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1. MOJ-Proactive-release-Regina-v-Tarrant-Costs-30-October-2020.pdf [pdf, 209 KB]

   ...charged with 51 murders, 40 attempted murders, and engaging in a terrorist act under the Terrorism Suppression Act 2002 – the first time in our country that a charge had been laid under this law. On 14 June 2019, the defendant entered not guilty pleas to the charges. On 26 March 2020 he changed his pleas to guilty. The four-day sentencing hearing began in the Christchurch High Court (the Court) on 24 August 2020 under COVID-19 Alert Level 2 restrictions. On 27 August 2020, th...

2. MOJ Proactive release Regina v Tarrant Costs 23 February 2021 [pdf, 208 KB]

   ...charged with 51 murders, 40 attempted murders, and engaging in a terrorist act under the Terrorism Suppression Act 2002 – the first time in our country that a charge had been laid under this law. On 14 June 2019, the defendant entered not guilty pleas to the charges. On 26 March 2020 he changed his pleas to guilty. The four-day sentencing hearing began in the Christchurch High Court (the Court) on 24 August 2020 under COVID-19 Alert Level 2 restrictions. On 27 August 2020, th...

3. You have been charged with a category 2 or 3 offence and a High Court has made an order that you be tried in the High Court

   ...management issues that need to be resolved before a trial takes place. Once any issues have been resolved, a date will be set for your trial, if this has not already been done.  Some matters which may arise include: whether you wish to change your plea for any charge. You can change your plea from not guilty to guilty at any time. You will be required to do this in person at your next scheduled appearance, or you can contact the court to arrange for an opportunity to do so; charges for wh...

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4. You have been charged with a protocol offence & a High Court judge has made an order for your proceeding to be tried in the High Court

   ...management issues that need to be resolved before a trial takes place. Once any issues have been resolved, a date will be set for your trial, if this has not already been done.  Some matters which may arise include: whether you wish to change your plea for any charge. You can change your plea from not guilty to guilty at any time. You will be required to do this in person at your next scheduled appearance, or you can contact the court to arrange for an opportunity to do so; charges for wh...

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5. Evaluation of Waitakere & Manukau Family Violence Courts [pdf, 345 KB]

   ...Victim advocacy 20 4.4 Protection Orders 21 4.5 Programmes, counselling and referrals 21 4.6 Monitoring programme attendance 23 4.7 Collaboration with community organisations 24 4.8 Resources 24 4.9 Case numbers 24 4.10 Disposal time 25 4.11 Charges by plea type 25 4.12 Reduction in charge seriousness 26 4.13 Conclusion 26 5 Statistical analysis – Waitakere and Manukau Family Violence Courts 29 5.1 Waitakere Family Violence Court – Outcome and sentencing analysis 29 5.2 Waitakere Family V...

6. Legal aid consultation on Criminal Procedure Act changes to criminal fixed fees [pdf, 637 KB]

   ...Justices of the Peace. These can be managed through including District Court appeals in Schedules A-C (interlocutory appeals to the High Court). There is also a new jurisdiction of the High Court to hear sentence only appeals where the defendant pleads guilty before jury trial and penalty imposed does not exceed 5 years. The new High Court jurisdiction can be accommodated within Schedule G’s Appeals against sentence. 6 13. With the exception of Category 4 cases, the de...

7. Auckland Standards Committee v van der Zanden [2014] NZLCDT 21 [pdf, 79 KB]

   ...forms the basis of the brief background facts set out below. [5] The conduct under consideration is that of misleading the Court of Appeal in affidavits which effectively alleged prosecutorial misconduct and reneging on an arrangement prior to plea. This was a serious allegation to make and indeed was the only basis for the appeal. [6] There is no dispute that the Court of Appeal was, at least temporarily, misled. The issue was the intention of the practitioner and whether he kn...

8. Auckland Standards Committee 1 v Arman [2020] NZLCDT 17 (22 June 2020) [pdf, 289 KB]

   ...comprehensively in the decision of His Honour Woolford J,4 [redacted]. His Honour concluded that a miscarriage of justice had occurred because the complainant had not been provided with advice about the nature of an amended charge to which he pleaded guilty or possible defences to that charge. The practitioner’s failures are summarised in submissions filed on behalf of the Standards Committee as follows: 4 F v Police [2018] NZHC 3430. 4 “6 Charge – analysis Sum...

9. Regulatory Impact Statement: Amendments to the Sentencing Act 2002 [pdf, 1 MB]

   ...charge or where a victim’s dwelling adjoins a targeted business as an aggravating factor during sentencing • cap sentence discounts at 40% [with a supplementary proposal from the Minister of Justice to introduce a sliding scale for early guilty plea discounts] • prevent offenders from receiving sentence discounts for youth or remorse more than once, and • remove concurrent sentencing for those who commit offences while on parole, on bail or whilst in custody. These planned...

10. Hawkes Bay Standards Committee v Porteous [2014] NZLCDT 72 [pdf, 160 KB]

    ...charged an hourly rate of $1,146 for the work done while his client was alive. By the same method, it has been established that the practitioner charged an hourly rate of $775 for work done after the death of his client. The practitioner’s pleas of guilty to this charge of unsatisfactory conduct is an acceptance that the fees he charged were not fair and reasonable for the services he provided. (e) Charge 5 is one of misconduct. The practitioner has pleaded guilty to miscon...