The District Court judgments of public interest published on this site are moving. To create a more user friendly and complete knowledge base all new published judgments are being moved onto the Judicial Decisions Online (JDO) database.(external link)
Historic Youth Court and Civil Court judgments will remain on this site until this transition is complete while selected new Criminal and Family Court judgments will be published on JDO.
Decisions are also available on the New Zealand Legal Information Institute(external link) website:
District Court Civil and Criminal decisions(external link)
Family Court decisions(external link)
Youth Court decisions(external link)
See also How to find a Court or Tribunal decision(external link)
Note: Judgments in this database may have been anonymised — real names are replaced with pseudonyms and, where it is appropriate by editing and removing information that would allow the protected parties to be identified. Subject to limited exceptions, persons wishing to report/republish Youth Court decisions published on this website will need the leave of the court which heard the proceedings to do so. For more details see About Judgments.
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