Kia ora Henricus,

Thank you for your email received 4th November 2024, in which you submitted an Official Information Act request as follows:

Part A:

1. What is the name of the public service agency you have designated as responsible for maintaining the special advocate panel under s 16 of the SIPA?
2. What is the name of the public service agency you have designated as responsible for meeting the costs of special advocates and special advisers under ss 24 and 27 of the SIPA?

Part B:

In this request, “special advocate” means a lawyer who is a member of the special advocate panel.

1. Please provide a list of special advocates and date they were first appointed to the panel.
2. How many special adovcates currently sit on the special advocate panel?
3. How many special advocates are men?
4. How many special advocates are King’s Counsel?
5. What is the median post-qualification experience of special advocates?

Questions 2–5 may be answered implicitly through the answering of Question 1.

6. Please provide any policies, application forms (unfilled), questionnaires (unfilled), selection criteria, agreements, memoranda, details of how potential candidates for appointment are identified or discovered, or other documents used in the appointment process and administration of the special advocate panel.
7. What is (are) the current remuneration rate(s), if any, agreed between the designated agency and special advocates?
8. How many proceedings have special advocates been appointed in since the commencement of the SIPA?
9. Do special adovcates maintain a security clearance independently of their appointment to the special advocate panel (e.g. as a result of other government legal work), or is the designated agency the sponsoring/granting agency of special advocates’ security clearances?

Your request is being considered in accordance with the Act, and you can expect a response by 2nd December 2024 (date determined by the OIA calculator).

Ngā mihi nui

Sonya Ford
Correspondence Lead Advisor | Office of Rt Hon Christopher Luxon
Prime Minister
Minister for National Security and Intelligence
Minister Responsible for Ministerial Services

Private Bag 18041, Parliament Buildings, Wellington 6160, New Zealand

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Tēnā koe Henricus,

 

The Ministry of Justice (the Ministry) acknowledges receipt of your
request under the Official Information Act 1982 regarding Security
Information in Proceedings Act 2022. This was transferred from the Office
of Rt Hon Christopher Luxon to the Ministry on 13 November 2024.

 

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

 

The Ministry may publish the response to your request on our website, you
can expect that if your OIA is to be published that this will take place
at least 10 working days after it has been sent you. Your name and any
other personal information will be withheld under Section 9(2)(a) (protect
the privacy of natural persons). 

 

You can expect a response by 11/12/2024.

 

 

Ngā mihi

 

   

Communications and Ministerial Services |Corporate Services

Ministry of Justice | Tāhū o te Ture
DX Box SX 10088 | Wellington

[1]www.justice.govt.nz

 

 

 

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