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Sentencing Establishment Unit
The Sentencing Establishment Unit, located within the Commission,
has completed a package of 59 draft sentencing and parole guidelines
for consideration by the Sentencing Council. The Commissionfs
recommendation to establish a Council, in Sentencing Guidelines and
Parole Reform
NZLC R94 (2006) was accepted
was established by the Sentencing Council Act 2007. The members of
the Council have not yet been appointed.
Timeliness
The Commission is committed to completing its work within the
timeframes specified in the annual work programme, as agreed with
the Responsible Minister (RM) at the start of the financial year.
Inevitably as work progresses through the year, circumstances will
dictate the need to modify original dates and deadlines. This has been
the case in the year under review, as significant projects were added to
the Commissionfs programme subsequent to those originally agreed with
the RM at 1 July 2007. This additional work caused some slippage in
project milestones through the year. Most of the projects added to
the work programme after 1 July 2007 appear in Table One above,
as work in progress at year end.
Table five: WORK PROGRAMME PROJECT STATUS REPORT
W ORK
P
ROGRAMME
P
ROJECTS
AS
AT
1 J
ULY
2007/2008
N ATURE
OF WORK
SOI
DUE
DATE
S
TATUS
AT
30 J
UNE
2008
Presentation of
New Zealand Statutes
Issues Paper (IP)
Quarter (Q) 1 IP published Q1
Review of the law relating
to public inquiries
Final Report (FR) Q2
FR published Q4
Review of the
law of privacy
P1
Privacy Values
Study Paper (SP)
P2
Public Registers
IP & FR
Q2
IP Q1
FR Q2
P1
Miscellaneous
Paper published Q2
SP published Q3
P2
IP published Q1
FR published Q3
Unified tribunals
framework
IP
Q2
IP published Q2
Admissibility of previous
convictions
FR
Q3
FR published Q4
