Lawyers and Conveyancers
The Register of Lawyers
The amendment to the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act (Lawyers: Practice Rules) Regulations 2008 aims to remove or omit a lawyer’s contact information from which database managed by the New Zealand Law Society?
Four Budget cycles
How many Budget cycles has the A2J team (/Anna Ferguson) tried to obtain funding for legal aid?
Transformational opportunity
What part of the Ministry of Justice strategy does the legal needs survey project/A2J workstream fit under?
What is the name given to parent(s) that commission a surrogacy arrangement and intend to have primary custody of the child post-birth.
Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006
Which piece of legislation regulates the services provided by lawyers?
Income and assets
What is the eligibility criteria for legal aid based on?
Justice Thomas and Sam Kunowski
Who are the co-chairs of the Access to Justice Advisory Group? [PREFERRED]
OR Who are the Chief High Court Judge and General Manager of CJSP?
April 2022
When is the Law Commission due to release their final report on surrogacy law reform?
Jacqueline Lethbridge
Who is the incoming president of the New Zealand Law Society?
Tracey Baguley
Who is the current Legal Services Commissioner?
MBIE
Who are our collaborators on the legal needs survey? [PREFFERED]
OR Who has provided $200,000 funding for the legal needs survey?
OR Who is interested in small business legal needs?
ECART
What is the acronym of the Ethics Committee on Assisted Reproductive Technology (ECART)?
2018 media scandal
What event sparked the complaints amendments to the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act?
Community Law Canterbury
Which community law centre has expertise in insurance law?
March 2020 workshop
What workshop sparked the origin of the Access to Justice Workstream (legal needs survey, wayfinding for civil justice)? [PREFERRED]
OR What had the potential to become the Access to Justice superspreader event?
The Verona Principles
What is the name of the set of principles for the protection of the rights of children through surrogacy published by the International Social Service in 2021
Professor Ron Paterson
Who was recently appointed as Chairperson of the Independent Review Panel?
Nicola Wilks
Which member of the A2J team worked on the project to merge the Legal Services Agency into the Ministry of Justice in 2011?
Wayfinding for Civil Justice
What is the name of the national strategic framework to better coordinate civil access to justice across the sector? [PREFERRED]
OR What draft national strategic framework goes live this Friday 1 April?
32,239
In 2019, how many signatures were presented to Parliament calling for changes to Aotearoa NZs surrogacy and adoption laws? (Petition of Christian John Newman “Update the Adoption Act 1955 to simplify and speed up the process for adoption