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...Māori-led services for victims, or for improving services to support Māori victims and their whānau. You can read a copy of the report, including associated data tables and FAQs, on the Ministry of Justice website at: New Zealand Crime & Victims Survey Resources and Results
...1 July 2023 to 30 June 2024, details the work of the Coroners Court and recent developments within it, and includes information about the role of the coroner and Coroners Court processes. Judge Tutton notes in her Foreword that the judicial resources of the Coroners Court have increased in the past year, enabling the appointment of additional coroners and the creation of the new roles of associate coroners and clinical advisors. The clinical advisor role is designed to help docto...
...explore the criminal and the civil justice system by reading the stories of: Oliver Fender – a reckless driver Mei Hsu – who thinks someone stole her idea If you're a school teacher you can go to the ideas for teachers page for more teaching resources and links to the New Zealand Curriculum. The guide to legal language helps explain the language used throughout the justice system. Visit a court Visiting a court can be a valuable educational experience. If you're a teacher plan...
...advice and help reduce the level of delay in resolving issues in the Family Court, and the damaging effects this has on children, parents and whānau. The Budget initiative will: Establish Family Justice Liaison Officers and produce better information resources to help parents and whānau navigate the system; Increase Legal Aid; and Increase remuneration for lawyers for children to incentivise the recruitment and retention of skilled practitioners. A second Bill focused on strengthening the F...
...building block of the criminal justice process and a basic safeguard of civil liberty in our legal system. The fundamental purpose of the double jeopardy rule is to protect individuals against the excessive use of state power: the state, with all its resources and powers, should not be allowed to continually subject an individual to repressive and repeated prosecutions by the state. A citizen, once tried, is entitled to the comfort of knowing that once acquitted of an offence that is th...
...choice and it is appropriate that a successful party be recompensed for the reasonable cost of such representation. Equally, it is open to a party to engage more experienced or skilful counsel than the case might warrant or to devote additional resources to the matter over and above that reasonably required. Where a party chooses to do that, however, it cannot expect to recover from an unsuccessful opponent the additional cost incurred. Having heard this case and thereby having a...
...caucusing can proceed much more expeditiously. [9] A significant downside of not practicing these things, is a huge unnecessary cost to the parties, and a slowing of the system. The Government, and many people and corporate entities associated with resource management litigation, and not just before the Environment court, are right to be concerned about these things. [10] It is worth remembering that there are references in the Practice Note of the Environment Court, to these iss...
Before the Environment Court at Auckland ENV-2013-AKL-000174 In the Matter of the Resource Management Act 1991 And In the Matter of Notice of Motion under Section 87G requesting the granting of resource consents to Waiheke Marinas Limited to establish a Marina at Matiatia Bay, Waiheke Island, in the Hauraki Gulf Evidence of Brett Alexander Black on behalf of Waiheke Marinas Ltd Dated 29 April 2014 Richard Braba...
...Committee’s findings was not ‘real estate agency’ work as defined by the Act. He denies any conflict of interest. Mr Ks evidence: [11] Mr Ks evidence is that it was impossible to progress the development when Mr N was not helping by completing the resource consent and working with E Construction to finalise the draft estimate of costs. [12] Mr K details in his Brief of Evidence the steps he took to find a purchaser. He said however that because the construction costs and re...
1 WML Poynter Ecology Evidence Final v 1.0 22062015 Before the Environment Court at Auckland ENV-2013-AKL-000174 In the Matter of the Resource Management Act 1991 And In the Matter of Notice of Motion under Section 87G requesting the granting of resource consents to Waiheke Marinas Limited to establish a Marina at Matiatia Bay, Waiheke Island, in the Hauraki Gulf Supplementary Evidence of Mark Raymond Poynter on behalf of Waiheke Marinas Ltd Dated 22 June 20...