Justice System Improvements
The Ministry of Justice is tasked with developing and delivering an effective justice system that is accessible and cost-effective for New Zealanders.
To achieve this, the Ministry ensures that justice sector agencies collectively plan their interventions, expenditure and services to increase their effectiveness.
Legislative changes have allowed for new tools and approaches, including a range of changes to improve the functioning and efficiency of court processes.
The Ministry is also focused on improving the way it works, its capability and systems and technology, so it can do its job more effectively and help the sector to meet current and future challenges.
In this section
- Criminal Procedure Simplification Project: Reform to ensure criminal processes are efficient, simple and accessible
- Legal aid: Improvements to the legal aid system and changes for 2011
- Review of Prosecution Services: Review to consider
how system can best be structured to deliver cost-effective and sustainable legal services.
- Family Court Review: Public consultation on systems improvements
- Child Witnesses in the Criminal Courts: Reforms to improve the way child witnesses are treated in the criminal justice system
