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1. Duty Lawyer Operational Policy for CPIP 2024 [pdf, 363 KB]

   ...11. Duty lawyers are required to provide services to unrepresented defendants in accordance with the following broad guidance. They deal with: • matters where the defendant wishes to be represented by the duty lawyer, intends to enter a guilty plea and it can be entered on the day and/or a legal aid application is not required • matters where the defendant wishes to be represented by the duty lawyer at their sentencing and it can be dealt with or remanded to the next court event on...

2. July 2013 Criminal Fee Schedules [pdf, 397 KB]

   ...name suppression, variation, interlocutories etc.  Attending Registrar’s/Judge’s List Court  Initial CMM discussions with prosecution  Preparation for CMM list event  Preparation  Attending Case Review  Entering plea  Any agent fees  Reporting to client Note, fee covers all hearing time Case Management Memorandum $75 $75 $75  Completion and on-time filing of the CMM document Schedules A–J — July 2013 2 Stage A...

3. Employment Court Practice Directions [pdf, 492 KB]

   ...to extend time to file documents .................................................................... 8 8. Search and freezing orders .................................................................................................. 9 9. Amended pleadings generally ........................................................................................... 10 10. Statements of defence to amended statements of claim .................................................... 11 11. Amended chall...

4. Duty Lawyer Operational Policy for CPIP November 2024.pdf [pdf, 361 KB]

   ...11. Duty lawyers are required to provide services to unrepresented defendants in accordance with the following broad guidance. They deal with: • matters where the defendant wishes to be represented by the duty lawyer, intends to enter a guilty plea and it can be entered on the day and/or a legal aid application is not required • matters where the defendant wishes to be represented by the duty lawyer at their sentencing and it can be dealt with or remanded to the next court event o...

5. Duty Lawyer Operational Policy for CPIP December 2024.pdf [pdf, 375 KB]

   ...11. Duty lawyers are required to provide services to unrepresented defendants in accordance with the following broad guidance. They deal with: • matters where the defendant wishes to be represented by the duty lawyer, intends to enter a guilty plea and it can be entered on the day and/or a legal aid application is not required • matters where the defendant wishes to be represented by the duty lawyer at their sentencing and it can be dealt with or remanded to the next court event o...

6. July 2016 Criminal Fee Schedules [pdf, 684 KB]

   ...need for applications, interlocutories etc.  attending to unopposed bail, name suppression, variation, interlocutories etc.  initial CMM discussions with prosecution  preparation for CMM list event  preparation  entering plea  any agent fees  reporting to client. Charge discussions $120  engaging in charge discussions and/or resolution, including diversion or charges withdrawn Appearances - hearing time* $48 per half hour For: �...

7. Complaints Assessment Committee 410 v Dai [2017] NZREADT 18 [pdf, 104 KB]

   ...seriously negligent real estate agency work (s 73(b) of the Act). [e] Alternative to all three charges: Ms Dai was guilty of unsatisfactory conduct (s 72 of the Act). [2] By a Response to Charge dated 9 December 2016, the Defendant, Ms Dai, entered pleas of guilty to all three charges. The Tribunal records that Ms Gai voluntarily suspended her licence in May 2015. [3] At a telephone conference on 3 February 2017, Ms Gai confirmed her admission of the charges and advised that sh...

8. Auckland Standards Committee1 of the New Zealand LawSociety v X [2011] NZLCDT 15 [pdf, 79 KB]

   ...judgement was simply that, in talking to her friend, she took up the offer that her friend made to make an enquiry with her insurance company. She should of course immediately have said this was not an option. [15] Although Ms X entered a guilty plea to the criminal charges she faced she explained that this was a pragmatic decision. She wished to avoid embarrassment to her family and to save face. She also wished to avoid the emotional and personal costs of a defended hearing....

9. National Standards Committee 1 v Kuddus [2023] NZLCDT 46 (13 October 2023) [pdf, 118 KB]

   ...who were dying; whanau could not be visited. The general populace was acutely conscious that free movement, in ordinary times taken for granted, was withheld. [5] Mr Kuddus does not wholeheartedly accept that he wilfully broke the law. Having pleaded guilty at the criminal hearing on 15 July 2022, he there attempted to distance himself from “intentional” failure to comply. The judge gave him time to consider changing his plea and, after having taken time, he maintained his gui...

10. Complaints Assessments Committee 403 v Misa NZREADT 11 [pdf, 176 KB]

    ...obligations. [25] Mrs Parker submitted that the Tribunal should take a number of significant mitigating factors into account. These were that Mr Misa had no previous disciplinary history, he had recognised his error and had entered an early plea to the charge (thus avoiding the need for a hearing), he had not obtained any personal gain from his conduct, he recognised the need for further education, and he had suffered a significant personal toll as a result of the complaint and s...