Admissibility of previous convictions

Status: Completed

Ministerial Briefing

Monitoring of the Evidence Act 2006 (NZLC MB1, 2010)

In our report Disclosure to Court of Defendants' Previous Convictions, Similar Offending and Bad Character (R103, 2008), we recommended that we should monitor the operation of sections 37 to 43 of the Evidence Act 2006 (the veracity and propensity provisions) and provide advice to the Government in early 2010.

In April 2010, we provided a Ministerial Briefing, Monitoring of the Evidence Act 2006 (NZLC MB1, 2010), to the then Minister of Justice concerning the operation of these sections.

Status: Completed

Related documents

Monitoring of the Evidence Act 2006 (NZLC MB1)

Published: 1 April 2010

NZLC Ministerial Briefing MB1 pdf file (1.2 MB)