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Lake Alice Payments Discriminatory
Wednesday, 18 December 2024, 5:25 pm | Cooper Legal
“While we applaud the Govt for trying to do the right thing for Lake Alice survivors & in recognising international recommendations, why is this Govt not doing right by all other survivors and recognising domestic recommendations?” Ms Cooper and ... More >>
Chief Ombudsman Highly Critical Of MSD's Historic Abuse Processes And Payments
Wednesday, 4 December 2024, 8:01 pm | Cooper Legal
“We raised this complaint in 2020 due to our concerns that the Ministry’s process was significantly flawed, and it is vindicating to have many of those concerns upheld after a lengthy investigation”, says Cooper Legal Principal Partner Sonja Cooper. More >>
Censorship Is Alive And Well In New Zealand
Friday, 15 November 2024, 3:45 pm | Cooper Legal
“What this looks like to us is censorship of anyone who tries to disagree with this Government, which causes a chilling effect” says Cooper Legal Senior Associate, Lydia Oosterhoff. More >>
Hollow Apology Fails To Resonate With Survivors
Tuesday, 12 November 2024, 3:52 pm | Cooper Legal
Today, the Government had an historic and monumental opportunity to start righting decades of wrongs against survivors. Unfortunately, the Government has yet again let down survivors who placed their trust in it. More >>
Disappointment As Government Lets Survivors Down Yet Again
Tuesday, 5 November 2024, 3:33 pm | Cooper Legal
“Our clients were both hopeful and naturally, very worried about what the Prime Minister will say next Tuesday. To hear this morning that the Government does not intend to make any announcements about redress is frankly frustrating and shows that ... More >>
Equity, Not Just Fairness, Required For Survivors Of Abuse In State Care
Monday, 4 November 2024, 3:59 pm | Cooper Legal
Cooper Legal’s Principal Partner, Sonja Cooper says that while the Government might say that paying Lake Alice survivors’ legal fees is the fair thing to do, the State is still not treating all survivors equitably. More >>
Crown Continues To Keep Abuse Files Secret In Breach Of High Court Declaration
Sunday, 15 September 2024, 12:33 am | Cooper Legal
Survivors and the High Court were right not to trust the Crown because now, even with a formal High Court declaration in place, MSD has told us that it will continue to withhold the documents because it needs time to ‘consider’ the decision. More >>
High Court Tells Government Not To Keep Documents Secret From Abuse Survivors
Wednesday, 21 August 2024, 9:26 am | Cooper Legal
Yesterday, the High Court told Government Departments that survivors of abuse in State care have the right to access information that the State holds about them. More >>
Government Fails To Recognise Parallels Between Whakapakari And Its Boot Camps
Friday, 26 July 2024, 12:06 pm | Cooper Legal
A law firm that specialises in working with survivors of abuse in State care is disappointed that the Government fails to recognise that its boot camps can be directly compared to previous boot camps from the 1990s and 2000s. More >>
Lawyers For Survivors Support Royal Commission’s Call For Urgent Action
Wednesday, 24 July 2024, 5:07 pm | Cooper Legal
Christopher Luxon and his Government have the opportunity to do what no Government has done to date and provide the redress and support for survivors that they are entitled to. More >>
Lawyers For Survivors Welcome The Royal Commission’s Final Report
Wednesday, 24 July 2024, 11:28 am | Cooper Legal
Cooper Legal celebrates and welcomes the tabling of the Royal Commission’s final report, Whanaketia – through pain and trauma, from darkness to light (“Whanaketia”), but also remembers those survivors who have died waiting for accountability. More >>
Law Firm Concerned About Cuts To Government Records Teams As MSD Settles Records Delays For $1.7million
Tuesday, 21 May 2024, 5:00 pm | Cooper Legal
A law firm that works with survivors of abuse in State care is concerned, but not surprised, by information that Oranga Tamariki and Te Rua Mahara o te Kawanatanga plan to cut roles at the agencies’ critical records units. More >>
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 >>
