We are a boutique human rights law firm specialising in abuse in care claims. Please contact us via our website or on 04 499 9025.
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#Australia : Foster carers Victoria: Couple accused of shocking grooming & abuse, raising concerns for child welfare
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#NZ : Alarming rise in Otago sextortion cases - victims as young as 9-year-olds & online abuse warrants attention, #NZ Police.
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MSD doesn't say if it's checking Lake Alice torture survivors' benefit decisions after it wrongly denied accommodation supplement to a Lake Alice survivor, but the decision was overturned. Former human rights commissioner criticises MSD's stance.
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#NZ : A Ministry of Health investigation into alleged torture & potential human rights abuses at a #Dunedin's Wakari Hospital ( Ward 10A ) forensic facility for people with intellectual disabilities could take months.
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If you went directly to MSD and had your claim rejected, it may have been declined incorrectly. We encourage those who went directly to MSD and had their claim rejected to contact MSD to check the decision. (2/2)
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We recently successfully challenged how MSD assesses whether claims should be registered, after an increasing number of claims were being refused using a test not in its Handbook. The High Court has found MSD’s approach unlawful. (1/2)
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The Chief Ombudsman's finding that torture occurred at Wakari Hospital should trigger the Crown's obligations to immediately investigate the allegations and provide effective redress for the survivors, akin to the Lake Alice redress scheme.
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When an elderly woman began telling her daughter she didn't want to go back to her residential care facility, it appeared she was missing her family home. The truth behind her tears was more disturbing than her daughter could have ever imagined.
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An internal Oranga Tamariki review found a series of failures in the agency's handling of a baby before he was killed by his father, RNZ can reveal. rnz.co.nz/news/crime-and-jus…
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Unclear if MSD will re-examine declined abuse in care compensation claims after #NZ High Court ruling
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MSD, GM Historic Claims Linda Hrstich-Meyer confirmed the ministry accepted ruling - & wasn't following its own assessment policy
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St Bede's commissions investigation as former priest jailed for sexual abuse rnz.co.nz/news/crime-and-jus…
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A former priest who sexually abused four boys at St Bede's College more than two decades ago has been jailed for seven years and eight months.
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#NZ Ministry of Social Development ( MSD ) not following its own policy in 3 abuse in care cases court rules
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Yesterday, the NZ Marist Brothers made a formal public apology to survivors of abuse - scoop.co.nz/stories/AK2605/S…
The apology was boycotted by a number of survivors and advocates - rnz.co.nz/news/crime-and-jus…
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I have the emails.
The state abused these kids in the 1970s and they've continued to abuse them through process in the fifty years since.
Today they abused them again.
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Crown abuse response minister Erica Stanford is 'furious' and tells me she's referred this breach of vulnerable abuse survivors' privacy to the Public Service Commissioner. Laura Walters and I report at @NewsroomNZ. newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/27/st…
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‘Since the Royal Commission of Inquiry released its findings, 138 recommendations for change were put forward, but little tangible progress has been made to implement them.’
One Year On From Historic Apology, Survivors Ask: Where Is The Action? scoop.co.nz/stories/AK2511/S…
