This is the What's new for legal aid lawyers archive for news items from 2025. For current news items, please see the main What's new for legal aid lawyers(external link) section.
20/02/25
Appendix 1 (Instructions on bail matters for duty lawyers in the District Court) of the CPIP Duty Lawyer Operational Policy has been updated to clarify:
You can find the latest version of the policy here: Criminal Process Improvement Programme (CPIP) | New Zealand Ministry of Justice(external link)
20/02/25
Last week, Legal Aid Services launched a survey for providers regarding legal aid forms. Thank you to those who have already completed this.
If you have not yet completed the survey and would like to offer your feedback, the survey will be open until 23 February 2025.
Legal aid forms - Ministry of Justice - Citizen Space(external link)
12/02/2025
In response to feedback received at the workshops last year, Legal Aid Services are currently looking into how we can improve timeliness and efficiency when it comes to processing invoices and applications.
As part of this work, we will be launching a survey on how the forms are completed now, current challenges and how these forms could function in future to provide a better service.
We encourage all legal aid providers to complete the survey. The survey will be published on Citizen Space on 12 February 2025 and will be open until 23 February 2025.
https://consultations.justice.govt.nz/osd/022914f2/(external link)
30/01/2025
The Form 50 (Expert Request Form) is no longer required following a policy update that became effective in April 2019.
We have continued to receive Form 50’s since this change, however this information should now be provided as part of the criminal ATG Form 51.
This page was last updated: