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1. Documents relating to the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism (Cross-border Transportation of Cash) Amendment Regulations 2022 [pdf, 1 MB]

   ...Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Hon Kiri Allan Minister of Justice Proactive release – Documents relating to the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism (Cross-border Transportation of Cash) Amendment Regulations 2022 Date of issue: 13 September 2022 The following documents have been proactively released in accordance with Cabinet Office Circular CO (18) 4. Some information has been withheld on the basis that it would not, if r...

2. Proactive Release - Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT): High-Value Dealer Regulations [pdf, 1.9 MB]

   © Crown Copyright, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Hon Andrew Little Minister of Justice Proactive Release – Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT): High-Value Dealer Regulations Date of issue: 8 August 2019 The following documents have been proactively released in accordance with Cabinet Office Circular CO (18) 4. Some information has been withheld on the basis that it would not, if requested under the Official Inf...

3. Government Response to Law Commission report on the Review of the Privacy Act 1993 [pdf, 84 KB]

   ...Review of the Privacy Act 1993 (NZLC 123) presented to the House of Representatives on 2 August 2011 (the report) and responds to the report in accordance with Cabinet Office Circular CO (09) 1. Executive Summary The Privacy Act 1993 (the Act) regulates what can be done with information about individuals. The Law Commission has reviewed the Act in the context of a wider review of privacy laws in New Zealand and has made recommendations to the Government. The Government agrees wi...

4. Regulatory Impact Statement: Regulatory regime for the new alcohol laws. [pdf, 300 KB]

   ...the Ministry of Justice. It sets out the options for the regulatory regime required to give effect to the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012, due to fully commence on 18 December 2013. One constraint on the analysis was the impact of the regulations supporting the definition of the principal business of a grocery store which was required by the Act. The preferred option uses sales revenue as the base measure. As sales revenue data of these stores is not available to us currentl...

5. Regulatory Impact Statement Regulatory Regime for the new Alcohol Laws [pdf, 254 KB]

   ...the Ministry of Justice. It sets out the options for the regulatory regime required to give effect to the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012, due to fully commence on 18 December 2013. One constraint on the analysis was the impact of the regulations supporting the definition of the principal business of a grocery store which was required by the Act. The preferred option uses sales revenue as the base measure. As sales revenue data of these stores is not available to us currentl...

6. Proactive release – Family Court (Family Violence and Other Matters) Amendment Rules 2019 and other legislative instruments [pdf, 782 KB]

   ...Office of the Under-Secretary to the Minister of Justice (Domestic and Sexual Violence Issues) Released in full. Note that the copies of the regulations provided to Ministers with this paper have been withheld in accordance with section 61 of the Legislation Act 2012 and section 9(2)(h) of the Official Information Act 1982 to maintain legal professional privilege. The legislative instruments are publicly available from www.legislation.govt.nz. 2 LEG-19-MIN-0049: Family Court (F...

7. Justice Sector Crown Law forecast 2015 to 2019 report [pdf, 342 KB]

   ...involving proceedings under the Criminal Procedure (Mentally Impaired Persons) Act that dispose prior to a Crown Prosecution Notice being filed. These cases are not being forecast, as their numbers are not large enough to do so reliably. 2 http://legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/2013/0178/latest/DLM5193812.html Page 6 5. The forecast Table 1 and Figure 1 show the number of Crown Law’s case disposals. The 2015 forecast is not directly comparable with the 201...

8. Guest v New Zealand Law Society [2010] NZLCDT 33 [pdf, 238 KB]

   ...decision of the Law Society which declined the application on the grounds that he was not a fit and proper person, be reviewed. [4] A further ground of opposing costs advanced by the appellant was that there was non-compliance by the Society with Regulation 7, which reads as follows: Regulation 7 (2) However, if the Law Society believes on reasonable grounds that there are or may be grounds for declining or refusing to issue a practising certificate, the Law Society must - (a) not...

9. Auckland Standards Committee 2 v Lawes [2019] NZLCDT 19 [pdf, 366 KB]

   ...the Family Court, thus he had no obligation to remit the funds as requested. Issues [5] The issues to be determined are as follows: Charge 1 1. Do the failings found, or admitted, constitute a reckless or wilful breach of the trust account regulations, such as to amount to misconduct (s 7(1)(a)(ii) of the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006 (the Act))? 2. If not, are his actions such as to establish negligence or incompetence such as to satisfy the definition in s 241(c) of the...

10. 1 Cab paper Repeal of three strikes law Redacted [pdf, 1.5 MB]

    ...P R I V I L E G E : I N C O N F I D E N C E 1 L E G A L P R I V I L E G E : I N C O N F I D E N C E Legal Privilege: In Confidence Office of the Minister of Justice Chair, Cabinet Social Wellbeing Committee Repeal of the three strikes law Proposal 1 This paper seeks Cabinet’s agreement to repeal the three strikes law. It also provides three options for transitional arrangements for people serving a prison sentence for a strike offence when the repeal legislation comes int...