misleading by omission and the rest of the statement (that the applicant had been abusive to the former partner) was hearsay and lacked probative value. [56] To the extent that the Court might have been misled, however, it was the ex- wife, rather than the respondent, who attempted to do so. It was her evidence. [57] There is no evidence that the Court had any regard to the...

4. Reducing residential burglary: what can police do? [pdf, 1.1 MB]

   ...coordinate all strategies and information gathered on one offender. • Establish temporary teams from a range of sections to work intensively for a few days on an aspect of offender targeting. • Use the Parole Act 2002 and work with Community Probation Service to have parole conditions applied to targeted offenders. • Follow an initial police crackdown on known offenders with a consolidation phase involving a range of other burglary reduction initiatives. Clearances • Intel prep...

5. [2011] NZEmpC 31 Ravnjak v Wellington International Airport Ltd [pdf, 262 KB]

   ...rules against the admission of unfairly or unlawfully obtained evidence might apply, courts are required to perform a balancing exercise weighing, among other considerations, the nature and extent of the impropriety in obtaining the evidence, its probative value, the seriousness of the subject matter and other like considerations. [54] Section 30 of the Evidence Act (“Improperly obtained evidence”) relates to criminal proceedings in which the prosecution offers or proposes to...

6. [2012] NZEmpC 186 Walker v Procure Health Ltd [pdf, 153 KB]

   ...Harrison referred to Ms Walker’s “very personal attacks” on five of ProCare’s witnesses and her cross-examination of ProCare’s Chief Executive Officer, Mr Hooton, which ran for over three days and in counsel’s words, “had limited probative value”. [14] Mr Harrison referred to examples from the notes of evidence where the Court had encouraged Ms Walker in the course of the hearing to spend time reviewing her questions and making them more focused. He submitted: 2...

7. [2014] NZEmpC 159 Franix Construction Ltd v Tozer [pdf, 146 KB]

   ...also that party’s representative in the Authority but was not permitted to give evidence from the Bar to contradict a witness’s account of what was or was not said in the Authority. [4] In all the foregoing circumstances, there is little or no probative value in pursuing such alleged inconsistencies in evidence between the two bodies, at least where there is a denial by the witness about the content of what was said. As occurs in some cases, there was not any record by the Auth...

8. White v White - Mourea Papakainga 3E 14D1 Block (2011) 2011 Chief Judge's MB 280 (2011 CJ 280) [pdf, 122 KB]

   ...when the land was gifted to Patrick is a central issue in relation to this application, the question of her testamentary capacity in relation to these wills is not before the Court. As yet, her other Māori land interests remain un- succeeded and probate has not been granted in respect of any of the wills. [6] On 24 October 2001 Martha (as applicant), Ihaia and Patrick signed an application under section 164 whereby Martha was to gift the land to Ihaia and Patrick. A local solicito...

9. Request for proposals: Statistical modelling to support the Investment Approach to Justice [pdf, 534 KB]

   ...current use of health and education services, and so forth. o We will ask the provider to undertake, if possible, qualitative research to understand how each segment views itself and the Justice Sector, and how frontline staff such as police and probation officers views the segment (note: we will contract for this separately if the chosen provider does not have this capability). 4. Crime Forecasting – Application of crime risk models to forecast future crime rates: o We expect the pr...

10. CAC20004 v Vessey [2015] NZREADT 10 [pdf, 174 KB]

    ...evening when changes to four databases were made. b. Was made at a time of intense emotion as a result of a breakdown of a commercial relationship. c. It is submitted that the prior experience of my client through his career in real estate is a probative factor in deciding that the uniqueness of the breakdown in the commercial relationship was the driving determinant for that behaviour, and that his behaviour would not be repeated against members of the public. d. That the changes t...