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1. 20231124-Courts-BIM_Redacted_FINAL.pdf [pdf, 1.1 MB]

   ...Courts portfolio. An early discussion with you will help us ensure that our work programme reflects what you hope to achieve in the next three years. We also understand that the Government has objectives for state sector expenditure. We will brief you separately on financial matters and implications for the Budget. You have key relationships with other members of the executive and with the judiciary Minister of Justice You work closely with the Minister of Justice, who has overall...

2. Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Court Outcomes Evaluation 2018-19: Summary Evaluation Report [pdf, 1.3 MB]

   ...whether to permanently establish the model at the pilot sites in the first half of 2019. Cabinet 7 noted that outcomes need to be measured over a longer period to provide confidence that it provides good return on investment. In response, throughout most of 2018 and in the first quarter of 2019, the Ministry of Justice led a cross-agency outcomes evaluation of the AODT Court. The evaluation included three components: • a quantitative outcomes evaluation • a qualitativ...

3. LCRO 154/2023 FH and NH v WA, BF and DT Limited (28 February 2024) [pdf, 347 KB]

   ...previous declined material damage claim. [10] The issue of non-disclosure relating to the floor area arose because the house was, according to the records on which the insurer sought to rely, insured on the basis of a floor area of 200m2 including a separate garage, which the insurer said was less than 40 per cent of its actual floor area of “over 500m2”.1 The applicants’ house did not have a separate garage. 1 This figure was disputed. The trustees’ quantity surveyor subs...

4. Proactive release - 2020 Cannabis Referendum [pdf, 4.2 MB]

   ...the public debate, and certainty of outcome in the case of a ‘yes’ vote in the referendum. 6. For reasons I outline, I prefer a ‘yes/no’ question based on a clear proposition. It follows from th s that a question including multiple parts with separate choices over different aspects of a possible regulatory regime has the potential to lead to confusion and should be avoided. Background 7. On 17 December 2018, Cabinet agreed to hold a binding referendum at the 2020 General Election to...

5. Recommendations recap - issue 2 [pdf, 1.7 MB]

   ...parent or relative to the child, and the children who are injured or die are usually aged between one to two years.4 Major factors contributing to these child injuries or deaths on driveways are: • property design – where there is inadequate separation between driveways and places that children access • vehicle design, including poor rearward visibility • human factors including lack of child supervision, and the driver not seeing the child or being alert to the possibi...

6. Abortion Legislation Bill (Cabinet Papers) [pdf, 1.9 MB]

   ...including a regulation-making power, so that a safe access zone could be implemented to prevent harm to pregnant women or health practitioners accessing a specific facility. 14. No changes are proposed to the current laws around informed consent or parental notification for abortion. 15. No changes are proposed to the laws relating to diminished capacity at this time. Abortion in New Zealand 16. Although the number of abortions has declined over the last decade, it is a relatively...

7. Evaluation of Victim Support’s Homicide Caseworker Support Service [pdf, 790 KB]

   ...with other services ...................................................................................... 43 Summary: Linking with other services ........................................................................................ 44 7 Support through the criminal justice process ....................................................... 45 Service expectation ..................................................................................................................... 45 How s...

8. Wright v Ngamoki-Cameron - Heretatua (manu on the Tītī Island of Taukihepa) [2015] Chief Judge's MB 108 (2015 CJ 108) [pdf, 475 KB]

   ...Introduction [1] This decision deals with two applications made in relation to Aperahama Hutoitoi’s entitlement to beneficial rights in the Tītī Islands and the inclusion of the manu Heretatua in a 1910 order of the Native Land Court as a separate manu or island within the Tītī island of Taukihepa: 2015 Chief Judge’s MB 110 (a) An application made by Elizabeth Sarah Wright on 23 June 2010 pursuant to s 45 of Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993 (the Act) seeking to amen...

9. LCRO 131/2024 RD v PS (28 January 2025) [pdf, 179 KB]

   ...material without disclosing that material to the applicant; and (iii) the Committee’s powers of inquiry should not be used for a collateral purpose (either intentionally or unintentionally) of obtaining information that should otherwise be obtained through a Court process; (e) decided that it needed to consider who owned the files and who might be able to waive any privilege that might attach to the material on the files; (f) delegated to one of its members the task of reviewing th...

10. Official Information Act request Family and Sexual Violence [pdf, 3.8 MB]

    ...programmes we fund focus either on reducing harm in our communities or providing access to justice. They include family violence services for both victims and perpetrators of violence, restorative justice, family dispute resolution (a mediation service), parenting through separation (courses for separating parents/guardians), community legal services, victim services, Whānau Protect (a home safety service for victims of family violence), Matariki court support service, harmful digital com...