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1. Applying-to-be-a-Legal-Aid-Provider-Selection-Committee-guidance-November-2024-v7.pdf [pdf, 653 KB]

   ...indicative number of cases or proceedings • any other specific approval requirements. Minimum requirements for approval The first, second and fourth columns outline the requirements listed in the Schedule to the Regulations for each area of law. Please note that those columns outline the minimum requirements for approval.4 They are largely quantitative requirements. After the Secretary is satisfied that the minimum requirements are met, they must separately undertake a qualitative...

2. Wellbeing Budget 2019: Family Violence and Sexual Violence Package [pdf, 887 KB]

   ...improved victim experience, by enabling victims to give their statement in their own words soon after the violence occurs. This results in less trauma for the victim, less likelihood of recanted statements, and earlier and higher numbers of guilty pleas, which in turn leads to reduced court time. If the impacts identified in the evaluation of the pilot in Counties Manukau are replicated across New Zealand, we expect to see: • Reduced trauma for up to 30,000 victims per year....

3. CAC20007 v Jarman [2015] NZREADT 66 [pdf, 157 KB]

   ...she would benefit financially from that on-sale transaction as required by s.136 of the Act. [27] The purchase and on-sale settled contemporaneously on 14 December 2011, resulting in a profit to the defendant of $40,000. [28] Through her guilty pleas, Ms Jarman has accepted that she wilfully or recklessly breached: [a] Her disclosure obligations under the Act (ss.134 to the vendor that she is purchaser and 136 to the purchaser that she may benefit financially); [b] Her duty to char...

4. Masson v REAA & Damerell, Aikin, Lafferty [2013] NZREADT 26 [pdf, 64 KB]

   ...opportunity and that was her strategy. [37] There was cross-examination as to whether the place of the appellant in the auction room was inconspicuous; but that seems academic because the auctioneer says that he saw her and directed to her many of his pleas to bid. [38] In the course of cross-examination the appellant candidly stated, inter alia, “I didn’t want to be made to bid before I was ready to bid”. She also seemed to accept that because she had made it clear to Ms Aik...

5. JV Budget Summary of Initiatives FVSV Package 2019 Christle [pdf, 887 KB]

   ...improved victim experience, by enabling victims to give their statement in their own words soon after the violence occurs. This results in less trauma for the victim, less likelihood of recanted statements, and earlier and higher numbers of guilty pleas, which in turn leads to reduced court time. If the impacts identified in the evaluation of the pilot in Counties Manukau are replicated across New Zealand, we expect to see: • Reduced trauma for up to 30,000 victims per year....

6. What happens next [pdf, 2.7 MB]

   ...it’s decided if people have broken the law or rules You’ll only have to go to court if the accused or defendant (the person the Police say has broken the law) says they didn’t do what you or the Police say they did. This is called a not guilty plea or Judge Alone Trial (a trial). There are a few things you’ll need to know if you’re going to court because it’s a place where mostly adults go. It’s a very big place and can be a bit scary or confusing for young people (and...

7. Auckland Standards Committee v Davidson [2012] NZLCDT 28 [pdf, 119 KB]

   ...on its formation in 2001, and of Bridgecorp Investments Limited on its incorporation in 2003. [6] Mr Davidson, the only lawyer on the Board, was charged with offences under the Securities Act and was one of only two Directors to enter guilty pleas prior to trial. He had initially intended to defend the charges of untrue statements on the basis that at all relevant times he believed them to be true. Following the depositions and discovery stages, and after earnest and lengthy dis...

8. [2020] NZREADT 21 - Hanford (12 May 2020) [pdf, 181 KB]

   ...73(c)(iii) of the Act, alleging a wilful or reckless breach of r 6.3 of the Real Estate Agents Act (Professional Conduct and Client Care) Rules 2012 (“the Rules”). [2] On 14 February 2020, the parties advised the Tribunal that Mr Hanford would plead guilty to the alternative charge under s 73(c)(iii) of the Act, and that the Committee would withdraw the charge under s 73(a). An Agreed Statement of Facts has been filed. [3] Although an oral hearing was scheduled for this mat...

9. AODT Court Waikato Participant Handbook [pdf, 645 KB]

   ...you can live a healthier and happier life. And if you’re living a healthier and happier life, your whaanau/family will benefit from this too! This handbook gives you more information about how the AODT Court works, and how it can help you. Please share this booklet with your whaanau/family if you’d like to. It may help them understand what you’ll be doing in the AODT Court and also help them to support you. The AODT Court is an abstinence court. This means you must not use...

10. AI v ZR LCRO 102 / 2010 (11 February 2011) [pdf, 122 KB]

    ...Respondent to represent him in respect of charges laid against the Applicant to be heard in the Family Violence Court. [2] Following discussions by both the Applicant and the Respondent with the officer in charge, it was agreed that the Applicant would plead guilty to the charges on the understanding that the Police would take no further action in respect of other complaints by the Applicant’s partner. [3] On 10 March 2009, the Applicant appeared before Judge Epati at the Manukau...