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21 January 2026
David Farrar
[FYI request #33117 email]
Our ref: OIA 128374
Tēnā koe David
Official Information Act request: Criminal trial data
Thank you for your email of 3 December 2025 requesting information, under the Of icial
Information Act 1982 (the Act), regarding data of criminal trials in the period from 2015 to
2024. Specifically, you requested:
1) The number of criminal trials held each year, for the last 10 years
2) How many were in the District Court and the High Court
3) How many were judge alone and how many had a jury
On 11 December 2025, the Ministry of Justice (the Ministry), contacted you to clarify your
request under section 15 of the Act. On the same day, you confirmed that your request could
be clarified to the following:
Calendar years would be great thanks.
A response to your request is being prepared. However, the consultations necessary to
make a decision on your request are such that a proper response cannot reasonably be
made within the original time limit. Therefore, I am extending the time limit for response to
your request under section 15A(1)(b) of the Act and wil respond to you by no later than 11
February 2026.
If you require any further information, please contact Media & Social Media Manager Joe
Locke at [email address].
You have the right, under section 28 of the Act, to make a complaint to the Ombudsman
about the decision to extend the time for responding to your request. The Office of the
Ombudsman may be contacted by phone on: 0800 802 602, by email at:
[email address], or via the webform:
Make a complaint (for members of the
public) | Ombudsman New Zealand.
Nāku noa, nā
Louise Ainsley
Manager, Ministerial Services