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Are you worried about the health and wellbeing of your whānau while you are on remand or sentenced? Te Pā can offer you support during this time.
Out of Gate is a service designed to support individuals transition from prison into the community. The service starts with an Out of Gate worker working with you to assess your needs and to develop a reintegration ...
Congratulations on your appointments. I am sure you all know what a privilege it is be appointed. While being a judge has its moments, some of which I will describe, I have just about always found it enjoyable.
Lawyers are talking-up the benefits technology and innovation but is much actual disruption happening within the profession?
“Getting tough on crime” was a central part of the government’s election campaign, winning it scores of votes during what appeared to be an unending crime wave.
Rene Francis Thomas was found guilty after a trial by jury of seven charges, including sexual violation by unlawful sexual connection and strangulation of his cellmate at Wiri prison. The offending occurred over ...
Silvana Wirepa successfully applied for an order for the sale of land under s 339 of the Property Law Act (the Act). The order was made after a formal proof hearing.
In 1994, Michael Bowen (then known as Michael Craig Gosnell) was convicted of unlawful sexual connection and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. The appellant changed his surname from Gosnell to Bowen in 2010. At ...
Team Group Realty Ltd operates the Harcourts real estate franchise in the Paremata and Porirua areas of greater Wellington (Harcourts). Tony Fitzsimons was employed as its sales manager. Tanya Davis, Holly ...
In November 2020, Newsroom published a video documentary (and associated online articles) focusing on Oranga Tamariki’s implementation of a practice known as “reverse uplifts”.
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner has made three changes to a draft code of practice to regulate the “growing and diversifying” use of biometrics, including a proposal that organisations try to get people’s ...
I’d like to think people will see The Law Association as very much a key part of the development of the success of their business, engaging with all stakeholders, from government officials and ministers and the ...
The most striking aspect of the crisis engulfing the news media is its victim’s inability to grasp what’s happening. So preoccupied has the journalistic profession become with its own precarity that it has failed ...
MG appeared in the District Court of Auckland on one charge of common assault. The assault took place during an event at Albert Park called “Let Women Speak” on 25 March 2025, which included Posie Parker as a ...
Kea’s opposition to Wikeley’s application for leave to appeal an interlocutory judgment on jurisdiction to the Court of Appeal and its application to adduce further evidence were successful.
Koro Putua, who had been sentenced to 4.5 years’ jail for a variety of offences, was wrongly imprisoned for an extra 33 days due to an error by the deputy registrar in his committal warrant.
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