Evaluation of early outcomes of Te Kooti Rangatahi/Rangatahi Court [pdf, 1.7 MB]
...communities. As a judicial officer, that is actually a role for me in the court to enhance the respect for the rule of law. What better way to do it than to take these courts into the community and to empower the community, to show that the law’s human and to let people gain a real sense of what the law is about. To familiarise our people with all the various officers involved, Police officers, social workers. It goes a lot wider than just Rangatahi Courts because that filters into...