Update from Ministry of Justice

The Ministry of Justice reports that Interim arrangements are in place to hold District Court services essential to support law and order. These include arrest courts, remand appearances, urgent Family Court applications and bail matters.

All non essential High Court matters set down for this week and next week will be adjourned. Arrangements are being made for dealing with essential High Court matters. These include Bail applications, bail appeals, Habeaus Corpus, urgent judicial reviews, applications for urgent relief, and criminal appeals (where the appellant is subject to a term of imprisonment or home detention). Until further notice applications for any High Court matters may be lodged in the Wellington registry of the High Court. Postal or electronic filing will be accepted. (Source: Email communication from Ministry of Justice to New Zealand Law Society).

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