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The Inquiry will investigate abuse in State and faith-based disability care settings in New Zealand. This investigation will examine the care of disabled people in settings such as psychopaedic hospitals and facilities, psychiatric institutions and

The inquiry faces the complex and difficult task of estimating the numbers of people who have been in care in the numerous settings in the terms of reference. The relevant time period spans a broad swathe of the country’s history from 1950s

Distressing content warning. Brett Dooley, Group Manager, National Service Delivery and Legal Services Commissioner at the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) provided the primary evidence, which covers general principles of legal aid and the history of legal

On 25 November 2020 the Abuse in Care Royal Commission of Inquiry released its decisions relating to applications made at the 20 November Procedural hearing. On 2 March 2021 the Commission released its embargoed Reasons Decision which was made on 24

The Inquiry’s Pacific investigation will examine issues that are particularly relevant to the experiences of abuse of Pacific people across all State and faith-based care settings included in the Terms of Reference, and will work alongside the

Commissioners in Tii Tu Tahi, hearing space in Auckland. Moving testimony as State Redress Hearing underway. Survivor stories were to the fore at the first of two State Redress hearings held at our Tāmaki Makaurau office from 21 September to 2

The Inquiry will investigate the abuse of children, young persons and vulnerable adults in the care of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa New Zealand, and its subsidiaries and affiliated entities and institutions (the Anglican Church). The Inquiry will

Distressing content warning. Frances gave evidence about the sexual and emotional abuse she experienced in the early 1970s when she was a primary school student. The abuser was a Marist Brother who taught at the nearby Marist Brothers intermediate

Distressing content warning. Una Jagose QC, who previously held roles within the Crown Law Office (CLO) since 2002 until her appointment as Solicitor-General in February 2016, gave evidence about CLO’s involvement in historic claims and the