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1. Characteristics-of-children-and-young-people-who-offend_v1.0.pdf [pdf, 446 KB]

   ...and environments. Some selected factors were having young parents, unstable housing situation, family criminality and poor mental health of the adults in the household. Children and young people from economically disadvantaged households lack the resources and opportunities that impact their future social outcomes10. Those children and young people are also more likely to be exposed to finance-based conflict in the household, insufficient supervision and inconsistent parenting, all of whic...

2. Target-4-Delivery-Plan-2025.pdf [pdf, 1.1 MB]

   ...and victimisation. Alcohol-related violence brings significant costs. NZIER have estimated that alcohol harm cost the country $9.1 billion in 2023, with costs to the justice sector of at least $43 million.3 New Zealand Police invests considerable resources responding to alcohol and drug-related incidents. The Ministry of Health and Health New Zealand are taking steps to address alcohol-related harm. Initiatives in this action area include health policy, health promotion, alcohol regula...

3. 20240923-Sentencing-Reform-Amendment-Bill.pdf [pdf, 5.7 MB]

   ...can be appointed at any one time from 182 full time equivalents to 183 full time equivalents. This is to support the implementation of the Sentencing Reform Bill, which is predicted to lead to more sentencing events and will require more judicial resource. The District Court Bill raises no Bill of Rights Act issues. Warrantless arrest powers: s 22 of the Bill of Rights Act 5. The Sentencing Reform Bill confers a power to arrest an offender without a warrant, if a constable or probation...

4. 20240923-Sentencing-Reform-Amendment-Bill-and-District-Court-Judges-Amendment-Bill [pdf, 5.7 MB]

   ...can be appointed at any one time from 182 full time equivalents to 183 full time equivalents. This is to support the implementation of the Sentencing Reform Bill, which is predicted to lead to more sentencing events and will require more judicial resource. The District Court Bill raises no Bill of Rights Act issues. Warrantless arrest powers: s 22 of the Bill of Rights Act 5. The Sentencing Reform Bill confers a power to arrest an offender without a warrant, if a constable or probation...

5. LCRO 36/2023 TL v RY and SK (4 July 2024) [pdf, 180 KB]

   ...“frivolous” and “vexatious” have legal meanings that are different from their common usage although in neither case is there a statutory definition or any universally accepted legal definition. Both tests exist partly to prevent the wastage of judicial resources on cases that have little or no chance of success. [53] Expressions of the essence of a frivolous complaint have included not having any serious purpose or value, having no sound basis in fact or law, being unworthy of s...

6. B Ltd v JD [2024] NZDT 285 (7 March 2024) [pdf, 165 KB]

   ...email and phone details. It was address to JD. B Ltd’ standard terms and conditions were attached to that letter. It is signed by JD and OL. Another one-page document was signed by JD appointing B Ltd as his agent for the purposes of building and resource consent services. 14. JD says he should not be bound by this contract. He accepts he signed the documents. However, he says he did not understand the documents he was signing. He said he was misled by AJ into believing he was just...

7. Classifications & groupings

   ...physical abuse sexual abuse psychological abuse, including but not limited to – intimidation harassment damage to property threats of physical, sexual or psychological abuse financial or economic abuse (such as denying or limiting access to financial resources) psychological abuse of a child. Back to top

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8. Duty-Lawyer-Policy-v-2-v2.16.pdf [pdf, 424 KB]

   ...category 22 matter unless: a. there is a statutory onus on a defendant to satisfy a Judge that bail should be granted or b. further enquiries are required on a matter determinative of a grant of bail by the Court, and those enquiries are beyond the resources of the duty lawyers. (Duty lawyers are reminded they must make reasonable enquiries to assist defendants to confirm details, such as address or employment information) or c. the defendant is under an order made pursuant to the Men...

9. NZCVS Core Report Cycle 1 (2018) [pdf, 3.4 MB]

   ...Victims Survey. Wellington: Ministry of Justice. https://www.justice.govt.nz/assets/Documents/Publications/NZCVS-A4-KeyFindings-2018-fin-v1.1.pdf This document is available at https://www.justice.govt.nz/justice-sector-policy/research- data/nzcvs/resources-and-results/ Crown copyright © 2019 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 New Zealand licence. You are free to copy, distribute, and adapt the work, as long as you attribute the work to New Zealan...

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