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-----Original Message-----
From: I Brown <[FOI #21242 email]>
Sent: Saturday, 26 November 2022 12:08 pm
To: [Ministry of Justice request email]
Subject: Official Information request - Prosecutor numbers

Dear Ministry of Justice,

Please provide the following information:

1. The number of lawyers classified as junior prosecutor by Crown Law as at 1 July for the years 2017-2020 2. The number of lawyers classified as intermediate prosecutor by Crown Law as at 1 July for the years 2017-2020.
3. The number of lawyers classified as senior prosecutor by Crown Law as at 1 July for the years 2017-2020.
4. The number of lawyers classified as principal prosecutor by Crown Law as at 1 July for the years 2017-2020.
5. Please provide the above information in two ways:
a) The numbers at each level for the whole of New Zealand; and
b) The numbers at each level working in each court cluster as defined by Legal Aid.

For the avoidance of doubt, the above is not intended to include any lawyers employed by the New Zealand Police Prosecution Service. Nor is it intended to include lawyers on a Crown Panel but who are not employed as prosecutors by a Crown Solicitor's office or a government department.

Yours faithfully,

I Brown

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Dear I Brown

We acknowledge receipt of your email of 26 November 2022 requesting information (transferred to Crown Law from the Ministry Justice on 2 December 2022).

Your email is being treated as a request for information under the Official Information Act 1982. In accordance with section 15 of the Official Information Act, a response to your request will be provided as soon as is reasonably practicable, and in any case within 20 working days of receipt of your request, i.e. by 20 January 2023.

Kind regards

Te Tari Ture o te Karauna Crown Law Office
19 Aitken Street | PO Box 2858 | Wellington 6011

-----Original Message-----
From: I Brown <[FOI #21242 email]>
Sent: Saturday, 26 November 2022 12:08 pm
To: [Ministry of Justice request email]
Subject: Official Information request - Prosecutor numbers

Dear Ministry of Justice,

Please provide the following information:

1. The number of lawyers classified as junior prosecutor by Crown Law as at 1 July for the years 2017-2020 2. The number of lawyers classified as intermediate prosecutor by Crown Law as at 1 July for the years 2017-2020.
3. The number of lawyers classified as senior prosecutor by Crown Law as at 1 July for the years 2017-2020.
4. The number of lawyers classified as principal prosecutor by Crown Law as at 1 July for the years 2017-2020.
5. Please provide the above information in two ways:
a) The numbers at each level for the whole of New Zealand; and
b) The numbers at each level working in each court cluster as defined by Legal Aid.

For the avoidance of doubt, the above is not intended to include any lawyers employed by the New Zealand Police Prosecution Service. Nor is it intended to include lawyers on a Crown Panel but who are not employed as prosecutors by a Crown Solicitor's office or a government department.

Yours faithfully,

I Brown

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Tēnā koe

 

Please see attached letter from Philip Coffey.

 

Ngā mihi

 

Public Prosecution Unit

 

Te Tari Ture o te Karauna Crown Law Office

19 Aitken Street | PO Box 2858 | Wellington 6011

 

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Tçnâ koe, please see attached updated letter.  There was a mistake in
paragraph 1 – the date has been amended from 26 October 2022 to 26
November 2022.

 

Ngâ mihi

Public Prosecution Unit

 

 

 

From: Public Prosecution Unit - Crown Law
Sent: Monday, 19 December 2022 11:12 am
To: [FOI #21242 email]
Subject: Response to OIA request - Prosecutors classifications and fees
[CLO-Docs.OIA353.1]

 

Tçnâ koe

 

Please see attached letter from Philip Coffey.

 

Ngâ mihi

 

Public Prosecution Unit

 

Te Tari Ture o te Karauna Crown Law Office

19 Aitken Street | PO Box 2858 | Wellington 6011

 

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Dear I Brown

We acknowledge receipt of your email of 22 December requesting information.

Your email is being treated as a request for information under the Official Information Act 1982/Privacy Act 2020.  In accordance with section 15 of the Official Information Act, a response to your request will be provided as soon as is reasonably practicable, and in any case within 20 working days of receipt of your request, i.e. 10 February 2023.

Kind regards

Te Tari Ture o te Karauna Crown Law Office
19 Aitken Street | PO Box 2858 | Wellington 6011

-----Original Message-----
From: I Brown <[FOI #21242 email]>
Sent: Thursday, 22 December 2022 12:26 pm
To: Public Prosecution Unit - Crown Law <[email address]>
Subject: Re: FW: Response to OIA request - Prosecutors classifications and fees [CLO-Docs.OIA353.1]

Dear Public Prosecution Unit - Crown Law,

Thank you for your reply, for which I am grateful. In reviewing the response, I note that the response relates to only Crown prosecutors. However, my request was for the overall number of lawyers classified at those levels, excluding PPS lawyers, not just for Crown prosecutors.

I understand that Crown Law also classifies departmental (and Police) prosecutors as well, in that departmental prosecutors send applications to Crown Law for determination of their classification as a prosecutor. If this is correct, I would be grateful if you could confirm whether my understanding is correct and if it is please provide the overall number of prosecutors according to those classifications, not just those working in Crown solicitor's offices.

Yours sincerely,

I Brown

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Tçnâ koe, please see attached updated letter.  There was a mistake in paragraph 1 – the date has been amended from 26 October 2022 to 26 November 2022.

 

Ngâ mihi

Public Prosecution Unit

 

 

 

From: Public Prosecution Unit - Crown Law
Sent: Monday, 19 December 2022 11:12 am
To: [FOI #21242 email]
Subject: Response to OIA request - Prosecutors classifications and fees [CLO-Docs.OIA353.1]

 

Tçnâ koe

 

Please see attached letter from Philip Coffey.

 

Ngâ mihi

 

Public Prosecution Unit

 

Te Tari Ture o te Karauna Crown Law Office

19 Aitken Street | PO Box 2858 | Wellington 6011

 

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Tēnā koe,

 

We are currently working on your request regarding classifications of
prosecutors at government agencies, however in the interim I wanted to
clarify why we have treated it as a new request.

 

Your original request of 26 November 2022 for the number of lawyers
classified as junior, intermediate, senior and principal was understood to
only be about Crown prosecutors as only Crown prosecutors have those
classifications. Additionally your other request of the same date also
sought information related to Crown Solicitors and Crown prosecutors, that
being the Crown Solicitors Terms of Office and Crown Solicitor fee
information. This further indicated the interest was in Crown prosecutors.

 

Prosecutors at government agencies are separate. While there is a
classification framework that applies to these prosecutors, it is
different to what the Crown prosecutors have. The framework we have for
prosecutors at government agencies sets the classifications as Level 1, 2
and 3. More detail about classifications data of agency prosecutors will
be provided in the full response in due course.

 

Ngā mihi

Philip Coffey

 

Manager

Public Prosecutions Unit

Te Tari Ture o te Karauna | Crown Law Office

19 Aitken Street | PO Box 2858 | Wellington 6011

 

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-----Original Message-----

From: I Brown <[2][FOI #21242 email]>

Sent: Wednesday, 11 January 2023 9:00 pm

To: OIA <[3][email address]>

Subject: Re: FW: Response to OIA request - Prosecutors classifications and
fees [CLO-Docs.OIA353.1]

 

Dear OIA,

 

Thank you for your reply.  Please note that this is not a new OIA request,
but rather I pointed out that I don't think that you have provided all of
the information requested in your answer.  I don't think that the 20
working days starts again, we are still under the old request.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

I Brown

 

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Dear I Brown

 

We acknowledge receipt of your email of 22 December requesting
information.

 

Your email is being treated as a request for information under the
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section 15 of the Official Information Act, a response to your request
will be provided as soon as is reasonably practicable, and in any case
within 20 working days of receipt of your request, i.e. 10 February 2023.

 

Kind regards

 

 

Te Tari Ture o te Karauna Crown Law Office

19 Aitken Street | PO Box 2858 | Wellington 6011

 

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Tēnā koe

 

Please see attached letter from Philip Coffey.

 

Ngā mihi

 

Public Prosecution Unit

 

Te Tari Ture o te Karauna Crown Law Office

19 Aitken Street | PO Box 2858 | Wellington 6011

 

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