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The Ministry of Justice holds a wide range of information that we can
provide to you.  If you would like to see more about how we can help you
please see our [2]Official Information Act Requests page.

Please note that the Ministry of Justice can't give legal advice. For
legal advice, you should contact a lawyer, Community Law or Citizens’
Advice Bureau.

If you are requesting information held by the courts, such as sentencing
notes, court records or information about a case currently before the
court, the records of courts and tribunals are not subject to the Official
Information Act 1982. Access to these is subject to separate legislation
and [3]court rules and you will need to contact the relevant court
directly. The details for the courts can be found [4]here.

For information held by other agencies, such as the New Zealand Police,
check out the [5]Directory of Official Information to find out what
information each agency holds and their contact details.

Ngā mihi

Ministerial Relations and Services

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Kia ora Mr Gibson,

We acknowledge receipt of your request for data from our Official Information tracking system.

This has been forwarded onto the relevant business unit to respond to.

You can expect a response by 10 August 2020.

Regards
Official Correspondence
Strategy, Governance and Finance
DDI: +64 4 918 8800
www.justice.govt.nz

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Morena Mr Gibson

 

Thanks for your email of 13 July 2020 seeking, under the Official
Information Act 1982, data from the Ministry of Justice correspondence
database on requests we've handled under the OIA.  Specifically you
requested the title of each request, the date received and the date sent,
with the time limit being however long our database has been in existence.

 

A quick check of our database has identified almost 12,000 items going
back to 2006 that come within the scope of your request.  While we do not
have a "title" in our database for each request, there is a "subject"
line.  Many of these subject lines contain personal information which we
would withhold under section 9(2)(a) to protect the privacy of the people
concerned.  For example, requests for closed coronial files are handled
under the OIA and so a typical subject line will say, for example:
"Requester is seeking the coronial file of their father, Joe Bloggs."
Going through 12,000 items will be very time consuming and we may need to
extend the time line to complete the request.

 

We wondered if we could rescope your request? Two options are available,
in an excel spreadsheet:

 

* We provide you with our ID number for each completed Ministry OIA
request, the date received, and the date sent; or

* We provide you with five years' worth of data of completed Ministry OIA
requests showing the subject line, date received and date sent.

 

The first option could be turned around reasonably quickly as we would not
need to do any privacy assessment of the data.  The second will take a bit
of time, but we should be able to complete within 20 working days.

 

We look forward to response.

 

Nga mihi

 

 

[1]Description: Description: Description: Ariana Kauri
http://justice.govt.nz/courts/shared/jus...
Media Advisor | Communications
Services
Ministry of Justice | Tāhū o te
Ture
P DDI 04 466 2943 | Ext 40343
[2][email address]
| [3]justice.govt.nz

 

 

 

 

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Hi Mr Gibson,

 

Please find attached an extension letter for your OIA.

 

Kind regards, Jerram

 

   

   

[1]Description: Description: Description: Jerram Watts
Description: Acting Media Manager |
http://justice.govt.nz/courts/shared/jus... Communications Services
Ministry of Justice |
Tāhū o te Ture
M 027 291 3518 P 04 918
8980 | Ext 58980
[2][email address]
| [3]justice.govt.nz

 

 

 

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Kia ora Mr Gibson

 

Please see attached the response to your Official Information Act request
for information from the Ministry of Justice correspondence database
related to requests under the Act.

 

Kind regards

Ariana

[1]Description: Description: Description: Ariana Kauri
http://justice.govt.nz/courts/shared/jus...
Media Advisor | Communications
Services
Ministry of Justice | Tāhū o te
Ture
P 04 918 8836
[2][email address]
| [3]justice.govt.nz

 

 

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