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29 June 2022
Jonathan Bell
[email address]. nz
Our ref: OIA 96434
Tena koe Jonathan
Official Information Act 1982 request: Title of the Christchurch District and High Court
Thank you for your email of 30 May 2022 to the Ministry of Justice {the Ministry), requesting,
under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act), information regarding the title of the
Christchurch District and High Court. Specifically, you requested:
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1: Supplying-Of-The-Details with the CORRECT-TITLE: COURT-OF-THE
CHRISTCHURCH-REGION/CHRISTCHURCH-REGIONAL-COURT:
~2: CONFIRMING with the NEW-CORRECT-TITLE-NAME: OTAUTAHl-[D/]STRICT
COURT or with the NEW-CORRECT-TITLE-NAME: CHRISTCHURCH-1-OTAUTAHl
[Dl]STRICT-COURT:
~3: DA TE with the change of the TITLE: CHRISTCHURCH-[Dl]STRICT-COURT:
~4: REASON with this change of the TITLE: CHRISTCHURCH-[Dl]STRICT-COURT
UNDER THE [OF]FICIAL-[IN]FORMA TION-LAWS-OF-NEW-ZEALAND-~1982 by the
[OF]FICE OF THE OIA: MINISTRY-OF-JUSTICE/COURTS-OF-NEW-ZEALAND.
: PROOF-OF-THE-FACTSl[E]VIDENCE of this change of business are with the
performance of the location:
I have interpreted your request to be asking for details regarding a change in name for the
Christchurch District and High Court.
I can confirm that the official name of the building you are referring to is the Christchurch
District and High Court. The Christchurch District Court and High Court are based in the
building known as the Christchurch Justice and Emergency Services Precinct. The precinct
as a whole has the gifted title of Te Omeka. The reference to Otautahi is not included in the
official title of the building.
I am advised that the name of the Christchurch District and High Court has not been
changed.