Author: Legal Aid Review
Title: Transforming the Legal Aid System: Final Report and Recommendations
Summary: The legal aid system is essential to the operation of the New Zealand justice system: its effect extends beyond the individual who is represented by a legal aid lawyer. The legal aid system's operation can help the courts run smoothly, or it can bring the court system to a halt. The range and mix of services, and delivery method, can help people to resolve their problems, or can perpetuate social exclusion. The report found that the New Zealand legal aid system needs to be transformed for it to become more effective. While the legal aid system cannot control externally driven demand, it can control its own efficiency and effectiveness. Currently, the legal aid system faces a number of issues, which are acting together to cause system wide failures.
Details: Wellington, NZ: Ministry of Justice, 2009. 120p.
Source:
Year: 2009
Country: New Zealand
URL:
Shelf Number: 117564
Keywords:
Courts (New Zealand)Lawyers (New Zealand)Legal Aid (New Zealand) |
Author: Knaggs, Trish
Title: The Manukau Family Violence Court: An Evaluation of the Family Violence Court Process
Summary: The family violence courts in New Zealand are a judicial initiative. The Manukau Family Violence Court, the focus of this evaluation, was established to address systemic delays in responding to family violence occurring in the Manukau District Court. This evaluation sought to identify aspects of this court process which were working well and those which required improvement, as well as to consider the extent to which the Manukau Family Violence Court was meeting its objectives.
Details: Wellington, NZ: New Zealand Ministry of Justice, 2008. 110p.
Source: Internet Resource
Year: 2008
Country: New Zealand
URL:
Shelf Number: 118541
Keywords:
Courts (New Zealand)Domestic ViolenceFamily Violence Courts (New Zealand) |
