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1. OIA-109795.pdf [pdf, 2.3 MB]

   ...Justice 's Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Group in relation to part 2 of the Criminal Procedure Bill 2004. We understand this was prepared in 2005, and was supplied to the select committee that considered the Criminal Procedure Bill 2004. Please find a copy of the report attached with this letter, released to you in ful l. You have the right to make a complaint to the Ombudsman under section 28(3) of the Act. The Office of the Ombudsman may be contacted by email at info@omb...

2. Proactive release - Sexual violence response [pdf, 7.7 MB]

   ...further work on other Law Commission recommendations, looking at the appropriateness and feasibility of alternative resolution options outside the current system for sexual offending (including kaupapa Māori models), and of a specialist, post-guilty plea sexual violence court. 8. I also propose to consider whether other changes to trial procedure might better protect victims of sexual violence, while maintaining the overall integrity and protections of our system. Finally, I propose to...

3. Proactive release - Improving the justice response to victims of sexual violence [pdf, 7.7 MB]

   ...further work on other Law Commission recommendations, looking at the appropriateness and feasibility of alternative resolution options outside the current system for sexual offending (including kaupapa Māori models), and of a specialist, post-guilty plea sexual violence court. 8. I also propose to consider whether other changes to trial procedure might better protect victims of sexual violence, while maintaining the overall integrity and protections of our system. Finally, I propose to...

4. CAC10070 v Adams [2012] NZREADT 5 [pdf, 177 KB]

   ...“in that her conduct consists of wilful or reckless contraventions of rules 6.2, 6.4, 9.1 and 9.4 of the Real Estate Agents Act (Professional Conduct and Client Care) Rules 2009”. [2] In the course of the hearing, the defendant entered a guilty plea to the alternative charge; and Mr Stanaway offered no evidence to the first charge (referred to above) which was, therefore, dismissed by us for non-prosecution. [3] The formal charge document set out basic “particulars” for the f...

5. Justice Sector Prison Projection 2019 report [pdf, 461 KB]

   ...remand from December 2018 onwards, which was the primary driver of the increase in the remand population. People are spending longer on remand due to their cases taking longer to be resolved in courts. This is being driven by: • later guilty pleas in the criminal court process requiring more court hearings; • a lack of sufficient court resource to deal with these additional court hearings, along with the reallocation of judges from the criminal to the family jurisdiction; 1...

6. 2013 archive

   ...website. Back to top Legal aid forms 20 September 2013 - The legal aid forms have now been undated to reflect changes that are being introduced by the Legal Services Amendment Act on 2 September 2013. Back to top Parole proceedings 18 September 2013 - Please remember that criminal legal aid parole proceeding applications need to be sent to a designated legal aid office in each region. This includes the former civil proceedings now being administered as criminal legal aid parole proceedings unde...

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7. GJ v Secretary for Justice [2021] NZRA 003/2020 (25 February 2021) [pdf, 176 KB]

   ...He argues that: [i] He has provided evidence of being involved in research, briefing witnesses, and drafting documents; [ii] Examined and cross-examined 7 witness in the trials provided in support of his application; [iii] He has taken plea instruction, attended case review and sentencing indication, attended a pretrial propensity hearing, trial call over and sentencing; [iv] He was lead counsel in the [redacted] case conducting all aspects of the trial; [v] He has had n...

8. Canterbury Westland Standards Committee v Horsley [2014] NZLCDT 47 [pdf, 85 KB]

   ...to having a previously unblemished career he has contributed to his profession in terms of continuing legal education and committee work for the Law Society. He is certainly deserving of credit for all of these matters. [36] As to his guilty plea on the second charge, he ought to receive some credit for that but it came very late in the piece, on the morning of the first hearing. [37] The acceptance of responsibility by the practitioner and the mitigating features referred to are...

9. Complaints Assessment Committee 408 v Reed [2017] NZREADT 34 [pdf, 160 KB]

   ...Ms Dai had pleaded guilty to three charges of wilful or reckless breach of the Rules. One of these involved disclosing her client’s price expectations to a purchaser. The Tribunal did not impose a fine, referring to Ms Dai’s early guilty pleas, her voluntary suspension of her licence, relative inexperience, and her inability to pay a fine. [30] We accept Ms Copeland’s submission that the facts in Dai are closest to the present case, but they are not directly comparable. Mr...

10. Auckland Standards Committee 5 v Van Noort [2017] NZLCDT 21 [pdf, 286 KB]

    ...2 REASONS FOR THE DECISION OF THE NEW ZEALAND LAWYERS AND CONVEYANCERS DISCIPLINARY TRIBUNAL CONCERNING PENALTY [1] At the commencement of the hearing of the charge of misconduct against the practitioner, he indicated his wish to plead guilty to a lesser charge. [2] The Tribunal afforded time for discussion between counsel and the practitioner. Those discussions resulted in a written and signed summary of agreed facts and admission of charge which is attached as ap...