District Court of New Zealand

Criminal Procedure (Simplification) Project Testing in Manukau and Tauranga District Courts

The Criminal Procedure (Simplification) Project is designed to review, and implement improvements to criminal procedure in the summary and indictable jurisdictions. It is a joint project between the Ministry of Justice and the Law Commission.

The Ministry of Justice and the Law Commission are introducing changes to the Summary Court Process as part of the Project. Changes to summary court process will be tested from the 14 July 2008 in the Manukau and Tauranga District Courts. The purpose of these tests is to determine how best the changes proposed work in practice.

More information

• Background information on the testing of procedural changes (PDF 38KB)

• View pamphlets that outline the key changes to the procedures to be tested in Manukau (PDF 37KB) and Tauranga (PDF 37KB).

• Diagram summarising the procedural changes (PDF 52KB)

• Guidelines on Disclosure and Instructions (PDF 35 KB)

• Case Management Memorandum sample (MS Word 171 KB)

• Timeframes for filing the Case Management Memorandum (PDF 43KB) (PDF 44KB)