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In New Zealand, a Crown prosecutor is a private lawyer appointed to prosecute indictable offences on behalf of the Crown. Unique for western democracies, New Zealand is the only country to outsource prosecution of serious crimes to the private sector.
The Crown Law Office (Crown Law; Māori: Te Tari Ture o te Karauna) is the public service department charged with advising the New Zealand Government on legal affairs, representing the government in appellate cases, and overseeing the prosecution of criminal offences before the courts.
The Solicitor-General is the second law officer of state in New Zealand. The Solicitor-General is also the chief executive of the Crown Law Office, that comprises lawyers employed to represent the Attorney-General in court proceedings in New Zealand. [1] The current Solicitor-General is Una Jagose.
Born in 1945, McAuslan was admitted to the bar in 1986. [1] She was a senior Crown prosecutor in the Crown Solicitor's Office in Auckland in the early 1990s. [2] She was a team leader in the New Zealand Law Society's litigation skills programme, and in 1991 and 1992, was an examiner at the University of Auckland for overseas lawyers wanting to qualify to practise in New Zealand.
The Attorney-General (Māori: Rōia Matua) [2] is a political and legal officer in New Zealand. The Attorney-General is simultaneously a ministerial position and the chief law officer of the Crown, and has responsibility for supervising New Zealand law and advising the government on legal matters.
Tourists received no health and safety warnings before they landed on New Zealand’s most active volcano ahead of a 2019 eruption that killed 22 people, a prosecutor said Tuesday. There were 47 ...
From 2001 he worked as a commercial law lecturer at the National University of Samoa before moving to New Zealand to work as a Crown Prosecutor. [2] He was later a solicitor with the New Zealand Ministry of Justice's Public Defence Service. [3] For two terms he was president of New Zealand's Pacific Law Association. [3]
Why are Moari seeking the Crown’s intervention? New Zealand’s Act Party’s flagship bill – the Treaty Principles Bill – aims to replace the well-established Treaty of Waitangi with its ...