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1. Proactive release – report on overseas travel (Australia – August 2018) [pdf, 950 KB]

   IN-CONFIDENCE Office of the Minister of Justice and Minister Responsible for the NZSIS and GCSB Chair Cabinet REPORT ON OVERSEAS TRAVEL: HON ANDREW LITTLE: AUSTRALIA, 27 AUGUST – 30 AUGUST 2018 Proposal 1. I recommend that Cabinet note this report on my travel to Australia to attend the Five Country Ministerial (FCM) annual meeting of Ministers with interior, intelligence and security, border, and immigration responsibilities from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom,...

2. OIA-Family Court and Intellectual Disability [pdf, 490 KB]

   ...your email of 30 August 2024 requesting, under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act), further information regarding the Family Court’s use of the Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation) Act 2003 (IDCCR), following the response to OIA 109205 which was proactively released on the Ministry of Justice (the Ministry) website. I apologise for the delay and thank you for your patience while we have prepared our response. Specifically, you requested: Thank you f...

3. OIA-124400.pdf [pdf, 799 KB]

   ...Any available geographic breakdown (if the initiative was partially delivered in Te Tai Tokerau) 3. Any information regarding upcoming or planned funding rounds where projects in Te Tai Tokerau may be eligible to apply or be considered. In response to your first and second questions, please see the table in the Appendix (attached) which sets out the funding allocations from the Fund for initiatives operating in Te Tai Tokerau over the past five financial years (2019–2024). Furt...

4. Kaupapa Maori responses to violence against wahine Maori [pdf, 965 KB]

   Kaupapa Māori responses to violence suffered by wāhine Māori 2019 1 Acknowledgments from Malatest International This report is based on in-depth interviews with kaiwhakahaere, kaiāwhina and kahukura who support whānau at very difficult times in their lives. We wish to thank all the participants for their candid discussion and for supporting this mahi. We also acknowledge that you made time to see us, even though your schedules were mor

5. Restorative Justice: Standards for Sexual Offending Cases [pdf, 666 KB]

   ...discovers that other offending has taken place to finance a drug addiction, the plan may also identify steps to address that addiction. 12 If only because the victim(s) of that offending will not usually be present. 14 5. FLEXIBILITY AND RESPONSIVENESS ARE INHERENT CHARACTERISTICS OF RESTORATIVE JUSTICE PROCESSES Restorative justice processes should be guided by restorative justice values Best practice requires that particular steps always be undertaken in a restorative...

6. OIA-120214.pdf [pdf, 5 MB]

   ...LE AS ED U ND ER T HE O FF IC IA L IN FO RM AT IO N AC T 19 82 How is risk assessment being used in Australia? • The DOORS tool is used to identify risk for participants in parenting only proceedings. • Federal courts have responsibility for parenting proceedings while the states and territories have responsibility for family violence proceedings. This means information pertaining to family violence may not be present in parenting applications. • The Lightho...

7. Recommendations Recap - Issue 13 [pdf, 988 KB]

   ...In order to publicise these lessons, the findings and recommendations of most cases are open to the public. Recommendations Recap identifies and summarises all coronial recommendations made over the relevant period. Where received, summaries of responses to recommendations from agencies and organisations are also included. This issue features 22 recent coronial cases where recommendations were made. Final findings were released by a coroner between 1 January 2017 and 30 June 2017....

8. Ministerial Advisory Group for Victims of Retail Crime - Final Report on Shoplifting [pdf, 390 KB]

   ...the option can be readily implemented with certain results. Options 34. Three options have been identified for reforming the existing theft offence in the Crimes Act 1961. These all aim to provide new, more proportionate enforcement responses to shoplifting, Options are assessed against the identified criteria. 35. These options are mutually compatible and can be progressed alongside each other, individually, or not at all. Status-quo 36. Currently, shoplifting is cha...

9. Nelson Standards Committee v Grey [2023] NZLCDT 33 (4 August 2023) [pdf, 271 KB]

   ...Sue Grey, was acting in her capacity as a lawyer in making statements, or as a private citizen who is also a politician. [4] It then evaluates whether her proven or acknowledged statements were such as to demand a professional disciplinary response, in a free and democratic society which relies on the ability of lawyers, as advocates for the citizen, to challenge institutions of power and governance. [5] These issues are being considered at this preliminary stage2, to determin...

10. Ram v Tan [2016] NZIACDT 39 (9 August 2016) [pdf, 207 KB]

    ...serious consequences of that failure; and [13.3] retained the passports she held for her client; again, to prevent her client detecting her deception. [14] The complaint against Ms Aasa is relevant in that Mr Tan says Ms Aasa also deceived him. The responses [15] The complainant did not respond to the statement of complaint. The standard notice to the parties does not require a response if he accepted the Registrar’s statement of complaint. [16] Mr Tan, after an initial response,...