Hi Sam

Thanks for your email. To save the time of a formal response, I can provide some information that might assist answer your questions.

(1) It was not clear from your request if you were wanting information about charges that were withdrawn by the Police before a person appears in court. If it was, you need to approach the Police as the Case Management System, which the Ministry of Justice manages on behalf of the courts and judiciary, does not hold this information.

(2) For charges that are laid in the courts, this information is already publicly available on the Statistics New Zealand website here: http://www.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stat...

The website allows you to drill right down to the offence of "Exceeding the prescribed content of alcohol or other substance limit." (There are a few "drug driving" offences in here, but it is a very, very small proportion). This data shows all the outcomes including whether a charge resulted in a conviction or a discharge, dismissed, acquitted and of interest to you, whether the charge was withdrawn, as well as a host of other outcomes. There is a description of what each of these outcomes means and how they are grouped together here: http://www.stats.govt.nz/tools_and_servi...

To save you some time, I have downloaded the financial year data since 1980/81 and it is attached as an Excel Spreadsheet. Under a formal request, our stats team would refer you to the same information.

(3) You have also asked for "all relevant documents and statistics for drink driving cases that have been dropped for any reason between 2010 and today." While I've answered the statistics question, the documents associated with individual charges form part of the court record. This is judicial information and is not subject to the Official Information Act under section 2(6)(a) and (b) and we would have to decline that aspect of your request. If there is a specific case you are interested in, you need to approach the relevant court and make a request to search the court record. The contact details for all courts are available here: http://courtsofnz.govt.nz/utilities/cont...

Can you advise that we've answered your questions and can close off this request?

Regards

Antony Paltridge
Team Leader (Media and External Relations) | Communication Services
Ministry of Justice
DDI: +64 4 918 8980
www.justice.govt.nz

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From: sam [mailto:[OIA #2234 email]]
Sent: Tuesday, 2 December 2014 8:45 a.m.
To: Reception, CF
Subject: Official Information Act request - Discarded Drink driving convictions

Dear Ministry of Justice,

I am an advocate for positive community drink driving reform and would like to see all relevant documents and statistics for drink driving cases that have been dropped for any reason between 2010 and today.

Thank you for reading and I look forward to your response.

Yours faithfully,
Sam Johnston.

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Hi Sam

Thanks for your email. I acknowledge receipt of your request.

Regards

Antony Paltridge
Team Leader (Media and External Relations) | Communication Services
Ministry of Justice
DDI: +64 4 918 8980 | Ext 58980 | Mob +64 27 689 0667
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-----Original Message-----
From: sam [mailto:[OIA #2234 email]]
Sent: Saturday, 7 February 2015 10:11 a.m.
To: Paltridge, Antony
Subject: Re: Official Information Act request - Discarded drink driving convictions

Dear Paltridge, Antony,

As per my initial request could you please get back to me regarding this matter.

To be more specific I would like to have information on discarded Driving under the influence charges dropped due to hardship for travelling required for careers/Charitable work.

Yours sincerely,

sam

-----Original Message-----

Hi Sam

Thanks for your email. To save the time of a formal response, I can provide some information that might assist answer your questions.

(1) It was not clear from your request if you were wanting information about charges that were withdrawn by the Police before a person appears in court. If it was, you need to approach the Police as the Case Management System, which the Ministry of Justice manages on behalf of the courts and judiciary, does not hold this information.

(2) For charges that are laid in the courts, this information is already publicly available on the Statistics New Zealand website here: http://www.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stat...

The website allows you to drill right down to the offence of "Exceeding the prescribed content of alcohol or other substance limit." (There are a few "drug driving" offences in here, but it is a very, very small proportion). This data shows all the outcomes including whether a charge resulted in a conviction or a discharge, dismissed, acquitted and of interest to you, whether the charge was withdrawn, as well as a host of other outcomes. There is a description of what each of these outcomes means and how they are grouped together here: http://www.stats.govt.nz/tools_and_servi...

To save you some time, I have downloaded the financial year data since 1980/81 and it is attached as an Excel Spreadsheet. Under a formal request, our stats team would refer you to the same information.

(3) You have also asked for "all relevant documents and statistics for drink driving cases that have been dropped for any reason between 2010 and today." While I've answered the statistics question, the documents associated with individual charges form part of the court record. This is judicial information and is not subject to the Official Information Act under section 2(6)(a) and (b) and we would have to decline that aspect of your request. If there is a specific case you are interested in, you need to approach the relevant court and make a request to search the court record. The contact details for all courts are available here: http://courtsofnz.govt.nz/utilities/cont...

Can you advise that we've answered your questions and can close off this request?

Regards

Antony Paltridge
Team Leader (Media and External Relations) | Communication Services Ministry of Justice
DDI: +64 4 918 8980
www.justice.govt.nz

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Hi Sam

 

Please find attached a response to your Official Information Act request.

 

Regards

 

Antony

 

 

   

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Team Leader (Media and
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