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Survivors Of Abuse In State Care Question Settlement Process In Court
Monday, 21 August 2023, 10:03 am | Cooper Legal
Four survivors of serious abuse while in the care of the State have filed legal proceedings in the High Court against the Attorney-General asking the Court to declare whether a new settlement framework fulfils the Crown’s redress obligations. The ... More >>
Royal Commission Of Inquiry Into Abuse In Care Report Offers Vindication And Hope For Survivors
Wednesday, 15 December 2021, 12:45 pm | Cooper Legal
1. Cooper Legal welcomes the interim report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care, which was released today. He Purapura Ora, he Māra Tipu – From Redress to Puretumu Torowhānui vindicates the complaints by survivors about the ... More >>
Inspectorate Report: Humiliation And Degradation Of Women Prisoners
Thursday, 28 October 2021, 11:10 am | Cooper Legal
The Prison Inspectorate has issued its Special Investigation: Report into the Management of Three Wāhine at Auckland Region Women’s Corrections Facility [ARWCF]. The investigation was triggered by a complaint on behalf of three of our clients who were being held ... More >>
Historic Claims Process is Unfair, Flawed And Underfunded
Thursday, 7 May 2015, 11:04 am | Cooper Legal
Cooper Legal, a law firm representing over 600 people abused as children in Social Welfare and CYFS care, is dismayed at Minister Tolley’s unexpected announcement of a “fast track” system to deal with historic abuse claims. The firm’s principal, ... More >>
New Zealand Historic Claims Stagnating
Monday, 9 February 2015, 3:39 pm | Cooper Legal
Cooper Legal, a law firm representing hundreds of people abused as children in Social Welfare care, congratulates Dame Lowell Goddard on her appointment to head the United Kingdom Inquiry into claims of child abuse in State and Church-run institutions. More >>
Follow-up to 60 Minutes abuse story
Thursday, 23 July 2009, 9:54 am | Cooper Legal
On Monday 20 July 2009, 60 Minutes aired a 20 minute segment about the claims being taken by this firm against the Department of Social Welfare. This was also prefaced by a brief segment on the 6pm news on TV3. A number of media organisations have recently ... More >>
UN Committee Against Torture Observations on NZ
Wednesday, 20 May 2009, 3:47 pm | Cooper Legal
The United Nations Committee Against Torture today released its concluding observations in consideration of New Zealand’s fifth periodic report to the Committee. The Committee expressed a number of concerns and issued wide-ranging recommendations regarding ... More >>
