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Congratulations on accessing your essential resource guide to navigate District [civil & criminal] Court and Family Court! In addition you also have access to our Blog “Is It PC” with gated content exclusive to our members!
What You Need To Know:
Realistically this is what you can expect:A lot of the time you will feel confused, frustrated, extremely stressed and a sense of “going around in circles” literally spending hours, if not days looking for something or someone that you need to be able to move forward, with everyone telling you to go somewhere else.
This is a common strategy employed by the court staff and agents to wear people down so they burn out or “quit.”
That systemic abuse was a primary motivator for “Ponsonby Chambers” being founded to save that time and frustration with clear concise information and links for you in one place as a “hub of information” for quick reference to prevent that overwhelm and loss of hope.
You are not alone.
You do not need to be a lawyer or have a lawyer to have human rights. [They exist as a birth right.]You do not need to be legally represented to be successful in court.
*The Founder of Ponsonby Chambers has won 23 cases [1 at Family court in 2020, 4 at High Court in [2022] & [2023] and [2024] and 2 at the Court Of Appeal including a 17 case appeal in her favour as a self litigant [2023] NZCA15.
We know what is required to build a strong legal case and most importantly, we know the common delay tactics used to prevent people from filing their cases. Learn from our experience for your and your families best interests and a fairer fight in court.
NOTE: TAKE SOME TIME FAMILIARIZING YOURSELF WITH RELEVANT LEGISLATION TO KNOW YOUR RIGHTS TO AVOID BEING MISLEAD AND MISREPRESENTED!
The most important step is to know your rights with registry staff- they are the gate keepers of the court- YOU CAN [and must] review any decision they make to refuse to accept your documents for filing.]
Do your best to be polite and cooperative- if you have filed compliant documents and they are refusing to accept them- cite the legislation to review a registrars decision [often requiring a memorandum- you will find a template in the useful templates tab] For District court and Family Court proceedings this is found in: District Court Rules 2014.
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2.12 Review of Registrar’s decision
(1) An affected party to a proceeding or an intended proceeding may apply to a Judge by interlocutory application for a review of any of the following:
(a) a Registrar’s exercise of jurisdiction:(b) a Registrar’s refusal to file a document tendered for filing:(c) a Registrar’s refusal to perform a duty placed on him or her under these rules.
(2) The Judge may, on review, make any orders he or she thinks just.https://legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/2014/0179/latest/DLM4900607.htmlComplete whatever forms they stipulate to overcome any objection or further delays to have your applications provided to a Judge [provided they are compliant- every application MUST have a sworn/ affirmed affidavit and be considered- often applications require fee waivers of $220 payment and within a 2 year period a form G21 or interlocutory application “seeking leave of the court to accept for filing in the interests of justice, as per Care Of Child Act 2004, s139A”https://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2004/0090/latest/DLM6028038.htmlhttps://www.justice.govt.nz/assets/Documents/Forms/18102023-G21-general-interlocutory-without-notice.pdf
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