Clarification of numbers of duty lawyers
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From: I Brown
Dear Ministry of Justice,
This is intended to make an official information request of the information sought prior to Christmas that I do not seem to have yet received a response to.
1. Pursuant to the information received in OIA request OIA100591, I note that the response to question 5 appears to be incomplete. Table 1 of Appendix B only gives the number of PDS lawyers rostered for PDS courts. My question asked for "How many providers are on each individual roster", which means that for a PDS supervised court, the count should include both PDS and non-PDS duty lawyers on that court roster. Please provide that information.
2. I am also curious how the numbers at Table 2 of Appendix B in OIA100591 were arrived at. I have compared the answers with duty lawyer rosters as displayed on the MOJ website. Just working alphabetically and taking the first few, I note that, by way of example:
Ashburton is said to have eight duty lawyers on the roster but the roster that is shown for that court online has only three.
Blenheim is said to seven duty lawyers but the roster only has six.
Dannevirke is said to have three duty lawyers but the roster for that court has four.
Dargaville is said to have seven duty lawyers but the roster for that court only has five.
Gore is said to have seven duty lawyers but the roster only has five.
Westport is said to have four duty lawyers but the roster only has two.
Masterton is said to have ten duty lawyers but the roster only has six.
Please provide clarification in relation to the above, not limited to each court mebntioned above, but in relation to all non-PDS courts where there is a difference in numbers between those on the published roster as at 17 November 2022 and the numbers provided by you.
3. Please provide a copy of all internal and external correspondence in relation to OIA100591, including but not limited to any correspondence or advice to ministers.
Yours faithfully,
I Brown
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