27 October 2022
Maketu
By email: [FYI request #20711 email]
Dear Maketu
Official information request for digital copies of the Auckland Crown Solicitors’
warrants
Our Ref: OIA353/1
1.
I refer to your official information request dated 30 September 2022 for “digital
copies of the Crown Solicitor's Warrants issued since 1922 to the law firm
Meredith Connell for the Auckland region.”
2.
A copy of the warrant for Brian Dicky, appointed in 2015, is
enclosed.
3.
No warrant of appointment was issued to Christine Gordon, Interim Crown
Solicitor, in 2014 and at the time of the appointment of the previous Crown
Solicitor for Auckland in 1994, Crown Law did not maintain electronic or other
copies of the warrants of appointment.
4.
We therefore refuse your request in part, on the basis that the information
requested is not held by Crown Law.
5.
To the extent it may be helpful, we set out below a list of the various warrant
holders for the Auckland region from 1921 to date, along with the various New
Zealand Gazette publication references.
Region
Date of Appointment
Gazette Reference
Vincent Robert Sissons
18 January 1921
6
New Zealand Gazette 147
Meredith
Vincent Noel Hubble
24 July 1935
54
New Zealand Gazette 2037
Guy Sissons Robert
19 December 1951
1
New Zealand Gazette 1
Meredith
Graham Davies Speight
14 June 1960
37
New Zealand Gazette 789
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Region
Date of Appointment
Gazette Reference
David Stuart Morris
25 January 1967
4
New Zealand Gazette 101
Simon J Eisdell Moore
22 June 1994
65
New Zealand Gazette 2121
Christine Gordon
14 March—31 October 2014 N/A
(Interim Crown Solicitor)
Brian Dickey
11 May 2015
New Zealand Gazette, No. 47
— 7 May 2015 (notice
number 2015-go2639)
6.
Gazettes
for
New
Zealand
prior
to
1993
can
be
found
at
http://www.nzlii.org/nz/other/nz_gazette/ and from 1993 onwards are available
at
https://gazette.govt.nz/find-a-notice/.
Proactive release
7.
Please note that we may publish this response (with your personal details
redacted), and any related documents, on Crown Law’s website if we decide
proactive release of this information is or may be in the public interest. If you
have any concerns about this, please let us know within 10 working days of the
date of this letter.
8.
You have the right to seek an investigation and review by the Ombudsman of this
decision. Information about how to make a complaint is available at
www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or freephone 0800 802 602.
9.
If you wish to discuss this decision with us, please feel free to contact us at
[email address].
Yours faithfully
Crown Law
Philip Coffey
Manager
Public Prosecutions Unit
Encl
Warrant of appointment – Brian Dickey, Auckland Crown Solicitor
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