Status hearings evaluation: New Zealand study of pre-trial hearings in criminal cases [pdf, 487 KB]
Status Hearings Evaluation: A New Zealand Study of Pre-trial Hearings in Criminal Cases Wendy Searle Tania Slater Trish Knaggs Janet November Christopher Clark ii First published in July 2004 by the Ministry of Justice and Law Commission PO Box 180 Wellington New Zealand ISBN 0-478-20188-5 iii Foreword Status hearings were introduced on the initiative of judges in the Auckland District Court in 1995, as a type of pre-trial conference. They aimed to avoid the inefficiencies crea