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1. Otago Standards Committee v Claver [2019] NZLCDT 8 [pdf, 343 KB]

   ...I) in relation to charges of possession of an offensive weapon and threatening to kill arising from an alleged incident on 16 January 2016. 18. Mr I was aged 48 at the time and had a limited criminal history. Mr I had no recorded breaches of bail or previous warrants to arrest. 19. Mr I was remanded in custody following his arrest in January 2016. Mr Claver acted for Mr I from his arrest through until March 2016. No bail application was advanced and Mr I remained in custody throug...

2. Hart v Auckland Standards Committee 1 of the New Zealand Law Society CIV 2012 404 5076 5528 [pdf, 515 KB]

   ...[25] The New Zealand Court of Appeal in R v Chatha17 was subsequently faced with the issue of whether the defendant had an obligation to appear at his own trial and, consequently, whether it was reasonable for the trial Judge to deny the defendant bail on the first day of the trial. The Court confirmed the effect of its previous judgment in van Yzendoorn, 18 describing it as authority to the same effect as Jones. Those cases, it said, stood for the proposition that:19 ... the di...

3. OIA-106563.pdf [pdf, 3.6 MB]

   ...DX SX10088 | Wellington T 04 918 8800 | F 04 918 8820 ContactUs@justice.govt.nz | www.justice.govt.nz 4 October 2023 Our ref: OIA 106563 Tēnā koe Official Information Act request: Youth and gang crime Thank you for your email of 18 July 2023 to the office of the Prime Minister, requesting, under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act), information on youth and gang crime. On 7 August 2023, your request was transferred under section 14 of the Act to the Mi...

4. Audit Summary Report 2016-2017 [pdf, 433 KB]

   PROVIDER SERVICES - LEGAL AID April 2018 1 Legal aid audit summary Practice themes from the 2016-17 quality and value audit programme 2 Purpose This report provides a summary of the major practice themes in the audit of 85 legal aid lawyers in the 2016-2017 financial year. It also analyses the comments made by the Auditors for consistent practices that may have contributed to the results achieved. By doing so, our aim is that lawyers will understand more

5. LCRO 195/2018 KW v LQ (26 June 2020) [pdf, 182 KB]

   ...to take no further action with regard to her complaints about LQ on the basis that “in all the circumstances of the complaint, it appears to the Committee that further action would be unnecessary on inappropriate”.1 Background [2] In September 2017 KW was arrested when entering Country A, and charged with importation and possession of controlled drugs. KW’s family were unaware of this and became concerned as they had not heard from her.

6. Youth Crime Action Plan - full report [pdf, 2.8 MB]

   ...other nations replicate and build on our lead. Our practitioners want to answer the call to do better for our young people and our communities. The Jesuit proverb, ‘Give me the child until he is seven… and I’ll show you the man,’ best exemplifies current thinking with respect to youth justice. Our youth justice system embraces an interventionist policy, which seeks to understand risk factors and protective factors, and shapes our response to youth offending around these. It...

7. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 5th report [pdf, 386 KB]

   ...- 151 36 Article 9 ................................................................................................ 152 - 195 36 Preventive Detention ....................................................................... 152 - 166 36 Bail Act 2000 ................................................................................... 167 - 173 39 Home Detention ............................................................................... 174 - 184 40 Community Detenti...

8. 2021 Justice Sector Projections Report [pdf, 873 KB]

   ...have been initiatives put in place to slow down the increase in remand time. This includes: • increased judicial capacity to help with the increased workload in the High Court and District Court • The High Impact Innovation Programme’s Bail Support Services which promotes making timely proposals for people to achieve bail. It was initially trialled in a few large courts between 2018 and 2020. The national rollout began in mid-2020 and is still underway. These initiatives h...

9. 14.02.2023 Long Term Insights Briefing The Future of Imprisonment II FINAL [pdf, 2.9 MB]

   ...in New Zealand II Final Report October 2022 Research New Zealand 2 Long-term Insights Briefing The Future of Imprisonment in New Zealand II PREPARED FOR Rebecca Lancashire Ministry of Justice PREPARED BY Emanuel Kalafatelis, Annita Wood and Jane Falloon CONTACT DETAILS Emanuel Kalafatelis Research New Zealand Phone 04 499 3088 www.researchnz.com PROJECT NUMBER #5304 Research New Zealand...

10. Ram-Raid-Offending-and-Related-Measures-Amendment-Bill_FINAL.pdf [pdf, 7.4 MB]

    ...children and young people with serious and/or persistent offending behaviour, including possible legislative changes. Relation to government priorities 2 The options canvassed in this paper support the Government’s focus on building a justice system that results in less offending and fewer victims of crime, while ensuring victims are better supported. 3 Some of the proposals also support the Government’s key priority of child wellbeing, which includes a focus on providing better supp...