The New Zealand Justice Forum aims to pool the collective experiences of our citizens, lawyers, and academics in order to discuss the many defects that weaken the integrity of the legal system.
Men's rights campaigners claim they've been silenced by a government select committee reviewing controversial planned changes to the Family Court. Wellington psychologist Craig
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Ministry of Justice staff insisted everything was fine and morale was high within the Family Court in Auckland, even as judges and lawyers described a system in chaos, official papers show.
The Sunday Star-Times revealed in August how a new centralised processing system for the courts in
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Paula Bennett's action plan to rescue vulnerable children has been dismissed as "an exercise in window dressing" with almost $400,000 spent on consultants.
Documents reveal the majority of the cash went on advertising, marketing and "community engagement" consultants.
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Judith Collins' announcement today that the legislation restricting access to the Family Court has raised concerns that it has been timed to avoid proper parliamentary scrutiny, Labour’s Charles Chauvel says.
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The Government's Family Court reforms have missed a golden opportunity to fix New Zealand's broken family law. The reforms make only narrow administrative changes, leaving us stuck with an outdated model that encourages separating parents
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Child Youth and Family - the New Zealand Government department charged with the care and protection of children - has revealed it paid out $4.084 million to 198 children abused while in its care.
Financial abuse of the elderly in Nelson is widespread, with family members the most common perpetrators, Age Concern says. Jess Breeze, of Age Concern, said the organisation saw four or five new cases of elder abuse each week, and about half of them
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A 19-year-old woman charged with the murder of her partner and father of her child can now be named.Rikki-Lee Te Mauriora Simeon's suppression order lapsed
The founder of a child abuse prevention group who put a curse on the family of a police complainant in a Facebook post and stole from a charitable group
Specialist drug and alcohol courts in Auckland will be made permanent and a new one will be opened in Hamilton, Justice Minister Andrew Little has announced
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A 19-year-old woman charged with the murder of her partner and father of her child can now be named.Rikki-Lee Te Mauriora Simeon's suppression order lapsed
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